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Re: Removing AO from photogrammetry
Although I'm not familiar with how Epic have done it, from my understanding, you can somewhat successfully remove lighting from a texture by doing the following: 1. Photograph your object from many angles. 2. Photograph a chrome ball in place of your object. 3. Process your object, outputting a mesh + texture. 4. Create… -
Re: n/a
Albedo: Diffuse colors only with no baked lighting or ambient occlusion information present. Only flat colors. This texture simulates the color we see from light penetrating into the surface of an object and then leaving again, having certain wavelengths behind in the process. Skin, plastic, wood, and most other materials… -
Re: Hair / Fur / Fibermesh / whatever...
The cool thing about pixars hair system is that it can generate volumetric hair based on a geometric shape. With tools the Hair/Fur modifier in max you grow spline guides from a surface and then try and comb cut and wrangle it into a useable hair style. People tear their own hair out trying to make something useable. With… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Hello everyone. I'm writing a document for my team about best practices for baking normal maps. There are a couple of things I'm still not sure about, I thought I would ask here and see what people think. I've read the wiki and a lot of this thread, but still the answers to these two questions escape me! Here goes: 1) I… -
Re: What's happening with the AO?
"ambient occlussion" does not calculate any bounces at all, its simply a occlusion factor of the surface. It casts a bunch of rays in a dome from every point on the surface and whatever fraction is occluded is how dark the surface is. You can set a max distance though so rays don't travel forever (or to the other side of… -
Re: Smoothing Groups
i think this is where i'm going wrong. every time i smooth group. it seems to basically even out all the vertices. so i can't seem to achieve a sharp edge to make one surface of vertices stand out significantly against another surface of vertices - like the surface at the top of the coffee mug... -
Re: My substance materials
As I was inspired by the surfaces of rocks on mountains I wanted to get a tileable rock for it, again I'm not looking for overall surface that can be done through an unique nmap or a mesh, I'm looking for the surface that stands through the rock. Here's something I came up with with SD today: Lots of blends with substract,… -
Lucero - Light And Render Manager Add-On For Blender
Trailer - Superhive - Gumroad - Artstation Easy but complete management of all scene lights from your N-Panel. Giving you quick access to useful settings at your fingertips. * Camera & Surface Alignment * Color & Temperature Control * Custom Falloff Curve * IES Support Allowing you to quickly and interactively place and… -
Re: Don't you feel like you're doing your best, but you're still falling behind?
if you feel like you're falling behind, keep a journal so you can see the rate of your progress. You might find that you're actually accomplishing more than you think. Also with hard surface stuff like this, the last 10% of polish is really important; a darker cyberpunk, neon-lit alleyway could be a better composition fit… -
Designer normals not appearing in substance painter as it would be.
I am trying to replicate a similar flaky surface in substance painter for creating worn paint surface, but normals almost look correct but substance painter won't do it anyway, Is there anything else do I need to care about to get exact same results in painter or it does have any limitation? Flaky surface detail I am…
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