Hi. For my project, I'm trying to do a map editor with custom terrain. For that I intend to do a simple hydraulic erosion algorithm in the gpu to displace the water and generate some rivers. I'm using a blueprint that switches between two render targets and a material that does the calculations. The texture's red channel…
This week I focused on finalizing the project presentation. I completed all final renders and refined the lighting setup to better highlight the materials and overall composition. After reviewing the output, I made several small adjustments to improve balance, contrast, and visual clarity across the shots.
Hey guys! I am a moderately experienced 3D artist, and I am planning on doing the new Artstation Challenge (whatever that topic will be) and I decided to try to tackle a 3D Environment. I have made environments at my work before, but not the full thing on my own. I am trying to do as much planning and prep work for the…
Hi everyone This is the prop #2 (of 3) that I submitted for this year's Artstation 3d prop design (rendered) challenge. This amazing Riflebow concept art is made by Alizé Giraud (https://www.artstation.com/zaink) for the previous concept art phase of this challenge. I deviated a little bit from the original concept art as…
I'm trying to get a quick animation of a small plume of smoke like what I have here, and I'm happy with the shape but it comes out way too blocky and low-quality on render. Here it is in maya's viewport It's got a base resolution of 55 which I understand is low, so I would assume that's what is causing it to look so…
Hello Everyone! Old topic, old issue, getting me crazy. I am modeling a house in Maya 2017 and I have been baking my textures with Arnold. Until yesterday, my bakings were perfectly fine until black seams started to show up on my final AO's and/or material bakes. I haven't changed baking settings but increase the AO a bit…
I haven't found any tuts on google or tgw/digituts, so I have come here looking for help. I haven't messed around at all with this so keep that in mind, this is mostly just to find out whats what. I just want to present this car I've been doing for a while nicely and work with the pipeline of getting stuff into an engine…
I think what Poir is getting at is that, the edges themselves don't have much to define them from the rest of the shape when you take a straight-on shot (what RTT does) of the tread there isn't much of a chance that it will pick up the inner sides of the tread. So it looks like one smooth surface. The only real reason you…
Hello! This is my first time really doing an environment render with full planning, reference gathering, block-outs, and setting up specific lighting angles. I usually just make games and focus more on specific models and props rather than the scene as a whole. I've created three rough-draft block-out scenes and I wanted…
It’s good you mentioned this specific example. Objects can be setup to share UV space specifically so they can reuse the same material. This optimizes the rendering speed, by reducing draw calls. However, anything using transparency is usually separated from things without, and uses a dedicated material. This is because…