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Best program/tricks for correct topology holes in hard surface
There are a few discussions on how to do holes (circular, polygonal) into a single quad. However, the workflow gets quite manual and requires quite a bit of planning and edge loops if you are completing the following specific objective: Repeating instances of a polygon hole into a surface that consists of multiple… -
Re: Elven Cottage
Thank you Eric! That is genuinely so kind of you to take time out of your day to help improve a random stranger's work. Did you mean add edge loops to the scroll length-wise or rather ones to the spiral of the scroll so it doesn't have as many sharp edges? I hear you about the bricks and kind of agree, just needed to hear… -
Re: SOLVED: Normal Map/AO Question
Removing the dust edges helped remove the unblur/smudge effect atleast where the uv shells are. However the open space between each shell and the edge padding remained messy. So after removing my edge padding, everything looks great. My question is now then, to avoid this kind of circumstance again should I just export my… -
Re: Normal Map Help
another thing to watchout for is sever angles when working with raised surfaces. in order for the raised areas to show up on the normal map, they need to have a beveled look (ala photoshop's bevel and emboss). ie, if there is a raised set of faces, you will want the edges to slope down rather than slope inward. (like a… -
Re: Creating holes and insets in a mesh
connecting edges adds verts where there weren't verts before (so yes, it adds to the poly count). You need verts where there weren't verts before to be able to move the new verts around to create shapes. Also see : "insert vertex" which drops a single vert in along an edge if you're in edge sub-object selection, or inside… -
Re: Low Poly Lettering
It is so painful to use the text tool in Maya lol. I can't begin to guess why it hasn't been upgraded since so many versions ago. There's definitely no magic trick though, but you'll sweat for it ahah I usually get the text I need as a polysurface, get into edge mode and select all the edges of a letter and delete them.… -
Re: can pior or someone elaborate on this technique?
Yeah, polyboost beats this hands-down. But if you don't wanna shell out, pior's method is do-able, just time-consuming. He's extruding edges, not planes. It does make planes, but instead of snapping those he's really moving the edge that he's pulling out, snapping that onto the highpoly faces as he moves it. You have to… -
Re: Strange baked normal artifacts. Need help figuring out how to fix it.
@rememba_da_name Lots of good advice so far so try working through each issue. There's a few different types of normal baking errors showing up so I tried to replicate all of them on this shape. Isolating each issue and working through it will help determine what's going to be the best strategies(s) for the issues with… -
Re: Division inspired character WIP - Linda Fyen
Progress is looking good :) ! There's some areas that need to get a look at. The folds of the pants doesn't read as realistic everywhere. On some place it's looking really good and others it's looking quite strange. E.g. By the boots. Found a reference that good work for the pants/boots that will hopefully explain what I… -
Re: Decal technique from Star Citizen
660 polys on the decal mesh, 1600 polys on chamfered surface (same vertex count as with hard-edged unchamfered version as it's just using face weighted normals with one smoothing group). Most of the surface polycount is down to nicely shaped seams between material IDs, - the less you need those (e.g. if you don't need seam…
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