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Synched normals with one smoothing group - should I even bother?
So after Unity 5.3 release I have tried to do it once again - bake a mesh with one smoothing group and import it into the engine with synched normals. The normal map was converted in Xnormal from object space map baked in modo. It worked totally fine on test cubes but as soon as I import a more complex mesh it breaks: It… -
[Question] Smoothing groups for height map generated normal maps (no high poly)
I was just wondering if you still need to have mostly one smoothing group for the object if your normal maps are only coming from a method of generation like the nVidia filter. I believe that with more than one smoothing group the verts will be split at those faces so if the normal maps display correctly, it would be worth… -
Re: Maya - Modelling problems (Smoothness)
Please, before trying to use it in game, take a moment and read this -> http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling Hard surface modelling and smoothness aren't used in games directly. As the wiki explains it smoothness is about creating either models for baking normal maps (and other maps) or for… -
Re: Sculpted Dragon Head (wip)
So thought i share how the render come along. Now here is how it turned out and I will say I already got some feedback and will fix it but thought i see what else I could get. This is feedback i got. "can see you have used a grungy, much more yellow saturated texture for the teeth. I can see some height values taking… -
UV Island & Smoothing groups problems
Hi everybody! I'm making some props for a game I'm doing with a group of friends, and I am the environment artist. I'm almost new to this, but I'm trying to progressing so far. I have read the post of EarthQuake talking of the smoothing groups and UV islands, but I think I don't get some important pass. This is a document… -
smooth / fur at render time (maya)
I have been modeling my character with a low-poly mesh and want the renders to be the smoothed version (when you press 3 on the keyboard). Is there a way to do this without changing the mesh to a smooth version? (smooth it only for renders) Also I can't find any shaders that let you apply maps for fur/hair. I used to use… -
Blender Auto-Smooth not working on shallow edge
Hey guys, I'm trying to smooth out this shape but I am getting a hard edge in the circled area even though I have auto-smooth enabled with a setting of 50 degrees. Even when I set it to 100 degrees it still remains. If I turn off autosmooth, the whole mesh smooths out. I am a 3DS user so maybe I am not understanding how… -
[Maya] Smoothing UV's? Any opinions
Hey, I wanted to get some advice on best practice with regards to smoothing uv's. I've retopo'd a character in Maya and done the uv's before I'm about to bring it back into zbrush to re-project details. I remember hearing on a tutorial a long time ago that its best to subdivide your mesh once after you've done the uv's as… -
Transfering smoothing groups from Maya/XSI to MAX??
I can't seem to figure how to do this. I've used, obj, FBX and collada and can't get smoothing groups properly transfered over. I get what looks like correct smoothing groups on the model, but they aren't actually applied in Max when I check if anything assigned, it just does some weird fake thing to the mesh. Any ideas?… -
I really need help with smoothing groups, UVs and normal baking
I believe this is quite an amateur question in the world of next gen (more like current gen really, at this point) hard surface modeling. I'm constantly being confused with this because of the fact that I constantly fail at it yet see many others do the same thing and it will work perfectly. Here's what I'm talking about.…
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