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Why do my Maya baked Lightmaps turn out so gash?
Got another q, trying to bake a lightmap in Maya with the Lighting/Shading > batch bake (mental ray) dialog when the mesh has 'softened' edges, but I keep getting these weird jagged bake errors: Any ideas why? :poly122: Thanks! -
Beginner Unreal Engine C++ Programmer Looking for a Project to Hone Their Skills
Hello everyone, I’m a beginner C++ programmer and Unreal Engine user looking for a project I could believe in and in which to hone our skills together. To put this in perspective, I’ve tried this as an hobby in the past but it never panned out, so that little skills I might have acquired then is now long gone and… -
Re: How do i bake my maps if i get these artifacts?
Hmm, yea I tried playing with the ray distances, but within my texture set has many different parts of obj within the same UV tile, so if i changed the settings too much to fix the hand artifacts, there would be issues on the other parts, which is why i learnt how to make a cage file for each texture set to bake with.… -
Baking maps in Painter with Match by Mesh Name?
Hey all - Been using Painter for a little bit now and I love it. Though I haven't tried baking any maps with it yet as I've just been using xNormal like I always have. But I've now come across a mesh that I need to explode in order to get a good bake, and I've heard Painter can eliminate this step entirely by using Match… -
baking normals has no effect?
Hi, I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of normals and baking down textures. I created a simple cube with 2 subdivisions and a .05 bevel and I smoothed it with 2 division. Ii noticed however that once i baked down the normals, the shading changes but I don't get that same rounded corners? does this have anything to… -
3DS Max - How to bake an animation - trajectories are gone?
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So it used to be if I had an animation, let's say of a fish swimming, and I wanted to make said fish look like they're jumping out of the water, I could simply add a circle spline to the scene, link the root bone of the fish skeleton to the circle, then rotate the circle adding key frames, and then go to Motion -… -
Re: Out of memory during baking error (3d max)
you might try importing your high res in without texture coordinates. I have had some success bringing really high res models for baking into max and have no probs. Gone as high as 18 million tris in max 64 bit with no prob. With texture coordinates on the high res it didnt like the same model plus the file size was a lot… -
Baking a mess (projection bug)
Hello o/ I've been trying to bake some my high res model of this fire extinguisher to the low res but i'm geting some odd bug with the projection. I've tried a couple of things as in expand the cage, use differente stages of the model etc.. but nothing seems to help. Also when baking the maps come out a complete mess (to… -
Senior 3D Artist / Art Director (Mobile, VR, CAD, Startup, Indie, AAA)
Hi, my name is Fahad, 3D Art guy based in Manchester, UK. Looking for roles within games or art adjacent industry. Think of me as a specialist generalist, meaning my focus is in Environment Art, Hardsurface and Photogrammetry. Within these I expand into Lighting, Rendering, Setting up Scenes in Unity or Unreal,… -
Ghost Lake - Stylized Unreal 5 Environment
Ghost Lake https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bg530G Ghost Lake is a project I have been working on in my personal time. My former lead at Mountaintop, Andy Kreutzer, told me to improve my Unreal Material Skills. I thought a fun challenge would be to create an Ice Material. Once I finished the Ice Material I tried to make…
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