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Re: Hiding / getting rid of UV seams
-Pad your UVs. -Doing all your texturing using a system like polypaint is hugely advantageous; if the last step in your pipeline is to bake, the baker (as long as the model is set up properly for this) will do a good as possible job of the seams. -Put them in rarely seen, low detail areas when possible so the seam is even… -
Re: Why hasn't this been mentioned yet? Blender 2.43
I've been using the latest version for about a week. It kicks ass! The UV unwrapping is better than ever. (a very important feature for in-game modeling) The new sculpting tool is surprisingly robust. It probably won't win over any regular users of ZBrush or Mudbox, but its fantastic for anyone who already uses Blender.… -
Re: Getting a job at a Qand A position, as a 3d Artist
That route doesn't always work, but it did for me...sorta. I didn't move up through QA, but did QA right out of college and made friends with some artists. I was eventually let go as part of a layoff, but I kept in contact...a few years later, they were looking to bring on an additional artist and I got fast tracked in… -
Re: See you later guys, it's been real!
Wall of text: sorry, I just had a lot so say lol. LOM: yeah dude, I feel his presence I literally feel the holy spirit,l its reassuring and fullfilling. I look up to God because there is no better role model and he comes through for me daily, Im a better person with him in my life. I used to be afraid to talk about him to… -
Re: Normal map Bake artifacts? (Warning 9 Screenshots)
@Frankie and Zwebbie, AFAIK, a distance of 0 is indeed infinite. If you have a well set up LP mesh, you should never really need to touch bias or distance, and most of the time I leave them at 0 and 0 and get perfectly good results. It's only in very rare cases (like this) where I have needed to change the bias. This is… -
Introducing Handplane Baker
Hello Polycount,This is a long time coming for us- Handplane is now a full baking tool. Our goal with handplane baker is to build the most efficient baking tool for a production environment and make it free. We have a lot of cool features that should save you time and effort. I did a video overview of the tool which you… -
Re: Need a tutorial on jets
Sry for chiming in a bit late, however I'd suggest following the advice offered by @Dihemi your mesh has too many faces for manual editing so decimate until you've a much lower polycount which will make things a tad 'easier' blocking in a basic shape before moving onto further defining the object's individual details. Plus… -
Re: Error analysis Blender has stopped working / Analysis of similar errors / How to protect your files
I'm not entirely sure if you're suggesting to attempt to salvage a project by appending the contents of a file that can't be opened? Sometimes it works, but when the RNA structure of the file is broken it'll likely fail and there's pretty much nothing you can do to salvage it other than relying on different backups. I have… -
Re: Blender 2.46
To be honest so far the nicest program I have found to set hot keys in has been Max. Well once you set them I mean I'm not referring to it's bloated way of doing it.Why you ask, because other programs seem to want to force the user to adopt their work flow. I have changed hot keys in Silo and to be honest it was a big… -
Windows wont let me choose max to open .max files
I installed the 2012 demo and didn't really like it and was irked by the chance I may need stuff to be backwards compatible. So after installing it and uninstalling it my max files wont be set back to 2009... Simply right clicking and doing open with literally does nothing when I choose the 3ds max 2009 exe.. this is very…
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