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Re: 3D Stylized Chest
The wood in particular doesn't look good if you just carve lines into a flat surface. Use Clay Buildup to rough up the surface of the wood, then use hPolish to flatten it. That's how I got the wood here. Remember when doing that to maintain the flow of the grain. -
Re: How to achieve a glass block look in Maya?
Are you mimicking the waviness of the surface, or its surface texture in either the model itself or the shader? You might also have to duplicate the block and scale it smaller, or build an interior for it, since usually those glass blocks are hollow (if you didn't already build it with an interior). -
Re: Monthly Noob Challenge 8
looks like too many shadowcasters on the same surface. see if you put any other lights in your scene and how many cast shadows on that surface. otherwise might be the shadow bias and you should either be able to find a cvar or an entity property for it :) -
Re: Is a PBR material still considered PBR if you change Roughness values to make it look better?
Even in live action films there will be staff who go around spraying dust on surfaces to reduce glare or wetting surfaces to make them shinier. It's not realistic but it makes the scene look better. eg: https://parade.com/101364/marilynvossavant/wet-streets-in-movies-20/ -
Re: Cintiq Companion pricing
I priced out the Surface 3 and it was like $1500 total. The Cintiq was $1850 total. Including tax on both. The $350 different to have a matte screen, hotkeys, and an additional 1792 pressure levels from the Surface 3 256 levels is worth it in my book. -
Re: where to look for photo references for sci-fi junk?
Ya and it actually comes from the ancient dark past before CGI was widespread. When they were making star wars and wanted general surface detail for their ships or whatever they would slap on parts of model kits in order to populate the surfaces with high-frequency detail.. -
Re: Confusion with Normal baking issues around edges/borders
Hi! Perhaps I should have kept it more digestible, like: 'With an high to lowpoly approach, I would closer match the highpoly and improve the highpolys edges/shading'. But as so often with this 3D stuff, I find there's not an 'one and only way', but different options that can be combined based on the situation. And when… -
pixelated texture in Maya
I'm trying to use a surface shader to flat preview some textures but they look super pixelated. Its wierd because its never happened before and all of the sudden they look pixelated. It doesnt happen on any other shaders either. Any ideas what might be the problem? I tried restarting and everything. Surface Shader: Lambert: -
Re: A Journey Into Texturing
So here is my base texture I've been working on. The first one is without the surface detail being pushed. The second I tried to add small highlights and shadows to the surface. I took a lot more time with this one than my prior attempt. -
Re: Demon Hunter WIP
I agree with JadeEyePanda. You don't have to sculpt entire body in Zbrush. Please consider to use Maya/Max/Modo to make clean hard-surface modeling. Also, you can bring the hard-surface modeling from maya to Zbrush and sculpt it later.
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