Thats a not so good practice because of multiple reasons, even though it could possibly work in some rare cases, but it would usually lead to other artifacts. First of all, the shading of the lowpoly (vertex normals) is taken into account when the normal map is baked. This is why sometimes you see triangulation lines or…
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man'o'mule: The fresnel term is really a 0-1 range based on the camera to surface normal dot product I think the math goes: (((LookDirection dot Surface normal ) *-1) +1) ^FresnelStrength Which, if applied to specularity or diffuse, makes pixels brighter the closer they are to being perpendicular to the camera's look…
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Thanks for the reply. Hmm, Is that a little confusing? I can see some confusion happening there, especially after watch Blair Armitage's video, at least for me, although eventually i figured it out. Its just that Blair kept selecting the masks and frequently adjusting the "reflectance" value in gloss and spec and due to…
This. Absolutely. I am not trying to be negative, but your responses to the said critiques we rent very positive either. People like to give critiques to people who are patient, willing to accept the critique and apply it to the work. They don't want to type out a paragraph or more and do a paint over on someones work to…
Add lens-flares this week and tinkled the bloom a bit. The lensflare is based on this nice article: http://john-chapman-graphics.blogspot.nl/2013/02/pseudo-lens-flare.html In short, this is a post-process image based technique: 1- Apply a brightpass on the screen so only the very bright spots remain. This is usually…
There might be a better way to do this but you can script it pretty easily. Basically you turn on the maxscript listener, clear it out, add the modifier, make the changes and copy/paste that into a script you can then drag that script into the tool bar. Anytime you click that button you get that modifier with those…