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Re: Basic Help diagnosing the UV Editor Box (Maya)
As throttlekitty says it's just extra space and for game models you will only really care about the upper right part. In VFX they use UDIMS which go off the 0-1 space but we don't typically use those. As for your questions on materials, no they're handle on a polygon object basis not specifically a UV basis. Picture a… -
Re: Best Software to create sketches to be used in Maya?
I didn't mean to suggest that people just skip the concept design phase and go straight into detailed modeling if that is what you're reading, what I mean is that 3D is a far superior for laying out your scenes perspective than using perspective drawing tools in a paint program. My issue is that it's easy to mistake a bad… -
Re: Character-Retopo, merge and/or combine meshes
So with the way dynamic cloth works in Unreal, you paint a mask for the parts that are to be simulated so it doesn't need to be a separate object or element. You just paint in the part that should simulate in the cloth tool. If you break it into separate objects that creates another draw call. Which you might want if… -
Re: no games use coloured specular
We do that on airborn too, not that it makes it any standard then, i just wanted to collaborate our experience with that topic. We have only a few master shaders, basicly not only one because the env uses lightmaps and the dynamic objects don't use lightmaps, besides that we only have a few more shaders that are very… -
Re: UE3 Materials: Is this kind of Translucent Material Possible?
There aren't depth issues because there are only 2 objects and the second object isn't self intersecting. If you must have layered parts to a translucent object, your best bet is to break it up into smaller objects so it can be sorted properly. (The previous info here is incorrect. Per-Pixel camera can work with vertex… -
Re: Unbiased node-based baking coming to Blender
Neox - Blender may work like that in near future. This is the matter few months. Once TDs prepare one specific material we will be able to assign it to all the objects and bake them with same settings. This may apply to standard bake when you load hipoly with texture and bake it onto lowpoly. I'm the guy behind proposal… -
Re: Best workflow for creating materials based on photo captures?
Joost's advice is spot on, but just a few more things to add: The aperture you'll want to use will depend heavily on distance to object. If you're very close to a small object, F8 may not give wide enough DOF, so some areas will be out of focus, so you may need to go down to F16 or so. For large objects that are further… -
Re: Optimized models
1. This is pretty dependent on what you are doing. Generally though, keeping objects seperate and instanced is easier for you and better for the engine. If everything is seperate and you have a single object instanced around in several places, it only goes into memory once. If you have a bunch of the same object welded… -
Re: texel density corrector tool for maya?
OK, here's a high level overview... Things you need: * A ratio to aim for (just an integer value, eg. 4 for 4:1 ratio) * The current object's texture width and height. My script defaults to 1024x1024 if the object's material doesn't have a valid texture. * An object with UVs! Steps: * Get selected UVs, or if none are… -
Re: Trim sheet - Substance Designer, Help.
My SD graphs are usually pretty heavy and combining multiple materials constructed of hundreds nodes of dozens sub-grapfs is hefty to load/update etc. So I sometimes just render outputs of each material to 16bit tiffs and then combine/compose/ height blend/mix them in a Photoshop file as linked smart objects. Alt+drop in…
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