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Re: Is it possible to bake a cubemap environment image to a skybox without distortion?
There are lense shaders for mental ray to render latlong images. I've not much experience doing it as a co worker handled it at my last job, I found this though. http://www.andrewhazelden.com/blog/2011/01/latlong_lens-and-cubemap_lens-mental-ray-shaders-compiled-for-maya-2011-x64-on-windows/ -
Re: Distance Field Modeler for Unreal Engine
There are certain optimizations being applied to the ray marcher, that are based on some ray-bounding box intersections, and I'm pretty sure this wouldn't just work when trying to deform them along a spline. Are you trying to ask if a character could be animated with these? Cause there are other ways to do this. -
Re: Ergonomics - Save your wrists
We have a moment growing around Telltale of people raising their monitors up and just standing for the whole day. -
Light Maps and Ambient Occlusion Maps
What's the difference in baking a light map versus and ambient occlusion map.Why would I want to do one as opposed to the other? Also what's the difference between light Tracer and Mental Ray as an Ambient Occlusion map can only be baked with mental ray? Lastly what is the best setup for either of the two (apply a white… -
Sketchbook: Matt Billeci
Hello everyone! I am an art student who is currently new to polycount. Im looking for critiques on some of my work. I aced the assignments and class, however, I know they could be pushed even further so any feedback would be much appreciated. Modeled in Maya. Textured in Photoshop. Rendered in Mental Ray. Modeled in Maya.… -
Re: Stacked UV Shells and Normal Maps
I have had this problem with mental ray normal mirroring myself. Under render settings for mental ray, on the options tab and performance dropdown, check the Maya derivatives box. While I didn't use this with the same shader, try out my soloution and see if it helps. -
Re: question for cavity map
Lots of ways to get a cavity map: - zbrush - Mental Ray ambient occlusion with a very short ray distance - render to texture a heightmap from your high detail mesh to a smoothed low detail mesh (a blobby model), then adjust curves in photoshop - the fabulous xNormal and CrazyBump -
Terrain / Light Issues on Game Build: Disparities with Editor vs. Baked Game
Hey Polycount: I'm working on several visual issues that are occurring with our game, The Maestros, as we're barreling down to our Alpha Build for USC Demo Day Sneak Peek 2013. I will preface that I am a Character Artist by trade, so I readily admit there is a lot of UDK and environment art knowledge I lack at this time.… -
Looking for 2D/3D artist(s) for a school project
Hello, Me and five others students in development are planning to do a gamemode for the Source game Garry's Mod that will be our final school project. It is a very important and serious project as it take two years and is required to obtain the diploma. The project: We are basically remaking an old game: Hogs of War. For… -
Re: Where is the self shadow casting option in toolbag 2?
Could we please have this option, it's been 8 years. It's one of the only, if not the only ways (besides subdividng or changing the light intesity, both of which aren't great options) to fix shadow terminator issues (https://polycount.com/discussion/226419/toolbag-4-ray-traced-shadow-artefacts#latest)
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