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Re: 3dsmax render-to-texture wont work
Normal map looks fine to me, except for the scalloped edges. You could fix those by changing the shape of the cage, pimpinmymouth talks about this in his tutorial. What material setup are you using to apply the normal map to the low-poly mesh? Xnormal does a great job with AO, worth a try. -
Re: How hard would it be to recreate these visual effects?
Thanks for that! Sorry for the double post, and the late reply. Forgot to check back in for a little while. I unfortunately don't have any work saved. I never got anything I was satisfied with, and just kept restarting and playing around more with the brushes and filters but could never quite get it right. Not too long… -
Re: Unwrapping and Instances
I have noticed that you no longer have to do this in max 2010 and above. The normals now seem to bake just fine if they're stacked on top of each other. This is using the Render To Texture in max for your normals though. If you use something external like Xnormal you might still have to do this. -
Re: Practice realistic texturing
Hi guys, totally forgot to make this little tut. But better late thnan never. I'll start explain from bottom to top.For the cavity, use the prtP with a hue saturation at 0 in saturation Normal mode 100% For the curvature, use the blue chan of the prtP, invert it SoftLight mode 100% Duplicate the group and merge it, use… -
Re: Question about 3ds max and Zbrush
I would,... You can model the lowpoly in Max or in zbrush. But if you go from Max you should import in to ZBrush, and for something small like an axe, once its in ZB unify it so it is at a good size for ZB. Use Goz to send the axe to Max and you will see it is too small and probably in the wrong position so fiddle with the… -
Re: fake sss workflow question
of the top of my head: reverse normals in xnormal bake ao in xnormal invert ao map in photoshop => local thickness map! -
Re: Material Tutorials: 8 Step By Step Tutorials and General Tips
Hey Phil, I tried recreating the normal map you get from the gradients you posted up but for some reason I'm getting a pinch in the middle and nothing too smooth. I'm using the xNormal filter in Photoshop...maybe I should be using the Nvidia filter instead? Oh and obviously the normal seems to be inverted O_O -
Re: IN PROGRESS: 3D0 does not work.
Yeah I know very well how the input maps work, DDO uses the inputs just fine to create my textures, I bake normals AO, objectspace normals and curvature maps in Xnormal, usually in 2 K for DDO usage. My meshes are created in 3D's max 2014 and exported as triangulated OBJ's. -
Re: Answered: dDo seam issues!!!! Please Help!
I did a xnormal render for all my maps and same result. Iv brought the curv map into maya and applied it as the diffuse. The object also has the normal map applied. From a distance it looks good. But close up the sharp edges are visible. I'm not sure if the sgould be the case if iv also go the normal applied?? -
Re: Zbrush Basic Questions
I subdivided the model again, and the noise applies perfectly now. Not only that, but exporting the .obj and baking the normal map on xNormal works fine as well. I have some normal map errors, but I should be able to solve that issue on my own. Thanks for helping a noob out, and I'll post if anything else comes up.
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