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Creating AO maps in 3DS Max and tri-optimization
Hey polycounters, I had two questions (I'm pretty new to ambient occlusion maps and optimizing by creating tris). I got a quick overview of how to do AO maps in 3DS Max (set the renderer to MR, Render to Texture, and create an AO map from there). I was curious about other techniques that you guys use to create your AO… -
Maya, creating a space environment
So for my FMP I'm making an animation of a Star Destroyer flying to a planet, now to create the space backgroung I was told by my tutor to use the paint effects in maya, now the way it paints is like the way paste comes out of a tube, I'm not sure how to create the environment with this. Does anyone know how to do this?… -
zBrush zRemesher creating horrid topology...
I'm creating a Dragon for a University project, i'm in the process of retoping it before I start to add details. As you can see in the attachments, i'm having some issues with zRemesher, any ideas why it's creating this terrible mesh at the base of the tail? -
WIP Polycount Tutorial - creating a PPM for doom3
ookay, some of you are ready aware of it but I started a tutorial on how I put my character into doom3, calculated the normal maps with the d3 engines and such. so there we go, part 1 : setting up and creating normal maps for your model (character or not) for doom3 <u>Introduction: </u> Welcome in my first tutorial ever.… -
Re: How to create these LASER BEAMS? (plasma cutter "light rays")
Yes Eric, indeed the rendering time increases too much if i use multiple volumetric lights. I'll keep in mind your method, i appreciate it. Once i have used a plane to cheat the Volumetric light of the Sun(PartiVolume takes too long) but i think it was kind of childish(silly using a plane instead of real "light-volume"). I… -
How would YOU create a tileable grass texture? (w/ normals)
Hello Polycount!, pretend you're an environment artist working on a project with a visual fidelity comparable to Bioshock Infinite for example. In other words, a sort of stylized realism aesthetic, so fairly realistic. You need to create a tileable grass texture for landscape to blend in with your grass card assets. If you… -
Blender - How to create Transparent Materials
Hi, when I import an image that has an alpha (i.e. a Cloud) to blender I can adjust the Alpha setting to create transparency. Though when I create an object and add a material to it, and try to adjust the alpha slider it just turns the object black. Anyone? -
How to create the "Toy noodle texture
I got this toy noodle texture I wish to create but I have absolutely no Idea how to go about it. The physical properties are doable but how can I create an accurate representation of the surface in a normal map? -
Need help- How to go around with creating trees for unreal engine 4
So as the title suggests, I could use hand, tips and tricks, and overall best methods for making trees, and then rendering them inside unreal engine 4. Here on top theres a tree created inside treeit, imported into unreal engine 4. Trunk material is custom/modified megascans material, leaves material is created by me… -
Making broken variations of an already created asset.
Currently i'm working on a personal project that's pretty large scale and I need to make the most out of my time and optimize as heavily as possible. I'm currently trying to lock down a workflow for creating asset sets that have a damaged variation of an asset I already created and textured. The catch is that I don't want…
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