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Re: Tree lighting and Normals problems in UE4
Yep speedtree has the normal editing options built in. it helps a lot, but normal editing alone can only minimize the problem it can't solve it fully. In Unreal when you import, make sure that the Normal Import Method is set to "Import Normals and tangents". I think it defaults to "compute normals" which will reset any… -
Re: Comparing wireframe topology in Games compared to Films
In real time I suppose not but elongated polys do look crap when they are animated and you get stretch and squash. Once the export process to Zbrush/mudbox is finished then some pinching/collapsing of polygons goes on to optimise the models, thus leaving triangulated meshes as can be seen below in this next gen model. So… -
Re: Best way to create hair planes in Maya?
Here's a little experiment I did inspired by the thread. In zBrush you have the option to export fibermesh as curves. I set the number of fibers down to something reasonable, like 600. I exported them as .ma and opened it in Maya and used Surfaces > Extrude with these settings: Worked pretty well I'd say. We'll have to see… -
Re: Creating a Rock environment, would appreciate some help please.
OK. I used to have this issue all the time until I started using a cage. Here's the pipeline, although please bare with me as I'm a blender user. Triangulate your low poly if you haven't already and average the normals. Export this to bake to. Make a copy , keeping it in the same XYZ location. In blender I use a… -
Re: [Unity] rock pack WIP
I cant figure out how to export the model from zbrush with the mask as vertex colour/polypaint. 1. I mask my rock by peaks/valleys or cavity. 2. I invert the mask and polypaint the entire model 3. I export the obj (are there any settings i should find to include vertex colour data?) 4. Into Xnormal, blank white map when i… -
Re: Space Ship in Substance Painter, my first hand painted textures
@Burpee Cool thanks. The noisy parts are as a result from the Viewport resolution, I wasn't able to do a higher resolution export of the viewport, I just made a screenshot, i would love for substance painter to have a type of 'render' setti g to output a higher resolution image with less noise in the details, the other… -
Re: Naming your mesh objects in Maya or other 3D software
Just learn to use naming conventions, it takes very little effort upfront but can lead to huge benefits later on when the project gets big. Also proper naming conventions really speed up the export process to game engines, since that way your tech artists can setup import export scripts that automatically figure out if… -
Re: Does Substance make sense for props within low end game projects?
Oh I think I'm finally getting it now. So you can have a library of millions of substance materials, use as many of those substance materials as you want to. Even if you had a prop with 10 different materials it would be exporting a single albedo map (for example) with all those materials combined into one texture map.… -
Re: ZBrush 4
Working with Zbrush + modo, i don't have problems with scales. But exporting/importing modo-Max i need to config the exporter/importer of Max to match the units. With Zbrush it's the same. If you want to solve the scale problem, just play with a 1 meter cube and try to figure out what's happening. A cube like this helps a… -
Re: Polygon error
@perna Ah yeah, I totally forgot to mention that. I'm useing 3ds max 2013. I tried doing what you suggested, in several different ways.(exporting, making a new scene and importing it, closing and opening max again, importing the obj and exporting it as obj again in a new scene.) It's still corrupt though. :/ The mesh is…
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