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Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
@AndyC_Art try reducing the intensity of the normal map in this area, or running a normalize filter on the normal map, it's possible that invalid normal vectors are being used here which could cause shading artifacts -
Re: Substance Painter, 3DS Max - UV seams with smart materials
Hi! Baking can be pretty tricky to wrap your head around, but rest assured it's a logical process you can break down to get right every time. There's a healthy number of stickied threads to help you with many questions you may have now and down the line: 1 2 3 4 There is also the wiki :) To answer specifics. 1) No, a high… -
Article on Formal Art Training
I took some time to write up an article about formal art school training. I'd paste it here but I'm still editing, so I'm providing a link to my site version which will be updated as I edit. This is much more applicable to US schools, which is where I have the most experience so far. Comments, suggestions, input, flames… -
Re: How the F#*K do i texture this
If this was a 3rd person game and it was background detail, I might see if I could get away with hotspot texturing with decals for the labels. Wouldn't do that for a first person cockpit. For first person, I'd use a lot of geo to control the normals and shading for bevels and not try to bake that out. -
Re: Female head texture work
so i think i´ll leave her at this. here some more shots for you guys: for the textures it was way more iterration then anything else, since almost nothing initially worked like i planned it. learned a lot though :P for the dif the most usefull thing was definitly references, not only photos but also from different artists.… -
Re: New here. Undead Knight in UE3 - pic plus vid
looks pretty sweet! cant relly see the specular however, maybe you could go to lighten it up on the darker metal with maybe some orange-yellow or blueish hues? The transition from spike to shoulder pad seems a little jarring, could maybe go for some additional detail there, of either an indentation, bolts, extra metal… -
Re: Losing Your Artistic Voice to Convenient Asset Packs
problem is some of the packs are terrible and you don't get to choose them most of the time I have had packs where the high res model has a normal map on it for the details ie they have just taken the MD triangulated model in to substance and detailed it. so then trrying to match a retopo version becomes really tricky or… -
Baking out flat diffuse in Xnormal?
Let's say I'm making a sci-fi crate. I want to assign flat colors to my hi-poly crate (red for bolts, green for metal, blue for everything else) I want to do this because I need a flat color map for dDo. How do I do this in Xnormal? Edit: BTW, I'm creating my hi and low models in 3ds Max. -
Re: Fix lowpoly Shading
Use "face-weighted normals" instead of trying to transfer attributes. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Face_weighted_normals -
xNormal - Bake causing odd shadow cast?
Good evening everyone! I'm curious what is going on... I've looked around trying to figure out this issue. It happens when I bake my high poly to my low in xNormals, the latches seem to be casting a shadow during the bake and it gets put onto the pages... Any ideas? Cheers
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