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Re: Lightmaps: tech pros and cons
Thanks for answering ! My goal is to have the same result in my vray renders and my engine, so i will know by doing a quick render, what exact result i (and my customer) will have in the end. With linear workflow, Vray render all the passes, do all the operations between them in gamma 1, then apply a gamma 2.2 If if mix an… -
Re: Normal issues exporting from maya and importing to UDK
Don't make your normal maps work harder than they need to. Each side of that four sided object should be UV mapped as it's own UV shell and the boundaries of that shell should have hard edges. Seeing a lot of gradient and color variation over a surface that should render as flat is called "stressing" your normal map.… -
Re: My Cavity Map Notes:
No no... again my post is about the discussion, but not focus in this forum main themes. Dpont's Node works in Lightwave render. For this particular character is takes like 45 seconds to cache it, but after this it will use that cache every frame unless you ask him to calculate every time after deformations. So it's not… -
Re: Rock man Zero
sorry, its just that this work burned my eyes so badly i went on a blind rampage. well how about this then: is it game art, or render art? are you going for a toy look or a cartoon look? if game art, you need to get rid of all those extra little details that doesn't improve the overall silhouette and normal map them… -
Re: Metafly
Thanks for the input guys. I made a specular map for it and fixed up my lighting to all white color than slight blue on the pics of the first post above. I am satisfied with the results, but I am wondering if I am going about it the right way or will this only look good with my Maya light setup. Rendered with specular map… -
Re: Radius Mech [DS]
That looks pretty sweet. Not sure how the DS handles rendering, but on a "normal" GPU it would be better to keep the UV map connected more, as every extra vertex on the UV map is an extra vertex that has to be rendered (See tech forum sticky). It is also generally adwisable to plan the UV map with the pixels in mind, if… -
Re: Double-sided polygons
Well backface culling (not rendering faces that are facing away from the camera) is totally optional so there's nothing to stop you rendering the same texture on the inside of the face. Now you could pass the camera co-ords to whatever shader you were applying any use that to decide which texture to render depending on… -
Re: Screws/screwholes normalmaps - minimizing work
[ QUOTE ] Surely rendering displacement from your normalmap and baking AO from the displacement is easier than manually painting out errors? If not then I must find a way to make it so... 'cause a workflow that involves painting out errors around every rivet just can't be the best answer. [/ QUOTE ] The baking displacement… -
Re: Modo201 painting and baking!
Eric, you can paint any map you can think off, you basically paint whatever you want and set the layer to be whatever you want. You can take a color map and just switch the layer to bump map, and it will be a bumpmap, or set it to spec map, and it will be a specular map. Of course, if you use a normalmap as specular map it… -
Re: Attack at Mosul
Jay: Thanks for stopping by. We got a chance on MSN to talk about the progress on this so I won't respond on here as well. Anyways for everyone else. Here is one of the props i'm working on that goes with the environment / theme of everything. It's an RPG. I got the idea for the render layout from a tutorial I saw on…
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