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Adding a lip to tiles/shingles
Curious if anyone has a technique for adding a thick "lip" at the bottom of overlapping tiles on the normal? Good for Spanish barrel tile, shingles and shakes, etc I can get a good overlap look with the max blend tile generator method but I can't get a good lip to show the depth of the tile without cheesing it. Currently… -
Re: Irons portfolio
yup I couldn't agree with Adam more (mostly because he is agreeing with me). He brings up a great point tho, you need to help tell the overall game story and sell the scene history. I consider the story telling aspect of things semi mechanical and often dictated by someone else. Things you must contain in your scene for… -
UE3 material editor questions
i'm using the roboblitz UE3 edition here and am wondering about a few things. alphamaps - what would be a nice way to render 8bit alphas mapped to planes for character hair in UE3? nicely lit and able to blend in with the underlying head geometry, shader-wise. all i can come up with is strangely lit things that look like 1… -
Re: Sketchbook: Liz Edwards
You've got some cool stuff here Liz On the Duchovney front, his eyes are too big, his neck is too thin, and his jaw is too weak; you basically have what he would look like if he took 2 steps up on the effeminate scale, or if he were somehow blended with Fisher Stevens. Your character wip is pretty good, but she has a case… -
Re: Looking to buy an entry level DSLR, tips?
To make a properly exposed image you have to get a good ratio of these three things: ISO: sensativity, higher is more sensative to light (800 vs 200) but introduces more noise, and less dynamic range. Aperture: Larger apertures (represented by smaller numbers, 1.4 is larger than 2.8 ) let in more light at once. Shutter… -
Re: a lot like "Weld" function, but without the actual welding?
macroScript NotWeld category:"Scripts" buttonText:"NotWeld" toolTip:"NotWeld"( $.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #X $.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #Y $.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #Z) Throw it into notepad, save out as a .mcr, drag and drop it into Max... and then assign it a quad menu or hot-key. (Via the "Scripts" categeory).… -
Re: Sculpting Lips
I think one of the most obvious contributors to fish/botox/duck lips is making the upper lip come out harshly from the skin above it. The upper edge or outline of the upper lip is just a drop inward; the skin above flows smoothly to meet it, wherever the fullness of the lip determines it to be. This usually occurs… -
Default generators not all 16 bit?
Is there any reason why the default generators are not all 16 bit? I keep running into issues when using them that they become really noisy, and I can't help but think that it would help if they weren't 8 bit. Is it possible that I could go in and update them manually somehow to be 16 bit instead by finding the 8 bit nodes… -
Re: Why Bump maps are 8 bit only?
All game engines compress textures to a direct X image format called DXT. For normal maps they often use either DXT1 or DXTn or 3Dc (which all are basically the same thing). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Dc… -
Re: Zbrush fit object to document size?
The document as you see it isn't at it's actual size, probably because it wont fit in the viewport. It's getting the top and bottom clipped out to fill the viewport (my guess is it looks rectangular on your screen?)* Zoom the document out so that you can see it all (aa half / ctrl+0, or the zoom document button) * Frame it…
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