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Re: Wireframe affecting shading in substance painter
Smoothing entire mesh works ok for organic subjects or characters. Anything boxy shaped or just having close to 90 degree angle in between polygons would need either split/hardened edge or a geometry bevel/ chamfer with vertex normals slightly rotated to be perpendicular to adjacent bigger faces . It's called face… -
Re: Halo Infinite - Warthog M12B Variant
Nice work. Looks like the first and last frames of the GIF are the same? Might want to trim out the final frame, to make smooth loops. -
Re: uv + turbosmooth= big problem
Max doesn't smooth the seams of your UV Layout when SubD-ing. But there is some kinda hack to get working UVs: Add an edit Poly Modifier below the TSmooth and Split all Edges (yes, all), go to Utilities > Channels Info and Copy your Maping Channel. Then delete the edit Poly Modifier and Paste the Mapping Channel. Have a… -
Diamant Modeling Tools 1.1 Released
DTools 1.1 has been released with an added modeling companion bar to help in the aid of hard surface modeling and other every day modeling tasks. Features include: *ESmooth: Edge based smooth based off of hard and soft edges. *Planar: *Circle Verts *Straighten Components Plus others! Download the trial Here ! Check out… -
Re: do you soften or harden beveled edges on hard surfaces?
You need to split UV edge when you split vertex normals along an edge (i.e make the edge "hard" or in 3d max terms set different smooth group in adjacent faces. For a videocard it's no difference would you just split the geometry ) Beveled edge on the other hand allows you to keep smooth shading across it. So unified… -
Re: My works in Blender for 2025
I agree with Eric, variable line width would look great in your work, which is lovely by the way. Something else are the doodle-like lines in the middle of textures. They bother me a bit because they're too jagged. They'd benefit from stroke smoothing/stabilization, and would look great if some also vary in width and… -
Re: Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!
I've been mucking round in Godot lately trying to get some nice npr/toon shading stuff going and I got upset with reflections because they look smooth and realistic and boring. I don't want smooth and realistic and boring, I want my reflections to look like they're toon shaded as well. so.. To get toon lighting you… -
Re: Hardening edges in Max
Maybe this will help. When it comes to smoothing you have to get out of the mindset of working in edges and start working in groups of polys. These polys go into this smoothing group, those go into another and where they meet the smoothing is broken. Smoothing often breaks at UV or material seams so if it helps to think of… -
Re: Blender Mega Thread
Morning! Trying to sync mapmaking in Blender with Unreal. What a pain. I did try UE5 modeling tools and did not feel like it was a go yet for full mapmaking Got some art on the way to do so. Here's a first capture. If anyone's got advice for large scale project sync between the two I'd like that a lot! I've made some setup… -
Re: Polys and Lighting (I'm very new)
It's the smoothing groups. If you scroll down in the edit poly modifier controls on the right, you'll find a section for smoothing groups, with a series of numbers. Select the polys you want to be smooth, and set them to a smoothing group. The polygons that are set to a smoothing group will be smooth in relation to each…
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