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Re: What Are You Working On? 2012 Edition
Haven't highpoly modeled in about 2 years I think, so the last couple of weeks I've been putzing away on this for a few minutes a night. Besides the wheel and some bolts/rivets its all one continuous mesh. My own feedback: I wanted to brush up on highpoly modeling and focused less on the weight of the object and how… -
Re: Currently teaching myself the low poly/high poly workflow, I could use some advice.
Hey Kunik. There are several ways to achieve the same result. I'll just tell you my workflow and I hope it will help you a bit. Let's say we make a Gun. I first do a lowpoly-blockout model. This is used to get the basic shapes and some detail (but not too much). After the blockout-phase, it's time for the high-poly model.… -
Re: baking materials with xNormal
A. Just bake your color mask in Maya, I use Maya for normals/color and XN to bake AO all the time and don't have much issue with stuff lining up(every once in a while a floater gets weird though). B. If you can easily split up your highpoly meshes into separate OBJ files per material type, Xnormal has some option to bake a… -
Re: Normal Mapping Alignment
Model the highpoly door and frame as separate objects. there's no need for this all to be one single mesh, you're just making it hard for yourself that way. My advice would be to sit down with a tutorial on sub-d modelling, re-model the highpoly door from scratch, then start worrying about how to bake normalmaps. Currently… -
Re: Vertex Colour Masks
When composing a mask from multiple layers, they need to use an appropriate blend mode. If it's left at 'replace' the layer on top will replace the one below. On more complex models I often create folders for the different material IDs with the corresponding mask. Other than vertex color, I like to use different materials… -
Re: Ark Machine
Wow, I seriously cannot read anything within your texture. It is fighting against some of the design elements that you had from your highpoly ( which needs to be defined more, and have some varied edges..to many soft and bending shapes ) If you are going to go with some of your texture, bring in some different values (… -
Re: Normal Mapped Radial Anisotropy
Thanks for the offer FatAssasin, I had an idea while driving to school today though to turn it into an animated .gif file, so when I got home from work I found out I could make animated .gif's in Adobe ImageReady (woohoo finally a use for this program), and when I was done it was under Photobucket's file size limit, so...I… -
Texturing with Mudbox (Success, Workflow, Tutorials?)
Pretty much all in the title. How many of you are texuring in Mudbox these days? I saw a quick demonstration on how "easy" it is; but there was little discussion of how much pre-planning there was. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5wjt25h8wA[/ame] Would you paint on the Highpoly so you can go back and sculpt in some… -
Retopo on complex object
So I made this robot bust in a kitbash sort of way. The highpoly is as detailed as I want it, but now I want to retopologize it. model The problem is that it contains lots of holes and gaps, for example under the tubes between the neck and the shoulder, and parts underneath that are less important. (The gaps show up a lot… -
3D modelling help - Subdivision modelling and smoothing artefacts!
I am modelling a firearm and practicing my modelling skills when it comes to subdivision modelling and chamfering in 3ds max. So far I am doing a decent job at it, however I am now stuck at the supressor. As I can't seem to add in the details for the highpoly mesh, because everytime I extrude inwards and subdivide through…
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