Ugh, yeah lots of tools don’t display normal maps the right way in their thumbnails/viewers. Here’s another tip: Normalize your textures! I made a couple SBSAR procedural filters for normalizing textures, since I couldn't find reliable tools for this. Maybe these filters can help you! Normal maps should always be…
Hello! I'm in the process of making my second character model. Taken a lot of mistakes and learning to get to this point. I've been stuck on something the past few days though, and I'm unsure whether I'm doing something wrong or if I misunderstand the process. I got a sculpt close enough, then moved to Blender for…
Hello everyone! I would like to announce that we’ve finally completed our final year project film! I haven’t updated this thread in a while since we were fully focused on production and polishing for submission, but I wanted to share the final result along with some behind-the-scenes progress. Huge thanks to everyone…
How do people get so much resolution in their textures on low poly models? I get really low resolution on my faces for 512x512 textures but I see people get really good faces when they have low poly. Mine: What I'm trying to achieve: this is a 512x512 this is a 128x128
Really appreciate the thoughtful comment and you're raising a fair point worth addressing clearly. To answer directly: no, the Smart Assistant doesn't use ML or any AI model. The keyword scoring system is fully deterministic it matches your input against a weighted keyword library (200+ terms) and ranks layer setups by…
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Hello everyone and thanks for all the previous comments and support! Just wanted to keep you updated about Cghub We are still working on the website, here are some notes on whats going on: 1) 3d models library increased to 920K+ assets so far B) (almost 1 million!) 2) The main issue we are currently facing is website SEO…
Splitting normals before baking is a good process. We have a bit about why this is important: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_Map_Modeling#Smoothing_Groups_.26_Hard_Edges Also some great examples here, along with info on why those extreme gradients are best to avoid…