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question about "fixing" normals in photoshop
So I have been told don't fix normals in Photoshop by painting them. But I have had a hard time finding any documentation to support that argument. now I look on the wiki and find: "Don't be afraid to edit normal maps in Photoshop. After all it is just a texture, so you can clone, blur, copy, blend all you want... as long… -
A short explanation about custom vertex normals (tutorial)
Hello everyone! I already made a few examples about this to a few of you, but I thought it would be more useful to make a tutorial from it, so I won't have to write it down every time when it comes into the topic. Also this technique is becoming more and more popular as the next gen limitations allows us to use more geo,… -
This Film is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about movie ratings
You can steam it on netflix This is a documentary about rating system and R vs NC-17, its also very similar to the M vs AO situation in US, it also takes in account how big film studios and indy movies are treated with ratings, sex vs violence, who reviews the movies, censorship, how the system gives more power to a few… -
Question about normal maps HP , LP Obejcts
hey guys, i have a generall question about normal maps, especially for the LP and HP objects. When creating the LP object from the HP object, do i need to care that all the LP polygons are above the HP ones? Or is it equal ? The same question when creating a HP from a LP obejct, after applying turbo smooth to the LP and… -
How would you go about creating a golf course landscape?
Hello! I was wondering of anybody had some leads as to how to go about making a golf course mesh or landscape. Golf courses have seem to have specific shapes, be it hills, waters or sand bunkers. I can't see myself sculpting these out of hand, be it in a landscape editor in Unreal Engine or in ZBrush, they'd never be that… -
Re: About to buy a Cintiq , any sugestion?
True, but at the same time it's 10x less accurate than a piece of paper and pencil (not speaking about problems near edges). So when you take this tech and pack it into device with 13 inch screen... IMO it's hard to have fun drawing on it. 22'-24' is a different story. I also love to draw on my 24' cintiq but at the same… -
Re: Low poly baking issues (NEW)
A few things : - You are missing repro steps. If you want help about what happens when exporting as FBX and importing into another program, then you need to provide the export settings you used and the version of the software you import things into. - The .blend of the low you provided looks like this (as opened in 3.1 and… -
Question about texture size and uv placement
Question about texture size. I was wondering if the uv should be uniform in scale.... for instance normally one might make one area small and one area large depending on how much detail places need... heck one might even scale something in only 1 direction to fit the uv shell into hte texture... So my question is will this… -
FWN on the walls. Question about bevel size.
Hi there! I'm creatimg modular soviet administrative building. I prefere the FTN technique to make the smooth convex and concave edges. And the question I faced with is the bevel width. Some big values looks ugli for me. But some small values are visible in very few lighting conditions. So I thought to ask someone's… -
Retardedly Dumb Question About Maya UV's
Hmm searched for this but didn't find anything that answered my conundrum. Lets say I have a tube and I am UV mapping the top of it using a planar unwrap. Obviously I get this Let's say that I wanted to make that circle now straight to save myself some UV space. How would I go about doing that? Am I UV'ing it wrong in the…
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