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Re: Recommended software for baking normals/ambient occlusion maps?
Hi, It depends on where you are going to render / view the normal map. From https://www.marmoset.co/posts/toolbag-baking-tutorial/ "Most systems that render with normal maps make use of a tangent space, which is a system of coordinates that specifies the orientation of the surface at each point on the model. Tangent spaces… -
Re: Buy Nothing Day 2009
OK, so I am going to ride the fence on this one. I agree that the idea of "Buy Nothing Day" is, at its heart, a generally good idea. It's trying to get across the idea that acting looney and stomping and trampling people to get Trendy Item XYZ is a bad thing. Honestly, I do support anything that may at some point kill… -
Re: Maya Script for custom editing vertex normal
I got you buddy :smile: Select any number of face vertices, the first being that which you want to copy from. Run the MEL script below. This will copy the normal direction from the first face vertex to all other selected. Code is commented so you can see what I'm doing to get there. Hope this works for you :) //Enables… -
Re: Modeling: Maya Vs. Max
Just stick with what you hate less and look every now and then inside the other one. Just make sure your portfolio looks amazing - because that should be your entry card and not some specific experience in XYZ tool - at least thats what I think. -
Re: How much to charge for this sort of freelance work?
depends on experience budget of the company that wants the asset location of the company that wants the asset location of the freelancer time til it has to be finished detail of the character quality of the character technology used for the character there is no "a character costs $ XYZ,-", a last gen character with… -
Re: Downscaling normal maps? - Normal map question
Luka - perna is completely right here. Let's say we've got two pixels next to each other representing surface normals. One pixel represents purely up (xyz 0,0,1) and the one next to it is purely right (xyz 1,0,0). If I add them together and divide by two I end up with the vector (xyz 0.5,0,0.5) which is pointing in the… -
Re: misc. maxscript UV scripts/tools
just checked out the new page great stuff man, will get the update in the morning got a quick question about LineUp - does it line shells up in relation to actual space? ie map an object from left to right, top to bottom, align and line up shells depending on where they are in the object? I believe Unreal 3's auto… -
Re: Question about using the gird for UDK or otherwise.
From what I understand, you want to build modular pieces that you can re-use, so while you could perhaps lay it all out in say maya then import it, it'd be inefficient, and dealing with things like collisions etc a pain. So with modular assets you'd piece it together in udk, I don't know of a snap to vertice method in udk… -
Re: Guess who didn't play Bioshock?
Well Bigjohn, I wish you luck. You will be the underclass for them to use. All I have read is Libertarian is for small government. NOT ANY!. You seem to be more a offshoot of Libertarianism than mainstream. As shown here by this article from a former Libertarian thinker. http://mises.org/daily/2801 They do offer a… -
Re: Amir's Portfolio environments
pRTp maps are as far as i understand proprietary maps used for computing ambient light for Wing Commander. They essentially store the XYZ directions as color information, sort of like world space normal maps. They're quite handy to use as base for diffuse maps. http://wcpedia.com/dw/doku.php/wc_info/modding/ao_and_prt_bakes
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