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Re: How does one substance designer work in a game environment workflow?
Technically, to paint a landscape you would use landscape layers to paint in the landscape tab, which is slightly different than painting by vertex. You still may often paint models by vertex with a pretty complex material setup. You can use your vertex colors as a blend in a lerp node between multiple colors, normals, or… -
Re: I need smart people to tell me which program I should use to materialize low res polygon models.
ok, so here's the basic data you have easy access to in a 3d app. You can also check all this by loading an obj file in a text editor. Vertex/Edge/Face ID: an index number assigned to each component. Vertex location: A XYZ value that defines each points location in space. Faces are constructed by listing the vertex IDs… -
Re: Modo 501 is out now. How are the smoothing groups?
I did a quick test with a FBX file made in Modo 501 with the latest December 2010 Beta version of UDK. There are some issues: 1. Smoothing groups appear transfer over properly with both FBX options. That's good. Unfortunately with Autodesk FBX the vertex normals appear to be messed up somehow. 2. My object has 2 unique UV… -
Re: Normal Tools for Max Released
Eric asked me to load some images for Normal Tools. Here are some of the graphics that explain some of the tools. Clicking the image should load a larger version. Selection Functions: you can select all Border Normals. You can also force a sub-selection of currently selected normals to filter out non-border normals. There… -
Re: [Tutorial] Reducing seams and texture repetition - Dissertation work
Thanks for the replies everyone :) I'm happy to hear that you found it useful! Noise: Warren Marshal is right, you might need to tick the "Replace Vertex Colors" setting. However, to see vertex colour/alpha on your mesh you will also need to add a Vertex Color node to the material and multiply it either by your Diffuse or… -
Re: UV mapping for terrain techniques?
Here it is. Its has some problems blending hard angles but its quite fun to play with. Its especially fun modeling with it enabled. Its just for max at the moment. You will need to use a directX material to apply it. Workflow: Assign Black Vertex Colours to the mesh. Assign the Shader to the mesh. *Load a texture into… -
Exporting Smoothing information from Blender via FBX
Hello everyone! My name is David, I am an avid Blender user and a soon-to-be Games Design student. I have done a series of tests to see what is the easiest way to set up smoothing in Blender and how to correctly export that smoothing information in FBX format for later use in Unreal Engine 4. I would like to share the… -
Water flowing in lower-fidelity settings
So this is something I've had a hard time figuring out for a good while now. it seems like something that was avoided in alot of games in the PS2/Xbox/GC era, but a few games and some mods from the era seemed to try and solve it. Does anyone here have any content for doing running water effects within those specs? I'm… -
Re: Issue with baking my normal map
Looks like 3d max . Make sure you have different smooth group inside the hole . If it's there anyway find that handle before you cut the hole in and transfer vertex normals to vertexes where you see shading gradients from a mesh without them ( before the hole) using normal theft script or just manually by copy/paste . Or… -
Creating Assets for an Elden Ring-Inspired Location: Roundtable Hold fan art
Hey everyone! I'm thrilled to finally unveil my completed game environment! This is a small-scale reimagining of the iconic Roundtable Hold from Elden Ring. My goal was to improve and demonstrate my skills. I introduced archways with statues (inspired by the original concept art), as well as a grand staircase with a runner…
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