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Re: How can the amount polygons affect the hardware?
More so than polys, it's the vertex count that matters. For example: A thousand individual triangles will render slower than a thousand triangle plane. This is because to draw a single triangle it takes three vertex operations, but to draw an adjacent triangle only takes one more operation. So 3000 operations vs 1002 with… -
Re: RadCity: UE5 mid-poly assets
Agree on the grass and would include a lot of the edges where buildings/objects meet the pavement or ground. Managing transitions helps a whole lot in selling an environment. Some grime decals or vertex painting in those areas will help tie everything together and add interest. Having some texture transitions around your… -
Re: 3Ds Max - odd ring selection behavior
My gut tells me that the problem is in using the cut tool. If I am correct, below will help you. If not using snaps (like snap to vertex) you can sometimes inadvertently create an extra vertex/edge very close to another vertex. This will cause the topology to not be composed of quads (even though it may look like its… -
Re: How's this technique called? And how to achieve it...
could be a 2 texture alpha blend, or a vertex color alpha blend for 2 textures.... vertex alpha (left) gives a smooth gradient blend dependent on vertex density, texture alpha blending can give much more variation in the blending and is independent of the vertex density -
Re: Superspecular soft edges tutorial chapter 1
I haven't tried that script for maya yet, but Maya already has tools for this built in (at least in 2009). -Select all of the verticies you want to be on the same average plane -go to the Normals Menu> Vertex Normal Edit Tool -You'll have to at least nudge in one of the rotation axis to get the tool activate -Rotate the… -
Re: Geo-loop
Hi guys, here it is: IC.GeoEdgeLoop! Get it from IllusionCatalyst website, under Script section in MaxScript Page. It works on closed edge loops in Editable Poly objects with two algorithms: refit by vertex and average.* Refit by vertex ask for a vertex as fixed starting point for calculation. Its position is preserved,… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
Tiny update. Still making progress on the cards, but in the meanwhile that fur breakdown thread got me having silly ideas. Many unknowns, I'll only be sure it works when I get it into an engine, but I'm wondering about what vertex color is normally used for in creatures and clothing, because I got some interesting and easy… -
Re: Tiling, covering up?
Might be you're multiplying one of the clouds texture samples by 4 and the inverse of that by 2 and then adding the vertex colors one more time to that result, just a guess though. EDIT: The more I think about it, just change the "Add" above the "Constant 20" to a Multiply, that way the vertex colors act as a mask.… -
Re: Changing direction of cage normals?
I am not sure about Maya but usually cage normals are irrelevant . It's cage vertex position in relation to low poly vertex counterpart that defines rays vector i.e direction of projection . At least it was always that way before, not by cage normals. Sort of a reason why cages had to have same vertex order as the low poly… -
Re: Creating seamless and unique environments - My final university project
ParoXum: Thanks mate :) I did use glue meshes before, but I found it to be not very flexible when used to cover the seams on terrain. It works great for unique meshes though and I used that method for the broken walls and roof. Yeah, I was quite surprised myself to see that multiple UVW channels would cause such issues. I…
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