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Re: I need a simple script for max9
Hey, thought I would mention that Polyboost has 3 buttons that I find very usefull for what you are asking for, even though you already have the solution. Smooth= assigns all faces to one smoothing group; Hard= assigns all adjoining faces to seperate smoothing groups; and 30= mixes the smoothing and hard based on the angle… -
Re: Request: Critique my UVW work
Thank you all for your help and patience so far. I've finally finished uvmapping. It was brutal! Now my question is about the smoothing groups. I have smoothing groups applied all over my model. Notice the face and especially the eyebrow bridge area has detail because of the different smooth groups I applied on it. Should… -
Re: What's happening here and is this common practise...?
Hello ! The example with the hands is really as straightforward and self-evident as it can be. If a modeler on a team made the model the way shown on the right, for a bake supposed to capture smooth skin/organics, it simply would have to be redone after removing these hard edges because they are not only unnessary, but… -
Re: Best AO Baking Methods
Super Happy Cow: huh?? i can have less islands?? hmm what is this blasphemy :P also can i give the whole model 1 smooth groups or is it best to give 90 Degree angles a dif smooth group? i normally give 90 degree edges a dif smoothing is that ok? i normally detach hard edges in my UVs i guess that's why i have so many… -
Re: 3dsMax - How to get rid of "show cage"?
When the cage is turned on in edit poly, it will be visible when you have a TS modifier and show end result toggle on. I don't want that. It's distracting because it will show you both the smoothed and base mesh at the same time, albeit in different colors. I prefer to turn it off and use show end result toggle to switch… -
Re: High-Poly HELP!
An image with out the edge flow would really be of help to see how the geo reacts to light Also try creating edge loops for your outer corners this will give the turbo smooth some direction when it comes to that corner. typically when im making my HP in max i dont need all of these edges....ill do one base chamfer to get… -
Re: PolyUnwrapper 2.0 Released
Hi Ace-Angel, Currently there are no tools to automatically break the UV Clusters based on the model Smoothing Groups, or assign Smoothing Groups to the model based on the UV Clusters. But I have plans to include them in upcoming releases. What you could do, for now, is to select 1 face, Expand by Smooth Group and hit… -
Re: normal maps from zbrush and maya combined?
if you import say, a barrel shaped cylinder low poly into zbrush and smooth divide it, it tries to become all sphere-like because you don't have enough (reinforcement) edge loops in certain places (because its the low poly) and if you divide it a few times without smoothing it and then smooth it you keep the right shape… -
Normals issue: ST & SK mesh differs
Hi, I have imported a Maya FBX file perfectly in as a Static Mesh but upon importing in as a Skeletal Mesh (same fbx file) it appears as if my smoothing groups are being ignored. Here is my process: Export from Maya with these checked: -smoothing groups -tangents and binormals -smooth mesh Importing in UDK -import tangents… -
Re: Triangles in normal map
Those artifacts are expected, you can make them go away by increasing the normal map resolution, but you most likely won't be seeing them in game unless you have a material with a very glossy surface. You can also try to reduce those errors by controlling the shading on the low poly with smoothing groups, hard edges, or…
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