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Re: Normal map help please
The UVs can cause trouble with baking if there's any overlaps in them or if the spaces are too small, etc. That doesn't look like the case here, but if you do have any overlaps make sure to get rid of them and try baking again (you can also move the overlapped shells 1 unit away in U or V). On the soft edge thing, try… -
Re: LowPoly Topology
You can download that file just by entering a fake email and blah as the password. It'll say it sent off the confirmation but you can download straight away. I had a quick look - the smoothing you're getting is because of a few reasons. You've got verts all along the edges of that big plane and you have 90-degree corners… -
Re: Zbrush 4R7
Increase your Crease edge tolerance to 180', or crease by polygroups instead. I think it can be taken pretty far, but it isn't designed as a complete replacement by any means. Ryan Kingslien explains it using a soft-hard / loose-precise coordiate system. Zbrush had the 'loose & soft' quadrant locked down already, and all… -
Re: [UDK] Bombed Brownstone house
I sculpted out the bricks, as shown in the image. Rendered out cavity, highlights, a soft shaded map, AO and a normalmap from Zbrush. Also baked AO and Normalmap from xnormals. Setting the cavity to overlay, highlights to lighten (removed everything darker then 50% gray), soft shade as a base and AO as multiply. Then I… -
Re: Death Tomb
I have to agree with Alex. Your sculpts don't read like stone, but more like very soft clay. It's like this on every sculpts. I'd recommend using the trim brush to make some hard edges. It seems like you modeled the general silhouette of pillars and walls and then sculpted the stone blocks on them, that's why it looks so… -
Re: Texel Density
Why people think that same texel size everywhere is such a of holy grail and undisputed dogma of 3d art? Is it what's being taught in art schools now? Texel size actually is a tool too. A clever texel size prioritizing, even texel stretching could be very helpful especially in environment art, architecture , tiling… -
Re: smoothing groups on maya ?
Check your Attribute Editor for that specific construction history node. You'll find a "Smoothing Angle" parameter. This determines whether an edge is hard or soft after beveling. The default is probably something like 30 or 45 degrees. The higher this value, the more edges adjacent to the bevel that will be soft. It's… -
Re: NDo2 vs. Baking
When i started baking my first Normal Maps i tought like you. I tought that ndo can make a HighPoly NormalMap from the LP Wireframe. This would be a very cool function, but at the moment its not ;) All the Soft HighPoly Edges have to been baked from a HighPoly Mesh. nDo cant make this :( Maybe quixel can code something… -
Re: Air Grabber
Please use image upload services, like hostr or similar, there are tons and it just takes seconds Can you post a reference ? The form looks kind of strange and out of proportions What I can tell for sure is that your edges are razor sharp (because your highpoly is way too sharp, you need soft edges, even more soft than… -
Re: rock tutorials
i come from a ds and wii background. the way i do this is to make a tileable piece and then deform it with either a bend or path deform and some soft selection manipulation to fit the necessary environment. the tricky thing is the shader. best results come with vertex ao to give the relust depth. of course you get even…
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