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Re: Transparency with ColladaMax and CgFX?
Ah - cool to hear that ShaderFX is helpful! You can set the blend mode by selecting the standard material node and then choosing the blend mode you want from the drop-down box on the right that's labeled "Blend Mode." If you're making a custom FX shader for your artists to use, I'd recommend using three separate techniques… -
Re: Text Node blending?
You will need to create multiple text node node and blend them together with multiple blend nodes. If you have a grayscale text node, then be sure to change the blending mode of the blend mode to something like "add" or "max". -
Materialist — free Maya material manager (search / assign / duplicate / cleanup)
Made a small material-management tool for Maya and put it on GitHub (free, MIT). It's the set of helpers I reach for when a scene's shading is a mess: * search & filter all materials; assign to selection; select objects by material * create + assign a material from a dropdown * duplicate a shading network with clean names… -
Some workflow/nanite questions coming from UE4
Coming to UE5 from UE4 and have a few questions regarding modular sets and nanite. If I have an exterior building wall set that is going to be brick, is it better to use a height map to displace the mesh in ZBrush/Blender, then use nanite on those modular pieces? Assuming it would be a bit more work to get the modular… -
Re: Scout Hover Bike — Sci-Fi Checkpoint Bay
Progress Update: I’ve made a lot of progress on the modelling over the past week, with many of the smaller and more intricate components now starting to come together. I’ve begun creating the exhaust system and the underlying structural frame that supports the main body and mechanical components. I’ve also added more of… -
UV Squashing in Borderlands 2 on masks for color tints.
I wanted to share something I came across while looking at models and textures from Borderlands 2. There is a 3D model called WreckedVan that is used all over the game. It comes with a 2048 diffuse map and a second packed mask texture. The size might seem large for 2012 but given that it was standard practice to give… -
COD5: World at War
Hey i'm in the beta. Got a key from work. Anyone else in? Thoughts so far. Great job from Treyarch. Although it is in WW2 i am liking it. A lot like COD4 in some ways. Great perks system and you are actually rewarded for prestige mode now. -
Re: Has anyone moved from a commercial modeling app to Blender?
Also, jsut found this about next release: ''This is a proposal for work focus on blender.org for the coming year. I’ve written this because we keep missing bigger development targets – we don’t have enough time for larger projects. Instead too much time goes to releases, bug fixing, reviews, maintenance and support topics.… -
Re: Unskilled coder trying to find out if something is even possible
Backup the directory, I assume... and thank you very much! Now... can you explain why this works? The last time I did any coding was in Pascal, back in spring of 1987... EDIT: Okay, I tried it, and it converted 35 out of roughly 200 then stopped. Aaaah.... apparantly it doesn't read if the OBJ has its extension in all… -
Re: Octane render Blender addon
thanks okidoki Unfortunately they doesn't mention any issues I have. I found a few workaround on my own although. Support is still totally silent for some uncertain reason. Octane is still a champion when you need to tweak and render complex bioms using its cool GPU based scatter on surface nodes put in groups . If you…
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