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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Heya - About this new handle : IMHO it's really just a matter of looking at the reference in a more investigative manner. "How would this be built in the real world ?" Obviously this would be achieved by carving details over a smooth wooden handle. Meaning that the surfaces that are not carved in will have continuity since… -
Doom 3 sniper help, please read!
Okay, Heres what i got on my sniper so far.. and when i smooth it it comes out like this I'm really in some need of some help guys lol.. if anyone can please help me please contact me on my aim or msn aim: Resid3nt Evil OB MSN: [Email]disco0kieman@hotmail.com..[/Email] Thanks guys, it would even be nice if you could give… -
Beginner Question about game character modelling!
Hi people! I'm wanting to focus on modeling characters (or anything) for video games. I've taken an introductory course in modelling with Maya and we went over modeling characters sort of generally. Now I'm aware Maya has a "smooth preview" (when you press "3" on the keyboard) where it smooths out your mesh significantly.… -
Re: Question for 3d character modelers & sculptors
Glauco Longhi, an amazing artist, shared some of his opinions on this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QEQkINNwX4 and here's part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhOEFNSMW8 Sure if you want to be a digital artist you should sculpt in a digital medium more. But dabbling in traditional sculpting will most… -
Re: F-35C
I had a lot of trouble making the surface smooth, because i had to add a lot of support loops everywhere because of the cutout landing gear holes, and those support loops made it hard to get the large surfaces perfectly smooth. What i ended up doing for the main body bake was to have a secondary HP model without the holes,… -
Re: Trouble with normals + baking
Hey @MyMomHatesGames, I've had a look at your meshes and from what I can gather is that it's not so much to do with shading problems in maya, etc etc. I believe it's the way you've setup your UVs, smoothing groups etc. Essentially, any angles that top 90 degrees you'd usually make sure those two surfaces are it's own… -
Re: Blender -> XNormal Baking Issues
Don't use edge split modifier in 2.73. Instead, you should shade your whole mesh smooth, check Auto Smooth, set the angle to 180 degrees so you never get a hard edge that you didn't ask for, and place hard edges as needed. Auto Smooth allows you to have hard edges and custom normals without splitting the edges manually,… -
Re: Questions about Face Weighted Normals in Production
I've been using the FWN script I created here in production with great results. (Well our character artist has been using it.) Here is a post about my tool: http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2230470/#Comment_2230470 Couple of benefits. * Lower vertex counts. Keeping the entire model and one smoothing group keeps the… -
Re: Ceramics glazing online
Thanks, this is just an experiment with Three.js MatCap material, inspired by my ceramics hobby. I had a lot of Photoshop sketches to make the sample smooth and it works, but finally lived it "as is". The next steps probably will be uploading a custom MatCap, using the camera for background and pushing the model to XR, as… -
Re: Difference between Substance Painter's "Average Normals" baking and a traditional cage workflow?
I'm not certain, but i think some of the confusion regarding the "don't harden all UV island edges" comes from the difference between the mindset of smoothing groups vs hard/soft edges. If you are setting uv islands to be separate smoothing groups then that won't harden all the uv borders they are different things. For…
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