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Re: Portfolio design
Looks good. It's easier to use CSS to render the thumbnail borders. CSS 3 makes rounded corners possible with border-radius, but I don't know if it's worth a damn. They would look better square anyway. .thumb img {border: solid 10px rgb(255, 255, 255)} I agree about the legal jargon, nobody gives a shit. -
Re: Can someone explain this metallness/PBR thing to me.
I know you are doing the dark plastic in albedo, and like I said, 30/255 is really the lowest value you should ever use on Albedo. There's measured values of dark materials IRL, and charcoal and black acryl paint both measure out well above 30/255 even, more like 50/255 (they are the darkest you'd get). And regarding… -
Re: Maxscript - scripting Vertex Colour fails unless I do a manual assign once
I recently mixed a script that uses vertex colors and then bake it using RTT - and it works in just 1 click. It is based on this script: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/pits-peaks the order of things is something like this:for i = 1 to $.numVerts do( local colr = color (random 0 255) (random 0 255) (random 0… -
Re: Unwrapping a Sphere?
@Noren you read it correctly. however in my experience baking and display rendering engines are not always perfectly aligned. especially when you are using more than 1 rendering engine (one for rendering animations, and one for rendering real-time content(in the editor or a game engine). so you can't always count on them… -
RGB Confusion
Hello! Sorry if this has been addressed, a search for RGB brought up far too many threads to go through. I'm new to SP, and fairly new to 3D painting so not familiar with all the terms for my issue. As I'm trying to match some colors I'm running into a problem with the RGB format with SP. It doesn't seem to be in the 255… -
Re: Shader Forge: Multiple masks packed into single channel
The bottom right has the math to extract my two masks. I subtract .5 to pull the 127 to 255 range (really .5 to 1) down to 0-127 (0-.5). Then I multiply that by two to stretch it to 0-255 (0-1), then clamp it in case any values were greater than 1. For the other mask in 0-127, I simply multiply by 2 to expand it 0-255,… -
Opacity in 3dsmax turning entire mesh translucent
Hey, so basically I've got the following problem in 3dsmax as well as the UDK. While creating hairplanes in 3dsmax and loading in an opacity map, the entire mesh turned translucent, and I was able to see the underlying geometry, although its associated texture was entirely white. The bitmap was plugged directly into the… -
Why 127 is the new 128
Please enlighten or correct me as to where I'm wrong thinking on this notion ...or I may just be tilting at windmills... I understand that when you take a number, say like, 255 [(a hole number integer) out of context] and divide it by 2 you get 127.5 and thus, through comprehensible rounding, bring it to 128 and provide… -
Re: Tangent Space Confusion
Id imagine this is an optimization. you dont really want to have to re normalize every time you do a calculation. I think the idea of HDR is the lighting isnt calculated with a 255 maximum. Im pretty sure HDR is caculated in 32 bit a segment which it mapped to the 255 range using tone mapping. You can see this when you… -
Re: My CE3 Questions
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Sure, I'll make sure I help if time permits :) Regarding the image based-lighting, In the editor, there's an entity called "Environment Probe". You set a radius and generate a cubemap, and when you activate it, the ambient lighting and reflections are "synched" with the cubemap. Example: Here a trailer and a sphere with a…
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