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Re: Of Bit Depths, Banding and Normal Maps
I should jump in here to mention that baking high precision normals (16bit and up) is not only a good idea for the reasons EQ mentions, but this actually also benefits the case where an engine will ultimately compress the normals as well. The reason is that conversion from uncompressed to compressed normals can do a better… -
Re: What do you use for Uv Unwrapping?
Headus UVLayout was the reason why I became so much interested into UV mapping and why I started TexTools. I used it for everything in the past and I agree, hands down to UVlayout it is the BEST UV tool out there- its just so damn pricey. Since I don't have a license or copy around these days anymore (used it as well back… -
Re: Sketchbook: Daniel Strickland
Day 30: Forgot to upload my work from Monday, AGAIN. I tried to make the handguard again. I cleaned up the mesh, unwrapped by smoothing groups, and sized the UV islands to ~75% 0-1 space, to simulate having other objects on the same Texture set. My findings: I can't bake curvature! I don't know what's causing this.… -
Re: First Delve into Environment Arts - Critique
Good LODs go a long way. Also a thing to note is it's more important how many polys an asset takes up compared to its worldspace size, rather than just how many it takes up all together. IE polys are really expensive if they're smaller than a pixel onscreen, but really cheap if they're as large (or larger) than a square of… -
Re: SciFi Modular Environment Adventure! [WIP]
Looking good so far! You can correct me if I am wrong but I think your Texel Density is off or miss worded? If you your goal is to use 256 pixels per meter or roughly 2.56 texels per pixel and you are going to use 2048 maps you would actually have 20.48 texels per pixel. Basically a higher resolution then expected. This of… -
Re: Adobe Photoshop feedback
"Not sure whether it's been said yet, but layer-based filters would be cool. Similar to adjustment layers, you add a filter layer and it'd allow you to ammend/change the filter's settings further down the line, or to add masks to effect it to underlying layers," That concept only works for small documents, or very small… -
Re: Asset Development
if i were you i'd stop to reflect a bit on what you're doing.. you're using full normal maps.. but only for very small details(scratches and bumpyness) you're missing out some really good uses for normal maps. the cart's wheels, diamond plating, slits in what would be the working area that street utility box is in essence… -
Some help with Nvidia .dds format and the mipster script.
Hello members. I am a newb in this forum. I tried to search for this topic but it hasn't been discussed extensively. I wonder if anyone knows about any tutorials on how to make your own mipmaps for the .dds format. I want to make my own atlas texture, and I wanted to use my own mipmaps so that there will be less seam… -
Re: importance of LODs in game ?
Unreal doesn't use simplygon - you can plug it in but the default is just a rudimentary (shite) decimator ok so.. this is a gross oversimplification but hopefully gets the point across The primary function of LODs is to reduce the amount of stuff on screen that your machine has to process so that it can draw frames more… -
Re: Displacement + Normal or just Displacement?
Well , I really shouldn't say "in games typically" since I worked for not so many games . So maybe it's not everywhere. But for what I know normals are not recalculated ( beyond typical per pixel real time tangent to world space conversion from tangent normal maps). Games displacement just shifts vertexes along vertex…
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