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Mass-adjusting vertex normals
I'm currently experimenting with NPR shading in the style of Guilty Gear Xrd and I have a model I'm trying to adjust the vertex normals on to achieve a good cel-shaded lighting effect, but most software I have has very limited normal editing tools - i.e. 3DS Max's Edit Normals modifier is very basic. What I'd prefer is… -
Re: Normal maps and smoothing group woes
Well, if I understood correctly, I think you got a problem. If you are baking your normals in ZBrush using a mesh with more loops than the final low poly mesh, even though the uv's may be the same, the map will not work correctly. See, normal maps are not like any other map that are just visual information applied to the… -
Re: no smooth group unless edit normal is reset.
i guess you're right. But what I'm saying is that this is true even after one collapses the stack. Basically I unified the normals using "Edit Normals" and collapsed the stack. I then tried to modify the normals using the "smooth groups" way and found that I could not. Only after I created another "edit normals" modifier… -
Weird lightmap issue on objcts with custom vertex normals.
I have a bunch of objects in my scene that use custom vertex normals (for chamfered edges) that appear to be breaking the lightmaps. They are coming out looking like they are at a way lower resolution than what I set for the mesh (256-512), and also it looks like the normals are inverted, which I know for a fact they are… -
Re: Baking selection masks in xnormal?
I added this bit of info just as you were posting: "edit: Just fyi, i wanted to bake the id map in Xnormal because when i bake the colors in max the color for floating geometry is slightly off and i assume the projection skews differently between max and xnormal." I did try in max but it didn't quite match up to the normal… -
Texture Sheets and Baking Normal Maps
So I just discovered the basics of baking in a High polygon mesh into a low one. But than I realized when using texture sheets where you share textures this method cannot work, unless you were to use multiple material IDs in game. My current method for a scene are to use one giant texture sheet that contains maybe 8 or so… -
Substance Designer - Normal map slope bug?
Hi there! I haven't found a solution to this but I was wondering if anyone happens to know what is causing this issue? I am currently following a tutorial and for some reason when I RGBA split the gradient Linear map and shove that into normal it creates this weird normal effect. It should be coming out as a smooth slope.… -
No Normals on UV Border?
So I'm having a bit of a problem and I've been wracking my brain for the past couple hours trying to figure out why I'm having issues here. I've got a chest I'm working on, and where my seams in maya are placed, I'm getting no normal map information. Usually I would see some transfer from one shell to another, and get a… -
Trouble with normal maps
Hi everyone, This is my first post on the Polycount forums, and I am very new to 3d modelling and texturing so bear with me. I have been following along with a Youtube weapon creation tutorial by Arenovalis, and got a little stuck when it came to editting my model's normal maps. In the texturing section of his tutorial… -
Re: Changing direction of cage normals?
Look under the Mesh Display menu in Maya. You can set normals by vector (set vertex normal), and/or rotate them individually (vertex normal edit tool). If you want to adjust an entire edgeloop, its much easier to add temporary edge loops to constrain them, then lock normals and delete the temp.
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