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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2025
Very Nice. @Ruz "Bit of a pain to manually weight all the edges, but its ok, takes about half a day tto sort it out. Might try it by angle, but you have less control" As an example via Blender in order to preserve WN optimal shading, for medium poly hard surface complex objects, I typically rely on chamfers for boundary… -
Re: [UE4] The Old Boy's Club Room
I like the asset quality :) but apart from the paintings having a crackled surface (nice) some of the textures seem to lack micro detail. Or the lighting isn't bringing it out. I'd suggest making the lighting a bit more "unbalanced" e.g. have the fireplace and the window provide primary light, and the other areas a bit… -
Re: Baking problem (or understanding-problem?)
I agree, the high poly probably does have sharp edges? They should be beveled so there is something a bit smoother to capture. goekbenjamin with sharp edges or ultra-tight bevels, you're basically giving the texture two extreme choices of pixels to choose from, 0 or 255, black or white, this face or that one. It's very… -
Re: basic knowledge help
Might be dated info so take it with a grain. For game art bevels are important when it comes to baking textures. Rounding off corners and edges is important because no edge in nature is a pixel sharp. Even a knife edge is round and reflects light. If corners are left square they look unnatural and artificial and they bake… -
Re: Do you need smoothing groups if you have normal map?
Well what it comes down to is a chicken and egg problem. UV splits add vertexes and so do hard edges. I've outlined my process for avoiding making a model that takes up too much memory. But in what order do you do it? I can see that the sphere example isn't something I would've encountered since I wouldn't be adding a hard… -
Re: Video Arcade- W.I.P. Environment Art
It looks like you still need to push the edges on the highpoly. Dont just add egde loops to add more geometry. Try adding a Shellac material to your HP so you can realy see the highlights on the edges. Then add a loop or two depending on how you want your curvature to act. Those blurry Hp shadows are saying theres… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Hi Have 2 obejct, high (several tens connected together) and low, low equal squere plane (one polygon) with no padding UVW mesh (fit 100%). I use xNormal to generate height map, when i change in "Baking options" "Edge padding on 0" and "Antialsing on 1x" i get on right and top map edge, black border, but when i set for… -
Re: Is it possible to get a good bake without support loops?
This is really just a practical example, this model itself isn’t used for anything. I usually work on low-resource video games where the mesh has to be heavily optimized, which is why avoiding support loops gives us a big advantage. Sometimes my models can be seen in first person, and that’s where the main problems… -
Re: 3D Environment Artist Potfolio Critique/Feedback (Stylized)
Agreed, especially regarding the bedroom and the professor layton piece looking great. The only thing that stood out negatively to me immediately was the UV layout of the market stand. There doesn't seem to be a good reason to have the tabletops/shelves rotated at 45 degrees and have the edges stick out that way, only to… -
How can I model this ruin?
How can I model this ruin? I'm currently working on creating old ruins and would love to understand the process for making this using Maya and ZBrush, texturing in substance. I'm not sure how you create those jagged edges. Should I just roughly block in the shape and then add a tiled brick texture, or do you actually…
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