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Re: How to pose large sleeves?
if you remove the bones, skin weight the hanging arm cloth 100% to hip or root (basically so that animation doesn't effect them), then use cloth paint tool in unreal, I think you should get a proper simulation. for getting correct scale in MD, that should be simple to solve especially since you do have one working example… -
Re: Retoplogising Floating Geometry - Help Appreciated.
Yea you want to avoid doing the left example, and have the topology match so it deforms properly, like in the example on the right. -
Mel Question - Display image in custom UI?
I am looking for an example of showing an image from the current Texture library with any adjustments applied. Anyone has tried/done this? Or know where to look for example code? Thanks in advance. -
Re: Current games console wars are strange?
A bit of a tangent: When I see stuff like that, I cant help but feel a bit aggravated by it. It generally reads as one big confirmation bias, one that seeks to create this narrative meant to dismantle any perceived "patriarchy" found in this medium. The genres and the platforms matter. Specifics matter. Age and gender are… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
Man, this is a perfect example. Thanks for posting this. As I said repeatedly in this thread, piracy is a problem. This post highlights it. But it also asks the question of how to deal with it. Piracy is a problem, yes. But my original point is that there's very little to be gained from treating it as a crime. Say if they… -
Re: [Technical Talk] - Tutorials Sticky Thread
This was original a paintover/message to Cheapalert, but I thought it'd make a great mini-tutor for beginner texture artists trying to get less blurred textures. Solid shapes as selectable masks to enhance sharp edges http://chrisholden.net/masklayer1.jpg The original texture, on the left, does fine to sell the look of the… -
Re: How many maps for a character?
For an example of a modular character design, check out Jesse Sosa's excellent example http://oldwiki.polycount.com/SkankerzeroModularCharacterSystem (the images aren't up on the new wiki yet) -
Re: Can any Ai based tools could make a clean looking sign/logo from a photo?
Maybe scale it even more down to get a better result. When you feed in a washy image then it will try to upscale this washy look ... there's a plethora of traditional computer vision techniques that will do the job Not this job, unfortunately. Traditional methods will not fill in fine details like hairs or surface… -
Modeling cheek\side guards of some historical helmets - topology suggestions ?
It seems people are more keen about modeling fantasy helmets or pseudo historical helmets seen from movies but little is known that actual helmets used along in history are equally fascinating. One forgotten era where there are superb examples of fascinating helmets is the hellenistic one (time period after the Alexander… -
Smoothing groups+normal maps?
Hello polycounters I'm a normal mapping novice who is currently practicing with the technique and hoping to achieve a higher skill/comfort level. I'm working on understanding how any smoothing group info I have on my low detail model is getting baked into the normal map. I thought other beginners might benefit from seeing…
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