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Re: Junkton (UE3 Environment)
There either normal or smoothing errors, I presume your models are smoothed correctly in Maya so make sure you are using ActorX to export from Maya and check obey hard edges (convert to smoothing groups) when exporting. Be sure your normals are tangent space not object and also be sure you're compressing the normal map… -
Re: [WIP] Serpent Vase
@sacboi Thank you! To answer your questions: 1. Maybe.. 2. They are flies! Need to do another pass on them as they still have a uniform material. @Celosia Hey, really appreciate the detailed feedback. There's some very interesting ideas there that I'm excited to try, such as the inversion of expectation. I struggle with… -
A short explanation about custom vertex normals (tutorial)
Hello everyone! I already made a few examples about this to a few of you, but I thought it would be more useful to make a tutorial from it, so I won't have to write it down every time when it comes into the topic. Also this technique is becoming more and more popular as the next gen limitations allows us to use more geo,… -
Baking errors with curved models
Hi! I have this model and it's giving me strange artifacts. My low poly is very similar to my high. I thought it would be straightforward where the edges would get smoothed but no luck... I really don't know what the problem is. I have tried various things to no avail. My smooth groups are fine, bake groups are fine, cage… -
Problems creating flowing sub-d shapes in 3ds max
Im currently working on a jet plane, and it has a lot of smooth flowing aerodynamic shapes. Im having a lot of trouble making these shapes, because I cant "add more geom" because then it would be impossible for me to smooth out the surface.. (too many vertices) heres an example of the sort of stuff that im dealing with: as… -
Re: blender questions
oh thanks respawn! I didnt see the little attributes thing! Thanks for the other info on smoothing groups guys. So splitting edges is also how max/maya do their smoothing groups? They just don't call it edge splitting? I just want to make sure it isn't destructive or anything. Why does exporting face normals do the same… -
Re: Relax UVs of a triangulated Mesh...
Hey Adam, i understand what you mean. You mean to relax some UVs and not the whole Surface at once, right? Whats funny in Maya when Smoothing UVs: Its smoothing better when the Shell has a bigger scale...lol... So when its small, nothing happens. But when i scale it big, out of the 0-1 Space, it smoothes the UVs... Is this… -
Re: Issues Baking Normalmap
Actually it has the same vertex data, since smoothing groups split the normals along the hard edges. The nice thing about 3ds max is that the cage is uneffected by the smoothing groups, so you can get really nice interpolation along the hard edges. After the normalmap is baked, splitting the mesh will achieve the same… -
Re: Wierd lines on normal map after bake (xnormal)
Ugh, even after using textools and using smoothing groups from uv shell i still get the problems. And looking at my LP model in Max, it looks like the uv splits are where the smoothing splits are (almost like a seam where my uv's cut but otherwise smooth in between, or is that bad?)... this is so **** anoying. cant do sh1t… -
Re: Study Group - Environment
Depends on the engine's alpha rendering capabilities. Most engines read alphas as hard-edged, no matter how smooth you make the edges appear in a paint program. The engines that do have alpha smoothing don't require smooth-edged alphas either, they just have different alpha rendering techniques. The only way to get softer…
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