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Re: Is it wise to specialize in only one "field"? ( 3D Modelling)-(nub question)
If you are a student, experiment, see what you like to do the best and then focus on it, you won't know what you like to do until you've tried a little bit of everything. There will be always someone wanting you instead of a rock star, for your style. I'm sure there will be people out there who will smack me for saying… -
Re: Adobe eyes £200m bid for British visual effects firm The Foundry
If Modo 901 is the last 'perpetual' release, then i'll get it, and just stick with that. I would be perfectly happy subbing to Creative Cloud, if Adobe had a licensing model similar to what Epic used to have for Unreal 4; You got to keep using the software if you stop payments, you just loose access to automatic upgrades.… -
Re: UDK normal map compression issue (or I'm really bad at normal mapping)
It actually looks like this: Which is fine for me (just a slight banding but not really an issue), what I don't like about uncompressed format is that it becomes blobby, it looses all its sharpness (beacause of how TC_NormalmapUncompressed works). What I still can't grasp is: user Passerby adressed the blocking issue to… -
Re: High Poly to Low Poly workflow questions
No, it doesn't, most important thing in baking is proper setup of cage, smoothing groups and eventually blockers if you are using xNormal for bakes. "Cage" enables you to control where ray tracing algorithm starts search so you can avoid geometry intersections and by using that cage encompass geometry that is protruding… -
Re: Honda CRV
Lol, you guys are talking about the same thing in different terms. The noisy pattern Xoliul was talking about has a name, Dithering. I've read that If you bake out with higher precision, you can get better results by scaling it down to 8-bits later in Photoshop, because it may have a better algorithm for this than Max.… -
Re: FBX support for CryENGINE3
Hey, thanks for confirming that! :) I've been meaning to get around to installing 2012 but I've been caught up in other things. This is going to be some fun debugging, I'm sure... One query; is this with pre-triangulated meshes, or meshes with quads/ngons? I'll be the first to admit that my code is possibly not working… -
Re: Summer Character Workshop - Swordswoman (Potential Nudity Warning).
Bingo bango! I did have a version of this running where it could reasonably judge fleshiness (through a combination of thickness map, and curvature), and generate redness/yellowness in the correct places based on that, but it became rally sluggish to use. but there was no really reliable algorithm for placing freckles in… -
Re: maxscript idea - extrude surface expand
Hi Pior, I'm trying to figure out the algorithm. It doesn't seems to be trivial. Right now the obstacle I'm facing is to find the right vector for surface extension perpendicular to the border reliably. The general behaviour should be something like this: select some border edges to expand. If there is no selection, expand… -
Re: Let me show you my hot black body...
Yes. The lights are in 1024 K increments, starting from 0 (the black one) and going up from right to left, all the way to 14336 K at the back. Here are the UI bits I've added: Currently the normalize color temperature checkbox does nothing. The next thing I want to do is make it so that if that's unchecked, color… -
Re: Hand Painted texture skills
Let's not forget skin textures, I yet have to come across an artist that manually created the skin texture, even with reference sampling, from ground up and it looked bad vs. outright straight sampling which kills alot of the underlying 'feel' of the texture, not to mention, automatic algorithms for skin density and stuff…
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