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Baking displacements in Xnormal/Reoccuring flaw/unwanted valleys and seams.
Hello everyone! For about a year now, I've been obsessed with one particular technical issue with displacement maps. I'm constructing a photo real scene which I've sculpted some beat up wooden boards for in Zbrush. At first, I was importing those maps out of Zbrush with the standard exporting and UVMaster plug-in for UVs.… -
Re: How to bake a clean normal map without split UVs Island on every hard edge
The vast majority of the important information is in the first post of those stickies. The criticism of using multiple bakes is in the very first post of this thread. The most reasonable way I've seen multiple bakes employed was in this video by Nick Quackenbush and the main thing that makes his approach practical is that… -
Re: Mudbox: projection texturing + low poly base model = bad idea..?
The process is as follows : - Make a highooly (you have it). - UV it if you need to create a diffuse texture using projection paint (you are doing this). - Make a lowpoly ingame mesh (from what I understand you are using your level0 for that. It's not ideal, but in some cases it can work) - Make UVs for it (obviously, you… -
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AO Bake
Is there any obviously reason when I bake the ao hi to low poly the bake looks like it has hard normals. Both hi and low meshes have smoothed normals where required. I've played around with the AO setting in marmoset. But nothing seems to correct this. I'm exporting from Maya via fbx. All other maps bake fine Any ideas? -
Re: Layoff update
Thanks for the responses everyone! Thanks Eric! :) That's a great point and it’s something I am learning now. On a positive note, I am having a lot more fun now that I get to work on my own things, even though I am making negative money doing it lol… Zetheros, I still don’t know how bad it is. I just interviewed for a few… -
Starting the BASE MESH
If I were to a full naked male sculpt what would be the most effective way of starting the base mesh? From my understanding when you create the base mesh the polygons should be fairly spread throughout the whole model so some parts of the model will not be more decimated than others. Here is my knowledge of ways of… -
Re: Maya 2009 Transfer Map Normal Map Baking (digitizing)
I'd suggest using Smooth/Harden Edge/Set Normal Angle over Average Normals if these are being sent out to a game engine. It's easier to manage and make corrections to the smoothing afterwards. http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap?action=show&redirect=Normal+Map#Smoothing_Groups_.26_Hard_Edges For the most part, smoothing on… -
Re: [Max] mesh exploder for baking normal maps
trying to do it based on position, center, and/or bounding box is fancy but it leaves tricky situations like highpoly floaters, or 2 meshes with the center or position on same location example : a sphere inside of a donut the program cant autodecide which mesh the floater belongs to since pivot is offset quite a bit could… -
Re: Baking multiple materials, what do I need?
OK, so as I feared, Toolbag expects uv islands to be in the default 0-1 space, no offset allowed. (at least, I can't find an option to make it work; putting uv islands back to 0-1 space definitely works) This makes multi-material baking a bit annoying (mostly because UV editor isn't that great in Blender, I have to overlay…
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