Here's the first pass ao bake. I had to go with xnormal as maya's native ao transfer maps is still broken in 2011. Can't believe they still haven't fixed that, they still don't support spread, and orthogonal reflection is disabled and there is no option to enable it so depending on the camera you are in the bake will look…
Haha yeah it's still for a game so they can't be invulnerable to gunfire save for anti-tank rockets. Maybe plating it up in the front covering the face but not the rear or flanks, so gunfire can take them from behind/the side but not directly face to face? Like, 180 degrees of plating in front of the cockpit. I just really…
Might be the XForm. That fixes a lot of random things. I'll give it a shot on mine, and see if the problem goes away! This is what it's generating at the moment, after resetting XForms on both low and high mesh... it's doing the same thing exactly 180 degrees round the wheel, on the other side. Weird... So far I have…
@Noren you read it correctly. however in my experience baking and display rendering engines are not always perfectly aligned. especially when you are using more than 1 rendering engine (one for rendering animations, and one for rendering real-time content(in the editor or a game engine). so you can't always count on them…
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Hi there. I am currently experimenting with multiple uv-layouts. I wanted to add topology on one channel and detail maps on another channel. But I can't get it working properly because all normal maps are oriented always by channel 0 in Unreal 4. I created a test to properly show my issue. Here you can see, that I have one…
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And I'm back.. yet again! First thing that I wanna tell is, that Gul'Dan bust resulted in something I didn't actually expected, who had the genius Idea to try and find some references directly in the game? ME! (what a pathetic excuse) Let's say a few months of my life were wasted in WoW classic again. Anyway, after…