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Re: Zelda Sword from new workflow. Critique Requested!
Ok, update. Tried making the rust more colorful and tightened up its edges with a histogram filter. Think it really helps define the look. Ran into a little problem with the rust though. The blade of the sword was a solid 1 of full metal, and the rust on top was a full 0 for non metal. Problem with that is the rust gets… -
Re: Understanding tangent and binormal workflows between programs?
Still a very confusing topic for me but from what I learned is that most programs now, like Substance, Xnormal, and Knald all use Mikkt space as the tangent space calculator to bake normal maps. Maya and 3ds max use a different tangent space calculator to bake normal maps. If you are exporting a mesh from Maya/3ds max to… -
Re: Gentry Farmhouse and Tree (UDK)
Nedwork, Thanks a whole lot for your crit! I appreciate it! Are you doing Undead Labs work over at the Seattle campus or at the Bellevue one? Anyway, the original farmhouse was done about two years ago in a Jason Stokes class when he was still teaching at Seattle Central. In that class, the maps were HEAVILY folded over… -
Re: Town of Timberdale [Environment WIP]
Thanks again! I think you're right that they don't look great on that one but I think I have a better solution than getting rid of them altogether - The reason I don't want to do that is because then the roof would have a very sudden and straight edge - which is to fix their actual location which I seem to have messed up… -
Re: Zbrush questions
yeah zbrush is quite a beast out of the box and is nothing like any other app.. so while learning it you really have to throw anything you have learned from other packages out the window.. its a slow start but once you really dig into it, it will make more sense than max or maya.. i really hated the interface at first ..… -
Re: Gothic 2 monastery remake
Ah, you have hidden your reply well :sunglasses: Fog cards I find they can help to elevate vistas, but to my knowledge shouldn't be layered too much due to the increased cost of the pixel on screen (Overdraw). Sample Projects I would follow the path Eric suggested. I haven't tried this one, but going by its description it… -
Re: How to tile a photogrammetry ground source?
Substance Designer has only pretty useless smart tiling similar to "detect edges" in Alchemist . ( 7:11 in the second video) As of Alchemist it has a few promising features like Content aware fill (9:47) and clone but I never found it really helpful . They both deteriorate somewhat natural look of photogrammetry scanned… -
Re: Futuristic Russian Helicopter (Hind inspired)
Joeriv: haha I might be one of the few 3d artists who actually enjoys UVs (at least the final fitting to 0-1 part). It's def a giant puzzle! Teh Splatt, Powermaennchen: Thx! Battlecow: Too kind! I actually liked my original version of the cockpit framing more but there was one big problem: It wasn't functional. Oops!… -
Re: Does anyone know how to get custom made trees in Blender working correctly in Unity Terrain Tool?
For the sideways issue, Blender is Z up like max and when you import everything has that 90 degrees in the rotation. Try the checkbox in your model import settings to bake axis conversion. If that doesn't help, make sure your tree is aligned to Unity space in Blender before you export. I used to have to do this in Max… -
Re: Pacific Northwest Office / Environment Art Portfolio Piece
Cool start! 1. Focus on making the room layout logical and believalble 2. Add human scale reference. Add FPS or 3d person character blueprint to walk around an test the space 3. Make sure the storytelling and props are consistent. Cables, seperation between floor and walls. cealling. lamps, wall sockets, door,
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