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Tips for building roads?
Hey all! I'm currently working on a simulation for work where I must create road networks within maya (Not the most effective way to do it I know). But that is what the client wants. I'd like to know if anybody has any good tips for creating smooth road networks in a much more manual way. The roads I'm building have many… -
[MAYA] Character Retopology(newbie)
Hello I have a question about character retopology, do I need to smooth my model after retopology? Its because when I'm sending the model for texturing to Substance Painter, after baking my high poly model I still can see polygons from low poly. After smoothing my model I don't see any polygons but this is adding a lot… -
zBrush Hard Edges Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rZ_jSl6Ok In the link above the sculptor does a great job of creating this sci fi box, but aren't the edges too hard for a solid normal bake? I get the gist of what he is doing and I could probably replicate it to some point, but it's all 90* angles for lots of the things and detail would… -
Re: Border edges cannot be made soft in Maya
You can set it to respect hard edges when smoothed. Do this: * Select the mesh and go to the shape node * Now go to Smooth Mesh - turn off "use global (opensubdiv catmull-clark)" * set the "subdivision method" dropdown to "maya catmull-clark" * now go to the "maya-catmull-clark controls" and click on "preserve hard edges"… -
Re: Help with Texel density
rollin, yeah I knew that normal maps require mostly smooth edges.. I guess I just forgot to smooth them before placing them all over the model. Cibo, I thought about the planes and alphas idea but thought that it wouldn't give that thickness of bark in the silhouette. Also, the bark pieces WERE low-poly... it was maybe 10k… -
Re: Unable to remove faceting
Odd! I re-read your post and you mentioned switching to smooth preview and you still get faceting. Generally, everything in the smooth preview should be smooth with no obvious pinching or dark patches. If this is happening then it's a problem with the geometry of the model more than it is with the edge normals. Select your… -
Re: Lowpoly to lowpoly (?) workflows
In my experiments I've found that I simply got better results with doing a high -> low bake with the same mesh. It sounds counter intuitive, I know :) bac9-flcl, if you really want to invest the production time into smoothing out those edges with baked normal maps, a zBrush trick might get you there. Try importing those… -
Re: Modelling for CG Films?
yea Benji I hear you :( the two different smoothing types that Maya has gets different results, one always better than the other, but both usually end up with some stretching around the seams. I didn't really notice this on the characters for the film, probably because they were stylized, but on the tree house i made for… -
Re: Taurus44B
It's not bad, but there are some things that could be improved. -For a 2k texturemap, you have some very blurred spots on your model (for eg the grip). -There are also some smoothing / baking errors going on (http://i.imgur.com/PpLrDRR.png, the black edges). Make sure you have different smoothing groups / hard edges in… -
Re: Car modeling techniques
This car has been made as a one piece smoothed shell to get a smooth shape, had the smoothed shape collapsed to a mesh, then had the bodyworks lines cut into it, hence the tris. Loads of different ways of doing things, Im no expert, but I prefer subDing a shell, with most of the lines in Sub D, then collapsing and deleting…
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