Wow, things do always get out of hand rather quick here. I think Gauss summed it all quite neat. It's just as important that people know which techniques and tools to use WHEN. I'd rather hire someone who told me he did that texture in PS, than someone who had modeled it in hipoly and did parts of it in ZBrush, which would…
Hello, I am still in the retopo stage (Graphite tools of 3dsmax on Zbrush model). For texturing I wanted to use polypaint in Zbrush (Spotlight tool) - which looks only nice on the hi res model. So I need to turn the polypaint into a texture, which can only be done if you have UVs on the High res model. I was thinking I…
I was making a rope and realized that there are a ton of unused polys and verts inside of the center of it. If this was say.. zBrush, I would know all the polys and verts were just on the surface. What is the best way to convert delete the unneeded stuff on the inside that is never seen without taking it to zbrush or what…
Hey everyone! :) Just finished up this project created in Unreal Engine 5. This one ended up being more challenging than I initially expected, especially when it came to getting materials like snow/frost to read correctly and working with decals. That said, I learned a ton throughout the process and I’m really happy with…
So I am trying to create a cool ghost pony with a particle system with a wind force and vortex behind it that blows upon the pony. I limited the particles life span to end just past to the pony so that it looks like there are cool wisps coming off of it. As one can see, I am using the point cloud node the way that it…
Hey guys! I created a character entirely in Zbrush. It has no UV's, needs retopology and I completely polypainted it. I was originally just doing it for fun however I decided I wanted to try to convert it into an asset that would work in a game engine to learn and explore that process. What would you guys say is the best…
"Long thin triangles" have generally been more of an issue with static objects utilizing vertex lighting, whereas objects such as these that would likely receive real-time lighting aren't as affected by this....of course this also depends on the engine. As far as your texture size, there is realistically no purpose to…
Work In Progress I didn't start with line work. I'm at the point where I start muddying things up, going over and over what is there without improving on it at all, even worsening it (for example where the center waterfall meets the cliff). 3 layers: * foreground cliff/stairs * character * bg environment (had 1 overlay and…
ok so if you're trying to generate sand dunes like in homeworld: deserts of kharak, the key is to start with voronoi noise (or a repeating gradient if you want a more directional effect) and then apply a simple displacement with relatively smooth noise on it. (if you're in a newer version of world machine, you need to make…
I've been attempting to follow some of the official tutorials for Substance Designer, and I am running into a problem with the material blend node. Whenever the tutorial uses it, it seems to overlay the normal maps of the two materials. When I use it however, it seems to just copy one over the other, and half the data is…