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Re: Substance Painter Baking issues
Your uvs are your main concern. They need some serious redoing. They are a complete mess. Why spend all that time modeling and give little to no thought for the uvs? Uvs are vital for a clean bake and texturing. For a 4k bake you will need around 16 pixels padding plus set dilation to 16 in SP. This is so the loded texture… -
Re: UE4_Japanese_Alleyway
What ZacD said. In a perfect world you would load a texture the size of your final light map into your UVing package and pixel snap your UVs to ensure all verts and edges fall onto one specific pixel... But since that's unrealistic, I tend to (in Maya) let it auto-layout onto a specific resolution so that there's enough… -
Re: Toolbag Refraction Shader problem
Thanks for the reply! I had a feeling it was a limitation, but I wanted to check to be sure. My workaround is to create two renders, one with all objects and one where the front objects are hidden. Then I'll put it together in photoshop. Toolbag renders quickly, so this is not too much hassle. Do you have any plans to… -
Re: Landscape Layer Blend Help
Depends on your memory limits. For consoles, generally 512s. For PCs, generally 1024s or more rarely 2048s. Also depends on how many times you tile those textures across your terrain. How small are the pixels in world units? In the past I've used somewhere in the range of 2 pixels per centimeter on terrains. But it depends… -
Re: UDK January Beta Released
my silly test with mesh merge using 512 pixel texture , too bad it uses udk organic UV auto unwrap ( I have to workaround export to other 3d applicaton to have proper hard surface unwrap then re-import) otherwise, we can use original material with UV coordinate tiling in UDK. ( as long as the texture image is seamless) I… -
Re: Lightmaps: tech pros and cons
fany algorithm: assuming lightmap has proper padding: 1. binarisize lightmap, then per uv isle go linewise and count jumps from 1 to 0 and vice versa, then same for colums and add, then each uv isle has its specific value, and normalized(biggest = 1) is the scale factor, then scaling uv isles according to scale factor.… -
Re: Modelling and Texturing a Game Level
That's mip bleeding. The UVs are too close to the edges of your texture, so on the green end it is sampling a bit of the tan side, and vice versa. You need to shrink the UVs on the axis that isn't tiling. Also you'll need to make green edge tile with the green-only texture, but make it tile a few pixels in, where your UV… -
Re: Ruger Mini-14
If done rite you can get away with very small textures on first person weapons. In fact all the weapons on consols use 512 or smaller. The thing is that people quickly forget that not all the detail you see is really there, alot of it is made up but the viewers mind because they want to belive it looks better than it does.… -
Re: WIP - Sword
Personally I don't always go by the "Must be 100% shared pixel density no matter what" rule, especially when you have something with an odd shape like this. Whether it's a 2048x512 - or whatever size you decide to use - you could consider still maximizing every square inch possible of your UV space. When it comes to normal… -
Re: dxt1 compression alternatives?
Yeah it's weird, it not subtle changes that are causing the banding it's actually the value of the pixel relative to the 255 range, the brighter the pixel is the better the compression works. Looks nifty for colour maps, chokes on dark lightmaps, bright light maps look nifty as well. For those interested in the format>…
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