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Re: FPV Weapon baking tutorial
Sage, yeah generally any bad smoothing you have on your lowpoly you'll end up getting on the final mesh with normals, and you can fix this by just adding in extra geometry, or using smoothing groups, both of which i dont think are that great of solutions, but yeah it can be done. One of the bigger advantages of OS, as mop… -
Vertex normals Maya
Hey guys got a question for you. I made a model, edited the vertex normals a bit so it looks more like its a high poly object. The specular highlight for example is tighter vs the "smoothed cube" stretchy highlight and what not. Now whenever I edit a vertex' normal in Maya it automatically smooths it. For example I made an… -
Beveling Hard Edges In Maya
Am I missing something in Maya? I model in polygons and use edge loops to define my hard edges. Then do a smooth to get that sub-d appearance. Whenever I select my hard edges in Maya and preform a Bevel on it, it completely messes up my edge flow and gives me N-gons everywhere. But I also must ask, If you are putting a… -
Holy Poly Count Batman... M60A3 Drive Sprocket
OK Am I doing it right? lol It's an eleven tooth drive sprocket, and I reasoned initially that I needed 11 sections to model dem shapes, and wound up using 14 to get one tooth section. After duplicating it around I extruded to tighten up the edges for the smooth and the polys just seem so high. I'm new to high poly… -
Re: Dynamesh giving me extremely faceted/strange results
This is because dynamesh is like subdividing without smoothing. By adding points on flat faces, you basically "break" the smooth interpolation between normals, which ironically looks worse than the less defined mesh. To get what happens, you can create a low poly cylinder in max, and add a tesselate modifier (edge, tension… -
Re: [Maya] [SOLVED] How to make a round creased hard edgeloop with subdiv
@hypronost I'm a little stumped how you managed that first picture actually. Is that polygon + smooth mesh preview or the old subdiv surface? Normally when you convert from a poly/smooth mesh to real polygons, you'd have to manually harden those edges if you really wanted that hard edge there; it creates all edges as… -
Re: Maya to Zbrush - Topology?
So I wanted to try both methods to better understand. I think my main issue with the smooth mesh version is that in general the long sections of the mesh don't give a very uniform topology once smoothed. Dynamesh on the otherhand gives me the topology but I get this weirdness... Any thoughts? I'm kind of new to dynamesh so… -
Re: Yet another sci-fi corridor
I'm not sure where I initially heard it from. It's an easy way to get soft edges akin to those gotten with normal maps by adding geometry close to where you want your smooth bevel and making the new 2 faces be part of it's own smoothing group (3dsmax)/ setting the edge's line to smooth edges (maya). That way it's easy to… -
Re: Blender 2.6 Modeling Tools. What's missing and what do you want?
@Ganemi i already know how the system works since it is the same work-flow as maya for doing smoothing, but i find absolutely crazy is that blender is the only 3d package i ever used that cant read the smoothing/normals from other apps. also im not trying to argue the best method, i just want to get my mesh from 1 app to… -
Re: Help: Normal problem in Marmoset Toolbag
THANKS for EarthQuake feedback. I have try triangulated the mesh before export obj .it's still no change anything. But i often do it when import to Maya.it's only for keep same triangle topology like in 3dsmax.and same normal map view. Finally I found out the reason. :) 1.I change the smooth group in 3dsmax.(i have tried…
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