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Re: Seeking critique on an Overwatch style weapon I am modeling
you've got too many straight 90° angles and too sharp edges overall. on Overwatchj everything is nicely angled, or beveled to chunky 45° with soft edges to catch highlights nicely. Check out the overwatch high poly renders on artstation. -
Re: Enhance the normal map
It should, but you've got hard edges where you don't need any. As for the shitty bake, I'm pretty sure it's because your cage is wrong - did you give it some global extrusion by editing the cage in xN's viewport? You should have use cage ticked and Use Exported Normals selected on the lowpoly in xN. I think you're not… -
Re: Workshop # 1- SHEPEIRO
Shep, try dropbox. Its what i generally use, even tho i pay for hosting =D As far as your problem, i would add a couple more loops to define the curve around the hard edge, just to give it better structure(round them out too of course, not straight like i have them here) and then Gradually taper those edges out to more of… -
Re: How do I maintain a clean mesh?
These are a help to me I noticed people don't always use the exact same edge-loop methods except the particular edge-loops that circle the mouth and nose. A lot of modeller bring an edge loop from the bottom of the eye to the upper lip and then create the "smile wrinkle" with edge-loops circling from the nose down around… -
Normal Map Issues
I have read everything on this site about normal maps, I have been baking normal maps for years and now I am having issues, I hope you guys can help me out. Here are some of the rules I live by: *Always have UV split where there is a hard edge* *Its okay to have a UV split where there is a soft edge* *Only have hard edges… -
Re: KT-s747 (ZBrush Pistol)
i think the more important thing isn't so much "softer" edges but "wider" edges. if you look at the 3 point models for brink you'll see that while the edges are very thick and beefy you'll also see that the shapes still read as being tough, mechanical objects. it's a really common misconception that softer edges must =… -
Re: Dodge Challenger WIP
Nice car! A bit to see from the wire and grey render not overlayed, but could it be that the edges on the bottom of the door is a hard edge whle the bottom of the sides is a soft edge? The quite agressive shading you have on the side of the car seems to disappear around the wheel housings. Try making it into a hard edge or… -
Re: Ngons for assets in UE4?
By clicking the 'turn' button.... :) If you add a 'turn to poly mod', check 'limit polygon size', set it to 3. Now go down the stack to your base editable poly, enable 'show end result', edge sub-object selection, and use either 'edit tri' or 'turn' to change the way hidden edges are oriented. (Hidden edges are always… -
Re: Incorrect AO/Normal Baking in 3Ds Max
I make 4 bake test. 1. just create stairs mesh, unwrap it - normal mapping and leave it. Bake AO/Normals Result: Where steps meet each other, there is no visual information. I looks like baking doesnt like sharp edges Test 2. Same geometry, but i conect UV islands as much as possible. Result: Better visual appearence, but… -
Re: Seams on normal map.
Yes small artifacts like that are normal (no pun intended) when having hard edges like that. It's due to the fact that a hard edge is in essence splitting that edge. The only thing I would look at changing on the highpoly is that inset edge that runs the perimeter of the blue piece. That inset is super sharp resulting in…
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