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Re: Justin VS ZBrush - a sketchbook
I think you could put a lot more love into the gloss/roughness map. Really, this is the most important texture when it comes to defining the qualities of the surface. Right now it looks like its mostly a cavity overlay with some small tweaks there. For something like skin, the roughness would be relatively even, with… -
Re: Hammer Time
I have managed to get what looks like a decent normal map projection from my sculpt, but I wanted to get some advice on unwrapping hard-surface objects. In order to avoid getting black edges I have read up that separating flat surfaces up from each other, as UV islands/using unique UV's, is a viable solution. My only worry… -
Re: Photosourcing texturing tips.
Highpass (good for removing highlights etc) and surface noise or surface blur. Really useful for removing noisy detail. Also the blending level trick (its on that cgtextures link) really useful for getting nice drip and rust stains or peeling paint etc. Something that really helps me in texturing is thinking in broad terms… -
Re: Slicing a level up in Max before exporting to a game engine
In my experience race tracks haven't ever been handled with BSP. They are large open spaces and there isn't much occlusion going on. I have also not seen anyone slice up the road surface in an effort to hide pieces not on screen. I think it would be near impossible to hide a large percentage of a track if it's is designed… -
Re: Ratchet and Clank - Environment 3D scene Fan Art
This is looking really cool! I also made a scene from this game, though the scene I made involved a lot more hard surface stuff and not very much organics and foliage. One critique I have, is your hard surface stuff is lacking the normal map bevels that Insomniac's ultimate trim technique provides. This allows them to keep… -
Re: Understanding cages when baking a normal map
for me, while sometimes i will bevel edges that need it, most of the times, any hard edged object will have only 1 edge in the game mesh, and typically if that edge has 2 faces at 90 degrees from one another, ill split the uvs. not using a cage on something like that would result in a nasty black seam going down the center… -
Re: enviroment portfolio # of peices,
Honestly, doing some nice organic sculptural elements like bas-relief sculptures and ornate trim and that kind of stuff seems more useful than another gas pump or wheelie bin or gun. Showing you have some sculpture chops in zbrush is going to be more useful than hard surface work. A lot of people are good at hard surface… -
Re: p51 Mustang WIP/feedback plz.
I think you've made some great changes to the proportions. Now, I think you should focus on getting good clean modeling down on this thing. At the moment, your surfaces are warping and bending where they shouldn't be. A tip for catching these mistakes is to model with a shiny surface shader (blinn, phong), so you can see… -
Re: playing with environment textures and normal maps
one thing i noticed on the first one that you may want to do differently is tailor the way you present the detail more to how normal maps work, so specifically with the V metal pieces you really dont see much surface in the normal map that isnt directly facing the view, which means since there's very little green and red… -
Re: Hard edge - highpoly
I agree w/ Rick; If the hard surface stuff is fairly mechanical, I'd leave that to poly modeling in Max or Maya. and unless you're going to add organic detail to those elements, I'd just leave that geo out of the import altogether unless you need it for reference. If you're going for organic hard surface stuff, then…
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