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Re: Supporting Edges vs Bevels vs Creasing for 3d game art and cinematics?
You, personally can mix and match whatever methods you wanna mix and match. In production, usually a common ground, a ruleset is defined, to make things interchangeable between artists. You can use creases on anything you would use support geo for. Its very similar, you will usually just end with denser base meshes to… -
Maya XGen: What's the best way to smooth guide tips to make hair less bumpy?
I have here a flat top hair style with all the modifiers turned off so it's just the base xgen. I'm attempting to smooth the top part but each guide adds a little hill. At first I had spare hair guides, which is usually the best way to go, but this only made the bumps bigger. Each guide I placed just made the hills… -
Re: My First 3D project. Your Thoughts? thanks in advance
Kudos on the work, and welcome to Polycount! I worked 6 years at Wayfair, helping lead the 3D team to make environments and renders like this. We developed a bunch of guidelines for how to make and light and shoot scenes. First thing, the lighting is very warm, not matching the reference. I’d suggest adjusting it brighter,… -
LessNode – a mind mapping tool that tries to keep up with your thinking
Hi everyone, I'm a Technical Artist and part-time indie game developer, and I've been building a small side project called LessNode. The original motivation was pretty simple: when thinking about ideas, design problems, or technical solutions, my thoughts often move faster than most tools can keep up with. So I started… -
Re: Getting better quality masks?
Lots of things you can do and it depends on the situation, so images of your exact problem are best general things to try: find a larger image to use for mask use a noise brush to paint the mask manually use an upscaler (free on internet) to increase resolution of an image use geometry to screen view of large areas layer… -
Re: Best workflow for cleaning up a mesh that has been exported from Rhino into Zbrush
"The model is to represent sand dunes and will be cnc'd to a 1:25 scale" If you haven't done so already, the first step isn't to worry about how to convert things to OBJ, but rather to get in touch with the CNC operator who's going to take care of your job. The CAM (that is to say : the machining prep) could be done in… -
Re: Most Efficient Way to Render Ready Game Models
It's mobile games models that are very low poly. Pc and console models are not that low poly any more. I had been tasked to evaluate candidates portfolios in the past and it's a hell of an annoying burden usually . They often look perfectly same , tell you nothing about a person as an artist when it's just generic hi res… -
Normal Bake Issue
Hi, I'm getting this weird pattern artifact on the cylinder here, all the other pieces are fine. I've tried redoing the UVs, upscaling the texture resolution, I've re-checked the HP and LP and they look fine. Any ideas what's happening?https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10a8zcuozRHiK_E82KO6FSh3eOQdw9ttf?usp=sharing -… -
Re: How hard would it be to recreate these visual effects?
Have you tried an AI upscaler yet? This sounds like the perfect method since your graphics already exists but are just a bit too small. It might add the detail that you need without the need to redo the graphics from scratch. There are online services that allows you image upscaling. Also free ones. It must not be Topaz… -
Re: How to AAA skill?
This is a great first step! Wayfinder has a neat "painterly" style. Note that it usually takes a few years of practice and creation to learn the skills needed for this kind of work. We have some resources on our wiki that explain some of the work necessary to create work in a similar style.…
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