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Re: Creating Cages in Max
I normaly use xNormal to bake the normals. Recently I also tried substance designers baking, but had soem issues with it (edges are flipped). -
Re: The best way to make metal
www.xnormal.net XNormal bakes out AO and normal maps. It's stand alone, and its free. The creator also posts on polycount quite a bit. -
Re: Long Road Ahead - Dagon's Improvement Thread
These are my export settings and above the green-blue edges are marked sharp. I am using Xnormal to bake my normal map. -
Re: Marlon Brando Bust
Wow, great likeness. Have you tried xnormal to bake your normal maps? it worked great for me on my old PC. -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game Models
Make a thread in Showcase & Critiques. I know its frustrating to feel a gap between imagination and execution, but I promise it shrinks the more you do, and the more you fail. Failing is good - just try not to make the same mistakes over and over again :smile: What I will say is that in a production setting this axe… -
Naruto's Master Jiraiya
My first 3d game art. It's Master Jiraiya of the Naruto series. Maya-Zbrush-Photoshop-Xnormal-Marmoset Toolbag, 11k tris, 2k color, normal and specular maps. -
Re: (Noob) Shading issues in Blender (or Substance, i don't really know)
In my experience those compensating gradients in normal maps never perfectly compensating in actual game. Mikkt space synced or not. 8 bit only + compression means you have not enough precision. Add SSAO to this and at some light angles you will see those gradients anyway , especially on reflective materials. Same for… -
Re: FlipFlop Car Paint
Alright I see this will be a bit complicated... So first of all you are changing the normal direction with that lerp before the fresnel. Normals should be in range of 0,-1 so then if you want flat normal angle, your vector 3 would be 0,0,1. I guess that constant 1 with 0.5 in the alpha of the lerp would be a blend factor… -
Re: [3ds Max 2025] FBX Export with Path deform for Unity
@Noren Normalize Spline did the trick! Thank you very much for your help -
Re: UDK normalmap seams
The problem is your rotating your normals when you flip/rotate your uv shells around, so each uv shell is reading the normals differently. One shell is reading the normals as red/green, and another shell is reading it green/red and between them you end up with a seam.
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