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Re: Hard Surface Normal Maps
First off, what software are you using? If it's Maya, you can solve this problem by averaging the normals of the low poly on those verts which occupy the same world space but are part of different mesh chunks (aka shells). Ths will make the low-poly appear to be seamless, and a normal map generated from this will look… -
Re: Grading levels of art
Look at the back of the box, can you do that with the same resources your probably at least ''staff level'' for that company at the time they were creating that game. :) Look at peoples work here on polycount and go check portfolios and then see if there is information for what position they have, what kind of work… -
Re: Color and Specular Maps
They do for sure, but a follow up would be couldn't I just use a red light on that Christmas ball to get the red glow? (assuming I'm using a black/white spec). edit: Although to answer my own question, I guess if I used a red light I'd have red on the background layout too (red indirect light bouncing off the ball too).… -
Re: Google Talk
[ QUOTE ] You dislike Google for providing free services with ads, seemingly forgetting that google has no source of revenue besides ads and wouldn't exist without them, yet don't seem to mind in the least that Microsoft stuffs it's free services with several times as many ads in more obtrusive places and formats even… -
Re: What to learn to be a great texture artist.
@Neox Substance Designer can be used to make shaders, MDL for example and there's ongoing work to integrate MaterialX. To the OP, we have lots of resources to help with understanding how Naughty Dog does their textures: https://polycount.com/discussion/122359/the-last-of-us-art-dump-rogelio-olguin/p1 Great post from… -
Dragon Hunter WIP
Hi, I'm working on this character, really struggling with the cape for now so I'd like some critique and help. The cape in the original concept isn't entirely realistic in the way it bunches up and holds itself, but the way it is in the concept really helps the silhouette and is what really makes the character imo, so I'd… -
hacky workaround?
Hello, I had spent last night struggling with what I thought was a lightmap error. After spending quite a while trying to fix the problem and then replicate the problem I found it wasn't the lightmap UV channel that was the issue but the first UV channel (which had overlapping UVs). Now from what I understand the UVs with… -
Jagged Normal maps - video card issue?
Hello there, My GPU fan melted off its construct and careened into my mobo making harsh buzzing sounds during my lunch today. Im not sure if the chip is burnt or not yet, luckily my PC shut down right away... but either way for now, Im 'on-board' with an Intel GPU. Which is altogether hideous. Im wondering, I just baked a… -
Hand painted tileable textures - Comparison
Hi, I have done a project for uni which involves creating some hand painted tile-able textures using 2 different methods. The first is just painting the texture the normal way in Photoshop, and the second is using Zbrush, or any other sculpting software to create the 3D sculpt of a texture, then baking out the AO, normal… -
Vertex normal problem in Maya.
Hi, I am using Maya 2013 and this is the first time I notice this problem. I would like to get a nice average of all the normals of my model in order to get a nice shading. The "original" model has all its vertex normal pointing out or smooth and a nice shading. When I try to replicate the same in maya on a copy of the…
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