hello,i have couple of questions and i appreciate any advice you could give me.1)i am planing to render a project through a render farm since i'm working on a laptop. .i have only 40$(USD) budget and farm prices are so high..what are your thoughts?..i cannot afford to render twice..2)how do render farms get my project?do i…
Hey everyone, recently i wanted to learn more about using Zbrush to proove myself that is possible to make cars with nice and clean hard surface edges with the less time posible. So i planned on making 1 car in zbrush each day until i feel confident with zbrush tools and designing cars fast and capable of making them into…
Im starting to learn environment modeling for games, and my first question after reading the general guide of Polycount is still my longtime question: reducing polys vs equal distribution in a variable geometry. I was modeling this arch: Attachment not found. with polygon efficiency in mind, obviously this would have a lot…
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I have some more Zbrush questions I never seem to be able to find the answers to. I find there help sections have a million bits of information but never the simple things. 1. Hotkeys for changing brushes? I keep pressing 1234567 as if I'm in mudbox which does nothing. 2. Saving my settings? Each time I open Zbrush I…
Hello, i found two ways to render blockout colormap: 1. Assign different materials to different parts, then duplicate mesh and transfer colormap(too long time transfer(on highend PC about 1-3 minutes, size dependent) and not precise sometimes) 2. 3d Paint tool, simply not so comfortable to use(if i need to paint different…
Hello, I'm actually doing some environements decals and i use substance to try them. Uv channel 1 is for texture tilling on my object. [Huge building, with multi maps on it sometime reused in different places]. Currently if i paint into channel 1 my texture decal is repeated everywhere. I would like to use Uvchannel 2 or 3…
Hello together, lately our lead engine coder notice some weird normal errors in our engine. Plenty of meshes where containing NaN illegal normal, tangent or binormal vertices. After some inspection on those meshes we found the problems within the mesh topology itself. We also are using mikktspace for generating the tangent…
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The UK and Malta are as far as I am aware the only two countries in Europe with right hand drive. And they have a 3 letter 3 number plate system, but as pointed out you've written too many numbers, should be 1 letter 3 numbers, then 3 letters for the old UK system.…