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Re: THIS JUST IN: MODO indie 901 has just been released!
It's not exaggeration, the Foundry adds artificial limitations to their indie software designed to impediments to workflow. Stripping out scripting and limiting poly export is coming up with new ways to impede artists workflow, these restrictions did not exist in Modo, they had to be brainstormed and coded into the… -
Re: Technical questions
Hey Tsarkon, welcome back! 4-sided polygons: Edge loops are more important than quads, though quads help you select loops when modeling and when weighting to a skeleton. In the end though, all game meshes are rendered as triangles, so it's best to check the triangle layout before export. Separate objects: Yes, this is… -
Re: Red Dead Redemption Techs
It's probably large meshes, divided up along grid lines. Just regular polygons, modeled and textured in Max or Maya or XSI or whatever. Probably two UV sets... one from the top for most of the terrain, and another projected sideways for cliffs (probably a hand-tweaked projection for each ribbon of cliff, spline UVs). I bet… -
Re: mudbox mac, cd4, normals maps
Hey there hawken. Im a c4d user myself and it has a somewhat weird baking workflow. It doesnt bake high poly onto a low poly cage mesh it bakes it normal maps only from the high poly so its pretty useless when you have a high poly without uvs. So xnormal as part of the workflow should work better for you or baking in… -
Re: Portfolio help (trying to make it awesome)
Hello Benjam, and welcome! Here are some ideas for the church scene. Polygon distribution in some areas looks low enougsh to be for omething like mobile imo while other places in the scene seem to go decently high. I'd take a minute and decide what the goals for the scene are. Is it a scene meant for a mobile game with… -
Re: Medieval Survival Horror [WIP]
I would ditch that entire mess you've created on the helmet to create the inset for the helmet. You could get away with making the helmet hexagonal like its wireframe profile suggests and just paint in the inset and save yourself a bunch of tris. I'm not opposed to the major silhouette changes that you've made, but the… -
Re: Vertex Normals - Maya 2013 issue
Well this is a default property of Maya (one which seemed quite frustrating to me at the beginning). If you apply a different material to an object (which is obviously different than the default material which maya provides) and then, you extrude some part of that object, Maya does not automatically extend your new… -
Re: Some WIP art assets for a UT3 DM level
You should definitively add some more polygons to your low poly pieces, you may even have to re-process your normal maps. I would also recommend adding more polygons to your highpoly meshes as well! You can see a lot of smoothing errors in the flat windows of that half circle window thing. In general it looks like a lot of… -
Re: Tiling Textures - Thorough learning and questions
Chris Holdens tuts are great, I refer people to them all the time. Tips and Tricks? I'd recommend using base textures and overlays. Divide the building into equal sections and tile the texture to give you a nice base. Detail this base with a texture overlay using blend materials (or whatever your engine supports). If you… -
Re: Contiguous mesh vs. combined objects?
For vertex lighting, and to avoid Z-fighting, contiguous is better. That being said, those are not always issues that you will need to be concerned with, depending on the game engine. Intersecting geometry can save you a ton of polygons, and can just make things a lot easier to edit. Particularly in the case of hard edged…
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