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Re: Quick Texture sheet question
You don't need to merge the uv's and the textures all together.This can cause low resolution and unequalized texel ratio. If you work with multiple textures, then display just one in the uveditor when you uving. About the ao, you need second uv map for this. This is also needed for lightmaps so you must make it. -
Re: Next-Gen Wish List?
I'd like to see shadows in next gen environments. Seems everyone jumped from shitty vertex colours on current gen right past lightmaps and into normal mapped flat looking no shadows on anything crapness. My list of offenders: Kameo, Perfect Dark, Call of Duty, DOA, Amped, King Kong, and all sports games. -
Re: Polycount Wiki
I'm itching to create a "3D software tips & tricks" section, with sub-sets for Maya, Max, Lightwave, Silo, whatever. Then have a list of the most useful default shortcuts, features, techniques and tricks for that software. If anything, I'd just do that so that people no longer have to ask me how they accidentally managed… -
Re: 14th century small town environment
Status: Coming together After having to figure out why Unreal kept overwriting my lightmap resolution settings, I finally could start putting my houses into my blockout scene. Still quite some placeholders, but from here on it's only assembling different variations... ... which I will tend to next week! :D -
Re: Can I break edge flow on sharp edges in a static mesh?
Visually speaking they are the same, but depending on the shape it could be beneficial for you to make a model/portions of a model as one contiguous mesh. It just depends. Normal maps tend to bake much cleaner with airtight meshes, and there is less wasted UV space in your textures and lightmaps. With your specific example… -
Re: lightning problem here
this has got to be the number 1 issue brought up on polycount (regarding UDK). its a lightmap issue. quick search got some threads with some info. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76476 http://dev.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88906… -
Re: 3D in games. Do you see faults when you play?
Epic did improve readability of their scenes by a tenfold since UDK due to the new lightmap baking system, but it does not change the fact that each piece of the big ut3 pie was built with quite a narrow sight, each to perfection, when the scene itself should've been the focus. Sort of an overfocus you could say,… -
Re: Half life episode 3?
To be honest one of the main reasons I have stuck with source for quite some time is the fact that there code support for mods is great. All I want valve to add to the engine is scale-able models with collision scaling as well and lightmaps on models (although this could probably be done with the mod source code but I am… -
Re: Maaragroth (LizardKing ) lowpoly texture problems
Yeah it can be confusing if you're not used to texturing that way. Baking in a lightmap as a layer you can use in photoshop might help you to determine where features are. Follow this tutorial http://www.bobotheseal.com/tuts_vertex_bake01.htm It's a bit old. Instead of needing texporter you could just use "render to… -
Re: Urban Scene (hopefully will be unreal ready)
Hey seforin, cool those lightmaps really help unify everything. The tiling of the brick texture you have on the houses is really noticeable. You might want to fix that up. Also I think you should consider adding some grass decals and/or modeled plants to help with the transition between the grass and everything else.
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