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Re: On every UV island, I have artifacts on Normal.
This is incorrect, there is no requirement for uv seam edges to be hard, they can be, and it's free (in terms of vert cost), but there is no requirement to do so. On the other hand, you do need a UV split (and padding between islands) anywhere you have a hard edge, otherwise you'll get artifacts in the bake. -
Hard Surface Process for ZBrush
Hey all, I saw someone asking about hard surface in ZBrush and decided it's about time I posted something. A few months ago I finished a character for university using only ZBrush for the hard surface modelling (Topogun and Maya for Re-topo and UV) and thought the techniques I used might be of use to anyone who has not… -
Re: Maya 2016 Always Display Manipulator Handle on-screen?
I don't think there is an option for this, however in Maya you can control your manipulator without actually touching it by dragging your MMB around. It will obey any current constraints you have set to the manipulator as well: when you click on an axis (move scale or rotate), the handle turns yellow to indicate that axis… -
Re: Green Lantern hard surface test ( help appreciated XD )
thinking about how i can stay true to the original character while maintaining the mechanical feel, i was thinking paint scratches in between the hands to the arm crits always welcome -
Hard edges on UV seams for character models?
So I know that you should have hard edges across your UV seams on hard surface models for proper normal map baking but I just realised I don't know how this applies to character/organic models. I can't see why you wouldn't but I don't recall ever seeing a character model with hard edges in it. -
Re: [WIP] Church Diorama
Hi @Eric Chadwick. I have tried to re-do the uv's the way you suggested and this is what I've got. In one hand it does look better and the white curved ribs are a bit more emphasised but in the other hand my texel density is all over the place and due to the stretching towards the bottom of the ribs the spacing in between… -
Control Rig Plugin for UE4.
Hi, I couldn't find much information on this plugin either on here or the rest of the web. I've been trying to get to grips with it for animations but I'm having a hard time understanding how it works. I've created a simple setup that controls the left arm from the left hand. So basically I can grab the left hand the and… -
Hard Light Blend
In photoshop hard light blend treats neutral grey (128.128.128) as a tone that does not affect the layer under it. But in ue4 the same neutral grey color value makes everything darker when blended through hard light blend. I want to add some details to my material, but can't figure out how to blend it so that I have a… -
Re: Mirroring and stacking UVs leads to tangent discontinuity and seam
Thanks for the response. I do want the butterfly/mirroring effect in this case but not the seam. Can you clarify what a material finish filter is? I'm using the brushed aluminum material in Painter. It really seems like a left-hand/right-hand tangent space mismatch kind of like what is described for Maya… -
Re: Question about hard edges on smoothed models
So the easiest way to handle this is to use the "Polish by Features" tool which can be found under the deformations portion of tool bar: Turn off the dot next to it to have a larger difference and pull the orange handle to the right to effect your model. If you have enough subdivisions you should start to see those edges…
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