Using the connection editor you can link the matrices of your objects to your cgfx shader. You need to define a matrix in your shader - something like float4x4 camMatrix; Multiplying the vertex world position by worldInverseMatrix will give you a view space projection (no perspective) Unfortunately maya doesn't seem to…
Hi! Opening the Painter project, what I see is different than what you shared in your initial post, so I suppose the original post is outdated? Since I don't have a Max license, I can't check the highpoly or rebake. Exported the lowpoly from Painter, some notes looking at the low poly mesh: - there are hard edges without…
Hey everyone, I'm currently working on a material in Substance Designer that I need to get a Specular and Glossiness outputs from. I started the material with the PBR Metallic/Roughness preset and made the full material and now I need the spec gloss maps and I'm using the Basecolor/Metallic/Roughness Converter node, I…
hello im working on a blend texture for a special effect. this texture blends over multiple props in the scene, and i am having problems with different props having slightly different texel densities. so im wondering if there is a way to have the blend textures UV scale in all the materials that use it the same, by maybe…
So I have two normal maps, one for my overall terrain (1) and one for the terrain materials (2). http://prntscr.com/6l7dg6 What I want to do is blend these two together effectively. The 'add' node seems to work well but it reduces their impact. I want to use multiplies on each to increase them, but once I add that second…
Hi, I'm trying to export a maya rig made with advanced skeleton to fbx to open it in unreal. Before the export I have this: When I open the fbx I have this: The error I get is: The plug-in has found the following skin definition problems :Unable to find the bind pose for : /…
Hello to my fellow polycounters! I’ve been working on a character in the evenings after my day-job, in hopes of pushing my portfolio forwards. In the past I’ve either had a fairly generalist portfolio, or the chosen designs were not visually strong. I’ve reflected a lot lately, and decided to push forwards with a stylized…
Hi Folks, So I am trying to implement a tessellation effect which will tessellate near the camera and lessen the further away it is from the camera (as you might expect). I have been trying to do this using a distance based solution which I use for blend textures out to avoid tiling repetition, but this doesn't seem to be…
I'm using Arnold with Maya 2017. I've made a groom with XGen and want to set the colour to be the same as the texture I made. I have markings in white, greys and browns so would like for them to show in XGen, not one colour. I have looked at many tutorials and haven't found a solution, I need help as I have no idea what to…
Houdini Arnold "Standard Surface" node. It has inputs for specular as follows: * Specular - Influences brightness of spec* Specular color - defines color of specularity* Specular roughness - controlls glosines / roughness of the mesh* Specular IOR* Specular Anistropy* Specular rotatation In my case i have one spec map that…