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Re: Maya, create (convex) polygons collider for game
You know Eric in 3ds Max 2012+ you can add a MassFX Rigid Body modifier and press "Convert to Custom Shape" It doesn't work with subObjects though. I was actually planning a tool similar to what you describe. I'm almost certain Maya has the same functionality since they both use PhysX these day, but since I don't have it… -
Re: Tree Quickies
Nice trees here, Makkon. Sometimes your alpha planes are a bit too obvious though, maybe try moving some verts around more randomly to break up the silhouette. Tad derailing here, but have you tried MousePlanter, Eric? Seems to have rotation and scaling, unless you're needing to do a ton of objects randomly instead of… -
Re: Tiling Textures - Thorough learning and questions
Ah, I never realized you had other tuts Cholden! Thanks! And thanks Eric for the link to that other post. I find I understand whats going on, but I also find that giving myself these specific tasks greatly improves my learning for overall projects. I'm gonna take this concept back a bit but I'll post updates when I get it… -
Re: Low Poly Texturing
You can try the trace function in Illustrator or Inkscape to see if they generate some nice vectors quickly. The other thing I do is use the alpha channel to generate a work path from my uvs and then resize to the correct size. Although it not as clean as doing it by hand but it's quick. For painting you just have to do… -
Re: Texture Optimization
[ QUOTE ] ...as long as the graphics api tells it to be dxt compressed it will be compressed/converted on the fly and be dxt compressed to save video mem? if so then that is pretty cool. [/ QUOTE ] Well, it's not perfect. DXT is a lossy compression format and it can have a visible quality impact in some cases, notably… -
Re: C'etait un Rendezvous
Vassago, after reading the comments on the sites linked there, it sounds like the engine noises were dubbed afterwards. I'd say it's definitely a car though, just take a look at the section where he maneuvres round a garbage truck (thanks Eric!) and the woman flattens herself up against the wall - if he was on a motorbike,… -
Re: Smoothing group tutorial
I don't know Eric, I think mostly people are just lazy, and slow (in the head). Smoothing groups are very easy to understand, and they are in the frickin help file! I just made this cause I have seen way too many models in PnP that have 400 smoothing groups from the default creation, and haven't been touched by the artist.… -
Re: Baking Radiosity Normal Map
Cheers Eric, Had a browse through this before posting, a bit of good info there about the process valve use and a few other engines but it seems there is precious letting information on how this could be done in modo wile we do our other light baking. We might be able to make a mini-representative lightrig rig in unity… -
Re: How would you achieve these border details on road textures?
Reminds me of the height-map based blending that Eric explains in here: http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2490402/#Comment_2490402 You can use a channel like the alpha (which is left unused on opaque albedo textures) to store some sort of noise or height representation, and use that as an additional blending factor… -
Re: Baking Everything Behind Transparent Materilal into Diffuse?
@poopipe I'm pretty sure again, that's unrelated to what I want. @Eric Chadwick That just might be the simple solution I need. Though these textures need to be made for complex unwrapped assets, meaning I need the camera to be orthographic and positioned to capture the entire plane and no more or less. That would be really…
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