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Quad Ngon Modeling Techniques
Hi there, I wanted your guys advise on how I should be going about modeling hardsurface objects. I am quite stuck in a pure quad mentality which I realize is silly and I am starting to see the pro's to utlizing n gons. I did a quick model of a power socket piece to test two different methods of modeling. The first images… -
Re: 3ds Max: Texture Atlas with repeatables
One way I’ve done this is to use a single uv in atlas layout. Ambient occlusion texture uses this layout, no tiling. Diffuse and normal map are tiled, and are using same layout except each bitmap has Tiling values so they are scaled within the atlas. One uv, but use tiling values in the individual bitmaps to tile them.… -
Re: Unwrap help for very simple object
A recent example, if that helps. See point#2 https://polycount.com/discussion/234499/mini-tutorial-baking-seamless-normal-maps-for-gltf One important thing to note: splitting UVs on hard edges is only really necessary if you’re baking normal maps. -
Re: How to get Texel Density in a shader in realtime?
Thanks, Yeah thats a bit sad, I guess ill go with a combination of using mesh data to change tiling based on need, and a fixed houdini setup. Are you sure we couldnt calculate the uv offset of vertex 0 and vertex 1 as example and compared it to world offset of the same vertexes (assuming a perfectly projection with no… -
Re: Ghost Nova (Starcraft 2 Fan Art)
Hey man, its getting better! One thing you need to really focus on is smoothing out the planes of the face more, and paying close attention to the silhouette of her face and the basic forms. Check the shadows and light on your sculpt and try and compare it to your reference. For example, the first thing that jumped out at… -
Re: Portfolio Critique requested
As far as texturing goes, I think your Jake Sully Hunting Knife is the best piece. That said as far as a portfolio for applying for jobs, there's still a lot more you could do. ~I would omit completely that you're making props in 2 days time. It's not so much you shouldn't make your models fast, but you're better off… -
Re: Registry clean up How TO?
The registry is just a database of keys and values - all this "cleaning" stuff is mostly voodoo and dancing in a circle around some totem. Programs usually look for specific registry keys, just as they would have done in an .ini file long ago. As long as specific keys are accessed it doesn't matter if your registry is… -
Re: When we say multiple material id on a single model, what do we mean?
@musashidan Okay, that's something I've never heard of as a workflow. Gotta ping you someday when I come up with a character project soon to see how it works in practice. :D I've always just used separate materials on a single UV channel and that's it, so this is completely new to me. @bitinn I'm not sure what you're… -
Re: Charlie's Chocolate Factory
Here is my C&C... (1) Looking at your level as a whole, it feels very noisy. It doesn't feel coherent as an environment. Their is nothing that implies it's the Willy Wonka Factory other than the Chocolate bars that has it's name on it. (1a) For example you have this fantasy-esque land at eye-level, but you have a… -
Re: WOW: Mists of Pandaria And Kungfu Panda
Let me clarify since I think I didnt articulate my post well enough and some of you are running off in a completely different direction I intended for it to go. I was told, by quite a few people, those who have taught and or worked with those who went on to work in Blizzard's cinematics department, that the very same…
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