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Re: Modular roads with unique normal
Thank you guys, it turned out somehow like this. I'll take a closer look at everything you've offered me (unfortunately, I've been working on it for the last few days) and explore the possibilities of optimized texturing. At the moment, each such 'module' contains a separate unique material plus decals. The result,… -
Stepped Gradient Effect
I'm looking for a way to break a gradient into a variable number of steps. The effect I'm going for is a shale like flaky rock surface. Right now I'm using a curve but that's less than elegant workflow-wise. I'd like to be able to use a dynamic gradient and have the steps controlled by a stepped gradient that can be… -
[Maya 2017] Annoying problem: glitchy value slider on dual monitors
This has been irritating me for a long time and I can't figure out how to fix this on my own. I work on a dual monitor setup, monitor 1 is to my left and monitor 2 is to my right. Maya runs on my left, so that the channel box is very close to the edge of monitor 2. If highlight a channel in the channel box, let's say… -
Re: Website Pimp!!!
@ Rick Stirling Hey thank you very much for your advice; I guess I need to rethink my website a bit more and think about making it a little more nicer to look at and to sort out the frames problem which many seem to find a nuisance. I guess the problem was that I was in such a rush to get all my work online, that I… -
Re: Any silo 2 users here?
I'll just jump in here and say that while I do love Silo for modeling sometimes I've become disenchanted due to the massive quantity of bugs. The number of times I've lost work due to crashes or frequent file corruptions is too numerous to count. It crashes hard multiple times daily/hourly(?). The fact that the guys who… -
Re: What do you do when people you know pirate games?
I wouldn't call it pirating but it causes the exact same problems for the game industry. But pirating isnt 100% bad. There are people who use it as a demo service to help them decide which games to buy, and if they didnt have this demo then they just wouldn't buy it. It also helps increasing the fan base and popularity of… -
Re: Photographing skies for sky domes
If the trial version of Realviz Stitched worked for you then go for it. On my machine Stitcher was horribly unstable. A positive point was that the stitching large HDR files a bit faster (when it did not crash). One thing that I didn't see in Stitcher was the option to align the images numerically. When you are using a… -
Re: Is material/texture artist even a job anymore?
I still see material/texture job art postings. Now granted numerically the number of open material/texture art jobs are probably on the lower end compared to other 3d art jobs but they are still there and hey if its of any comfort at least there are many more material/texture artist job openings than there are game writer… -
Re: Substance Designer - Master Thread
@Rhinokey the $number returns the iteration number, actually. If you plug your quadrant to an iterate node, make it iterate 40 times, each iteration will return a different number, 0 to 39. I usually create my fx-maps with a single quadrant and iterate node, and I make it so the patterns get resized and offset according to… -
Re: Is it possible to get a good bake without support loops?
Share the mesh (zip, then attach here) and also, show a closeup of the normal map. It helps to state your software with version number. For example: Substance 3D Painter 11.1 for baking, and 3ds Max 2026.3 for viewing (or whatever you're using).
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