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Re: Minienv/diorama : PBR and material definition practice
Update with full textures (spec and glossy) The thing that took more work and re-doing is the wood .. with too much spec it just looks metallic , with little spec, it's boring .. So i tried on the panels on the back to have just some specks of shiny (glossy) , but -as for all other materials except metal- i had to tone… -
Re: M16A4
Some crits for the materials that I hope are helpful: The edge wear is too uniform, it needs to be localized more. Right now it looks like an edge detection routine plus a noise overlay. To look natural it needs more macro variation to not be so rigid. It currently sticks to the same few pixels around every edge. The… -
Re: [MAYA 2016] Unlock / Lock normals changes normals? why? is there a fix?
Hey, thanks for the reply. The normals need to be locked because there is a hard geometry edge there in the example (tho once the normal map is applied it will be appear as a smooth edge). if the normals aren't locked, then as you move vertices around the normals recalculate... so those edge normals are no longer at the… -
Re: [CryArtTest] Snapghost - [WIP] Environnement asset
Hey ! @Tiros Hi and thanks for sharing with me your point of view.Yes, it would be interesting to avoid this straight line on the roof. @EzMeow Yup, you right ! i started from the roof ... Can i save some tris by using only 6 edges cylinders on the edge of the roof ? It would look too much low poly, no ? Actualy, i'm using… -
Re: Making a drill, not sure how to make the gears
Do you mean the big metal gear in the centre? This is how I'd do it.. If anyone's got a better way then go for it. :P 1) start with a many-sided Cylinder - I've used 128 sides 2) Select every other edge and raise it 3) This is where I'd put the edge loops for Turbosmooth or subdivision. I've also modelled in the slight… -
Re: Smoothing Groups, Cage, UVW Split
Circumventing a problem (that isn't really a problem) by throwing more tris at it as a rule of thumb is just dumb. There are a lot of sides to when to chamfer or use hard edges/smoothing groups and so on so check http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap#SmoothingGroupsAndHardEdges for info on it. Now, what you said (Jessica) is… -
Re: Texture WIP C&C - Barrel
Never seen a barrel weathered quite like that. This kind of rust seems to form a pretty even coat or be localized along the top and on the extruding edges. Some decent ref: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=519578356&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=483508603&size=l… -
Re: maya 2009 transfer maps
Could it be that you are only smoothing your highpoly using the smooth-preview (1,2,3 on the keyboard) instead of applying a smooth from the mesh menu? The smooth-preview will not render, and that tear in the normalmap could be a hard edge in your proxy-mesh...... But it does look like a hard edge in your lowpoly. You… -
Re: Core UI
Philnolan: That's not what I'm talking about. That's edge weights for subdivision surfaces (akin to "Crease" in Maya and Max). I'm talking about splitting normals on a lowpoly mesh - eg. Maya's "Soft/Hard Edge" method, or Max's Smoothing Groups. The only way I ever found to control this in LW was through the Material… -
Re: Practice with Sub-D modeling (Critique please)
Using smoothing groups with sub_D is kinda defeting the purpose of modelling in sub_D. With smoothing groups you get hard edes, like ultra/unrealistic hard. There will always be a minimal bevel on a edge, unless it's 2 object intersecting/overlapping (but even then). With sub_D, to get a sharp edge, put edges really close…
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