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Unique Trim pieces on a Tiling building
Hey all I'm trying to figure out how to go about baking and applying a decal on the corner of my wall which is a tiling texture so I can still have a unique destroyed edge on the buildings. I'm a little unsure how I would go about baking something that's meant to tile along an edge, and maintain a crisp alpha so I can have… -
Re: I'm making open world Playstation 1 graphics.
I was thinking about it, and it's going to be closer to the latter. I mean, I would love to play this on an actual Playstation (I have one!), but at the same time, I realized not everything is going to be accurate. For example, I was reading about how the PS1 lacks a z-buffer, which made sorting through objects extremely… -
Re: Merging multiple objects uv into a single map and baking with xnormal?
Well I tried baking my normal map from all of my high poly meshes to all of my low poly meshes (I combined my low poly meshes into a single object), and it gave me one flat color. I'm not sure what the problem is and i can post pictures later tonight/early tomorrow . I'll try baking them individually to see if that solves… -
Re: My guide good 3D artz and stuff
if your testing a new modeling tool (of course just to see how superior poser is) make a cube and subdivide it until the tool crashes and for texturing always start with a 256² texture no matter what you're doing, 256² is the right startpoint aww, and its totally common to borrow art from others everyone is supercool with… -
Re: GeForce 8800 series out now.
I built a sub 1000$ system 859$ to be exact and just put together quality parts excellent mobo,fast memory, good cpu over clocked .. and then spent the most on my Graphics card eVGA 256-P2-N624-AR GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 works great and can put max settings on anything out now . I could have SLI… -
Re: bump map vs normal map?
The new compressed normal map formats (supported by Xenon and newer cards, later DirectX's, etc) throw out the blue channel completely, and recalculate it on the fly (IN HARDWARE!). Of course, it only works if all your normals were length 1 to start with. z = (x*x + y*y )^1/2 once they are converted back to their -1,1… -
3dsmax uv editor help please!
Hey guys, I have this problem that I can't find a solution too so hoped someone with more experience would know. I am following a tutorial in 3ds max and am at the texturing stage. I have put a uvw unwrap mod on the object, and placed the 2048 as a material and in the texture ed. but when I applied any form of mapping the… -
Re: [UDK] - Stargate Level 28
Hi, I have tried to bake a NM for a metal fence. I tested baking with multiple version of LP. Normal LP (500 tris) + Smooths groups to 1 Normal LP (500 tris) + Smooths groups to 1, 2 and 3 and Optim LP (256 tris) + Smooths groups to 1 Optim LP (256 tris) + Smooths groups to 1, 2 and 3 It works pretty well, but I have a… -
Re: Demo reel what do you think.
Thanks for the replies. I'll probably get rid of the sound. Yeah the Greek trireme, la nina and the WW1 truck are from Stainless Steel Art test. The only one that retains the specs from the tests though is La Nina. The original test for that model required me to use two 256 x 256 textures for it and the polycount (tris)… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Its funny i've always heard the "NEVER RESIZE, ALWAYS REBAKE YOUR MAPS!" argument, but i very often size down maps without any negative visual artifacts. Comparing rebaked maps at a lower resolution(say 256 baked, or 1024 resized to 256) to a resampled texture created in photoshop, the resampled result always seems…
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