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Re: Rendering Normal Maps in 3ds max
Well of course you are able to use normal maps in cinematics but its a pain most of the time since you get errors or lose a lot of high frequency detail. At least in 3dsMax, i dunno about Maya actually. Yea as someone pointed earlier it looks like a smoothing or UV error. Can you post your UV map and wires? Maybe its a… -
Re: Simple box normal mapping
Yeah the rest of your process seems fine. You didn't mention using a cage but the object is simple enough to probably not need one. The only other thing I can think of would be your HP had a hard edge which would bake into the normal map or your smoothing groups somehow got jacked up on your LP. Are your UV islands… -
Re: Sun Wukong Girl
Looks good. But there are two things I find weird : First, that angle between the thighs and armor, makes the leg seem broken ^^ : And second, there seem to be small cavities in the face, it's not smooth : You should try to smooth that out on a lower subdiv, or use the inflate brush with a really low value to make the… -
Re: M-12 Locust SMG (Mass Effect 2)
spent the last couple of evenings doing the low poly. The bakes are just quick and shitty 1 click affairs done on Auto unwraps. Normals are displayed in max using 3Point shader. hopefully tomorrow ill get a chance to model the rest and I can start the unwrap/smoothing setup. I still need to work out where in need to harden… -
Re: Normal map looks bent
I think igi is most likely to have it right, having said that if that's the problem with modo it probably has much worse errors in its normal map pipeline. Adam sorry that diagram is wrong, the normal map should absolutely be able to correct that smoothing and adding the extra edge like in the diagram doesn't totally… -
Re: Every baked map ok except normal
You don't need to use a physical cage mesh. Set your smoothing to a single group. Don't export tangents/bi-normals(only smoothing) in your .fbx. Make sure your low matches your high as closely as possible. Bake averaged in SP. Default ray distance should be fine. upload the file otherwise as you haven't given us enough… -
Re: Organic Texture Practice - It Rocks!
@gloriousczar - No Problem! For the mud it was a similar process as the rocks. Using the clay a lot, then i would flatten areas with the flatten brush. Sometimes I would use the clay brush on "spray" mode and then smooth parts out with flatten or even the smooth brush to give it a softer mud feel. It's just a lot of back… -
Re: MrCroc-WiP
Well, the shapes are way better for sure, I do think however that you sculpt with too much poly at this stage so you have trouble to create smooth and clean surface. Care also to not over-use the trim brush but mix it with other smooth brush to get nice contrast like you did in his back. And you don't have any excuses for… -
Re: Ruger SR9
In the renders you have really nice highlights on the edges, but when I look at the wireframe you only have hard edges. How does that work? I always thought you need to add a bevel to the edges to get a nice reflection or is the model smoothed, but from looking at the wireframe it seems like the model wouldn't look good… -
Re: 3ds Max - Shaded Faces
I found the solution. It appears that the smoothing groups went wrong. Select all the objects faces, then in the modify panel/smoothing groups select clear all and click autosmooth. You can change the groups after but this appears to bring it back. It is possible that loading from another file with a different scale…
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