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Re: Prop-a-Day
Day 3: As I said yesterday, Today is a two parter.. I actually think I'll take everybody's advice and do 1 prop every 2 days; one day for the high poly, and day two for texturing, with the lowpoly and UV mapping somewhere inbetween. Anyway, today I have a Butterfly Knife to show off. It's nothing too ornate, I just wanted… -
Re: Remember these days?
Haha! Back in those days, I steered away clear from polygonal games. I thought they looked horrible. I much, much prefered pixel art over this! The first polygonal game I played was Quake 1, and even then I thought: Aaaargh, cube-for-a-head alert! Why didn't they just use higher resolution sprites? It wasn't until Quake 2… -
Re: Cammy
I think it is not a bad piece. Textures are nice, overall character is nice, but man your topology and tri count usage almost kills it for me. I have seen lowpoly females under 10k with zero faceting (smooth and sexy). I think you are using way too much on the ponytail that could have been used to smooth out the shape of… -
Re: [Finished] Northern Armor Project
Here is a small update for January: I've retopologized and unwrapped the helmet in order to practice before I tackle the larger parts of my model. Using some temprary textures, I can get a good idea of what the final product should look like. I am having some trouble baking the highpoly curvature map to the lowpoly model,… -
Re: The wonders of technical art (Unreal Engine)
While I was working on the grid thing today, I also made a tool that turns a polygon mesh into a signed distance field volume texture - That is visible as an asset.. Not very useful in this context, but maybe I can use it somewhere else later. This is the normals of the generated sdf. I know what you are thinking, but… -
Re: Question about retopology.
I would say it depends on how they were originally made. Because if they were modeled with subdivision, then you already have the basic topology in place. If you made them in a sculpting program, then yeah youll need to retopo them :D In this case, I'd try to see what auto retopo does, and if its mostly ok, id fix up the… -
Re: [Finished] Orc Marauder
How did you convert the fibermeshes to all quad fur/hair cards? A few clicks in ZBrush? I guess the fur strands are the UVs in your leftmost unwrap in the bottom left corner - did you bake any highpoly normals down to them, or did you simply create some variations beforehand that you mapped the cards to afterwards? Very… -
Re: Why .fbx and .obj meshes are quite different?? (-_-) + bonus problem :)
Zbrush can export FBX files, but in this instance it doesn't matter. There's no real difference in a bake if one model is an obj and the other an fbx. It just looks like that obj has been exported without any smoothing groups / user normals. If that lowpoly was exported by Max, check around the exporter to see if it has… -
Re: NEED CRITIQ: WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??
Yes it does you have to export from maya with smoothing groups turned on. I have found in my experience baking with smoothed normals on a lowpoly mesh almost always turns out better. To me by the sounds of it, assuming I am following you right and that mesh has baked normals, it baked the hard edge info into the normal… -
Re: Sketchbook: groch
Hey there ;) Here are few of my latest pieces I did. This is a WIP of a lowpoly model done for a game project I was working on: Floor panel for the same project as above: Rusted pipe modeled for fun: Another pipe. I would model and texture it differently now after some time: Some simple tables: Mattresses: Spaceship: Alien…
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