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Re: normal Map Smoothing Groups in max
Eric: Unless the engine he's using supports 3ps' fix, how will that help him? Does anything support that already? What I would have suggested is to break up the normals along his uv-islands, and that should be enough to sort out the shading errors. This should have zero impact on the ease of texturing, since the uv-layout… -
Re: Max OBJ/FBX exporter
Eric, Thanks for the feedback. I've gone through all the options I can think of. If I import that same obj back into Max I don't have a problem. I apply an Unwrap UVW to it and the UV's appear to be in 2 shells. When I import that same OBJ into zbrush or maya, they are not attached. Also, when I do a render to texture… -
Re: We need to talk about some of our art terminoligy.
I dont agree that there is a difference between physics and the colour (color) systems we use. Light is at the heart of the additive and subtractive methods of using colour for production. Understanding why the sky is blue and sunsets are red is not confusing the matter. It's important that we know about the physical world… -
Re: Canadian Elections
What don't I get Eric V? Please enlighten me. Honestly man, so sick of this cry-me-a-fucking-river everyone sucks shit. I've never said that anything is going to "save" me. I've never said that I need "saving". That said, like in all things, some are worse than others. Just as things can get better or worse over time. So,… -
Re: 3ds Max Vraydisplacment Mod problem |Stretched Wrinkels| Used Akin Bilgic´s tutorial and Testhead
thx but i did not change any topology, as i said this is a model u can find on the homepage of akin bilgic. Also u can see his outcome in his gallery. So all in all i should get the same result like he did but mine is stratched. Not in depth but in width, so all wrinkels arent tight or overlaping but wide and stratched. In… -
Re: 3ds max shader to unity pbr shader mobile
I've done nearly exclusively VR stuff on mobile over the last year, and I use Shaderforge for basically all shaders I build. The general optimization limitations above apply, and there are a few settings in SF itself you should probably toggle: Forward Rendering, "Single Directional" Light count if possible, disable… -
Re: Real quick tree texturing question
Thanks a lot Eric, big help as usual. I'll have a go and see what I get. I think UDK does indeed use UV2 for the lightmap so it'll have to be one sheet for each tree. With that in mind, using Em's layout approach, should I just stick the bark tile in one side of the sheet and use the remainder as in Ems layout? Finally,… -
Re: 3ds Max Plugin - IllusionCatalyst - IC.Shape
Hey Eric, thank you very much for the kind words and the time to look into the web site. I remember you've been following IC since first version. Didn't I make a little customization just for you? :) I didn't even remember what's in that F.A.Q. page, maybe I was a little embittered, you know, sometimes it happens, but is… -
Re: Optimizing polystrips
I thought it was something to do with triangle-stripping, but I might be wrong. If I'm right, then it means having a row of quads all triangulated in the same direction, so their vertex winding order is always the same. I'm not sure how much of a benefit this is, I seem to remember reading some engines/platforms handle… -
Re: Normal mapping polycounts and texture res
The main question is, what is it for. If you want to have fun with latest tech and cool fx, you'd go for normal maps. As your main clients will be those with fat graphic cards anyway. If you rather want to get the "game" or whatever done, and be playable for many, you would step back a bit. Non normal map graphics can be…
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