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Re: Maya hard edges..cant make them soft edges
Hmm is it lock/unlock normals ? Normals > Lock Normals Locks vertex normals. Normals have a direct affect on the appearance of shaded polygons. You can modify their appearance by first unlocking, editing the normals, and then locking them. To change the X, Y, or Z values for normals, you need to unlock the normals using… -
Re: Best Practice Texture Settings for Normal Maps in UE4
If I recall correctly, 'cinematic' will retain the full image resolution. I usually pack extra data into the blue channel of my normal maps so avoid using TCNormal compression. You can easily reconstruct the Z coordinates using the DeriveZ material editor node. I'm not sure if UE4 interprets 0 - 255 normal values in 0 - 1… -
Re: Sketchbook: gillmeister74
Hey more stuff I've been doing. I sculpted and retopologized this guy in the z brushes earlier today, hopefully it'll lead to something cool later, at the very least it was good practice. and then heres another older painting. I definitely have to work on blending the colors and implementing a stronger light source. I… -
Re: [DUMP] Kinect Starwars - Terrain and rocks and etc
Thanks guys for the comments! The trim smooth border brush should be included in the brushes folder even with R4. If you can't find it in there, PM me and I'll send it to you. If you want a chizzled look then add alpha 28 to your brush. It's the same alpha being used for claytubes. I usually tap with the tablet on to the… -
Re: Old german cigarette machine
It looks good so far, but try tracing that font in photoshop 1to1, it is extremely important to convey the right mood. Fonts transport a lot of character, and the brain is trained to react a lot stronger to text than images (2-3x). It does not feel right to me (also the kerning of the Z is really off) Im not really good… -
Re: Teaching self maya. bwaaagggillyglyjaaargfunkit
Dave, it took me two weeks to get fluent, and two more to get production quality with it, and then two years and there are still things I don't now about the program. The problem with Maya is that it is deep and secretive, and rewards a certain gearhead mentality. it also encourages specialization in tasks. I used the book… -
Re: Anyone mess with Maya 8 yet?
Connect tool, you mean append polygon? I've been told by max users the bevel is about the same in both packages now. There is a chamfer vertex but I can't figure out what you would actually use it for? Not sure what coordinate systems you are referring to? We work in x,y,z with centemetres, this is relative to the game… -
Re: {wip} watchtower
Thx For the diffuse textures, it might sound weird, but i've used the composite map in 3dsmax, i played with the layers/tiling/blend mode/masks and when i'm happy with the result i render the map (my wood diffuse consist in 3 photos+some masks and multiplied with an ao map) For the normals, i used z-brush and xnormal,… -
Re: Plant Potted Examples for Modern Games
Good luck getting files. When I explicitly model backfaces, I make sure to turn on backface culling, otherwise I get z-fighting (flickering). To avoid transparency sorting problems either use alpha-test (what everyone used to use for trees, and many still do) or use signed-distance alpha-test. For the normals shading… -
Re: Hiking
No problem. I have more, but didn't want to post them all, I took over 500, but only really liked about 125 of them. Yeah, we drove a little ways, here is where we were.. Snow Lake, Washington 98045…
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