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Re: Character head
what's your available apps? I ask because extrusion modelling is not necessarily the best approach to this and there are a couple of other approaches that you could try out to get better proportions, including doing a sculpt style head from a sphere is ZBrush as per the ZB character creation book, then retopoing it, or… -
Re: Matrix Ship---Need Help?!
Keep modeling out the major details, like paneling, etc. if you're trying to get to a high polygonal model. Remember, you don't need to connect anything or have any UVs for a high poly. Floating geometry is absolutely fine. If the number of individual chunks becomes ridiculous, remember, you can just block in shapes with… -
Re: Stove
In regards to the top piece baking 'weird'. It baked weird because you have soft edges around the cylinder extrusions in the middle. You might want to separate them with hard edges, then separate the uvs as well. Think of the hard edges as the UV "SHELL". So if you have hard edges, you want to separate the edges in the UV… -
Re: [UDK] Sci-Fi Corridor
If your baking your normals in max, you don't need to flip the y channel. UDK shares a similar tangent base to max (might actually be synched, but I don't remember) Your bakes have issues in them...you shouldn't be getting those sweeping gradients across flat surfaces like that. Make sure that you area breaking your UVS in… -
Re: Dwarf pt2
very nice traden! :D You did a great job completing the mesh, now comes the part i warned you about. Optimizations. I'd say try and get rid of the bevels/extrusions on the boots and gloves. Only keep the ones that enhance the silhouette: the spaulders and maybe the gauntlets. You can fake most of the geo you have with… -
Re: Home Entertainment System
The first thing i notice is that you're not observing how the concept artist intended for the various parts to interact with one another, and what materials they're made out of. For example the front half of the dome looks like it has a leather fabric draped over it and sewn to the machine. I would say actually model that… -
Re: M61 Nohab
Agreed, specular in general feels very bland right now. Whether this is down to the lighting setup or texturing is very difficult to say without seeing the textures themselves. I am also having trouble seeing how this has reached 98,000 triangles? You have a roughly 10 sided extrusion in the front of the chassis, on an… -
Re: Obi-Wan Lightsaber
For FPS weapon of this size you could go higher and your bake will appear better (the waviness that you speak of will be reduced). Especially on the top cylinder at the end of the weapon since that is what you would mainly see from an FPS view. Even things like the belt clip can be a lot higher (if you've noticed most FPS… -
Re: Normal Map Help
thats too funny, just got done reading your tutorial actually. it was really helpful, yet still didnt work with my thing i was working on. I should probably upload pics so someone could point out exactly what my problem is. I tried doing the high res in max this time, nothin fancy, just added some extrusions here and… -
Re: Mexican Style House.
Hello Andrew, Rock shapes are really messy man, all I see is a big orange block with some blobby block extrusions, it looks like "the rocks" have fusion within themselves or something like that, I will suggest, to take more than "10 minutes" next time you post your progress, and take a closer look at defining your overall…
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