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Re: Issues with baking normals, from Modo to substance painter
There's nothing obviously wrong with your meshes or UV layout in those images. The artefacts are almost certainly caused by busted normals and/or busted UVs some things to try... Are any of your UVs mirrored or overlapping? move the mirrored/overlapped bits outside 0-1 space Using .obj ? Stop it and use .fbx (obj is shit)… -
Baking, Cage, Triangulated, Hard Edge, Normal Group, and Seams
What are the conclusion on this ?? Usually I been working on organic stuff, so there really isn't any hard edges around. But I been doing some more stuff with sharper edges as well. Anyway; what I generally do is. * Keep the Quad LowPoly for final render. * Triangulate the LowPoly I want to bake. Save as Tris for baking. *… -
Re: First time normal mapping a character - WIP
Thanks for the replies! an aggressive napkin: I honestly don't remember any specific ones, but I think I found some fairly good material on youtube. dirigible: I'll check out those tutorials... I don't own Zbrush unfortunately (and my trial expired long ago), but I'm sure some of the techniques will still apply. Good to… -
uv shells to smoothing groups without textools? also normal map in viewport....
Hello, I had a couple of questions, the first one is regarding converting uv shells to smoothing groups. Is there a way to do this in Max 2013 without tex tools? I've had some issues with textools and it looks like they don't update them anymore so I was wondering if maybe new versions of Max have this feature built it or… -
Transfer existing diffuse/specular/normal map from one UV to another
So I have a two models with identical topology and in the past I've used Maya's transfer texture option to bake existing materials onto a new UV layout in a pinch when needed, my question is, can 3dsmax do the same? I know Render to Texture exists and have used it to render normals off a high poly onto low poly bake but… -
Normal maps hate me - please help
Okay so I've been at this all day. I'm at the end of my tether - ready to pull hair out. After having numerous issues I finally managed to get an almost perfect bake for my model. However, one part of the bake wasn't quite right so I went back to add some geo to support the normal map. This is where everything went wrong.… -
Rendering Normal/AO Maps with hair/eyes.
Hey guys, I want to render off some normal and AO maps but the problem is I have spheres (high poly and low poly) set in as eyeballs and low poly planes for the hair. So visually I have this: My current workflow is this: * Put both the high poly and low poly into XNormal (ensuring the high poly has a plane underneath to… -
Re: Normal Map to Cavity Map
I used to struggle with AO, curvature and even separate concavity & convexity maps... but now in Marmoset Toolbag 3's baker when all the high and low polies and cages are set up, it's just one push of a button and bakes are awesome. ;) Nowadays you don't basically need to bake anything else than these 6 helper maps for the… -
SP2 -- does painting normal channels mean I shouldn't bother with hi res mesh?
I am just getting introduced to Substance Painter 2. It seems to me that if I can just paint whatever details I want onto a normal channel, why bother sculpting a hi resolution mesh to extract details from? Is it just a matter of which program has your preferred tools? Or is there something more to this? Or... are people… -
Biorganic Kamen Rider — WIP
Hey everyone! I'm ABR, a self-taught 3D artist about 4 months into learning Blender with roughly 1 month of actual sculpting experience. This is my first major project and I'd love any feedback or critique from people more experienced than me. A bit about me: I'm actually more of a topology person than a sculptor — which…
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