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Re: The Monthly 'Newb' CHARACTER Challenge | July 2014 | Multiple Pieces
Silver Spade:It looks nice. I think the normal map is good, but try to get rid of the triangles between the gaps and corners on the body. Tweaking the cage helped me a lot with the same problem. And for the PBR-Physically based rendering, I am not sure if I would explain it correctly. Read this:… -
Re: M4 Compact Carbine
The 18 on the receiver would be more convincing if you gave it a slightly raised surface and had gave it the same material definition as the kind of paint you get when you write on something with a paint marker. Right now the color of it and the style of it being hand-drawn on there looks perfect, but if you gave it the… -
Re: Some questions from a confused character artist.
Procedural Mesh generation is "Mostly math driven creation of meshes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obZVqksyXfk Handpainted textures are models with textures that are illustrated, like so: Material-based texturing is texturing based on real-life materials, so attempting to recreate metal precisely if a particular surface… -
Re: Jet Engine - Rolls-Royce Welland
Well it's a good example of some nice hard surface modelling, but I guess that's about it really man. There's nothing particularly mindblowing about it as an asset because it's fairly simple in real life anyway (just a few cylinders and some splines). Also the lack of replies might be down to the fact that polycount is… -
Re: Marmoset / General Specular Question
Interesting Mike, So I was playing around with just a Black and white image using the angle gradient tool before I went to bed last night and was def getting pretty close results. Is this basically what you were suggesting? It seems to work pretty well except in addition to having some pretty decent results there is a… -
Re: the *ART JAM* - please join in :)
having one issue that maybe someone here can help me on. Trying to retopo this model in Max 2013 and while the body and arms are fine, when i get to the fingers and thumb the verts are grabbing other surfaces. Dropping the distance doesnt seem to help. Basically it will grab a spot on the torso or some other distant spot.… -
Re: Wacom repairs vs money
It's probably dead but what do you have to loose?, may as well open it up and see what the damage is. If the light is on It could be that coffee has come between the connection of the ribbon cable that connects the touch surface to the circuit board. That's a guess though, I'm not sure if the ribbon cable is removable on… -
Re: Maya 2016 - Quad draw mesh line rendering issues
This is not a bug, it's exactly what should be happening, autodesk just didn't realize that it's highly inconvenient. If a few verts are placed on the surface of the mesh, the edges and faces connecting them will be inside the surface with greater curvature. I use a pymel tool I wrote to deal with visually layering the… -
Re: I thought I was done with you normal seams...
Problems Solved. I ended up using a beveled Low Poly Cube with Support Loops to create even normals on the flat surfaces. Turns out I had one setting wrong in my Maya Transfer Maps tool. I had it set to "Surface Normals" Now I'm just wondering if I am stuck with the support loops causing extra geometry on my low poly cube.… -
Re: UDK - splinter cell conviction bathroom scene
Pull the craggy normal out of the floor tiling. They look like they've been hewn out of a granite mountain with hand tools. For fired ceramics like that, you really only need normals to define the edging and any major cracks or damage deformation. All the scuffs, scratches, and wear works better if you put it in the spec.…
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