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Re: Production ready game models.
Exactly :) For instance, non-triangulated meshes cause problem with tangent-space normalmap baking, since there is no way to guarantee that the tool used for baking triangulates things the same way as the engine the model is ultimately exported to. Now there are workaround around this (like applying a triangulation… -
Re: Hand painted environment tips?
Did a bit of a colour correction and a small paintover on the rocks... - The scene feels far too saturated and a little unpleasant on the eye... I feel this would be something a little more comfortable and would enable you to push your lighting values a little further to get more interesting balances on values between… -
Re: Max to Xnormal bake issue
This is normal. Surface shading (which a TS normal map relies upon) can change on triangulation — since there are multiple ways a n-gon or quad can be triangulated, you can have a mismatch, hence the X-shaped shading error. You ALWAYS want to bake with the same triangulation as will end up on the final mesh. There are two… -
Re: [Zbrush] Is there a way to batch save each subtool as its own ztool?
I think it would be faster to just work with a single tool consisting of several subtools. You'd just have to enable Solo mode, use N to quickly pick the subtool you want from a menu similar to the IMM brushes, and ctrl+s to snapshot it on the document. I think it would be quicker to populate a canvas this way, and you'd… -
Re: Couple of big questions
25 and gonna take 3 yr program, so you'll be close to turning 30 and apply for an ENTRY LEVEL position??? My opinion for your age group is the self-study path. If you can't learn from a $35, $15, $6 or free video tutorial, a career as a game artist is probably not optimal for you. I don't mean to insult. Think about it,… -
Re: Texel Density makes bakes look bad on important areas
In theory there is a tool to change the scale relative between islands when packaging in the UV editor. But I can not get it working, using groups or not. * "For example, say you group some clusters, and then select a polygon belonging to one of the clusters and set Rescale Priority to 0.5. Then you apply Pack Together or… -
Re: Jason Rubins DICE 2004 Speech
I thought it was because publishers were running brands into the ground with a packaged-goods mentality and foolishly chasing consumer trends in the hopes of copying an existing success rather than properly enabling skilled developers to create or add to valuable franchises. If that's what you got out of it, I'm not sure… -
Re: 3DSMax RTT - How to bake using alpha thru DIF/NRM/etc.?
Allright, thanks every one for the help. I was able to bake the normal map the way I needed finally. Here's a little feedback on what's been said in this thread and if it worked for me in this case: Default RTT : failed to do what I needed Mental ray RTT with Arch&Design cutout technique: failed to do what I needed DirectX… -
Re: The Last of Us
I just played for 10 hours straight. the game gets 1/10 1 point for the nice pose when Joel is in cover with Ellie -9 points for making me waste 10 hours and not saving the game - since I didn't bother reading up on autosave bugs before starting the game - not something I am used to do when buying a AAA-title, I tend to… -
Re: Maya can't import highpoly FBX from zbrush?
Looking at the issue the other way around (since there is obviously a problem with the FBX importer) : what actual limitation prevents you from using OBJ ? If that's just a matter of enabling smoothing on the whole model, this can very well done in Meshlab IIRC. As for groups, OBJ does support internal groups and Zbrush…
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