Essentially the same as what you can do in Maya and 3ds Max where you can render out the floor shadow separately? I believe, the last time I did it, you're able to toggle the model off so only the shadow is seen? It's just to make it easier to composite everything together in Photoshop. Ideally with renders from Marmoset…
Sure, shading issues in Blender can be frustrating but are often solvable. It sounds like you've encountered a common challenge with geometry and smoothing groups. Double-check your normals, ensure edge splits are applied correctly, and consider adjusting auto smooth angles. Feel free to share the picture later for more…
Finished up this asset for a commission. A realtime replica of an EMD SD18 as uniquely delivered to the Duluth and Missabe railway in 1960. Commissioned for an upcoming rail sim. Blueprint accurate, fully rigged, Midpoly, 8k textures Special thanks to the people on the Polycount discord for all their help in improving the…
Hey guys, I need your help! I’m animating my pistol model and I stuck on the hammer part. I messed up from the start because my pivot point was way off when I just imported it so I had to place it manually and when I animate it, the start and the end frames are fine but the middle part is off like if it was animated around…
Forgot to continue on this post. But got it done for The Rookies 2024. Breakdown: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/04yXlG I learned so much from this project, and also got a lot of good feedback that I will bring to my next piece
Sweet HS modeling, the class A (surfaces that can be observed) especially your chamfers which imo have a nice rounded radius for high to low poly bakes. As an aside, this blender auto material plugin thing may be of interest, even-though solid mode shading displayed on your model seems too suggest a different DCC…