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Re: Advice for a first timer?
Maya's smoothing groups are called "hard edges" and "soft edges", if you haven't figured that out already. Be aware that Maya's cage doesn't affect the normals direction, only distance, unlike Xnormal's and 3ds Max's, which can change direction. Having said that, if you modeled and smoothed it well and lined the two models… -
Re: UDK kickass props and weapons
Well, I know whats wrong with normal maps... I need to do better with smoothing groups, the normal map is being averaged in places it shouln't, like in the edge of the blade, It had the same smoothing group in both sides when I baked it, that's why its painting it black, and softened, and the same in some other places :/… -
Re: Stegosaurus Model WIP, Constructive Feedback Welcome
Thank you to those who have replied, I really appreciate it. I have tried to make the stegosaurus' head longer and thinner and shaped the legs a bit more though I am still adjusting these as we speak, as I only just got a chance to read this feedback and know that they still need some work. As for the plate rotation, I… -
Re: Baking Issue (Again)
Cheers for the advice passerby. Looking at it a bit more I see there's quite a few ways I could use "tricks" to speed up this process. For instance, if I was to just use the Tessellate modifier it adds in a bunch of geo and retains the UVs. I can then bake out a decent-ish map and apple to the original model. The results… -
Re: Texture unwrapping for tileable textures
Hey Progg, I know this thread is like a year old haha, but here you asked all the same questions I have now. I learned a great deal from reading through the comments here, but just wondering if you could post that tree now? Or if you or anybody else has made another tree with a rougher, barkier (basically less smooth)… -
Re: Looking for UV unwrapping/packing critique
You can weld the belt seams together and still have hard edged smoothing groups on them that are visible after baked. Smoothing groups and UV unwrapping do not influence one another. It's possible to have textures of rectangular shapes: 64 x 512, 1024 x 128 etc. and no redundant padding is required. This is absolutely… -
Re: What normal maps work seamless with SP1?
Oh that's right CryE has it's own object space to Tangent space converter that ships with the engine. It really depends on your workflow/pipeline. For me, I bake everything in Substance Painter. I use UE4 which also uses mikkt so they are synced making the baking process simple and painless. Averaging all your normal… -
Re: [ TIP ] Handpaint normal maps with less effort
i was hoping he was having a knowledge-gasm, but if you insist that he is trying to say things that everybody allready knows i appreciate that he's being brief about it...unless,ofcourse, you've read too much into his two syllables edit: i hope you do understand that this thread is about a trick for handpainting normals,… -
Re: Facial Edge loops flow
thats just plain wrong. With the polylimit in mind this is going to be a lowpoly asset, therefore quadonly is a super stupid idea to follow, especially when you consider that in engine everything will be tris anyways. Quadonly is a philosophy that comes from film, where it applies in most cases but should not be used as a… -
Re: [Character WIP] Draenei Schoolgirl
True thanks :) Aye good points, I've actually been using that picture for reference but I didn't want it to be a copy. I agree about the structure of the horns, they're not gonna penetrate the skin and have a separate color. I've been toying around with different sets of horns, got a few in the library actually. I was…
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