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Re: Multiple UV normal blending
Hi! What kind of large assets, organic or hard-surface? If I remember correctly, in Unreal tangent basis gets generated only for UV0, which make blending normal maps based on 2 UV sets not applicable by default (search for something like "ue normal map on uv1" and you will find some threads and workarounds). Or just make… -
Re: Hand painted weapons practice
Looking really cool! I definitely think you're picking up on a lot of things pretty quickly, especially for someone just starting out with handpainting. I know you're going on to a new sword, and I think that's probably the right call, you can keep iterating on your process from start to finish and what not. That said I… -
Re: Mudbox workflow
ZBrush & Mudbox are sculpting tools. Uses to sculpt out high definition details (read: highpoly). You use multiple brushes, like Photoshop, to manipulate the surfaces of your meshes. Max & Maya can also do these things, but you're doing it by manipulating vertex and polygons on their X, Y, or Z axis. Because of this, the… -
Re: Unlimited Detail
You don't even need to store the inside points for a model. Just the surface points.... just like with traditional geometry. Similar to procedural texture generation, procedural algorithms can be made to create surface detail made up of point cloud data for objects to save on memory as well. That tech has gotten quite… -
Re: Need Helpful Tips for High to Low Poly Baking
Well this may sound weird for everyone and I may get some flack, but I do it in reverse: 1. I model in lowres and UV it. 2. Do the Highres, based on the lowres cage. 3. Do the Baking (Normal, AO, etc...) It works for me when I was doing hard surface work on AAA games. Please do take note that I do have to plan what I will… -
Re: [ShaderFX + Maya] ShadowMap node doesn't work (and other questions)
So you get shadows working with the default Traditional Game Surface shader? But not when trying it to build it yourself? Most of the times when I've tried it I've just copied the relevant shader group inside the Traditional Game Surface shader and used it in my own shader project. Has worked fine. Speaking of the orange… -
Re: Ackes Environment Improvement thread
This is a really nice start! You've got some really nice looking wooden surfaces going on here :) Things I would probably try to see how it looks: - Maybe increase the tiling of the floorboards? Just to see if you get a better sense of scale. It'll make the other props look a bit bigger. Right now the floorboards look a… -
Re: Need clarification about PBR Rougness+Metalness workflow. Please help!
Yeah or the pencil button to open the file directly, or go to /data/mat/textures/. Oh and one other thing, it was touched on in your other thread but its worth mentioning again as you've refered to a roughness map. By default, Toolbag 2 uses a gloss map, which means black = rough surfaces and white = smooth surfaces. With… -
Re: Character Concept Voting for February 2015
Yea, most character art/anatomy practices are shown in individual threads. The thing is anatomy knownedge is as important as is hard surface modeling skills for an environment/prop artist. We can't expect to make good characters without enough anatomy knownedge, sure everyone can practice individually and improve on it but… -
Re: Mak 90 - Portfolio Piece
One detail you're missing is a lot of extra wear right around where the soldier carries it, and surface that would be adjusted a lot through use, or near them. For example, the pistol grip would see a lot of wear, including the trigger guard. The forward grip area would also see a lot of wear, not just from handling the…
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