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Re: How can i improve this Topology ?
As mentioned, research the subd hard surface stickies linked top of this board, where there's a ton of 'howto's' but more importantly the 'why' in terms of excepted/best practices. At a glance you've a few redundant edges that are not needed too support this object's overall silhouette and typically a grid layout isn't the… -
Re: What is the best retopo tool out there?
Thanks peeps, yeah Maya LT Quad draw is pretty good, but the one major annoyance I have with it is when verts go beneath the surface (same with 3DCoat) it's a real pain in the ass to have to jump out of quad draw and manually snap them back to the live surface. This and the fact that there's no offset from the surface… -
Re: ComputeBuffers in OpenGLES3.1 Shader
Maybe what you want. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/structuredbuffer-with-surface-shader.173000/ I think it should work. Here's a snipped that will be in the documentation really soon: "DirectX 11 HLSL syntax and Surface Shaders Currently some parts of surface shader compilation pipeline do not understand DX11-specific… -
Re: 3Ds Max - Animation/Rigging advice/problem solvers?
a morph target/blendshape animation could work, not sure if sketchfab supports that. You could try skinned mesh and surface constraint the bones to the ref object... well, maybe not. Surface Contraint doesn't work on poly objects. easiest way is probably rigging the FX ribbon with 3 bones and scale them to approximate the… -
Re: UDK cave environment
Hey Ryper, just a little tip for metallic surfaces. It´s not the diffuse that gives the "color". Try to use a very dark diffuse and a very bright specular to get a metallic look. Here is a little example I made to explain this better: As you can see, to get a gold like surface, I use a diffuse which is nearly black, but my… -
Re: Tasco Binoculars
nice work man, looks like you have hard surface modeling well under way :D . i have yet to model anything hard surface aside from weapons and a shield =P. and i have yet to model anything at all that's not from imagination. i think you did well in both the execution of hard surface and the accuracy of your mesh and maps.… -
Re: Painting with Mudbox - Stretched Projections, How To Avoid?
I haven't used Mudbox extensively, so I could be wrong (some images would be helpful), but it sounds like the mesh you're trying to paint on doesn't have enough geometry. Depending on how your base mesh is constructed, you might see surface stretching towards the center of flat or larger surfaces as opposed to the corners… -
Re: How to avoid seams when using generators of noise etc?
say you work on clothing. put the UV seams where the actual seams of the tailoring are. if you have hard surface do them at the angles not through clean surfaces etc. on a head, inside the lips, inside the eyelids, behind the ears, on the back of the head that covered by hair usually you can't always avoid placing seams… -
Re: How to create roughness map in photoshop?
Roughness is the inverse of glossiness. White values in roughness indicate a rough surface, while darker tones indicate smoother (shinier) surfaces. As for "how" to make them, you would need to have an accurate idea of what value corresponds to the surface you're trying to re-create. Two good links:… -
Re: Aircraft Panels: to model, or to map?
I've always had problems making panels for my hard-surface models but lately I've started drawing on the meshes surface directly (Grease Pencil in Blender) to outline the panels and then extract these panels by cutting them out from the original surface with the knife tool. This workflow makes it a lot easier to plan out…
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