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Re: The Polycount Art Project (ATTENTION: Lurkers, Professionals and Students)
oXYnary - I think I might have come across as a bit of a jackass. Basically, I LOVE helping people on individual artists. I really do. I teach part time, I've helped quite a few people over the past few years land their first jobs in the industry, and I find a lot of joy in enabling other passionate artists get to where… -
Re: Monthly Noob Challenge 6
For the Highpoly/Lowpoly thing, I do a little bit differently. What I do for the highpoly is start with a simple lowpoly mesh, and slowly add details to it, enable smooth preview in Maya (Key 3 from numpad, 1 to go back to default), I guess it is similar to turbosmooth in Max. What I do is simply keep a backup of my mesh… -
Re: HIgh Poly Texure - Low Poly Texure Baking? TexTools, Xnormal or Max?
To render edgeFinder put a vertex colour node in the diffuse. To bake this just bake a diffuse element onto the low poly. Tension is a little complex at first. You can use this script to apply it to a selection of objects. I personally apply it on top of my smoothing as it gets a sharper result. If you do this manually… -
Re: AWAITING CONFIRMATION: Loading Curvature from Xnormal messes up DDO
i'd say try to use your baked normals map but not the curvature. You could add an AO map though. If you input both normals and curvature map, ddo will build his curvature mask from the curvature map you input and wont use the normals. I did search the topic quite a bit and so far my find is that ddo does a much better job… -
Re: Quads Vs Tris
Ratteler: Some people prefer quads these days because an all Quad mesh subdivides much cleaner than a mesh that contains tris or n-gons (polygons with more than 4 sides). Subdivision is primarily only important when doing high-polygon work (for prerendered work, or normal mapping). Some low poly artists (myself included)… -
Re: 3ds Max Procedural Texturing Training Video
Just some quick observations on the sample I watched: You may want to slow things down a little. You are very familar with the locations of items, so you tended to zip through them. I'm always bugged when I watch a tutorial and they move faster than I can follow. Especially when the method is new to me and I don't know… -
Re: Choosing a mobile game engine
Yeah, that's probably a more efficient solution. Writing a general-purpose game engine is no easy task. Writing one that features 3D graphics just compounds the issue. UDK will cost you the least out-of-pocket, but it will cost the most if you really do hit it big. Definitely still an option. I've done the math on their… -
Re: Texel Density w/ Detail Maps
hi leechdemon, i dont think that afterward downsizing brings good results for lower mapsizes. perhaps you want to try extra bakings witch lower res for you final choice. perhaps this is interesting for you. we do 3rd person role playing games, and in the current project we used renderhjs scriptidea for making an own script… -
Re: Workstation vs. consumer hardware
On my 8800GTX I can't use dual monitors with Maya. If I try to enable dual monitor optimization so Maya view ports will show up on either screen my 3D view ports freak out and wont update until I release the mouse or stop whatever interaction I am trying to do with them. However, my Quadro at work does not have this… -
Re: HDR photos
probably the best example of HDR is the inside of churches or sunsets. Most HDR images look bad because the photographer is bad at using photoshop... They might as well use a bloody solarising filter! The reason why churches are great is because of the stainglass windows. Ordinarily ones eye would scan around the interior…
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