Search
-
Re: Lictor
Cheers. Had a few problems here and there (currently another with the arm), but I should have that ironed out tomorrow. Anyway, here are some tests of the normal map in xnormal, minus the arms. There are some fairly bland areas at the moment. I'm planning on using parts of the texture (once done) to create normal maps to… -
xNormal Problem
When I try to bake the detail from my high poly model to my low poly model I get the following normal map, which is not correct at all. Does anyone know where I am going wrong? -
Re: Need help in baking related problem
Hm, when I dropped the lowpoly mesh into Blender to inspect the UVs unfortunately look broken: Looking at the lowpoly, I suggest: * Reduce amount of support loops, use as much as needed to get a good mesh shading. Put the saved geometry into the curvature of rounded/ cylindrical parts. The impact on the assets silhouette… -
Joe W.I.P.
Hello, This is my first post here. I started this character a while back, but have since stalled on it. Looking for some inspiration to start back on it. Mudbox head mesh..... Textured low poly... Non-lit head mesh in Maya and with colour and normal map in xNormal... Full shot W.I.P. Colour/Normal/Spec map screen cap from… -
Re: Maya & processor usage.
Yeah, xnormal is super. You can use all your threads on the CPU and use the GPU, on normal maps and AO. BUT, i have felt that maya's normal maps, in some cases, looks better. I have the same problem. Sitting on a 2600k it's using about 13% when baking. I have no idea what it is i'm afraid.. -
Re: prob with AO in dDo
Ah I see, yes, bake a proper AO map, the generated AO is probably fine for simple tiled textures with normal map input, but unique mapped assets you'll likely have issues with. If you're baking normals in Maya, I would recommend baking AO in XNormal as Maya pretty much sucks for baking high to low AO. -
Re: [Tutorial] Basic Asset Creation Workflow
The 3 point shader is great and all for viewing your asset in the 3dsmax viewport, in no small part to its high quality normals. But since this is a workflow video, its reasonable to assume this 'asset' wouldn't live forever in the 3dsmax viewport only, but also be ported to a game engine. And some people prefer xnormal… -
Re: Locker door lp help
If you're using UDK, bake using XNormal because this is less of a problem. (look up synced normals) In any case it's much better to use both a UV and normal split on 90 degree corners. You don't get the gradient issue and you also have split vertices there anyway if you've cut the UVs up so performance is identical. -
Re: Some questions about HP - LP in Zbrush
To use your highpoly info on low poly you will need to bake a Normal Map. And that requires UVs. You will probably have to make a low res mesh either using Zremesher, external software or Zbrush's Topology brush to create new topology. It's probably not a very good idea to use Zbrush for normal baking, use Xnormal instead. -
Re: Contagion Theory - a few bits n bobs
Wow thanks for all the comments, agreed guns definately need a touch of colour, Thanks!! Also the normal map I generated is a tangent space map (mostly blue), its just when you show normals in xNormal it displays it as a world space map in the viewer for some reason!! Heres another creature I've been working on:- render…
>37659 results