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[PAID] Short Contract for Maya Generalist
Electric Mammoth Studios is seeking a highly-skilled Maya generalist for a short contract. The successful candidate will be tasked with: Transfer of motion capture data to a custom rig Re-targeting of mocap and some clean up Creating character sets and animation clips in the Trax editor Exporting .FBX takes containing… -
Re: Vector-based modelling in Blender?
"But one thing which is driving me INSANE is how modelling (as far as I understand) is based on adding primitive shapes and forming, scaling, sculpting, morphing etc into the desired shape..." That's incorrect. While a package like Blender doesn't have much in terms of procedural CAD-like features, object dimensions can be… -
Re: Zbrush + Texture XYZ workflow.
Using the face scans is probably better done in your texturing application. If you want to use them in zbrush probably the best way would be to apply to the UV's as displacement, and then put that on a separate layer and convert to geometry. Make sure you understand how layers and morph targets work - it's a little… -
Re: Is shadows rendering a post process?
It is kind of a post process but not in a standard sense. If we treat things that gets applied to the image after the main passes were computed, then you can call it a post process yeah. Non ray traced shadows live in a buffer (dynamic texture / render target). Visually, they look like the image was captured from the… -
Re: Face weighted normals question and methods...
Hello. Modern GPUs handle poly counts in the millions with ease. A few extra polygons will almost never be a concern unless your target platform is mobile phones. Also, polygons don't really matter but vertices do. If you don't use face weighted normals (i.e. you are most likely baking the roundness of your edges from a… -
Re: [FOLIAGE] ~ Polycount VS alpha cutout, which one to favour in trees?
I ultimately landed here just because I couldnt find *good* trees tutorials. Most are very cheap, all but in depth, rushed, even showing obsolete or wrong methods. Or they're very in depth, well done....and targeted toward performance independent cases like still renderings or movies. Or they just use 3rd party softwares,… -
Re: Need some help with making this kind of low poly hair
There are a lot of tricks that can be done but it depends a lot of the target spec of the game. You can start out with cards that seem fairly generic and similar but have their own unique UV space and paint the lighting detail once they are arranged, often on the model. I've seen quite a few people use a few generic clumps… -
Re: Convert PBR to Diffuse map
What you want to bake in depends greatly on what the target Shader does. Assuming we're looking at a phong with diffuse, spec and normal it'll help to multiply the ao map gently over the top of the albedo and add a gentle highlight to anything that pokes out - you can derive that from height if you have it or ao if you… -
Re: Time to stop lurking and post some wips
@Fomori thanks! Sorry I missed your question. I basically created a flat sheet of chain mail in Max and wrap deformed it with a morph target using a free plugin called slideknit http://cghub.com/scripts/view/79/ @Clos323 Thank you! @DWalker thank you for your in depth critique! I think at this stage, I'll most likely work… -
Re: Houdini 15.5 Released!
You could very easily build that in Houdini. It's not a question of whether its better than the likes of Maya or Max. It just different and offers a different approach. The thing to remember about Houdini is that its 100% procedural in just about everything it does. Get your head around that and you'll find Houdini a great…
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