@sacboi I've never used any of the addon bakers that Blender's community provides, so I have to ask if the problem with exploded baked option is that it's not automatic and has to be done manually or if it's destructive in sense that separates highpoly objects that should be baked together. I don't have any visual examples…
Those holes should only be modeled in if you are going to model them into your Low-Poly. If not, then don't worry about it. Same idea for the barrel, only if you're going to model it like that. The back area around the charging handle is the part that is off still. Airsoft version, but it is accurate to the real thing.…
I keep adding topology. But two things are giving me a headache: 1) A circular topology clashes with a straight-line quad topology; I don't know how to reconcile them. 2) I have areas that appear to have many vertices, and even knowing the tricks for reducing vertices, I don't know how to make some of them "die." For…
I added an expression to the model and also changed the color grading in Photoshop, gave it an overal warmer tone. Found the bug for the stiches, the normals with a strength of 1 was too much so it causes artifacts. Did lose some details on the leather parts now that I lowered the strenght to 0.5, but overal I still like…
I NEVER said it was going to be a broad theme every time i said Sometime it would be broad sometime it would be stricter. Just like here "Each month we'll provide a thematic , it could be large or it could be stricter" But since apparently you just jump to the theme section.. :) Yes this month it's a space gardener but…
If you want to preserve the RGB values, you can force Photoshop by increasing the black level of your mask to be 1/255 instead of zero. Use Levels on the alpha, and set the lower Output to 1. Then it will look to the human eye as being completely transparent, but the full RGB will be preserved. The PNG spec says in the…
@ TeriyakiStyle there's no such thing as "liquid" fiber, there's soluble fiber and insoluble fiber. you need both, but it's the latter one you need to keep your intestines working better Soluble fibers attract water and form a gel, which slows down digestion. Soluble fiber delays the emptying of your stomach and makes you…
So hes going to fix one issue by adding another...? How do you define "Valid" then, because while splitting it all over the place can work, its also going to actually be slower to render thanks to more smoothing groups, maybe not by much but its still an issue. Even if you apply a single smooth over the entire model,…
Yes, especially if being mipped down (high quality mode = 2k trim texture, low quality mode for lower end machines = 512) there should be quite a lot of padding to prevent bleeding on lower resolutions
Nice progress @fairlyBread ! That props' design gives me a bit of a 'Dishonored' vibe. Looking forward to see it with some textures applied. What approach will you use for textures and what sort of style? Will you bake some information from a highpoly or work in 2D? Any idea yet what software you're going to use to…