hrm... so I guess inside nvidia fx composer it's just that my light color wont allow me to to above 1. I'll have to add an intensity multiplier like you suggested. Thanks! However I'd still like to look into doing the diffuse calculation in an additive manner. Because my end goal is to create a shader that takes into…
I dug up Week 3 challenge and decided to try something. As engineering student I realize lots of this mechanical stuff is much easier to model in 3d CAD software. So I tried creating a model in Autodesk Inventor and then import it for some nice renders. Wire The whole thing took me literally 10 minutes to model. While…
@Mr_Derk Cool pattern! All I'd say is the roughness could use some more detail for my tastes, but you have followed the ref nicely. :) @ninetitle Very nice recreation of the ref pattern. As for the serpentine you have a good start, nice color, but it could use more detail (some layers of veins and noise) and contrast.…
Check out the polycount wiki and read up on shaders and textures. I suspect you are confusing some terms -- very understandable because the meaning of the technical terms isn't exactly the same as their ordinary usage. Looks like your question is already answered, but I'll add just for reiteration : yes, absolutely you can…
Mischief Managed JK Rowling's Potterverse probably is one of my biggest obsessions. My initial foray into 3D was so I could build this castle within Secondlife itself. The castle grounds and train platform was created back in 2012 and has a ton of issues looking at it now, but its still a piece pretty dear to my heart.…
Almighty_gir you said what I was trying to say much better than I did, thanks. /me climbs on soapbox I like the improvements and no doubt that area isn't easy to work on. BUT it looks modeled in place yet is an action pose. You need can create motion even if the character is not moving (if that makes sense). Something…
You could try cutting up photos with cloth folds to get the bits you want. Then go into projection master (create new texture) Set it to colour only Set tool "plane 3D" Alpha - one of the circles with a falloff Stroke - rectangular stroke Texture - load in one of the cut up photos showing folds Put zintensity down to 0 and…
File not found. Off the top of my head without seeing the image, it sounds like you could make an action out of this. Just record it once and play it back for each layer. You should be able to: - Ccreate a new layer "ALT-Merge Visible" (which won't destroy any layers) - Create a new layer fill it with black select…
Hey all, Time for an image dump of my work in progress. So since i've finished blocking things out, I began on the hangar roof and walls first as I wanted to nail down those textures. I also needed to work out modular pieces in order to efficiently utilize texture space and tiling. For the damage on the right side of the…
@Veer_P An interesting shape, they're typically fiddly to model in polygonal subd that are usually fabricated using an extruded die cast mould' and also CAD designed, hence indeed a challenge so my approach would be as if modeling a car body shell of some sort with a Shrinkwrap Modifier. Because there's a similarity in…