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Re: Ork Trukk for UT3 (image heavy?)
IIRC "surface" versus "geometry" normals is basically baking with the surface normals or baking with a cage. Basically, if you bake with raycast distance you'll get issues around your edges, but you won't get that "camera distortion" look on your interior details, it bakes like this: "geometry" or baking with a cage, will… -
Re: [ UDK ] Shady Dealings.
Hey this is really starting to come together. To be honest I didn't even notice the truck in the bg, not sure if I should be ashamed, but it will be interesting to see how it contrasts with the bg when it is textured. Also, the lighting has me a little confused. You are calling this sundown, but the bright light just… -
Re: Presentation Techniques
The biggest thing for me in your robot render is the overpowering bloom where the light is hitting the model. It's distracting. Best setup is to recreate a lightbox effect, used for showcasing products generally as the background isn't distracting and doesn't have any unnecessary details. Just well lit, with soft shadows.… -
Re: Low-Poly Normal Question
The entire thing soft wont really workas the shading would be interpolated over the whole (pretty low) geometry hence the weird look. You would have to use smoothing groups OR bevels for that purpose to keep thesmoothing nice. Be sure to split the uvs when sticking with the first mentioned method. I recommend a read of… -
Re: Barbed Wire Cricket Bat [FINAL RENDER]
@Carabiner Thank you so much ! :smile: Yes you are right I used very soft light on my Marmoset scene I was pretty happy with the overall look and mood of the renders so I decided to stick with it but since you pointed this out I'll definitely insist more on the lightning inside Marmoset for my future renders ! Maybe if I'm… -
Re: PORTFOLIO - Give me feedback on my fledgling 3d body of work!
I think Dloud summed it up nicely for the most part. It looks like you have a solid grasp of the tools, and know more than basic anatomy and whatnot. But the things you have posted do look a bit rushed. Slow down and take your time to really get something looking polished. About that green and orange dress lady, it looks… -
Re: Creating tiling, animated textures with 3ds Max 2010
The tiling trick kind of sucks though, because you get these soft smeary edges. Another way to do it is to project the texture onto a Torus primitive, then RenderToTexture from that. A torus has seamless UVs in both U and V, so a 3D texture gets baked into a perfect tile. Only drawback is there's some stretching here and… -
Re: Grass 4.8 Questions
Thank you! So, yeah was doing two sided foliage shader on the 2nd asset but I guess it wasn't dense enough? but the 1st image is from Unreal's Environment asset package and the shader was set to Subsurface. Which is curious. But the Distance Field AO and GI documentation kind of put me on a new path to learn about a few… -
Re: Dan!-2012 Garbage Dump
Ha nicely done. You have been rather industrious I have to say. Some good stuff in here. Definitely some ones for the good old inspiration folder. I like the minigun cyborg fellow. The final shaders / presentation for him could use a bit of work but he makes for a perfect enemy you can enjoy gunning down in some soft of… -
Re: Twisted Swamp - Tropical Environment WIP
WHOA! For some reference, the largest lightmap we used for our Unearthly challenge was a 128. Most were 32x32's. And as you can see in our final shots, shadows are nice, soft and detailed. Once Lightmass finishes the actual lighting part, its taking all those lightmaps, re-mapping them for better shadow contrast resolution…
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