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Re: Quixel SUITE - News
The 'gradient' is the normal map attempting to compensate for the smoothing on the low poly - so if you have a giant smoothing error across a flat surface, the normal map will cancel this out to give the impression of a flat surface. This works as long as the tangent basis is synchronised between your generator and viewer.… -
Re: Should I worry about shading problem from bevel + triangulation?
Sorry to bump this thread, after reading many old threads I finally realise I can fix the shading issue by locking normals before triangulate. My question is now: - Those thin triangles created from triangulation. One would suggest I just need more edge loops, but more edge loops is no better than thin triangles overdraw,… -
Re: Doom 3 character model tutorials
it would be nice if one could alter the normal map though a texture or a hight map converted to a normal map, ive seen that you can add seems, bevels, buttons etc to the normal map im wondering how far this can be done, can one convert the models rarther than having to do a high poly model for a normal map, it would be… -
Re: Maya Transfer Map diffculties (or, do I really need to break this mesh up?)
The Normal map vastly improved, but the AO map is still kind of spotty (random black spaces on flat cylindrical areas even with no intersecting geometry present) and it takes forever to setup and bake out. I'm wondering if I should give Xnormal a try since a lot of people seem to like it. EDIT: Here's a collage of info… -
Re: Best tool/settings for displacement maps
okay, so i baked my test hightmap with xNormal, and it turned out okay, except that it seems to show some of the low resolution triangulation in the map. i don't know if this is a normal thing, as this is my first real try with displacement/hightmaps. anyway, i placed that in the alpha channel of the normalmap. and then… -
Re: TrevorJ - Dota2 Workshop
Hey, nothing too special from zbrush just normal export settings. I use Xnormal to bake the polypaint. The only real setting that matter for that is when you drag in your highpoly source under the settings for that mesh(the highpoly) make sure "ignore vertex colors" is unchecked. This is checked by default because the… -
Re: Real time sprite lighting technology
I started a thread on this recently, but given this one already has more posts, I guess the original one might as well be closed http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127909 The difference with Sprite Lamp and a basic normal map generation, is with Sprite Lamp you can control exactly how and where the light plays… -
Re: [UE4] Snowy Mountain Castle
We had this 2 week assignment in school where we had the option of either doing a character, environment or prop. We took the opportunity to use this time to work on our UE4 scene and I decided to make the blacksmith for the smithy. I started off making the base anatomy in mudbox and then made the basemeshes for the… -
Re: Videogame Topology
Soooo Let me try and see if i understand everything (yes im that noobish) 1: Merge all subtools 2: export to obj 3: make that obj to a lowpoly through 3DC 4: Cage in Maya (which is for rigging right?) 5: Then import both obj to Xnormal and and create normals based off HP obj? sorry for ignorance i only know the basics of… -
Re: First real attempt at environment modelling. Looking for feedback.
Crazy lookin model man, but overall looks good. Polygon Count: Portfolio wise it's best to keep only what you and make sure it looks good first then start cutting back. Uving: A tricky thing that is, get the least amount of warpingand in a way that the space used is optimized and the textures apply appropriately. Normal…
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