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Re: Sci Fi SMG Design
I think you could soften the edges more at the handguard and the iron sights. It makes your bake look better, cause softer edges transfer to the normal map more easily. You may also look at this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103216 -
Re: [Portfolio] Lynda Miller
What is the tri-count on that orc barracks? Like several other posters, I was going to call it one of your best... then I saw the wires. There are a LOT of extra edge loops on that thing. If the edges aren't contributing to the silhouette, or allowing for some sort of clever texture tiling, they shouldn't be there. -
Re: What would be the best way to create an exterior for this model?
I figured this out on the elevator shaft. I took the edges on the outer front opening and extruded them to create a front face. Then I extruded the outer edges of that front face backwards to create the sides of the shell. Lastly I used Mays fill hole to fill in the back. -
Re: Following Along - Summer Character Workshop - Female Knight
Add a strip of polygons with a gradient alpha along the edge of the top eyelid, thus creating a fake cast shadow on the eyeball. This will make the eyes come to life instantly. It would even work without a gradual transition (say, simply using 50% transparency with hard polygon edges) . -
Re: How Can I Create an Animation in this Particular Style?
sobel edge detection or matcaps for the outer edges would be a start, theres a post around here called "amazing 3d that looks like 2d" that has some information you might appreciate. a paper overlay would have to be done in post production as far as I know. -
Re: Optiniums works
Sick stuff man, Quick question for the hard edges of your Mass effect ish piece. How did you get those hard edges, did you retopo a piece over the basemesh or simply use H polish on 1 piece at a time? Cheers, Pascal -
Re: SOLVED: Applying layer edited mask to all maps
What I do to creat a custom mask is (and this assumes there is no dynamask there already), click on the mask to get dynamask, then pick one that has tight edges, then go into custom paint mode, and your edges will be there, then I untick the curvature map, and all i'm left with is what I painted. -
Re: Merging Cylinders
To keep the diameter of the cylinders consistent there needs to be a little bit of adjustment where they meet at the base. This is in modo btw. Rotated top cylinder, sliced down the middle, lined middle point up with bottom cylinder, sliced where the outer edges intersect, Mirrored, slid edges for SubD -
Re: Sketchbook: Jackwhat
cool concepts, yeah not sure what the brief was but these are really minor things I noticed - how sharp most of the edges look and how flat some of the big surfaces are would be good if there was more detail in the edges of stuff and the surfaces had some large noticable texture/pattern -
Re: What sort of shader could win this contest?
what about a metal procedural that automatically makes non-uniform scratches along the edges of objects and also adds random small dents and dust? that could be really useful...though Im not sure how you would define which edges get the scratches and which dont
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