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Re: baking.. no not cookies.
What settings are you at? If you baking with Scanline, it shouldn't be an issue (just enable 2.5 star sampler and be done), with MR on the other hand, you really need to bump up the settings. AO maps will require 128+ rays, and samples of 1-4+. For the seams, are you using padding? Max requires atleast a padding of 8+. -
Re: New Here
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to unwrap this thing. Designed to be some sort of lookout tower. I learned a lot about creating models while doing this! I discovered a handy trick for quickly duplicating vertices: Extrude by 0, then scale the vertices down. Verts: 36 Edges: 128 Tris: 88 -
Re: Art dump: STACKED
ooooh, sexay! It was great working with ya Adam, and we're all damn happy that you got a fulltime gig now. Oogh - yes it's being ported to PSP. Most of the enviornment textures were reduced to 1/2 - 1/4 their original size (most are 64x64, with a few 128's). PSP screenies are located here -
Re: UV...W?
@felipefrango if the render engine supports it, you can have a lot of per-vertex attributes encoding whatever you want. Hardware typically supports 16 x 128 bit per vertex (you can add even more through custom buffer fetching in shader), but of course it costs more time to fetch more data... -
Re: will there be any more contests?
What I was poorly trying to say was that it's great to see the progression in a thread. I like cgchat where you create a thread for your entry and post the progression. Either way is fine by me. So right now it's a bust, 1500 polys, 1 512 for skin, 1 128 for eyes/hair, and a normal map if needed? -
Re: system SSD stopped to boot showing only 16kbyte volume?
The current one is SanDisk model SDSSDA-240G 2,5" not sure about DRAM cash But I have already a nuber of them: WD , Toshiba, Samsung 2,5" ones and one 128g M2. All died at different PCs following same scenario: after a year or so of usage during a heavy calculation of something . Rendering or reality capture calculating a… -
Low poly mini scene
Basically just wanting to improve my low poly texturing skills over the next week or so. I have been making little scenes and props to practice. Ill chronicle this one here, maybe get some texturing tips wen I get there. So far just finished the model: 300 tris, will aim for 128 or 256 texture, Uving now -
Re: Lowpoly enviroments?
Polygon paths? No, like was said, you use vertex blending, never extra geo. And just have your textures all as 100% self illuminated (under blinn basic parameters). by setting it to self illuminate that way its actually just using the vert colors to light the scene, and sense by default all verts are white everything looks… -
Blending Normal Maps
I've seen several different techniques for blending / overlaying normal map details in Photoshop and was wondering what technique most people are using. Some of the techniques I know of: 1) Set the top layer to "hard light" 2) Set the top layer to "overlay" and set the blue channel level info to "128" 3) Blend each of the… -
Re: Adjusting maps, textures are heavy as much as high polygons?
What resolution are you using for your textures? Most game models use textures which are 1024x1024 or less. 2048 is rarely used, and 4096 even more rare. What hardware are you using? For example: Intel i5-2500 3.30GHz, 16 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, Windows 8.1.
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