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Re: wrapping my head around modular design
@BUTTHAIR yea I already know the Thiago Klafke article :) Like I said i get all the stuff about staying on the grid and texturing first then applying geo to the textures, but I more wanna know how to compensate in instances where the low-poly geo doesn't fit perfectly in a square and you can't just map the extruded areas… -
Re: Mental Ray Normal Map Self-Shadowing?
Not really, forget about ambient occlusion for the moment. What I want is shadowing from the normal map "faked" surface. Imagine a flat polygon plane, extrude a central polygon outwards. Generate a normal map from that and apply it to a flat polygon plane. Now... when rendering the low polygon object with the normalmap I… -
Re: maya construction help tools?
I don't think Maya has any visual snap tools or real-time alignment rulers like illustrator has when it comes to identifying right angles and edge matching. However, there may be a simpler method to accomplish what you're doing. Extruding naturally draws edges out at right angles (when possible) from their starting point,… -
Re: Workflow Poll: Tools vs. Actions
Yeah, what Per said. Some stuff just doesn't make sense (isn't efficient) to have as a tool or an action, and vice-versa. Similarly, some stuff can be either a tool or an action depending on your current selection. For example, if you have no selection and use Extrude in Max, then you can click on any face and extrude it… -
Re: [MAYA] Question about connecting two pieces of geometry...
Thanks for the tip. This appears to be where my problem lies. When adding edge loops I can't seem to get them to snap to the geometry. I tried snapping to grids, curves and vertices via the hot keys but they seem to be ignored. I did snap one piece to the other, then did a boolean difference and extruded the face that was… -
First High Poly Bust
So I'm still building out the mesh and extruding it along the frame of the head. I've found the sculpt geometry to be especially useful in terms of keeping the mesh in a nice form. Here's the current status: Currently its approx 3000 faces, the back of the head and side/ear are not complete neither is the neck. I have half… -
Re: A Question on Zbrush
In the belt example, I would embrace the thought of extra meshes for parts that aren't seamlessly connected in life. But as for what you want to do, perhaps you could smooth the area before or after (don't forget about masks, they can be a big help isolating what gets smoothed). So in your box example, slap the alpha onto… -
Re: Monthly Environment Art Challenge - July & August 2018 (55)
Hello all! Here is what I have so far, since the forms are relatively simple I moved straight into cleaning up the model. Probably going to start texturing soon since that seems to be the hardest part. I was wondering if there was a way to reduce the polys I'm using on the vines. I just extruded a cylinder a bunch of… -
Re: Need Some Maya Tips
One of the best things I've run into is the contextual menu. Say you want to extrude a face... R-click on object > select Face Mode > L-ckick to select face > SHIFT+R-click for the contextual menu > Extrude face. If you're in vertex mode, it gives you options for dealing with vertices and so on. Using SHIFT + R-click will… -
Re: Symmetry in Modo
Extrude along a curve is easy. Try Senca's Extrude Along Edge Path script extrudePath.pl More scripts LOL!, but seriously this guy pretty much found out all the fast ways to do many common tasks in Modo and scripted them already. It would probably be worth your time to take a night and go through them to see what you can…
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