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Re: How would you organize / texture this model? (noob)
Trim sheets and multitexturing. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/MultiTexture But before doing that, I would look carefully at your topology. You have a lot of edge loops that do nothing for silhouette. Edge loops are needed for subdivision surface modeling, but not for real-time modeling. Two different types of topology. -
Re: Hand-painted sign
i think what i like most about neverminds paintover is, taht through painting the highlights on the edges i softens them more. atm all the edges are supersharp and could use some bevelling but one can also achieve the look from shadow and highlight placing in the texture -
Re: [HELP] Baking normal maps
You're edges seem a little tight, it might be having trouble baking to both sides, I'd try softening the edges. However I've found once all your textures are setup it's hard to ever really notice any seam. Unless you were working on something large perhaps. -
Re: Canada Post Mailbox
Even if you claimed it as your own work when it was based off a tutorial, there's a few things that need work. The key area could be more beat up, it barely looks like it has been used. and the some of the edges are pretty beat up even though they aren't exposed edges. -
Re: Trying to reverse engineer this texturing process
The edge "fuzziness" is called edge padding/dilation: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Edge_padding It helps reducing bleeding of pixels to neighbour uv shells when the texture gets mipped (lod-d). What do you mean by "format"? Do you refer to the way things are arranged and combined together? -
Re: Doing hard surface
That's it mate. If you use the sculpt/retop method you do have to force yourself not to noodle too much on the concept sculpt by refining all the edges and whatnot. The fact that you retop the parts with very minimal geo does all that work for you in cleaning up the surfaces and crisp edges. -
Re: Discover a tool to generate a game asset in one click (free!)
Interesting tool! But does it know how to adapt techniques when building geometry/unwrapping for a normal map? Things like enough geo around round objects, UV splits at hard edges, where to soften edges...etc, and still produce a clean bake that won't be a disaster to manually fix? -
Re: Maya 2012 Normal Map Baking Problem
That top edge is hidden. Grab the face that is inset and scale it down slightly so it is sloped. That will allow the transfer maps plugin to get that edge when it bakes down. It should still look fine when the normal map is applied. It's actually a pretty common normal map issue. Not just with Maya -
Re: First High Poly Model - Skyrim Mace
I think your runes need to be less squared off on their edges. Here's a link showing why http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap?action=show&redirect=Normal+Map#Modeling_The_High-Poly_Mesh I also think softening / angling their edges more will make them stand out a lot more. -
Re: Quick modeling question about intersecting and airtight meshes.
If you're going to put a hard edge there, and not use a baked normal map, it doesn't make much difference, I mean besides the obvious pain in the ass it will be to texture it. If you're going to and bake a normal map for it, you're going to have noticeable aliasing along that edge, that you would otherwise not have.
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