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How do they smooth objects for games?
Hi does anyone know much about how they smooth for games? At the moment I'm modeling a minigun and I wanted to do a low poly version of it for gaming and if I smooth it as I need to for example to make the barrels smooth it's going to push the polycount too high. I can use the smooth edges but it's still going to look… -
Re: .md5mesh smoothing error (this time with triangles)
What you're saying is not true. You will find that if you export an MD5mesh (with 1 smoothing group over the whole mesh in 3dsmax), and then apply a flat grey material (no normalmap or special parameters, just a diffuse/spec pass), the mesh will be perfectly smooth. The difference arises if you use "unsmoothedTangents" in… -
Re: Learning Blender and Texturing
Re. flatten : not a skill issue at all. While the above replies make a fair point about some designs benefiting from subdivision modeling, your observation still stands : as far as I am aware Blender doesn't have a reliable Flatten brush. (Or is does it now ? Perhaps someone will chime in on that.) IMHO even the Zbrush… -
How do you properly smooth a cone while preserving the sharp tip?
This may seem like a very simple question, but the issue is that the smoothing of the cone is smoothing the tip, which is not what I want it to do. I understand why it does smooth it like that, but I'm not sure what's the best way to prevent it from happening. I created three low-poly cones (38 Triangles each) and a… -
[3DS Max] How to smooth this ?
Continuing the model , sooner or later I will have to smooth the model. However, there are parts, which needs to be smoothed, and some which don't. I found that for static meshes it is better to use NURBS (is it NURBS, isn't it). Do I have to smooth whole model if I want only to smooth certain part (front lights on image… -
FBX and smoothing groups.
Hi, I'm running into trouble with the export from Max 2010 to Max 2008. When I exported a whole scene as FBX in Max 2010 and checked it briefly in 2008, everything looked fine, so I didn't look any deeper. Now that I'm working with the imported FBX file in Max 2008, I noticed that Max displays smoothing groups properly. It… -
Maya and smoothing
Okay, so I had to use Maya for a bit. I've been setting edges, hard/soft. The problem is, there's no updates in the viewport so I can't see what the smoothing on the mesh will look like. When I do a render, it just looks real blobby, like everything is smoothed, even though I've tried setting even the angle for the whole… -
[Maya] Practicle and feasible alternative workflow to Max Smoothing groups
Smoothing groups are awesome for high poly modeling prototyping. You just select the faces, give diff smoothing groups, apply a meshsmooth set to smoothing groups and voila you have a blockout that you can edit in realtime that will hold well once smoothed again. I cant honestly think of a better and faster way than doing… -
Re: It will not be smooth.
Thank you for your reply. Thanks to you, I learned how to smooth other than normal map and soften edge. [Select what you're exporting-> export selection-> uncheck smooth mesh (make sure smooth mesh is NOT checked off and is left blank). Doing this will export your mesh as if you applied the sub D, thus making it smooth… -
My smoothing workflow [3ds Max tutorial]
Hey guys, just wanted to share my workflow for creating high polys. It's based on the double smoothing method, but results in far less polys. This isn't foolproof, but I find that 90% of the time it works. The main benefit is that it creates uniform edge thickness, and you can control the thickness at any time by moving a…
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