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Re: Turbosmoothed model to ZBrush
Why would turbosmooth do anything different? It subdivides as zbrush does, using the catmull clarke algorithm. However there are cases where turbosmooth is better then zbrushs version. When it comes to open borders (like a piece of cloth or something) as it keeps the other proportions. Also you can do material- or… -
Re: Pandaria hut model
Oh ok. Im a max user. I didnt realise that smoothing groups was a max only feature. I would hate not to have them but I guess this is a whole new debate ;) . Seems you have fixed your issue now but I searched on google for "maya smoothing groups" and found this.… -
Re: Sketchbook: illybang
this happens because you told him to add edges on a smooth/gouraud shaded surface, of course it will look edgier if you don't also change the curvature of the mesh, you could ad one smoothinggroup to the whole mesh it will still lok more flat in that area because he has more flat geometry. Your whole advices are… -
Re: Normal Map help? Seams along UV Cuts
It's because the normalmap will go through every pixel and sample nearby pixels to average the normal in between every pixel. It might be quite a lot to grasp, I'm still not entirely sure about how to tackle these problems in practice. You should make a really simplified scene and try different normal map scenarios.… -
Flipped UV problems with July version Xnormal workflow
Hi guys, I'm having some problems mirroring UVs when using the new Xnormal normalmap workflow implemented in the July version of UDK. The UV-shells that are flipped wont get the correct shading wich is a problem whenever i want to mirror UVs to save time and UVspace. I made a test to demonstrate my problem: The cube… -
Re: NES Model - Critique and Assistance Please
Hey dude, The high poly on this is looking really nice. the problem with your bakes is coming from smoothing groups. This quick description of smoothing groups will hopefully help! they dictate how light is shaded across your models surface. you should give all triangles/polygons that are planar to one another the same… -
Re: Smoothing Groups
http://wiki.polycount.com/SmoothingGroups?action=show&redirect=3DTutorials%2FSmoothing+Groups+in+3DSMax It's something you have to play around for yourself. Also, what gsokol said, take one step at a time. Focus on the modelling first, no matter how inconsistently "chippy" and smooth it looks. Those can be fixed at the… -
Re: Hardsurface Normal map problems
If you cant use the 3pointshader, then you have to split up the lowpoly in smoothinggroups and equally seperated uv-maps, since otherwise, if the lowpoly model has too much bad shading, it'll transfer over to the bake (due to reasons discussed in the thread about bad bakes in max) basicly, max bakes after render tangent… -
Re: Do you need smoothing groups if you have normal map?
yes you can, but likely will need quite a bit of support geometry to reduce the lowpoly shading, otherwise the compressed 8bit normalmap might break on too steep angles. there are plenty game productions which do not use hard edges / smoothinggroups, but tom me personally i would prefer using those any day over all the… -
Re: Baroque Mini-Env
NickGW: thanks! Well, I dont know, I dont make anything special really, use smoothinggroups when needed, but try to avoid it as much as possible. One thing to note though, is that normalmaps are displayed wrong in the modo viewport, they only fixed that in 701. If you want your normalmap to display properly in 601 or…
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