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Re: Blender, hard surface and traction in the industry.
I recommend Frank Polygon's Sketchbook for some very nice hard surface modeling writeups and inspiration. Perhaps start a sketchbook thread yourself, to document your learnings. When starting out (share recent works to give people an idea where you're at), I would focus on making good looking assets and don't stress too… -
Advice about workflow + problem with black faces
Hello guys! It's my first ever post on polycount (yay, celebrate with me!) so I'm really sorry if I placed it in a wrong thread. [tl;dr : What programs should I learn at first, how to model, first learning basics of Maya, then thinking about UV/proper geometry/textures or everything at once? Any tutorials for… -
Face Topology [Breakdown Guide]
~ (NOTE: I wrote this to help some students I know and some PC friends mentioned posting it on here to help out the early learning community. Feel FREE to dive in and we can start a fresh discussion on the age old face-topology subject :) ) Students seem to often find face topology so alien and hard to learn so I decided… -
3Ds Max Script "Different commands stacking and auto cycling" under one hotkey?
3Ds Max Script "Different commands stacking and auto cycling" under one hotkey? So i got an idea from one little usefull script i use (didnt make just downloaded it from somewhere). Is it possible to, in 3ds max, create a certain script, and then assign it to a shorcut (like "U" or "SHIFT+U")? This certain script would… -
Re: Undergraduate's 3D Body Modelling
Well since getting feedback from both Polycount and my lectures I realised that the arms were too short and that the anatomy was not quite right, such as the shape of the head. Interestingly I have managed to resolve these within ZBrush and then make the correct changes to my base mesh. Additionally my low polygon model… -
Re: The importance of quads when modeling environments
I always push my students to keep faces no more than 4 vertices, simply because the last thing I want is UDK or any other game engine to handle the triangulation for me. It also is easier to manipulate with edge and loop rings to make adjustments. As mentioned - whether your face is a triangle, a quad, or a 500 sided… -
[3dsMax script] miauu's Script Pack vol.2
miauu's Script Pack vol.2 is a set of scripts that will help you to make faster and easier some of the tedious task when you use 3ds Max. miauu's Script Pack vol.2 include: Attach and Link: Automates the process of linking objects to the surface of other objects. - attach point helpers or any objects in the scene to… -
Re: Noob modeller needs some advice :P
1 - can i use zbrush for retopo? or is it better to use a different application? Don't shoot yourself in the foot by attempting to retopo in Zbrush, it will just be a waste of time and you will not develop good habits from it. Retopo is first and foremost rooted in being able to build rock solid polygon geometry, and in… -
Re: Making a female base mesh.
Modern workflow for a character is to: a.) create a basemesh. b.) Sculpt the high-poly details into that basemesh. c.) create a new animation ready mesh that matches the silhouette of your high-poly sculpt. d.) bake the high-poly information down into a low-res mesh. Right now you are at step A. The basemesh you are… -
Re: raul's tools
If you can iterate through islands and apply different smoothing groups to each island, that would be helpful, but it isn't the same as setting hard edges by uv islands, which is what would be REALLY cool (and I imagine what most people would want for game art). If you look at the image I linked, imagine that the top and…
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