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Highpoly workflow in Maya?
I am a Max user, but only by accident (was the first 3D App I learned), for my next project I will use Maya 5 for a short animated movie. Now I ask myself what is the best and efficient way to work with highpoly in Maya? In Max I build a "lowpoly" (between 15 to 20 thousand quad polys) model with close edgeloops and… -
Two Maps, Two UV Channels. Help
ok, this is somewhat of a long post. to catch everyone up to speed. i modeled a prop and made to uv channels, one uv channel has regular unwrap so i can do my texturework over. The second uv channel is for my normal its basically my first except i broke off a lot of pieces so i could get a clean bake and those nice soft… -
Animating a spring
I have animated a spring contracting and expanding by creating a set of expressions/controllers. The pictures show my current progress. What I need to do now is set the spring up so that the first two coils and the last two coils stay together, while the remaining coils stretch appropriately. If I remember correctly, I… -
Photoshop: Drawing workflow questions
I am making a wedding card and am caricaturing our group of friends using photoshop. At the moment I am drawing each of my friends on separate transparent layers using a 3pixel brush at 80% opacity (the document is 10000x10000). Basically I am making clear line drawings and no soft strokes/sketches and was wondering how I… -
Blobfish Stuff
Hello, After a few years of 3D, I've figured I should not only show my work to my close friends and but start a shameless self-promotion thread on Polycount (and receive feedback as well). I recently fell in love with 3D Coat (great soft!!) and made some stuff for fun/training/portfolio. The first one is a 3D fan art of… -
Ring flash for photoscan's and photogrammetry?
Hello guys :) Maybe some one trying any kind of ring flashes (w/w.o polarization filters) for PBR texture scanning? My idea is: 1 - taking a lot more pictures for covering commonly 2x2 meters of surface rather than on "traditional photogrammetry" process. 2 take pictures with less resolution rather than "traditional… -
Weird Normal Map Problem
Hi guys, I have some problems when baking my normal map for my rather simple mesh. I'm pretty new to baking maps I have to say and I did a lot of investigation when these problems came up. All the things I already did: 1. Hardened or softened edges where I want the model to have an hard or soft edge 2. Tried to make sure… -
Painting with brush focus instead of brush hardness?
This is a sort of a "does anyone know of" post. I'm looking for a digital painting tool that can tie brush softness to a % of the canvas size instead of a % of the brush size so brushes don't get sharper as they get smaller, making it more efficient to paint things out of focus in textures, silhouettes, concept art, etc.… -
Re: Poll: Excited for Quake 4 ?
Yes....no....maybe so...Raven's making it, and personally I've always thought of Raven's games as solid, but nothing amazing. They might have a fun feature (SOF had ubergore, Jedi Outcast had saber fighting, Elite Force had the trekkie atmosphere...) but in the end, they end up being linear games with average story... What… -
Re: Having trouble modeling this in MD...
You got super advice already. It sounds like you are having trouble with the stiffness/thickness. I get why you want to make the MD workflow work. The thing with MD is that even a simple collar isn't straight forward. Airborn is right, if this was a commercial job then the quickest surest solution is the way to go. Seems…
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