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Any tips for normal mapping curved surface?
Hi All I'm having a few issues with normal mapping and it would be great if someone could point me in the right direction. Basically, I'm trying to make the following shape: So I've constructed the low poly as follows: It's currently 240 triangles. I put together the UVs from Ben Bolton's tutorials ie - each smoothing… -
Animation Tips for Dota?
Hi, I was going to delve into the more 'complicated' parts of animating items for the Dota 2 Workshop, and wondered if some kind soul could give a few pointers to some questions. Now, I have looked a lot for this, but there doesn't seem to be many tutorials out there, except some for Flex modifiers in 3DS Max, which I do… -
Re: Upgrading or building a new PC? This is the thread for you!
Hi Guys! :) Now I'm working on HP Zbook 15 G3 Notebook, but it has it's own limits. So i decided to build a new rig for Game development -> ZBRUSH/MAYA/SUBSTANCE Painter & Designer/UE4. What do you think about the following config? Any advice is welcomed! * CPU: AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 2950X 3.50GHz TR4 BOX * MotherBoard:… -
WIP - Italian town street (tree tips needed)
Hi! I'm building this environment and it's almost ready for Unreal. But now I have some doubts about the tree. In my first test I got some ok-ish results. The problem, it was around 400k polys. The second test looks kinda similar, now with the polycount reduced to around 150k. Also, the leaves now have a better geometry… -
Ed's journy (wips and tips
Hi guys after a long time without being here I wanna come back to share with all of you my journey, cuz after being inside the home for almost 6 months I start to have much thought that needs to be shared out of this 4 walls place I call it room. So let's get on it: My most recent art piece was made for the Art heroes… -
[WIP] Low poly fence and wood stump - Tips and Critique
Hello guys! I'm new here and i'm i kinda new to 3D art. I made those objects for practice and i was hoping you guys could point out what can i do to make it better. Both, the wood stump and the fence were baked from a high poly sculpt. I know that the wood has some problems bellow and on top, but i don't know the cause (i… -
Need professional hard surface modelers tips... please?
i have been studying 3d modelling for a year now, i find i advanced much faster than i expected, but i know im miles behind professionals like millenia i know that experience is much more valuable that actual knowledge, so i must ask one of the biggest 3d modelling forums in the internet: can you share your experience with… -
Simple AO tip for skin
Alright so I've seen people complain about using AO multiplied onto their skin materials for characters, and I've seen some people mention doing something else, like the multiply blend mode is the problem. In reality you simply need to do some quick edits to have usable AO for skin. This is a really super quick method,… -
Re: Tips on getting rid of Normal Maps seams?
The issue with your plan is that you are looking to display the model in multiple environments- each with a different tangent basis. Normal maps need to baked with the target engine in mind. I think the easiest pipeline for max users is to enable qualified normals rendering (assuming you have max 2011 or newer) and then…
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