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Re: Efficient mapping for assets
Generally, I believe you'd create a texture map with various elements such as walls, beams, windows, etc. Then reuse them all across the structure. For example, instead of giving every wall it's own texture space, you would create a single wall element in your texture and map every wall with the same appearance to that one… -
Re: Extremely disappointing results from Substance Painter
That is not how it works. There is no need for UVs on your High-poly since raytracing is beeing used for baking. Usually I use just an auto generated cage (inflated low-poly). It is explained on the polycount Wiki: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Baking "Most normal map baking tools allow you to use a… -
Re: Seams on normals again! Help?
What do you mean? Should i make a separate smoothing groups for every piece of unwrap? Yep. Errr... if "welded" means "vertexes on UVs seams should be welded togerther" if so, i thought that UVs can be split in separate pieces; otherwize i cant properly texture a model. I havent baked any maps in zbrush. Nope. Yeah, i… -
Re: how to make best sand texture?
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1216404#post1216404 The reference was a little different in this thread but pretty much the same thing, some modifiers, some sculpting, some tile work... I'm not sure if you realize it but the pattern in the ref image is due to human foot traffic, so having large open,… -
Re: 3DS Max / Substance Painter low/high poly baking problem
Just looking at your bake, at least some of those seams are coming from UV'ing without paying attention to your smoothing groups. Others perhaps because of the scarcity of geo in your low poly and/or your unwrap which looks pretty not optimized and looks like it has far more stretching than necessary. Always good… -
Re: London Kings Corss Underground
Thanks so much Sean, I have been working on creating tileable textures for the floor / wall as nothing felt very 'alive' and everything is extremely flat. (Here's an example) Next I'll need to experiment with vertex painting and once I've done that i'll update where i'm up too :) At the moment I'm working on this object… -
Re: (Solved) Normal Map Within 3DS Max Appears Incorrect?
I'm sure it shouldn't look this bad. I've seen others with perfectly fine baked normal maps within 3ds and it seems they went through the same setup. I disabled the 2nd light but it makes no difference in baking the normal map better. Oddly ugly smoothing seams to also return when the normal map is applied. This area… -
Re: 3DS Max Qualified Normals
Just make the vertex tangents like maya. Nobody is ever complaining about them, as they really do seem like they've been the industry standard for years now. Surely enoughs enough when it comes to... displayed one way, rendered another.. here's a hack to display like how they should be generated, but the underlying data is… -
Re: Smoothing Errors
Yeah, now that you mention it I guess there are some slight gradients on the sides, I can barely see them on this monitor. Using 3point shader might fix them. Otherwise, since you've chamfered all your edges, I'd average the vertex normals of your larger faces (so they are parallel to the face normal), it would fix any… -
Re: 3ds Max mesh issues (pinches and warbles)
"What causes this phenomenon and how do you fix it? I model in 3ds Max and suddenly I have my mesh acting strangely after applying a turbosmooth. It looks fine in the low poly" You need to refine the vertices of your mesh. Right now it look like a sandwich. Select a row of vertices and use x, y, or z to straighten the…
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