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Re: Centaur - Character WIP
Awesome! welcome on the boards once again with this nice piece of zbrush work. I think artistically this piece is very well done in terms of silhouette, shapes, scale, sense of weight, etc. I like you take on this overdone subject. Very nice shapes and lines going on giving away a very delicate and aesthetic rather then… -
Re: A testament to the power of various 3d programs
I think your productivity with maya will increase over max when you sit down and learn the program. I think you're passing judgement to soon. Ofcourse you're not going to sit down and model right off the bat with maya. All the tools you need are in the "Create", "Polygons", and "Edit Polygons" menu. You dont have to worry… -
Re: Keen's Progress
Looking nice Keen, but like the guys said you can still have varient looking sides, without having to create so many sides to the box. Also, what Rooster means, is having a floating polygon that has an alpha on it, to give a different look to the side of the box, without taking up to much room in your texture space. Take… -
Re: Elite desert soldier specops guy dude
The way I do the boot isn't the most optimised since you end up with a lot of hidden polygons that are just wasted, but for the purpose of using it to bake maps to apply to realtime character models it works justs fine. Yeah, the hat is too thick, but I tend to do that on all garments that stick out into thin air as it… -
Re: Environment scene Docks
A-Train, in UnrealEngine3 polygons with any type of alpha can have normals, specs etc along with shadows. Make sure u have the shader set to Translucent (if u want to have smooth alpha) and that your alpha channel (or image mask) is plugged into opacity slot. Also if u will ever do projected decals and will have issues… -
Re: Polycrunch equivalent for Maya 7?
Sorry to bump this one back, but I'm also curious if there is such a plugin (highend3d didn't seem to have anything that did it). I have terrain I modelled, but I was asked to flatten a lot of parts because the programmers were having issues with gravity working - so now I have an excessive amount of triangles to cleanup… -
Re: Can someone define "a clean model"?
you can tell when you look at a model if its clean or messy. are there loads of verts not defining the form? are there bunched up areas of polys and other areas look blocky? very long and thin polygons? lots of polygons but still a blocky undefined shape? booleans are fine, but you need to clean them up afterwards- most of… -
Re: the dragon
Good post TGZ, and aresee, listen to MoP. Your 'low-poly' mesh has clearly too many polygons. It really shouldn't look that different from current low polygon characters. Here's an example of how a low poly mesh with a normal map looks, scroll down to see the wireframe and materials at work.… -
Re: A Warhammer piece.
Hmm, pretty cool! The grey metal doesn't seem shiny enough to be metal, it looks too flat at the moment - I guess you have a specular map judging by the bell, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything anywhere else. Also I think an ambient occlusion bake over the top of the texture would help make the whole thing seem a bit… -
Re: How much of a sinner am I? I have no idea what I'm doing.
I must be out of touch or missing something?! But typically when blocking out - then further refining a workable base mesh from scratch, especially for surfaces that require reflective materials. It is usually best practice based off of experience, to start with minimal geometry (...low density topology) instead of…
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