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Re: [Maya] Shading issues on Creature render
Soft surface normals give you a false idea of your objects surface, raytraced shadows will take the "real" surface shape into account. So you are right when you think "not enough geometry " some renderers have a shadow terminator option to deal with low poly geometry and minimise problems. Not mental Ray I am afraid. But… -
Re: Sci-Fi Corridor
Get it into UDK as soon as you can, this will allow you to set up a basic light rig and visualize the level in realtime in order to see what direction you need to take it. Not only that, but you'll find the level will look different in realtime to mental ray, espically the shadows and what not. It looks like a solid… -
Re: Future of 3D modeling
the models won't change much. maybe some better tools to get faster workflow, even if i think that most of the tools are pretty good already.(just like photoshop...more tools, but true improvement is hard to find ;) ) the real push will come from better realtime lightning, like realtime ao. this is of course nothing an… -
Re: faking an HDR image from a single photo
Here's a 24MB video that shows some of the realtime HDR tech, contrasting LDR with HDR (though rather poor example of LDR lighting if you ask me). All the source textures are LDR (you can d/l the source here), so it's really all in the lighting and shading code. Another interesting lighting demo I saw recently (listening… -
Re: the problem with mocap
Well and also, cleaning up mocap data is basically a nightmare. One key for every 1/24 of a second ... try smoothing this out! Isn't 'tracing' over video feedback much easier anyways? Also I what about the realtime mocap stuff they have on virtual TV characters sometimes. I wonder if the realtime limitations, but better… -
Re: The Courtyard – Contest Questions/Answers
Great contest ! Here are some questions :) - Should the three or five screenshots be related to the same mood or can we have a screenshot with an apocalyptic mood and another with a totally different lighting configuration like a peaceful mood. - What do you mean by : "Contestants must not bake the lighting in the scene."… -
Re: The "ethics" of touching up images in photoshop
Yeah, sometimes its just common sense to adjust something in Photoshop, instead of re-render an image and waste precious time on that. However as others said, with realtime stuff it wouldn't be smart to fake stuff, as its suppose to be realtime and when you actually have to make stuff like that, you cant just fake it, it… -
Re: New Year, New Tool? (aka using non-subscription specialty tools?)
I wasn't paying attention to that part. You might find this interesting though: https://cgmasters.net/free-tutorials/realtime-pbr-in-blender/ There are always ways EDIT: It also mentions on the documentation page here: https://docs.blender.org/manual/de/dev/render/cycles/nodes/types/shaders/principled.html > making it… -
Re: GDC 2017
I know, trust me, I'm a lecturer ;) GDC this year is coming out with some cracking news, its hard to keep up. The car is impressive but on second review it doesn’t look as good as a real render though. The lighting or the colour of the cars don’t look quite right to me. I guess it’s because they are clipping the HDR to… -
Re: Problem with normal maps
First off, that is a pretty high poly count for that asset. Second, you are not seeing the effects of the normal map because you need a realtime shader applied to your object. I haven't used Maya in a while, so I don't remember what shaders to use, but you can grab Marmoset toolbag, UDK, Cryengine, Xoliul (I know this…
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