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Re: Welding Verts--3DS
Heh, I've just been learning this myself. I've somewhat figured out how this works. As renderhjs said sometimes the smoothing can get lost or go the wrong way you have to try make the geometry flow If the difference between the geometry is to high then you have to separate the elements in someways. One way as Paroxum… -
Re: Back to Zbrush and Photoshop ?
Yes. maybe. I saw fantastic job people do in SPainter sometimes but Painter sort of rules your hand. While in Zbrush you goes from general low-res form , through mid-frequency details to tiny details and it it makes you select what to do and how smooth vs how sharp. Since the detailing needs extra time you test in game… -
Re: [WIP] Akira Motorcycle
Yeah, I can go into more detail. Sub-D stands for sub-divide. Let's say, for instance, you have a cylinder with 8 sides. For animation, or for creating a high poly bake for a game, 8 sides really doesn't look that round, or smooth. What you want to do, is use a smoothing option to round out this object so you can't see all… -
Re: Summer - Route 98
Made the lowpoly last night and started baking, but stumbled upon a problem. As you can see in the image, i cant get the smoothing right with my smoothing groups and it keeps showing up in my normalmaps too. Now it's just 1 smoothing group. First of the bevel is just because i wanted to test this out and even if i don't… -
Re: Washing Machine Part
Here is a workflow which will be sufficient for your needs and much simpler: 1 - model out the major shape without holes in it, as a sub-d cage. <32 vertices should suffice. 2 - model out cylinders for the holes. 8 - boolean the subdivided meshes, possibly with a chamfer along the boolean seam. Mesh feedback: Manually… -
Re: Blacksmith Diorama
This is not how to use zbrush, it seems that your are subdividing without smoothing. So we can see the edges of the lowpoly, and it will be visible on the normal map too. For something like this you should do the highpoly in Max or Maya or wathever, to have a smooth barrel with smooth planks ( put a turbosmooth or… -
Re: 3Ds Max - Viewport camera settings?
I could be completely wrong about this, but I though Max uses face smoothing rather than edge smoothing. In Edit Poly, using the Polygon selection, scroll down in the toolbar. you'll see the 32 buttons for smoothing. Select the faces you want to smooth and give them one smoothing groups. If you want a hard edge, use a… -
Re: Inset Chamfer
The new function was confusing to me too until I discovered that it controls the output smooth of the Chamfer modifier between "Smooth Entire Object" (Smooth) and "Smooth Chamfers only" (Fast) For example radio button Smooth: [Entire Object] / [Chamfers only] or similar will be more intuitive. There is already "Smooth"… -
Re: Total newbie with dumb questions
Hey Jtho! I think its a great decision to branch out and learn some 3D. Its always good to have multiple disciplines under your belt, especially so when you crossing the bridge between 2D and 3D that many 2D artists dont take the time to learn. There are several ways to create the concave shape where the button rests.… -
Re: question about Normal map
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Does that mean that smooth is the only way to solve this problem? Is there another way around this without increasing my polygon count? [/ QUOTE ] Smooth? Smooth what? What does polygon count have to do with using tangent versus object space maps? Are you subdividing the model now or something? Or are…
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