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Re: inverse cubemap?
Why don't you just make a cube map of the whales interior? You may need to clone the whale, 1 part scale it up, and apply that cubemap to the smaller piece, while keeping a translucent SSS on the outer piece, so you can see inside. Just some thoughts. -
Re: ShaderFX 1.5 is now available
Is it possible to have ShaderFX output the resulting shader into a renderable material? I understand some elements (like SSS for example) cannot be setup with max material like that. But if it could at least set up a diffuse/normal/spec/color values, etc etc. Not sure if that's possible, but it'd be damn cool -
Re: Game ready character - Mulan - Finished!
This turned out really nice! great progress as well. I think my main crit would be the skin feels very flat and could use a bit more softening with SSS. The hands also could use more values and color. Overall, she looks great though, nice job. -
Re: Animated object and shadow render only
I'm not sure what you expect. You have the shadowcatcher material working and you're brute-force rendering a 2K animation. 2 hours for a 2K clean offline render isn't bad. What are your settings? Are you using motion blur? Are you using glossy reflections? SSS on the plant? -
Re: Texture Size Question
The justification for using a different texture for the head is usually so it can use it's own material as efficiently as possible, right? Naughty Dog is using a cut-down fake SSS shader for their heads, and it sorta makes sense to only pay for the fancy shader for the 256 or 512 head and not the entire 1024 character,… -
Re: Problem with Shave and a Haircut
well Ive never used shave and a haircut before(..or maya), but we always do a seperate scanline pass for hair with matte objects since it speeds things up 10x. maybe you could give that workflow a go? it'd solve the issue with SSS, and GI could be done with proxy objects -
Re: Is it correct to unwrap multiple objects into one texture or should it be done the other way around?
Its generally a good idea to split materials and texture sets based on shading. For example, you don't want the cloth to have sss while you want the skin parts to have. So the most logical way to split in this case, is to have a texture set for the skin parts, and another for everything else. -
Re: Sketchbook: Unleashed
thanks! the first render had sss. a professor actually thought it was lacking because it looked rather flat, which is why I went for the the second one. go figure :) been meaning to do more but only done the retopo and feet/hands. damn dow2 beta eating up my time! -
Re: Sketchbook: birb
Monster: Now with 200% more eyes. Painted a 10min placeholder texture to decompress after a long day. Details on shot 2 are also temporary, only to check if SSS alone can carry the gashes coloring. Blender can't handle this level of detail, I'll likely be forced to jump into ZBrush from now on. -
Re: How are people packing their maps? How many masks do you use?
You may be missing a couple maps. Metalness, emissive, transparency, sss, anisotropy, depends on what surface effects you want or need. For PBR metal/rough we're using pretty standard packing. RGB base color, + optional A for transparency. RGB occlusion/roughness/metalness RGB emissive RGB normal
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