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Re: Exporting Hard Surface/Organic Normals out of Zbrush?
(Are your normals inverted on the greenchannel and also lacking in padding?) Personally, I'd take the extra few minutes to export the models and bake in xnormal (it shouldn't even take long, if you only decimate what needs to be decimated). Otherwise I don't think zbrush is going to give you a good result if it's tangent… -
Re: ShaderFX Optic Camo
Yea I see the Refraction Vector node in shaderFX, and refractOp node (used to build the Refraction Vectode node apparently). but how do I use them? World Normal Dot Refraction Vector for a float controlling reflection intensity? I'm only a few days into ShaderFX and shader building in general. There are some good tutorials… -
Re: what can we expect for next gen?
Less graphical advances, and like the last gen more of the CPU will be put into AI and Physics for games that need it. We get lot's of benefit from more complicate shaders, and proper branched shaders that are cheap. While the new machines have a ton more memory and faster shiz, the bandwidth for shoving round the geo… -
Re: 3rd Year Project - Chinese Town
Looking great. You could use vertex color to soften the sand transitions. Also the wall on the left where it meets the sand, that edge is a bit too harsh. The foreground dock looks really dark. I bet your texture is really dark, so it's not getting much light. I would love to see some distortion in the water reflection.… -
Re: Courtyard Environment. Second Try ;)
Hello everyone. I hope some of you are still reading this thread. I'm getting close to finishing this scene I guess. I worked on it for a long time already and while it is not perfect in any way I'm still quite happy with the result. I still plan to add some Ivy and play around with Vertex Painting but aside from that I'm… -
Re: Colonisation: Moonbase, Android Game
Space! Yaaayy!! I like sims, and I like space, so this looks interesting. As for the art, it looks a bit blocky and generic. Are you going for a realistic aesthetic, or something like Kerbal Space Program? I'd research on actual plans or developments for modular space colonies. "The Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin has some… -
Re: External cages for clean normal and AO baking?
If your using Maya it should be as simple as duplicating your low poly, moving your verts until it encompasses your high poly and exporting it as another obj along with your low poly. In the past I'd tried doing this in Maya and it would mess with my vertex order making it pretty much useless, however recently that problem… -
Re: Need advice on normal baking an airplane
@Syna , I have not made anything highpoly yet, I have just completed the lowpoly. So you tell me there are two options, use vertex normals to emulate rounded edges on the lowpoly or bake the thing per usual to get round edges. The Hornet looks really great, and I read the thread you linked me to, but you still need to add… -
Re: NEWBIE Q: MAYA- Textures UVs and why they move (or don´t)
Well if you just need referece for modelling an item you might do better using imageplanes (http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-image-planes-maya-194596/). There might be some more complicated way of texture-projecting or using some script to get your desired effect, but I don't really see the point of it... You can always… -
Re: Stone Steps Modelling Question
If you're asking about technique, this is a good section. If you're asking for style critique, the Showcase & Critique is a better place. But you can mix the two in Showcase as well. Here are some stone steps I made, might give you some ideas. http://ericchadwick.com/img/farmhouse_stairs.jpg A test scene made by…
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