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Re: Absolute beginner seeks advice
For app learning, if you're going to learn 3dsmax, you should rely heavily on the help files and tutorials that come with the program. They're amazing, they taught me everything I ever needed to know and I still use them all the time. I know normally the help files in most applications are a joke but with 3dsmax they are… -
Re: Workflow for ZBrush to Painter (for an Character Artist)
Here's an alternative: Begin with the Zbrush standard base mesh. Use the move brush to reshape it to fit your needs, and save out a copy. If you want to reduce the initial polygons, you can "reconstruct subdivisions." If you need some custom topology, you can edit it with zModeler. But for a normal human, the zbrush base… -
Re: Modo vs blender for pure modelling and texturing
Slight follow up to this thread as I've had more of chance to play around with Modo for a few days now and use it for a few simple projects. Generally a really nice package. The modelling options and retopology are excellent and there's very little that you can't lay out and or build quickly. Definitely recommended. The UV… -
Re: run down city environment
I try to be careful with critiques because I'm never sure if the advice I'm giving is helpful or necessarily "right." and I'm a student as well. Here are my thoughts, take them with a grain of salt:) I think I have an issue with the compositional layout. it seems like you have your camera positioned so as to squeeze in as… -
Re: Milky normal maps - xnormal
Wow lots of replies, where to start :\ I've never been able to get normalmaps to work in 3dsmax unless its with viewport shader, thats why I'm using marmoset. I will say, aside from the other issues the normal map hardly shows up without an AO in the diffuse slot. To answers the questions; Duplicated Geometry - I'm… -
Re: Mirror Modeling Glitches (Red Yellow Spacefighter)
pretty cool model! to mirror... select model in maya's view port and shift right click... mirror polygon (select the axis you want to mirror on and +/- value. (the UVs will mirror for you). Do not change any geo or UVs. Adding a proper Light map UV set... after mirroring your stuff ^^^^ right click your model... UV set… -
Re: Importing a sphere. Why so hard?
Thanks for the help, everybody! I redid my unwrap and focused on making it as good as I could. I did two different unwraps, so that I could compare the results and determine which one was best. For the first unwrap, every vertex is snapped to a 32x32 grid. Assuming a lightmap resolution of 32, every face would have at… -
Re: A Practical Guide On Normal Mapping For Games
Unreal Engine 4 has a perfect sync with Mikk since 4.7 for static meshes. Skeletal meshes are close enough for government work. To bake for Unreal Engine 4 since 4.7 here's what you need to do: * go to the MikkTSpace plugin setting in Xnormal by clicking the tacky plug icon in the bottom left * make sure "Compute Binormal… -
Re: Business Lobby Environment
BUMPED JasonLavoie, Tom Pritchard - Thanks much, guys. I just finished some work on the fishbowl conference rooms. Pictures: Here's the interior. Second floor conference room that's basically the same layout. Here's some of the new props I made. Those angular squares are supposed to be sound absorption panels. Instead of… -
Re: LowPoly - Indigo [608 tris]
There isn't a reason for him to be low poly, bar it being easy to sculpt, with the intention of use, I will most definitely make a higher poly version. the mesh subdivides well so it wouldn't take much to get the mesh up to standard. Here is a screen of blender to give you a rough look at the topology, The Textures size is…
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