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Re: Perplexed still on low/high poly manipulation
Yeah, after complaining for the longest time about hard edge subD modeling (and the growing gap between subD and hard edge sculpting/dynamesh boolean) and now being a veteran at it, I kind of stopped complaining because usually with mechanical stuff you are rewarded with very instanced/mirrored items. Stuff that can be… -
Re: Is there an empirical way to measure UV map efficiency?
+1 Less seams will also result in less vertex use as well. Super tight packing has another drawback, if you don't leave enough space between your UV islands you will get seams/artifacts as your textures mip down. Consistent texal density is also extremely important, its better to have consistent detail than to use all your… -
Re: Environments: Material vs object textures
It really changes on what kind of work you should do. Just make experiments and get more experience to make better decision. I made a lot of wrong decisions on our studio's mobile games but i learned a lot from them. Now i'm still learning and trying new workflows to make it better and more suitable. For environment and… -
Re: Need Helpful Tips for High to Low Poly Baking
My steps for normal maps are usually as follows (its a zbrush/3dcoat/xnormal pipeline): 1.Make hipoly mesh. This way I'm not worried about topology or anything technical. 2. Make Retopo mesh. Now I can focus on lowpoly problem solving since I've already focused on the creative aspect. 3. UV maps. Only the lowpoly meshes… -
Re: Material displacement looks jaggy
This is what I meant... The first picture shows a circle displaced and made to be a normal map with very little to no bevel: This next image shows the same shape with some slope applied: these were captured in Substance Designer, using the same tessellation setting. On the first picture we can see similar artifacts to… -
Re: XNormal - Cage Breaking based upon SG
I did, but I mean in XNormal you can break the cage as you wish, which is something I need to do to get my hard-surface details on the faces of my model (edges bevel not withstanding), but as you said, changing the Vertex ID by breaking them in Max will throw up errors in XN, either way, breaking Cage in XN is not the best… -
Re: Bump instead of normals, or.. wat?
If it were more feasible today (better hardware support), I'd consider switching to this technique just on the engine end of things (pre-converting normal mapped assets to use height maps behind the artist's back). Then one would have the code advantages without having to convince the artists to do anything. It occurs to… -
Re: Question: Topology and polycount?
If a prop doesn't deform, the rules are pretty simple. Use most of the geometry for stuff that effects the silhouette. Avoid very long and skinny triangles. Pay attention to smoothing groups, if you aren't using a work flow with synced normal map tangents, you might need to use control loops. If you are using vertex… -
Re: [UDK] Godfather inspired scene - Portfolio piece
Thank you for your compliments! :) . The walls do not have any gap anywhere, and I'm using the two sided lighting option. So I ended up covering the lit side of the room with the builder brush. I could show you the shader later on, right now it's a mess, as I'm constantly updating it, but so far, I'm using one shader on… -
Re: Tileable Texture
I'm not sure if it's the same texture in all pics? The first one looks nice but the other two are overly noisy. And you've got a bit of a vertical line visible. Not too bad, I've seen much worse 'tiling indicators', even on industry work. But still, the yellow area feels a bit denser more aligned than the other cracks. I…
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