I finally fixed my normal problem so I figured I should share my solution just in case anyone else runs into it. First, here's what my problem looked like: You can see there are little facets running across the mesh. What worked for me is separating UVs by smoothing groups and tweaking the living hell out of the shape of…
without taking a model apart, or turning it upside down like I used to in Blender, whats the best way of baking an AO map for a room? currently I'm experimenting with the diffuse lighting bake, however it seems to bake really sharp shadow lines.
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Hello. I am having problem with baking in Marmoset Toolbag 3. I wanted to ask you for your help. I am baking fine in Marmoset various models with simple uvs in 1:1 uv space and one material. But lately I wanted to bake a little bit more complex model. I am talking about 3 diffrent materials on low poly, each material with…
I've baked things down before in Maya and xNormal, but for some reason, I cannot for the life of me get this simple box to bake down. I've tried both programs and a combination of pretty much every option. My low-poly doesn't have overlapping UVs(anymore). I've been using the Maya Envelope method with a higher search…
Hi guys, I have a question regarding baking an AO map of a corridor (closed, indoor scene) in Max. here is the scene that I'm trying to bake an AO map using Max's MR AO baking process.. Note that I have 3 omni lights in the scene. And here is the result.. It's pretty much like what I expected to happen, all black, and it…
Hi guys, I need some help. I've got this modular temple that I'm making. I have only just started putting it together in UDK and I'm stuck. when I bake my light maps things go weird. below is an example of the scene before i bake them. looks fine to me. notice the specular highlights Now after i bake light maps. the…
Decals of this nature seems like ~30 minutes of fiddling in PS with a couple custom brushes (that you could probably make from scratch pretty quickly), that will net you some brushes you can use forever into the future, and easy high-res source files to tweak as needed. AI is good at what it's seen a lot of. Examples…
So I have two materials (both phong) assigned to a model. I want to take the model to a game engine so instead of having two materials and two drawcalls, I decided to just do vertex color baking. But when I do so in maya and then delete the two materials from hypershade window, the model turns bright green completely. I…
So I'm trying to bake down a whole bunch of hair cards onto a single plane. I can get the color info but I can't get the planes to cutout just around the edges of the feather where the alpha/transparency is. So as a result you see the edges of the planes. How can I avoid this? Here's a test bake of what I'm talking about:…