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Re: Help
Hmm, I guess I should have explained it, boolean is a tool in Maya used for merging two objects together. It's located in Mesh-->Booleans-->Union This video actually explains it very well, should also help with your bumps you were having on your cylinder so watch it all. [ame]… -
Re: Serious trouble understanding the workflow "Low to high to low Poly"
I prefer to do it all in one bake but it is not always possible. If I have to merge a few normal maps, I do it like this. First I bake all of the pieces. 1. I make everything white from the normal map except the island that I want This way when I copy the whole image the island will be in the right place on the UV Map and… -
Re: Zbrush 4R8
musashidan my example isn't using an unnecessary step, it's comparing two methods, merging the hand to the arm using booleans and then merging the hand to the arm using dynamesh. Dynamesh is making a mesh that's way too dense even at a resolution of 8, there are extra steps I could take to rectify that but then that's… -
Re: Texturing mushroom/fungi?
I asked more senior classmates, and they say if I ever want to export this obj to ZBrush and put in details, I'll have to weld them together for smooth transition at the connecting areas. So today I tried to export 1 to ZBrush, sculpt around a bit, then import it back into XSI. I tested connection of a weld, an extrude,… -
Re: When to normal map.
Small surface detail.. basicly what would be decribed as the "texture" of a material by a non 3D artist can be nicely done with a 2D filter. Most of the time this applies to enviromental art as in playermodels this small detail is almost always merged with bigger detail. It is possible however to merge normal maps with… -
Re: 10+ Free HDRIs - 16000x8000, up to 24 EVs
I got a Panosaurus, which was the cheapest panohead I could find at the time. Gets the job done just fine. About the software, I was struggling to get any program to correctly merge the exposure brackets in all cases - some would introduce lots of noise and hot pixels, others would get the brightness all wrong, and others… -
Re: Uv questions
so its goodbye? - not a nice attitude the way I do such things is merging all objects to 1 unique Object together and unwrap that one (or if you have max2008/2009 you can edit multiple objects at once- but usually i use external tools such as UvLayout that eat only 1 *.OBJ file). Once you unwrapped and layouted split it… -
Re: Affinity Photo - decent replacement for photoshop?
I'll echo that Affinity Photo is not as robust as Photoshop at the moment. I no longer use Photoshop for hours a day anymore, so I cancelled my subscription about a year ago. I picked up Affinity with the pandemic discount, and it has been useful for the projects I occasionally do, but not for games. I was a little… -
Re: Help a 3D newbie please!
You make your low poly with as many models as you need. Lets say it would be easier to split your character into two parts: a skin part and a costume part. Merge the high poly subtools int the two groups and export them. Then you would decimate all the subtools (back to 1% of their original rez (or as low as you can go… -
Re: [3DSMAX] Import multiple objects UVW's from FBX (Keep modifier stack) - use Unfold 3D for UVW
Lets say that the name of your scene is "MyScene_01" 1) save your scene with new name - "MyScene_01_temp" 2) "MyScene_01_temp" is currently loaded so, delete all modifiers from all objects and add suffix to the names of all objects. 3) export scene objects using FBX. There will be no modifiers at all 4) Unwrap and Pack in…
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