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Re: How do you texture?
I'm a fan of zbrush polypaint. I used to be really put off it because of zbrush's hard to approach nature, but after sitting down to learn how to use it i wouldn't be without it anymore. Now whenever i make a model to sculpt i always give my base meshes a good unique UV so i can make the most of it. Paint some, export the… -
Re: Baking a tube
Thats a not so good practice because of multiple reasons, even though it could possibly work in some rare cases, but it would usually lead to other artifacts. First of all, the shading of the lowpoly (vertex normals) is taken into account when the normal map is baked. This is why sometimes you see triangulation lines or… -
Re: Quixel suite problems
Hi dude, I think I understand where you're coming from, it's hard to start with texturing and get bombarded with the wealth of steps and sliders. I'll try to boil it down for you. To get quixel working correctly you need the following Hi Res Mesh - (for map baking) Lo Res Mesh - (for map baking) and import On very specific… -
Re: Advice for 3d environmental artist?
Substance Painter is pretty cool, it seems to focus on painting on the actual model. It also has a really cool particle painting simulation, which can be useful. Substance Designer is probably a bit more suited for traditional texture work though. It can be a little tedious and overwhelming at first trying to get used to… -
Re: Do engines end up rendering what we can't see?
The count of tris is not as important as it was 10 years back. Occlusion culling will be done on a very crude level of detail (e.g. a whole characters). The most basic and efficient culling approaches are still zbuffer (early z-buffer hardware + z-pre pass) and backface culling. Keeping this in mind and that pixel shaders… -
Re: Outliner 2.0 - Scene management tool for 3ds Max
I'm still on 2012 aswell. I've installed 2015 to check that scene explorer. I have nasty refreshing bugs on the scene explorer UI. Not sure i'm up to date, so, i give Autodesk a chance here. Well, it certainly makes Outliner a bit less awsome. It's pretty much the same as Outliner 2. Feeling that they ripped off your ideas… -
Re: MoI > 3DS Max workflow (normals problem)
Well yeah you're destroying your custom normals when you edit the geometry. This is an issue i had with CAD models needing some fixes aswell. The easiest way to fix this would be to use, after your edits, any face weight normal script like this : http://www.bytehazard.com/articles/wnormals.html (You need to have 1… -
Re: X-Mansion - Unreal Engine 4
It is really good ! But hey, if you want an advice: Push your scene a bit further, you are at the 80-90% done: Your scene is there, complete, materials are good, textures are good, lighting is solid. But it needs this extra work, the last touch to make it something memorable, something great ! Add decals (Dirt, cracks,… -
Re: Bsp or mesh (from Max) Dilemma
Use static meshes if you want anything other than a flat surface or if you want to vertex paint. I pretty much only use static meshes because of the control. Lightmaps are a pain. To get good ones try setting up your second channel so that all the UVs are snapped to pixels coordinates (I use 64x64), all the UV islands have… -
Re: Houdini videos from GDC
I understand what you mean Gnoop, I've gone through the same thought process regarding Houdini over the years. What it comes down to is understanding your problem well enough to solve it, coming from other 3d packages with all their hand holding, makes it very difficult to understand the actual problems we face. Houdini is…
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