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Re: Teaching 3D at High School
We will have access to both 3ds Max and Blender. I can use both, but I'm much more comfortable in Blender, so that's what I'm going to teach. I know Max is much more used in the industry, but I'd rather teach something I know rather than stumble through lessons trying to remember where a button is in Max. Plus, as I found… -
Re: Kiss bye (rookie sculpter)
Apologies for no one responding. Times are hard y'know? Grats on finishing though!, I'm sure you learned a lot about the process. There are several issues, however. The topology and basic modeling need work. I'm not sure what reference you were using for some of your edge flow choices but I suggest looking at the polycount… -
Re: Wrinkle/tension Maps inside Maya
Thanks FAT_CAP. I can hardly remember how I blended. I don't have the shader in front of me. I think I just converted the normal texture data from 0 - 1 range to -1 - 1 range. Then add them together and go back to 0-1 range. This won't handle all cases, but worked for my test for that case. You could potentially hit the… -
Re: Hard Edges, UV Seams, Smoothing Groups, Cages & Baking Trouble.
You're not the first, and certainly won't be the last to lose his mind over normal mapping!! :) Hard edges being split by UV shells is also the right way to go. It has been the method that's been used for a long time. Don't get disheartened. It is a complex subject with many variables. Just keep on doing test bakes until… -
Re: Game Character Animation in Max
Yea I didn't mean to imply that everyone needs to buy the full version, but installing extra plug-ins is a pain, even if they are free. It's mostly a nightmare if you do freelance and you're sending files back to customers, its something you just don't want to impose on others. Even in the same work setting its kind of… -
Re: why must I decide?
Sean makes a good point though, granted you want to have your art at least be decent looking. If you get luck enough to manage both characters and environments then your pretty well off, and everyone once in a while to challenge themselves would step into another field and basically see how hard transferring the mind set… -
Re: Bake Specific Edges ?
Alright, I have managed to make quick normal maps that only softens hard edges without creating high polys. It is not that hard actually. There is no need for curvature map information. I will explain in case of anyone might want to try. Just select every single hard edges and cut out in UV Editor to seperate UV Shells for… -
Re: Animation Demo Reel Critique
Well, you've got some good stuff in here, but right away, I would toss your reel aside if I were hiring. Every single piece is listed as WIP. It's as if you never finish pieces. An instant red flag for employers. As for the animation, like I said. There's some good stuff in there. That said, each piece seems to have the… -
Re: Styx - Zbrush/Maya/Max tool
Daniel, your tool is great, but after some time of using your tool, I found one weak spot in this tool, which can be fixed for sure. The point is that after exportin model to maya and getting it back to ZBrush I'm loosing all my polygroups, which is very disappointing. PGs are very important for my certain workflow steps… -
Re: Videogames and Pirating
I dont really agree with this line of attack, it kinda comes off like Lars Ulrich of Metallica from the napster days.... stopping all peer to peer is a little delusional... I agree that pirating games is a shit business but there must be a way to fight it more directly. a way to combat pirates in much the same way they…
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