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Re: My own ZBrush questions!
mop, the reason max converts it to an 8 bit image is becasue max can only read 8 bits per channel. zbrush exports image files useing 16 or 32 bits per channel.. thus your displacement map is 16-32 bits, but if take it into photoshop you will notice it only has one channel, this is why you have to convert the image to rgb,… -
Re: Onilolz + Zaphk - Dota 2 Thread
Heres a crosspost from the workshop thread (I don't know if you go there often) A little tip on how to optimize the eye a bit. You should connect the edges like the example below instead of collapsing the edges to one point. It will make it easier on the engine to read lighting information as well as reduce the number of… -
Re: What's the best GPU for Blender Cycles?
Im not sure what this blender cycles stuff is , but offline render engines use your CPU (and ram) to get their images, not the GPU. The gpu is only for the viewport. There are 1-2 exeptions but nothing you will have heard off and only archviz/movie stuff, so im pretty sure you only need CPU power. The most important thing… -
Re: Blurry Texture mipmap or LOD help
yeah i tried changing the diffuse mips to sharpen 8 and i tried whit no mips at all the sharpen 8 didnt change anything and no mips made it all really fuzzy... i think it might be my Lod viewdistance or something related but i am really confuse on setting lods setting because i dont need lods.... maybe if you guys know… -
Re: Ghost Detector's Workshop thread
Okay, I tried the alphas by putting a white dot where there are no UVS and I still get the same results. Here are my normals This is the orginal baked in xNormal This one is handplane converted Now to check if its specular Edit, about tga files. I saved it as 8 bit. And I just read that each channel represents 8 bits. So… -
Re: UDK Newb Questions: Lightmaps & Geometry!
Hey guys, I have another newbie question regarding lightmapping. If a really small prop uses an 8 x 8 or 16 x 16 lightmap, how much spacing between shells is needed for those? Is the general rule 128 x and above 2 pixels; and anything lower than 128 x would be 4 pixels? If i were to give a small prop a 16 x 16, should I… -
Re: Lightmaps: tech pros and cons
malcolm, i use them only for some demos, i know it's very memory consuming, but since you have 8 bits for lighting and 8 bit for darkening, it improves the gradient quality and it's more accurate when using linear workflow. I guess back then, lightmaps/vertex color where only used for darkening diffuse textures.… -
Re: Black mage (WARNING: LARGE IMAGES AND LOTS OF THEM
your obviously not a big enough fan of 8-bit theater then (nuklear power isnt the name of the strip >_>), as you would know black mage would never use anything to carry something, as almost everything he needs, he keeps within the confines of his robes... oh, and the hat stays on babeh heres some sigs me and my friends… -
Re: Am I the only one that thinks google is ploting to take over the world?
I'm afraid its the nature of the beast Cody, Microsoft just announced they are doing cloud storage / applications and really going for it... http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=microsoft+azure&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=1&ct=title… -
To cap or not to cap?
Hi, I'm a total newbie so I apolgize if my question seems a little ignorant. With cylindrical objects, is it advantageous from a system perspective to close the object with a cap poly, or is it just one more poly that's not needed? What I mean is, say you have a 8 sided cylinder with one end hidden in another object. Are…
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