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Re: Gun modelling edge flow questions
Wow. I'm blown away by your answer! The reason I asked is because I thought that it might have been considered as a generally bad thing to do. Like having anything above quads. Two tutorials I've watched on hard surface modelling were largely based on using modifiers like mesh smooth and turbosmooth so I know a little bit… -
Re: Hard Surface modelling. Or how I gave up on 3d and became a McDonalds Fry Cook.
I have found that making a blockout using only polygons that allow you to smooth is the best starting off point. This way you aren't rebuilding everything as your start to add support edges. Don't combine meshes when you don't need to as everyone has stated. There are alot of types of polygons that smooth well. You can… -
Re: m1911a1 WIP
all UV shell border edges (UV splits) must have hard normals (separate smoothing groups on each adjacent face if in max) or else you will get seams; corollary is all non-UV-border edges must have soft normals "bad" smoothing on the LP (you know it when you see it, big dark triangles etc) means more for the normal map to… -
Re: problems with baking ( AKM tutorial )
I have to say, 10/10 on your OP! It's very easy to help you because of how you laid all of this out. I can't help you with the maya stuff as I'm a Max guy myself, but: Hard edges and smoothing groups are pretty much the same thing, but each attack the situation from a different standpoint. Smoothing groups say which… -
Re: Zdepth - maya - why have you forsaken me?
If you're using the 1,2,3 keys, that is just a "smooth mesh preview". Mental Ray accepts this by default but the Maya Software renderer doesn't. If you're using the z-depth render layer preset, it uses the Maya Software renderer, not Mental Ray. Use Modify -> Convert -> Smooth Mesh Preview To Polygons with your objects… -
Re: Why Subdivs surfaces? Why people still use them?
One possible approach is to use the meshsmooth/turbosmooth option in Max where it keeps hard edges between different smoothing groups. Example workflow: - set up your smoothing groups on the base mesh - add a smooth modifier that separates based on them - add another smooth modifier that doesn't You may have to tweak the… -
Re: approach to techy stuff
Ruz, why wouldn't you just unwrap that object as one complete surface, and have 1 smoothing group over the whole thing? Also it's probably a better idea to use "auto smooth" and set a low angle tolerance, rather than just un-checking all the smoothing groups, since that could potentially increase the vertex count hugely if… -
Re: modeling hi poly weapons is painful, any tips?
Oh wait, I just thought of another question, what level of smooth are you guys using and how many poly edges do you use to get a hard edge. Currently I am using level 2 smooth and 3 poly edges make a hard edge when smoothed out, maybe I can decrease modeling time by going to level 3 smooth and having a lighter base mesh? -
Re: Clean bakes
Hi Andumy. There are a bunch of things going on here. First off, the 3 object space maps are only different because xnormal doesn't average projections over hard edges without using a cage. You absolutely want your projections averaged. The issues with your smoothed edge projection here stem from how the model/projection… -
Re: Modo 501
@ajr2764: I haven't ever used edge weighting beyond just trying it out to see how it works. I've always used traditional SubD modeling techniques (supporting edge loops everywhere) to model high poly + non-sculpted stuff. Now with the new Pixar SubDs I think it might be possible to avoid all of that extra work. I have done…
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