Bumping this to let everyone know that the third volume is now available: http://www.cgcircuit.com/course/3d-character-art-for-games-iii This video is all about low polygon modeling. I talk about optimization, deformation, soft vs hard normals and uv splits for bakes, etc. The vid also comes with a low polygon generic…
If you are going to do a big scene you have to have some way over layering details on. First you need to know if your engine supports Decals or Multiple UVs. If it doesn't support either you could try creating an extra set of polygons above the ground to add in those details but you could get flickering issues if you do…
What a lovely texture you got going on this sweet trailer ! I really like the different color values you got going on the red side of things, which makes it really interesting to look at - what could potentially be a totally boring repetetive plane. Great job on that ! What kinda caught me off-guard was the line where you…
I'm a 3dsMax user but my company is using Maya for the project~ I'm not much familiar with Maya due to this sudden but I try to research as much as I can~ After discuss with my friend (Maya user), here's the different between both software~ Please inform me if something was wrong or had a better solution, thank you~ ^^…
Hello I have a 3D scan (mesh) around 10 milion polygons, its an older project started months ago to which i came back now. I brought the mesh to zbrush, retopo it to lower poly and worked on this lower poly in 3ds max (the mesh had holes, bad geometry at times etc.). I want to bring it back to zbrush and re project detail…
To give an example, at this stage you might be working at a detail level where polygons in zbrush are ~1 inch in size, or often larger in some areas. We should see the polygons still at this stage.
Hi, I have been looking at polycount for some time though I haven't posted before, my name is Glen Fernandez and I'm an illustrator and comic book artist, though my hobby has been about working on 3D assets and personal video games. I have been creating some assets and scenes for a remake of Shadow of the Comet but I was…
I solved this problem after it nearly convinced me I needed a new computer. H Recap of the problem: 1. When I hit 3 to smooth polygons in Maya, they would often vanish entirely or stretch out. 2. When I loaded my .ma file saved in ASCII the files would do things similar to the image above, with geometry exploding or…
As long as you retopologize the model in the end then it should be perfectly ok for games. It's really just another way to create a model at the end of the day, and you can do this exact same workflow exclusively inside a program like Maya as well. Just don't settle for an automatic retopology solution like ZRemesher for…
Thanks Kbrom12. I downloaded the project and have been looking at the material behind the carpet. It seems to make use of layered polygons, vertex colours and multiple bump offsets connected into the opacity mask. However I am still a little confused by the logic behind the material. If you know the answer could you help…