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Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Lo and behold it's 2025. Fixed the broken images, and updated the link for the mel script. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
yeah, that's what I'm currently doing with various scripts for Modo. I haven't looked into batch baking yet, just exploding mesh/making cage scripts. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Great article/read EQ...I was wondering if you could clear up a few things for me??? 1)I think I might have the terminology wrong...are UV splits and UV borders the same thing? 2)Are edges considered hard because its on a 90 degree bend or because the edge is between 2 separate smoothing groups? 3)Is this what you were… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Just for you my friend. http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/quadrangulate -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
I hope by that you mean the wonderful PipelineIO script. If you haven't already check it out — huge time saver. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Yeah, I'm not sure PipelineIO really matters in an 801 world. Farfarer's vertex normal script is indispensable, however. And yeah, as I said above, just bake in xNormal. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
There's a couple of scripts in this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71406 (and more floating around PC, giving the search function a healthy workout might be an idea) -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
I have fixed in Modo. I just had to make the mesh smooth again and then reassign smoothing groups. For some reason a script messed it up (or may be it was just me). -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
And yet, despite its length, some people still don't get it. There's a reason he had to go into so much detail, and you're proving it. Also, not allowing scripts because they're buggy, but running the latest Max? That seems somewhat counter-productive. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
When a mesh is actually rendered on the GPU, any UV seam has to been split into 2 separate edges, that's why the seam happens. UDK technically could keep the original vertex normals, but it doesn't, it just reads the mesh and splits it. I think TexTools for 3ds Max has a button for that, http://www.renderhjs.net/textools/…
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