Actually....when working with MD..its better to texture the hipoly and then bake diffuse to low poly with dufferent UVs. MD makes UVs how real fabric would work...important for tiled patterns.
Tried exporting a HP mesh from MD with a texture map. It comes in looking like this. Are my export settings wrong? or maybe i applied the texture incorrectly in MD? The UVs are stretched all over the place and the graphic on the material is stretched too. From this stage it would take some heavy/unwanted work to clean it…
You dont need to add textures in MD. When exporting the HI Poly to your modeling APP, the pattern itself is also the UV layout. Use this when adding the tiled texture maps.
What i mean is when the model is retopoed and baked it becomes difficult to add a pattern texture due to all the folds. I'm sure i've seen a tutorial for that tho. But what 2bytes suggests is definitely the smarter move. Didn't knew that was possible in MD.
@Steppenwolf MD is a crazy awesome program. You can make as much HP detail (that your gpu can handle) with vector art shapes, cloth simulation, and adding textures to a uv map. Here's a video of a user explaining adding embellishments, and then me matrix sewing a bunch of swirls... lol good times.
Yea i've seen some awesome things made with MD. Someone even used it for a cushioned hull of a space ship. Do you know if it's possible to export files from the 30 day trial? I have to do a curtain for my scene aswell eventualy. Would be a good opportunity to give it a try myself.
@Bugo that's awesome! I love that scene in general. The game i'm working on is from the same time period. We're using a lot of reference from Akermann's Repository. Only issue with those is you can't tell what the fabric is made of in order to know what its doing. My machine also got slow at a higher resolution. Can you…
Good Call @2bytes, I'll have to remember that for next time. I haven't quite gotten the hang of importing bitmaps as textures into MD yet.. and further from there it exporting the material properly. Have any good tutorials? Here's where i'm at so far.... I couldn't help but get so excited that I went straight onto baking…