Thats a whole different topic tho :) And I'd say this is the sorta question tech art and art direction should defind before anyone gets to do actual content
Just to be clear. Nobody, ever, needed to inflate a highpoly to match it better to the lowpoly. I have never seen such a stunt in the past 25 years, 20 years of which we are using normalmaps. If you have tools that need such a thing, get better tools. The goal is to capture the highpoly as good as possible in as little…
Hi everybody, I wanted to discuss and ask advice regarding a part of the high to low poly pipeline. My mentor told me that, as a last step before baking the normal map from my high poly to low poly, it is good to inflate/displace the high poly geometry (make it more puffy if you will) to completely cover the low poly…
Generally, you want the shapes in the high and low poly to match as closely as possible - this means that often the low poly will either be exactly the same size or both slightly bigger and smaller than the high. For something like a cylinder, the low should intersect with the high in a vacillating pattern. Here's an…
Well ... one can very well have "years of experience on treeple A" without having any experience working with others - resulting in odd workflows that would never work in production at a studio. "Hey, we need to rebake this armor set" "Sure thing - just remember to inflate the high just a tiny bit, otherwise it won't look…
Thank you all for your answers! To be honest this gives me more piece of mind because this approach has given me problems with simple models like this one and I cannot even imagine what would do with a more complex mesh that has more details or intricate shapes. With all the info you have given me I would call this…