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Re: SDF. what do you think of it?
Thanks guys for interesting comments . it's of topic but last fall after years of polishing Designer fx maps and creating procedural approaches I suddenly found how actually better my work had been when it all was just manual, taste and intuition driven. Zbrush sculpts and coloring , hand painted textures I did in some… -
SDF. what do you think of it?
I haven't even heard of it before Adobe brought it to Designer . Doesn't seem especially convenient . Am I missing something? -
Re: SDF. what do you think of it?
thanks guys . Well. I discovered them only in latest release of Substance Designer . Got the general idea . Just wonder if those sdfs are used in gamedev and how? As ray marching volumes ? Isn't it rather 3d textures and noise ? Should I learn sdf modelling or its like Metaballs in Blender ? Something that sits there since… -
Re: SDF. what do you think of it?
@gnoop, it just occurred to me that you've been using them for years in designer, it just doesn't mention it Using max() blend mode to combine heightmaps is exactly the same as using min() on a pair of SDFs that represent the same surfaces. (Invert and rerange to -1:1 to get the SDF) It's mathematically more convenient to… -
Re: SDF. what do you think of it?
okidokiThanks for interesting links but still sounds like a toy not very relevant to actual game art production. Same as Metaballs. Rather an interesting toy. I am for example still waiting when Designer would get any convenient manual touching/finishing tools or otherwize Painter get something like node based level of a…
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