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3dsmax 7 Normal Mapping Mini-tutorial!
I did a quick tutorial to show off the speed and efficiency of 3dsmax 7's Render to Texture features and the DirectX viewport shaders. Take a look at it over on CGChat (I'm currently lacking webspace, so I had to use attachments). http://www.cgchat.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=196134 Enjoy! MoP -
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nice tutorial mop, but one quick correction. the best low poly cages never poke through the high poly model. but at the same time be as close as possible to the high poly surface at all times. having the meshes intersect is the worst possible situation because the normals have to reverse direction, and that looks butt… -
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Per: Why not expand the Projection modifier to take the parts of the high-poly mesh "outside" the low-poly cage into account? Does this produce different normal-map results to having rays cast both towards and away from the low-poly mesh? In the tutorial I posted there, the "nuts" on the wheel hub stick through the… -
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Props for taking the time to do this, now I just need Max7.......I only just got 6.. -
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[ QUOTE ] Cheers. I also just found out, Max7 now has a built-in .OBJ exporter!? Amazing! [/ QUOTE ] oh yeah and it works sooooo good. I tried it out today on a model i have to do for contract. I just had to fix the size and some smoothing, nothing more. The portation from max to maya used to take nearly 3 hours per model,… -
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Mop: I'll give it another try once i get back onto my Zbrush pass again. I know that previously, it was not an isolated incident in the Beta, I had tried it with 4 models and it always took longer or just hung. Course, you never know with bugs, sounds like its time for anothe try anyway. -
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Ror, well, I just imported that 110,000 poly mesh using Max7's native OBJ importer, and it took under 5 seconds. I guess a lot of stuff in the final version must be more stable than in the beta, then? Actually, now that I think about it, your might have just been a one-off bug, because I'm pretty sure the OBJ… -
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Cheers. I also just found out, Max7 now has a built-in .OBJ exporter!? Amazing! -
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Great info, thanks MoP -
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Aha! Hooray. What is UV-projection? Are you referring to the normal-mapping option in the Render to Texture Projection Options screen? Is that the thingy which requires both the high-poly and low-poly objects to have the same UV-coordinates? Personally I can't see why I'd use that over the standard Projection modifier…
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