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High-poly mechanical objects - tutorials?
I've been looking around for tutorials on normal mapping mechanical objects that don't have that ultra futuristic rounded, sleek, organic feel as in Unreal Tournament or Gears of War (more industrial, man-made feel like engine blocks, bulldozers and the like). What's some of your methodologies to modeling mechanical… -
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a lot of times in renders you wont even notice floating details, but it all depends on the angle of the render and size of it. -
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Thanks, some nice links in there. -
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Some links/tips in here... http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=157548&an=&page=0&vc=1 -
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Probably would bake fine, but again you're only able to make a super-sharp edge, no finesse. -
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yeah eric that makes sense. thanks so much for your reply...tis very informative. i know how to do all the smoothing group stuff. and i know it's best to assign one smoothing group to your lowpoly. i was mainly curious about the highpoly and how those smoothing groups would translate after a bake. hahaha. i guess another… -
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you get a lot more features like bevel, perfect booleans, lots of edge tweaking for "free" in CAD software, so depending on how "professional" stuff maybe, when exported thru NURBS or alike, you might be able to use models done with CAD features, which of course are a lot more streamlined to mechanical stuff. Been using… -
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So some cinematic or high-poly models have floating geometry, even if they were never intended for normal mapping? I'm trying to figure out if some of the super-detailed objects I see are solid meshes with all the little divots, nuts, and cool inlays or if they're using some of the techniques previously mentioned in this… -
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Thanks a lot, everyone. I'm starting to get this. The single most important thing I've pulled is the 'floating geometry' idea, which had honestly never really occurred to me. Side question, though. If you want to do a high poly model for display and really nice renders, what would you do instead of floating geometry?… -
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I must warn about EdgeChEx, I started using it recently, and although it appears to work fine, if you export it as an .obj or something to put into mudbox/zbursh, you ahve very messed up results. The best way to see what it is doing is to use it, run turbosmooth, then to a Tools>snapshot and it will rebuild it with the…
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