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Re: Normal maps and smoothing group woes
Hey guys, Thanks for the tips. I went ahead and made up another, more clear, example. I am basically aiming for smooth, soft corners look in this example. It works at some places and fails miserably in others - and I still don't understand the logic behind it :poly122: I modeled this in Max, took it to ZBrush and slapped… -
Normal maps and smoothing group woes
...one more time! Asked about this before, but I'm afraid I still don't get this...sorry! Where exactly should one place smoothing groups to make normal maps look nice? Here's a mini-example. On one screenshot you can see my lowpoly corner with the checker map on it. On the other one is the same piece in Unity3D with… -
Re: Normal maps and smoothing group woes
This is the most accurate quote. It's not a case of "don't use smoothing groups". You just have to keep in mind that they add extra vertexes which takes up more memory. It's all about the vertex/polygon ratio. If your model has more vertexes than polygons I'd look into how many smoothing groups you've got and see about…
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