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Re: Hard surface robot character detailing questions
Thanks for all the help so far! What I'm looking to do is what you see on this model: More specifically, on the blue armored parts underneath this robot's eyes, you can see these indented grooves. That's what I'm trying to get. Well, I fiddled around in photoshop for awhile, testing different selections and shapes before I… -
Re: Hard surface robot character detailing questions
Thanks for the responses! @Sean_EG The most important detail of what I'm going for are grooves to create the illusion of separate armor plates. I do in fact have nDo and am pleased with what it's capable of, but I'm not sure how to get a "negative" shape in it. Ndo is great for sculpting raised areas, but I haven't figured… -
Re: Hard surface robot character detailing questions
This is what I get when converting your heightmap to a normal map using nvidia's photoshop filter, strength around 15. It is only the normal map applied, no diffuse or anything: It is possible you may need to invert the green channel of your normal map (I had to) -
Re: Hard surface robot character detailing questions
Well, I was using Xnormal's photoshop filters to get the normal map before, which wasn't giving me the dark definition I wanted (I believe I inverted the green channel there as well, so I have no idea why it wasn't working). Now, I converted the height map with nVidia's filter instead, which got results similar to yours,…
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