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Re: Texture workflow
I haven't herd of using the curvature map (same as the cavity map in xNormal i assume) for use in the diffuse map. What exactly does that help do? For me, I use Photoshop CS4's 3d feature to do most of my texturing. I bake out all my maps and save out a low poly .obj file and create a 3d document with no Photoshop lighting… -
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That's roughly what I do. I assign MatID's to different colors for easy of reference, duplicate all parts of my model (I work with rigged vehicles w/ moving parts) and collapse to a single mesh, bake diffuse. Bake AO, Normals if I go that route (versus generated in PS). After building up Diffuse I'll convert that to a… -
Re: Texture workflow
I like to do the following Bake: Normals, Mental Ray FG, Cavity AO, Curvature, diffuse label. Normals: Obvious Mental Ray FG: Gives light tracer style 'AO' but is much faster. down side is it lacks the fine detail you get from light tracer. Cavity AO: low distance AO, captures all the fine details and can be solved at very… -
Re: Texture workflow
Yhe problem with baking multiple maps to make your diffuse is if you have a project with a lot of bakes to do, then you get asked to make edits, you have to redo all of it. I try to stick to ao +ao detail from xnormal plugin for pshop. -
Re: Texture workflow
Or if your shader supports it, use it to mask the ambient light, and get it out of the the diffuse. Mental Images MasterZap did a write up on correct use of ambient occlusion for realistic rendering http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2008/11/joy-of-little-ambience.html. I know were not using a raytracer but knowing how it… -
Re: Texture workflow
I bake everything from xNormal.... Normal Maps...AO...and Curvature Maps (I use the red channel of it on top of the AO). And after I'm done creating my diffuse maps, I pass them lightly through crazybump to get a detail normal map, and bake that on top of the normal map obtained from my high poly to subtly enhance the… -
Re: Texture workflow
Hmmm, that IS interesting, as multiplying the AO over the diffuse has pretty much been how I've gone about my texture workflow since the beginning. I might have to play around with it now, and I need to have a read of that blog post by Zap. I don't use mental ray for my AO bakes, usually just go with xnorms for the quick… -
Texture workflow
I was reading up on curavture maps the other day, and it got me thinking are there any other maps like this that are commenly used that I am unaware of. So what texture workflow does everone use? And what maps do you bake out/make in Crazy bump/xnormal etc.., and for what reasons (masking etc)? I guess mine would be: Bake… -
Re: Texture workflow
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Lemme just drop a tip in here. I was chatting with Hanno in the Polycount dinner the other day and he mentioned something I never really thought about it before. Multiplying the AO on top of the difuse might be a bad thing to do, cos it doesnt really occlude anything, it tends to burn the colors (making them darker)…
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