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Re: Next gen car - questions
Normalmaps really aren't an option when you want perfect reflections on your car body. Reflections are what it's all about, hence Mlichy's example of the warthog ( reflections aren't very important for that one). It's just not viable to try and attain perfect reflections with normalmaps since you'd need something like… -
Re: Next gen car - questions
Yeah, you need to add in chamfers, and bevels, ect more geo like he said. If you have a Box for example, and set it all to smoothing group 1, it has to try and normalize/wrap all the Normals around to an average, so you get darkening and artifacts. But sometimes this is done in a way, to help remove/fix normal map… -
Re: Next gen car - questions
While Matthew's car is a good asset by itself, i wouldn't exactly call it a true "mid-poly" (stupid term but how else to put it) asset. You can still see sharp lines from smoothing groups on it. The best example I can find right now is David Finlay's work: http://3dfinlay.com/html/veh/mcla.html to summarize a few key…
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