Its basically just a checker texture , which you apply to the model to check for distortion. since the squares are all pretty even and the distortion is minimal , then its okThere are different kind of uv patterns you can get, some have numbers as well
the moa problrm with this technque is that when you collpase all the modfiers, the uv's get messed up and it leaves behind a lot of untidinessThen you end up messing aorund with the normals twice to get the desired smoothness using a weighted normals modifier
I have also been using AI like krea to make slight variations of the textures, gives it a more illustrative feeloviously there are a lot of variations you can make
its a real pain to bake in blender as if you have any metallic on your shader, it either does not bake at all or comes out looking too dark so all the chrome has to be kind of diffuse
so I ran in to a major problem when collapsing the modifiers, in that the bevels would mess up the uv's, so here is a solution I worked out. you could uv map after you have collapsed , but I prefer to keep it non destructive until I am 100 percent sure its done a simple solution is to 1 pin 'all' the uv's 2 select the…
@sacboi - just wondering when you do subd do you try and make the polys mainly square so you don't get too many flow lines which are kind of superfluous ?like here I have a lot of rectangles flowing from front to back, should i try and square them all up, so there is consistency in the mesh ?(I did this back in 2000, so…
learning a lot about editing normals. After collapsing my bevels and realising that there is a lot of tidying up to do, the shading can easily get messed up blender has a fair few tools to help with that, like smooth vector, reset vector etc you can really fine tune the normals using modifiers and vertex groups to isolate…
the problem is though that will take a lot of extra time and the meshes are meant to be viewed from mid distance, so if I had the time and money and I would include interiors( even a basic one) and give them a lot more detail overall but I am bit pushed right now, so they will have to do as I just have to get something out…
idk about the carbon fiber on green, especially it not being "black+" i recently saw a jeep with some design on the sides if you wanted to add something (those guys i watched before they got rich, they okay if you needed something to watch) review this and see if it fits better.looked at a few things and got these:1. 2. 3.…