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Re: Tips and Guidelines Creating Exterior Houses (with or without interior)
Pretty standard way to do any architecture for that matter is: 1. Create tileable textures. 2. Model base blockout of whatever you doing (house). 3. Identify repeatable shapes. 4. Model those shapes and unwrap them over your tileable textures. (yes this is the key, you conform models to textures not the other way around).… -
Re: Bethesda decal techniques - The Skyrim case
Logically this should be slightly cheaper than the alpha one, since it only needs to blend the necessary attributes, and don't need to draw over the scene - doesn't use transparency. Also, its one mesh, one material. And last but not least, this is much more flexible than alpha planes, cause you could put it anywhere,… -
Re: Editing normal maps manually...
Also worthwhile remembering to change the "Blue" channel's output levels to maximum of 128 (CTRL-L, select blue from the drop down, type 128 where it says 255 on the right at the bottom gradient slider thing). This is because the blue channel contains the "forward" facing normal information and if you use Overlay blending… -
Re: MEL Script UT Sekeltons> how and Where?
My Norman model can be found at http://www.hollowmind.org/files/NormanUT2004.zip. As for questions a and b, no idea. =/ Animation blending is when 2 different animations are blended together. For example, the run animation and shoot animation are 2 different animations. When the character runs and shoots at the same time… -
Re: Anyone here use Blender?
IIRC when Luxology was developing Modo 501 (or was it 401?) they mentioned that Autodesk's FBX SDK sucked pretty badly. Perhaps this problem could be solved by creating .blend importers/exporters for other 3d apps. Doesn't Unity already have a .blend importer? Sure it would be a fragmented mess, but probably not much more… -
Re: Lowpoly enviroments?
"Then, every detail on the grass, just like paths, dirt areas, crackles, holes, stones, etc, are just plain poly strips textured with some transparent maps and placed just above the ground." Sorry, did I misinterpret that? I assumed he meant use extra poly strips for paths and such. How would vertex blending allow me to… -
Re: Light seams on my meshes
You definitely need to space them out more. At that resolution you are sharing pixels between the UV islands (try UV mapping with a 32x32 noise texture). Straight from UDN: "Padding between UV charts is necessary to prevent bleeding artifacts. Padding around the edges of the lightmap UV layout, however, is not necessary as… -
Re: Making Tangent space normals completely override the mesh's normals?
Object space would be the way to go, I don't know the details of using it on a deformable mesh, other than that it can be done. These maps are essentially absolute in that they totally define the normals. However, you'd be in a position of either trying to paint or sculpt in such a hacky way that it would be difficult to… -
[WIP] (UE4) The First Temple (trim practice, need critiques)
Since the summer I have been practicing trim texture techniques. I drew from The Ultimate Trim Technique and Polygon Academy's Trim Texture videos. More recently I decided to make a small environment to practice. I created a trim sheet using Max and Zbrush as prescribed in Tim's videos. I generated other maps from… -
[UDK] Stargate scene
Hey guys, this is something I've been working on the last few weeks. An old cliffside entrance to an underground temple of sorts I'm really enjoying vertex blending, having only really used Source before vertex blending is entirely new and fascinating. Closer shot of my mossy wall blends: The gate itself: And a close up of…
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