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Mudbox Normal baking weirdness
Hi everyone! Today is my first day on polycount and I come to you with an issue. I'm a student and my assignment was to bake out some normals for a crate. Well, I'm having a strange issue with the normal map. This picture is from maya, but the same problem is happening over in mudbox where I originally baked the normals.… -
Re: Deus Ex - 3D Environment
Extremely helpful advice, thank you HP! (: The reason I didn't bevel the edges is because I've found that it messes up the smoothing groups on flat faces where the topology isn't perfectly clean. For example if that flat surface is sharing a smoothing group with the bevel, so that it has a nice smooth corner, the flat… -
Re: ITS A ME, MARIO!
Haha very cool B1ll. Keep it coming! Gok, I think that one pic is from Tekken3. But then again... not much point in arguing this. I just remember that when I was playing 2, I thought, Hey, interesting, seems like they used a flat thing for the hands. Which dosen't mean it was actually the case, since T2 relied a lot on… -
Re: HK MP7
i was looking over your flats and was wondering, how did you go about unwrapping your rails? for the side rails it looks like the extruded pieces are off of the body of it, whereas on the top rail the entire thing is laid out flat. my main "conern" of it is where do you put the front/back pieces of each rail? based off… -
Re: UDK/Ddo Lighting Problem
that is true, but you forget about the detail and definition the specular is mainly used for. Without a specular, flat surfaces will have a flat reflection like you would see on marble, my stone wall would miss out the depth and look flat and smooth, but what are we discussing here, both maps are an important asset to sell… -
Re: UDK cave environment
Thanks for the help Ciril, was very useful to see :) . Just a quick update here, have made a pirate flag in the distance/cave mushrooms/gold coins. Made my own smoke flipbook for the particle effect above the fire, and added a few dust particles floating about, although they are hard to see in the image. The pole for the… -
Re: Mirroring and stacking UVs leads to tangent discontinuity and seam
some thoughts.. - any warping in normals will exaggerate the discontinuity so you want to make sure they're actually flat - i have seen occasions where baking to the flipped half of the uvs in painter caused a seam like this on an otherwise perfectly good model - also happened when the uvs were stacked - does it go away if… -
Re: What are your go to workflows for fixing pinches and general iregularities on a form?
Helpful posts ladies & gents: Yea if its hard-edges situations and hole punching and pitch relaxing, i like to find anything that would conform the shape back to its previous state of flat or smoothed, so relax tools (soft smoothing) & a lot of moving the verticies along the edges and pulling it back in place sounds like… -
Mesh Import Issue
So i made a quick low poly mesh just test out an idea i had. Exported the FBX and made the 4 texture files (flat yellow color for the color one, flat white for mask 1 and 2, and flat normal blue for the normal map). Everything imported successfully, but something weird is happening when the object is being rendered. Not… -
Re: Hand Painted Prop - Kul Tiran Well - Looking for critiques!
Hey this is looking great so far. I like the brushwork. I'd like to see a bit more painted-in lighting. You have a really dark shadow inside the well and in the bucket, but everything else is a bit flat in comparison. The wheel and the stone base in particular. If the lighting is dusk, then get some more soft shadowing,…
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