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Re: normal map baking: reason for exploding elements / matching material IDs?
If you keep things together they will project onto each other which is not what you want. In example, my most complicated model even though some might not think so anyway, was a "rock" based character. I had to bake everything separately and so for example his fingers are separate objects and i had to bake the palms… -
Re: How to bake several textures (including transperent ones) into one diffuse texture?
If you're faking it, you can texture and bake the model with complete transparency and with no transparency, bake a thickness texture, and use that thickness texture to blur the texture underneath by depth and control how opaque the top layer is. -
Re: Questing for the perfect Bake: Max to Zbrush to Xnormal to PS to UDK Workflow Tests
I think I finally got a bake that doesn't require much if any touch up in photoshop. I decided to work on an asset for the current scene I'm working on and I'm very happy with the results. Hopefully the AO bake will go as well. Here were the steps I used for this test: 1. Exported base mesh in Max w/ Zbrush settings option… -
Re: WIP - Deep dark wood - (Block out Phase)
Using some deformers in unreal i can take this tiling mesh and make different shapes quick. I can pretty much rebuild my block out like this moving forward. -
Re: I have no idea on how to bake floaters
I wouldn't use the baking tools in Mudbox or Zbrush, get a dedicated baker like xNormal, Knald, Marmoset Toolbag, etc. The best results section of this tutorial covers floaters: https://www.marmoset.co/posts/toolbag-baking-tutorial/ -
Re: How do you guys make your characters?
It depends on a lot of factors, like; - The hardware, console, PC, Hand held? - How close the camera gets 3rd person, RTS, FPS? Sit down and interview the character (IE lots of facial dialog) or blow them away the second they're in range? Is the same model going to be used for cinematics? - what kind of character is this,… -
Re: Baking artifacts
FWVN - http://polycount.com/discussion/154664/a-short-explanation-about-custom-vertex-normals-tutorial/p1 If its not you who made it then I guess its the new approach of smoothing in Maya. But still, there are definitely some custom smoothing going on, and you need to export your vertex normals, and import them to your… -
Coding, Scripting, Shaders
Coders Unite! Share coding techniques, shader dev, scripting, tool making. Development only please; finished work goes in Technical Talk. -
Re: Baking Maps in Substance Painter 2
Texture Sets have their own independently functioning Input maps (Normal / AO / Curvature / etc.) You can bake respective Texture Sets and it should not effect anything outside of that specific Texture Set. Just make sure you are baking By Mesh Name and you may need to adjust Max and Rear Frontal Distance. -
Map Baking Question
Alright, so texturing and laying out UVs isn't a problem for me, but I'm a little lost about the workflow when it comes to importing the low-poly into zbrush for creating the details for the normal maps. The obvious problem with that is you can't subdivide the entire model at once efficiently most of the time, because it…
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