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Re: Panel Lines (curved and straight) on Curved Highpoly Geo, how?
You could also : > Build the panel lines as floaters over the surface of your highpoly (no need for a detailed profile, simple strips of polygons would do), > Assign a material or object ID to these floating strips so that your baking app can detect them, > Once baked down to your low you can then convert these baked lines… -
Re: [Blender] DECALmachine: surface detailing using mesh decals
This is my first exposure to Decal Machine. I think I saw a cool video about it once before but had forgotten what this was. This is...interesting. Coming from a max/maya hard surface modeler, this blender+DMplugin combo looks fascinating and terrifyingly deep honestly. So, the basic idea behind this would be to model out… -
Re: Normal Map Trouble
You can do this of course with photoshop and a normalmap Plugin. So you dont need any highpoly for those holes. But i would prefer the highpoly way. So you just need some more supporting edge loops to create this geometry. If you want to use floating geometry onto a curved surface you need curved floating geometry too. For… -
Re: JamesMeader's Big Improvement Thread
Update on the mech. highrez I plan to add the absent detail with stamped normals in NDO2. Instead of using ZBrush I opted to use some floaters where I could and wanted. I always have mixed feelings about floaters, i think maybe just because you notice them when you do HP renders, but I mean if the greats can do it why cant… -
Re: Trees
this one looks cool so far. I think it'll probably be hard to disguise that floater, unless you do a thick 'sphere' of solid leaves to have it stick out of. It's a good technique to use too, Valve does it with the hedges in L4D2 Parish map. You have to crawl inside the floating leaves to see that it's a solid mesh inside,… -
Re: THRONE ROOM - Inside the Dome - TooL
Worked a bit more on the upper bit (added some trim ish stuff) and then did my blockout for the actual chair part of the throne. Not sure if I like it or not EDIT: EDIT: Just trying stuff on and off. Debating just making floaters for panel cuts on the outside but not quite sure how the bake will go (never done angled… -
Max Script - String/Boolean
Hi guys, I'm new at maxscript so forgive me if this is something simple! I've written a script that has some checkbox options on an options floater. When the floater is closed I write the setting of the checkboxs to a settings ini file which all works fine. The problem I'm having is loading the state of the checkboxes… -
Re: RTTassist - 3dsmax toolset for RTT automation.
I'm having an odd problem with explode and my naming conventions. Explode does not seem to recognize my named groups. (max '11) I have: LP_elec box HP_elec box HP_elec box_floaters When I explode, LP_elec box and HP_elec box explode together fine. But HP_elec box_floaters is left behind like a piece of low poly geometry… -
Re: 3Ds Max - Viewport camera settings?
There will be a icon in the main toolbar that looks like a little magnet it will have a number next to it, make sure its set to 3 for 3D snaps. Then you have to set what you want to snap to (edges, faces verts) You can right click the 3D Snap button and a floater will appear. In that same floater there is a options tab,… -
Re: Workshop #1 - Carlo Carfora
Ok so I was away for the weekend (Leeds is a nice place!) and couldn't work on this until now. OBJ: Here Modelled up the panel today, used floaters for the text and the buttons are also floating along with those little button hoods. I know thats not how it is on the actual model but I'm trying to start and work faster and…
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