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Re: How would I follow best practices with this model/reduce the poly count?
Thanks so much AtticusMars. I've managed to get the model down to 7.5k, which still strikes me as a little high but is at least a marked improvement. I've tried my hand at using different smoothing groups before, but I've never liked the result because if you want to bake a rounded edge onto two different smoothing groups,… -
Re: Quads and Tris and some other things.
[ QUOTE ] On the lower model where you have smooth - poly - sub-d you just have to add more subd iterations, see if it will look like smooth after that. [/ QUOTE ] Hm, I think this is where I'm getting confused with terminologies. This is my convert to sub-d options menu : And this is the result :… -
Re: [WIP] Serpent Vase
@sacboi Thank you! To answer your questions: 1. Maybe.. 2. They are flies! Need to do another pass on them as they still have a uniform material. @Celosia Hey, really appreciate the detailed feedback. There's some very interesting ideas there that I'm excited to try, such as the inversion of expectation. I struggle with… -
Preserving imported vertex normal data.
Hi guys. I've imported a collada (.DAE) file into 3DS max. It comprises of a scene with a few individual objects. Some of them are smoothed and some have hard normals. The trouble is that merging these meshes together cause the smoothed objects to harden or become faceted. I tried freezing transforms, turning to poly… -
Re: I need portfolio help for college admission.
Just writing a couple of things Well it seems like a decent start, but I do not know which school you are going to. Some want super experienced people others (the most) teach you from start. But to say upfront, 1 year in 3D modeling is not gonna cut it. You can pull it off if you work really hard in your free time. Being… -
Re: Material Studies?
you can try learning by rough and smooth surfaces (glossy). This is base for classify a lot of materials, but of course, there are few exceptions like rubber materials, that can be smoothness but not necessarily have to emit or reflect the light like some glossy materials, cuz rubber materials absorve too much the light.… -
Re: Basic texturing tutorials
@yukonwanderer yes i am familiar with arrimus's channel and have watched a couple of his videos, good place to learn. About question 1 : Yes if it smooths correctly thats what your normal map bake will look like!. Its good to have triangles and ngons on flat surfaces as this is where the curvature is not happening. i… -
Re: Aim is to show progress with modeling weapons (maybe others)
Hi Leon! On posting, you should show all aspects of the gun if you want proper crits. Where's the magazine? What does the back of the slide and frame look like? Chamber? Isometric views are a bad idea. Use perspective. You say this is the highpoly, but I don't see any subdivision going on. Without that I can't give you… -
Re: Normal maps and triangulation, baking in Maya
The reason to lock normals in Maya is so that you don't have to triangulate before baking, provided you're baking in Maya. If you don't lock normals, and then you triangulate when you export to your game engine, the mesh normals will change and cause smoothing errors. This is only something you would do at the very end… -
Re: Lizard Guy
Adam: The model is front heavy. I tried to thicken the tail and lengthen it to help balance it out and you can't see that so much in the picture, but having said that I intended the character to use his arms, or an arm, as support when he stops. If he is not holding a weapon he would be in a stance similar to a gorilla.…
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