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Re: Modo 601
If anyone's a Max user and wants to be able to toggle the whole/partial selection of enclosed polygons... Open the System > Form Editor. Use Find Form to find a place you'd like to put the button. Create > New Command and give it the command... pref.value remapping.lassoSelectPartial ? ...including the question mark. Set… -
Re: BMW Progress/Problems
You have hard edges everywhere, where you have 2 different smoothing groups next to each other (smoothing split). I would say add the chamfers/supportloops until it looks good with one smoothing groups. And then a normalmap would be totally pointless. Higher polygon count is totally acceptable nowadays, if it worth. Some… -
Re: 3D Hand Held Character WIP, for uni
Howard, again read the stuff posted in your previous topic, you're jumping from A to step Q atm. You want to create character for a game, first set up a solid base, forget about zbrush atm, make sure you base mesh has the correct shape, silhoutte and polygon layout so you wont run into any problem when moving on later.… -
Re: It's a spark plug
Looking great but there's still room for optimization. You can reduce the edge counts on the smaller radius sides by collapsing them. You got higher polygon density on the thinner areas then the larger ones right now. And you still have some edges that doesn't really contribute the silhouette. There's an extra champer on… -
Re: NonPlanar in Max
I found the option in blender, although when mesh clean up in blender is applied to the mesh and brought into Maya, they continued to be non-planar. In all honestly I wish I could remove that button from the Maya interface because it's nothing more then could make you clinically insane as you'll never make polygons planar… -
Re: WIP M2 Browning
Alien Swarm? Valve's free Source engine game? If that's the case then the rivets are just additional detail that will probably never be seen. When I modeled my M2, I just let the texture do it. Also goes for the barrel, the modeled in holes makes it look blocky and polygonal and increases the polygon count. My only… -
Re: School Game Project
You can probably reduce the feathers to a pair of polygons with an alpha mask, cutting the polycount while improving the appearance. It looks like you're currently using 500-600 polygons in the feathers, which is a substantial percentage of the budget for the entire character. A simple normal map would improve the teeth,… -
Re: Dylan - Anime character
Looks pretty nice to me so far. I'd add an extra loop or two around his neck. If that guy was to turn his head as it is right now that neck would collapse horribly. Also you seem to be having smoothing issues at the neck as it is now, probably partly due to the long polygons you have there now. As a rule of thumb it's… -
Re: rendering ultra high poly assets
Set your viewport display to Bounding Box, and do very small test renders to make sure stuff is facing the right way. That way the polygon count in the viewport has no effect - you can just set the rendering environment to the same background colour as the viewport, set the resolution you want and render. If your computer… -
Re: Creating a matte window texture
Reflection angle is always relative to the viewing angle. In the case of baking a texture, the "viewing" angle is both isometric and dead-on to each polygon, which means each polygon's baked reflection will get something close to a single pixel of the reflection map (with some averaging from the vertex normals). In other…
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