It can't be summarized in a few lines. There are multiple types of lights, multiple types of shadow casting, and multiple modes. You can't expect me to write an essay here. Especially because the 75% of it is in the official documentation already. I'm affraid you dont't really have other choice other than going through…
No idea how they do it, but in photoshop and similar, you can pick the average skin tone of your original map, invert that, and apply it with linear light at 50% opacity. Then apply your skin tones with linear light and 50% opacity as well (maybe some additional tweaks for really dark skin). If you do it yourself with…
It looks great so far and I agree with all of the previous comments but I would also recommend some more work with lighting. Sci-fi scenes give the artist an opportunity to play with whatever lights he or she wants. Right now everything is an overall white wash and that is futuristic yet its not appealing in this sense. I…
I imported a PLY model with vertex color embedded into 3DS Max. I then UV unwrapped it and need to transfer the vertex colors to a diffuse material. How do I directly transfer this color information to a bitmap without altering the color based on the ambient light of the scene? I read somewhere that it could be done…
Hi everyone. I'm in need of some suggestions, I kind of finished my decals, vertex painted everything and done my first lighting pass for my night time scene. What do you guys think, what should I tweak (if any) or should I highlight anything else? I also added some "narrative" with the book left behind, and tried to…
I am a college student currently working on her thesis film and I need a 3D background artist to help me light/texture my backgrounds in Maya using UV wrapping. What I am looking for: 1. MUST KNOW HOW TO RENDER EITHER IN MENTAL RAY OR ARNOLD OR REDSHIFT 2. take the UVs and create the textures in Photoshop 3. Someone who…
So, I'm having this same problem right now with some trees. Here's my process. -Tree trunk unwrapped on first MAT Channel -Leaf planes unwrapped on second MAT Channel -Apply Multi-SO for each material -Nothing overlapping for lightmap on Map Channel 2 (via Flatten and various different custom unwraps) -Export as .ASE with…
Some quick glance things I see Look to modeling to improve the rocks. Model in destinct shapes to reflect the texture. Hard edges, strong shapes to catch lighting, cast shadows on itself, etc. Will have a huge impact, as well as modeling large, medium and small stones to compliment the transition into ground. The small…
Hi, i am working on a mod for a game that uses old, non PBR shaders. Preamble: I'm making textures for my models in Substance Designer&Painter, using PBR workflow - simply becaue, i want to be future proof aka. i dont want redo everything in case i want to re-use them in a newer game engine. The main issue i have with this…