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Re: uneven normal map (swimming syndrome)
yeah MoP, its the tension at 0 thing - in the tesselate modifier you'll recall that it smooths the mesh, and the "tension" spinner is the one that controls the amount of smoothing, and at 0 it won't smooth it at all. I'm honestly not entirely sure how tesselating the low poly baking mesh will affect things, though. I guess… -
Re: 3dsMax 2020 Chamfer Modifier
Thanks again for all these chamfer improvements, they are making a big difference. I am getting a bug in 21 where edges with 0 weight are getting chamfered when filter all edges is on. This seemed to work fine in 20. Would also like to make a case for edges being 0 weight by default (or an option to set a default creation… -
Re: SSS radius Map Vray AL surface material (maya) question
Ok, I'll try to explain better myself. When you use specular map or strength map it's easy. The value range by 0 to 1, so if you create a black and white map the white areas corresponds to 1 the black areas to 0, with all the shades in the middle. No suprise here. But when you use SSS radius the range didin't stop to 1, it… -
Re: Need help with Mask generators (surface wear)
it's curvature based so curved surfaces are going to get picked up by the mask - the tyre in particular is going to be awkward. The inconsistency suggests there's something weird about your UVs/Normals - check they're not flipped / overlapping within the 0-1 space . if they are, shift all the inverted UVs outside 0-1 and… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge August 2013 (10)
This normal map looks inverted. Try to flip green channel, change unpack min settings to -1 -1 -1 0 and compression settings to tc_normalmap. It's not necessary to add second uv channel if your mesh hasn't got overlapped uv's, you can simply tweak mesh settings to use first channel. Just change light map coordinate index… -
Re: Sketchbook: Stororokw
Did some more work on the hair shader. I cant seem to find a value for the offset h, so I am currently using a random offset, which is the cause of the noise in the specular lobes. Some gifs of the parameters: BetaM - Longitudinal roughness from 0-1 BetaN - Azimuthal roughness from 0-1 Shift: shifts R, TT ,TRT along hair… -
Re: god of war III newness
Hey, cool article! BTW I am curious, what do you guys think of this? http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/0/0/1/8/6/1/Lighting2_Final.jpg.jpg Some objects in shadows appear pitch black, but the back of the character is very bright ... The funny thing is, I think the same screenshot from the earlier demo looks… -
Re: Why you should NOT trust 3ds Max's viewport normal-map display!
As long as you offset your mirrored uvs, all is well. You see when you convert, all you're converting is the *rendered* OS map into tangent space, in the 0-1 range. So everything in the 0-1 range transfers correctly. However it would not display(as OS) correctly, it would transfer to TS just fine. Now there are ways to… -
Re: TF2 and TOON realtime viewport shader (3ds max)
Wow this is a great shader! I tried testing it with a car I modeled, but I can't seem to get the toon-y effect. If I set my rampcontrast to anything above 0, then everything just gets a lot darker. Anything from 0 to negative values, and everything gets saturated and a lot lighter. :/ Am I doing something wrong? I made… -
Re: Texture size and unwrap
Same level of distortion the smaller checkers appear to hide it a little better. But you can still some pretty bad distortion even at the higher res. You need to stick to unwrapping things inside the 0-1 space, most of the time unless you can count on the tile area outside of the 0-1 space. The only real way to deal with…
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