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Re: Sketchbook: Oskar Reftel
Thanks, Callesw! I've actually thought about turning my huntsman into a fully fledged 3D character and your comment has convinced me that it must be done! uneditablepoly, thanks to Maya's incremental save feature, I was able to take a few screenshots of how I modeled the head of my hacker character. I hope these gif's will… -
Re: Road to somewhere: Learning thread for me!
I think i'll look into handplane. just read up on it since you suggested it, seems neat. I have been uving where the difference in smoothed edges are, but I'm using maya. maya does not have smoothing groups per say, only smoothed/hardened normals. I'm also baking through maya, which works fine for the most part, but I've… -
Re: Halo BR55 Battle Rifle
wow......i actually inspired someone to work on something? :O that's a first, im honored lol Edit: Computron do you know exactly where on halo.xbox.com you can get your h3 screenshots now? it's not updated on b.net anymore Part of me doesnt want to show this because I feel like i dont really know what im doing and some… -
Re: Editing Vertex Normals in the Industry?
It's definitely not a game changer, just an alternative. Either extra geometry, UV splits & hard edges or modifying vertex normals, one way or the other you'll have to make use of either the three to improve smoothing as you can't have the whole mesh one smoothing group most of the time. I use plenty of hard edges over my… -
Re: Halo 4 Battle Rifle (WIP)
I noticed that they bashed the pieces together a lot in the actual in game model. It occurs a lot in places where it looks like a naturall UV or smoothing split, which I read from the wavy normals thread is where you would want these kind of things. A lot of 90 degree angles too, wouldn't that be difficult to show in the… -
Re: NormalMap baking issue
You will still have the same problem without a cage. A cage does absolutely nothing different as far as ray direction than using offset unless you A. Totally fuck up your cage and have it impolding onto itself or B. Manually adjust your cage to account for errors. If his mesh was 2 quads with a hard edge inbetween, doing… -
Re: Alpha to coverage
my hacky artist understanding of this: (feel free to correct) 'coverage' refers to a concept linked to anti-aliasing - when you smooth(blur) the boundary where two objects overlap you get pixels that are not 100% foreground and not 100% background but a range in between. 'Coverage' is a visualization of that anti-aliased… -
2 Random Max problems.
I am having 2 strange issues in max that just started occurring a few days ago and I cannot remember if this followed a crash or what, but here's what's happening... Issue #1: Whenever I import an fbx (I havent changed my fbx settings) the mesh appears fine, but as soon as I do something to it (mirror it, break off a… -
What is the thing with triangulation?
Hey there I am sorry if this post is not really necessary, but I have a question concerning meshes that really confuses me. I have been modeling for some years now and there were some chances in the modeling workflow during this time due to better hardware and higher polycounts. At the beginning I used to work with… -
Another Normal Mapping Question
Hey guys. I know theres so many normal mapping threads floating around here and there, Ive looked at so many articles on the technical stuff...Im just now starting to do alot of personal work for porfolio and Im trying to better understand how to get good bakes based on specific pieces of geometry. I have an object where…
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