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Re: Total Max Noob Questions
to display your alphas you have to do the following Step one load your diffuse I'ma assuming you have your alpha in your texture. go under bitmap in your diffuse slot, turn off alpha make a copy of this to your opacity slot, yes make sure it's a copy and not an instance. go to your opacity turn on alpha, to either… -
Re: Learning how to bake in Max
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. :) Here is the latest update for my industrial heater. I've completed the low polygon model, the high poly bake, and painted the texture. In this post, I've included (from top left to bottom right) the Diffuse Map, the Specular Color Map, the Specular Level Map, the Normal Map, the… -
Re: First Reel! Preparing for some applications & looking for feedback
By texture I mean mainly the diffuse, the texture has to be realistic (at least here, because you're aiming for realism in the model), otherwise just use a simple material, for example, I found this on a quick google search: And there are hundreds and thousands of pictures like this, but in your case, if you wanna add a… -
Re: My Retirement Home - 3d enviro WIP
normal map and spec won't save this, the diffuse will imo. there is nothing too complicated that isn't getting justice. i mean you could drop the polycount, you could drop it even more and maybe take advantage of a normal map. regardless, fixing diffuse is what is going to make or break this. if you're going to do a normal… -
Re: Guedin's sketchbook
Thanks guys ! ;) Torch : I think it's a lighting issue, I tried to put some color variation in the diffuse, but I don't want to go to crazy with that. Maybe I need to tweak more to find a good balance. You can see the current diffuse there : @Crazyfool : Thanks for the input ! You are right for the ears, I'll fix that.… -
Re: Photosourcing texturing tips.
Sure. Take this texture for instance: http://imageafter.com/image.php?image=b17poows056.jpg I don't personally think it would work for much but I really like the cracks. So I make it tieleable and then use it to add crack detail to an image that doesn't have cracks. This makes shadows on the model where there are no… -
Re: Hi-poly AO bake in Maya.
Hmm, I didn't think of that. I've only used the technique in a lowpoly workflow. In Transfer Maps you can bake the highpoly diffuse color to a lowpoly, but I'm not sure if it works with vertex color. If it doesn't then a potential workaround is that you just do a quick automatic map on the highpoly and do the whole vertex… -
Re: Combat Knife - Advice needed
I'm just using the diffuse as a basic specular at the moment, I'll do it properly when I'm happy with the diffuse. And I guess the normal map isn't really relevant here... I see where you are coming from with the shapes, the big blobby bit isn't great for example. I'm just really getting used to the technique (which is… -
Re: AK47
For a third person model there are details you could just bake right into the diffuse and normal. The fire selector switch, rear sight adjuster, and the button on the back of the dust cover can easily be handled by the normal map and would save you some triangles. Really work on the diffuse and spec too. Look at your… -
Re: Image Based Lighting
IBL in the purest sense doesn't really exist in UDK. The light environments and lightmass data are similar, but not quite the same thing. Image Based Lighting.. ya know I'll just link the seminal paper that brought this stuff to CG back in 2000 or so... Paul Debevec's research page Which was spectacular for both highly…
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