Thanks for the awesome script Bartalon! everything works great. One problem though.. I can't seem to bake the color ID map from the high to low poly following the steps in your video. I'm using the Maya 2014 on OSx. below is the error message from the script editor: // Error: line 0: Failed to open output file:…
I'll check out Spotlight ASAP. This is how low I can go for the topology for now. On the body, structure of Power Girl's body (the new one) is based off of the women at 5'11", with a wider chest of the woman in the second link bellow. The ribcage and torso area is based of the picture in the third link. I made some…
This is not usually a problem, because the shader is pretty simple, and there is not a ton of geo -- so it seems to render pretty fast, BUT by default it does a "SetPass" for each plane. It does eventually become a problem for more complex scenes. Here is the solution I came up with-- Use this tool to convert the sprites…
If I may suggest you a better way to evaluate the space occupied in your drive, there is a software called TreeSizeFree, available in portable version too, that can display in a more comprehensible way what's occupying your disk space. http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ Anyway, by looking at the diagram you can…
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips about how to model a low poly fishing net on a pile as is shown on the picture below. I am only interested in the bottom part, it doesn't have to be hanged on the wall. The model can't exceed 2500 tris. I thought i could make a base round model with some darker…
I'm running Quixel Colors 1.3 Currently I'm watching the DDO Painter: Color ID Primer pt.2 and I'm trying to assign color IDs. In the tutorial he is able to select a mesh or sub object and just simply click on a color swatch to assign a color. When i click on the color swatches nothing happens. I've tried multiple meshes,…
Hey everyone, just wanted to announce that we will of course be at GDC this year. Apart from the Beer Bust we're hosting on Thursday at our booth with Sketchfab and Polycount, we'll have plenty of other sessions on that same booth and one larger sponsored session on Paragon's character pipeline with the amazing folks from…
Hello everyone, I just got 3D studio max 2014, I am brand new to it, I am coming from using Blender 3D. I was wondering if somebody could point me to some really helpful 3D studio max beginner tutorials they found helpful, does anyone know of any good Max from Blender tutorials? I saw there was max to Maya ones. I am…
Hi everyone! There's some amazing work up here, so being really inspired - I thought i'd post up some of mine. (Also - i think that the embedding is playing up - if it doesn't work i've put the links in at the bottom. If anyone knows how to fix it let me know :) ) Facial Rigging for our project "the Shadowed Crow"…
I have a problem I can't understand. When I merge my object in Maya to create one "hut" model, the look of the textures changes on some part. The become lighter and look differnt. (on the part with the alpha material - the overhang. the second pic is before the merge). Why does that happen? Is it something to do with the…