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Re: Greevar's WIPs
I'd get rid of the metal band geometry. Looking at the original high-poly, those metal bands don't add much to the silhouette, so you could just bake those metal bands onto the low-poly. Looking at your normal maps and this, I'm guessing it could be a smoothing issue. You seem to have smoothing enabled for the metal bands… -
Re: Sketchbook: Tudor Morris
Taking a scanned 3D model of #skeleton and warping it to wraith design concept. Gives a good base to sculpt on top of, and will enable me to do some nice lighting effects (inner glow) in post production - now we move onto the muscular anatomy! Original model (and credit to him, as this is a fantastic work of art) from… -
Re: MAYA: multiple meshes in one UV map. How?
If you REALLY don't want to merge them together, you could do the following: 1. Export a UV snapshot of one of your meshes (inside UV Editor->Polygons->UV Snapshot) 2. Create a material on your 2nd object which uses the UV snapshot image file as a color texture. 3. Open up editor an enable "Display Image". Voil -
Re: TextTools Issues
maybe what you mean is that by default "select elements" is enabled with TexTools- which means that if you click any shell, polygon etc. in the viewport it will select associated element polygons with it in 1 click. It can be changed in the right stack of the UnwrapUVW settings. If its not what I just described maybe post… -
Re: Substance Designer Height map details missing in Material view
Right click your "Height" output node and click "View in 3d" and then select the "height" channel. I believe by default its not enabled so even with a value plugged into the node you wont see anything until you do that. Also make sure you go to "Materials" and then "Edit" on the top toolbar and set your "Scale" to 0.5 to… -
Re: Edges on Geometry - DDO Curvature Map Creation Bug & Best Practice
If you input both tangent normals and curvature map, ddo will only use the curvature map to generate its curvature mask. you can see for yourself by scrolling down the photoshop window when dynamask is open. Look for curvature folder and check the sharp layer. To be able to isolate and view, you first need to enable the… -
Re: How do you define medium poly versus low poly and how does your technique change?
When using the blender sculpting tools with dynatopo enabled, I found that the meshes got very messy and difficult to unwrap. That's when I reached out for advice and started learned zbrush from my friend. Would it be better to turn off dynatopo, and then use a little bit of subdivision smoothing in order to get a more… -
Re: Ruined Train station- udk Lighting question
Enable Environment Color in world properties, and set it to a blueish/blueish purple color. Turn on Cascaded Shadow Maps on dom dir light. Desaturate 10% or so in post process. Overlay a bit of a color with LUT/highlights. Do all your meshes have proper lightmap setups and such? Some of it is very blurry or looks almost… -
Re: Floaters or Modeling better?
In xnormal there is an option to disable backfaces when rendering ao, this fixes the "shadow around the floater" problem by about 95%, you'll still have to manually do a few tweaks, but in generally it saves a LOT of time. I think you can do similar things in max by disabling shadow casting and enabling backface culling on… -
Re: displacement maps
Some rendering solutions use grey as a midpoint, some use black as a midpoint. What are you rendering in? Depending on what it is, you might be able to use a math function or output modification to change it. For example, if your renderer does it in, say, 3DS max, then in the materials editor go to the Output rollout fo…
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