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2341. Re: Conceptart Workshop?

      

      Reply by StrangeFate · Jun 2006 · Home› General Discussion

      hmm just heard it was quite bad from the 6+ people that went there from here, some Ubi Soft guys were awesome but other than that dissapointing for professionals.

2342. Re: Anyway to smooth out a specific part of this low poly?

      

      

      Reply by gnoop · Sep 2023 · Home› Technical Talk

      I use same modelling techie as in this video https://youtu.be/3rlMzsBWtPY?t=130 But instead of shrink wrap I use "data transfer" to transfer vertex normals . It works perfectly well usually . You can do a rats nest of polygons and edges, super tiny and chaotic but once normals are transferred it's perfectly ok usually .…

2343. Re: (Noob) Shading issues in Blender (or Substance, i don't really know)

      

      Reply by Fabi_G · Oct 2023 · Home› Technical Talk

      Hi! Hard edges, soft edges? Best read up here: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts Wiki contains more info generally. Smooth shading works as well, but because of the gradients in shading the normal map has to compensate more (gradients in the normal map). If the lowpoly is smooth shaded and is…

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2344. Sketchbook: xAnnihil4ti0nx

      

      

      Topic by xAnnihil4ti0nx · Dec 2016 · Home› Digital Sketchbooks

      This is what I'm working on at the moment. C&C is much appreciated! I textured three props today for my game. A work light: A Welding torch: And a soda I also made a blisters paint texture in Substance Designer.

2345. Re: Which 3D-Software fits our needs?

      

      Reply by oglu · Sep 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

      If thats the only problem just use Blender to fix the hard/soft edeges. You dont have to switch 100% today. Switch over time.

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2346. Re: Marmoset Toolbag 3 Normal Maps Artifacts Help

      

      Reply by NURBS · Jul 2019 · Home› Marmoset

      Changing the tangent helped a little bit but the artifacts are still there. About those soft edges; which ones should be hard? Or should the entire thing be hardened?

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2347. Re: smoothing group question

      

      Reply by gsokol · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

      http://wiki.polycount.com/SmoothingGroups Specifically, look at the text on the left of the image that talks about normals. That explains what soft edges from smoothing groups does.

2348. Re: Pitfall! Blast Furnace! Job! Exclamation marks!

      

      Reply by SHEPEIRO · Aug 2012 · Home› General Discussion

      i like the art style alot vertex colour is awsome...could have done with a nice bold shadow blob instead of the soft one though

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2349. Re: 3dsmax corner pinching

      

      Reply by Mark Dygert · Aug 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

      Yep, you are modeling too low poly. You need more subdivisions over the surface if you want to have sharper details and soft curves.

2350. Re: Vertex Paint issue

      

      Reply by jordan.kocon · Jul 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

      Ace-Angel: Thanks for the response, found out the problem was how I was exporting. Wasn't working out of soft, but out of Maya the mesh worked properly.