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Re: I thought I was done with you normal seams...
It is always situational. Adding bevels is sometimes the way to go if you can avoid a uv split and hard edges. Sometimes it's better to not have hard edges and no bevel. Especially for an object made of lots of tiny pieces. It's all about the vertex count and which result produces the best result for the fewest vertexes.… -
Re: Strange UV error
Thanks for your replies :) Just so you know, I am mapping the objects in my scene to an atlas with 9 different textures. Some of them needs to be mapped like a tiled texture, so if I have to use padding to compensate, it will be almost impossible to get the desired results. Is there any way to save the vertex position on… -
Re: Need help with clamshell boulders.
it doesn't really need multitexturing though,if you can use vertex alpha at all,it's already enough,you can blend them kinda like this: Floating double-strip over the blend-area would allow for tighter mesh and better control but I'm too lazy to whip up an example,I'm sure you get it anyway. I don't think max can display… -
Re: Crossbow for RTCW. Any help appreciated
I can't really remember but I think .mdc are compressed .md3 files. Md3 files should work, all the weapons in RTWC are animated with static meshes linked to "tags" so there are no vertex or skeletal animations. You can see this by looking at the hands and noticing how the fingers don't move. Just so you know tags are just… -
Re: normal map on cylinder
2d/3d discussion actually. BUT to answer your question, the 2nd appears better, but you could try xNormal to generate them. You may need to move some points around to make the normal projection work. Normals are wonky when you have vertex straight ontop of vertexes in a cylindar like you do. I'm not sure what the right… -
Re: Lightmaps: tech pros and cons
malcolm, i use them only for some demos, i know it's very memory consuming, but since you have 8 bits for lighting and 8 bit for darkening, it improves the gradient quality and it's more accurate when using linear workflow. I guess back then, lightmaps/vertex color where only used for darkening diffuse textures.… -
Re: RGB blending shader\tool?
Ah its not for a level, its for adding detail and dirt to buildings, on a seperate UV channel to the base texture. In short, there aint enough vertexes to do it well with vertexes, and the image based method allows you to use different brushes, rather than do the edges with the shader. Swings and roundabouts, but the idea… -
Re: Unearthly Challenge is creeping up, let's get inspired
Well, when you think about it, lights are vertex painters in a way, you could string a lot of low intensity lights together to get the same effect but it wouldn't be real time obviously. Another option would be to export your level as an OBJ, maybe just the terrain, and just vertex paint it in max, though you'd have a… -
Mykonos 2020
I've been lucky enough to make a trip to Mykonos last summer and it left a strong impression on me. Coincidentally, where i was staying, i saw this beautiful painting by Cerutti Felugo Bruna: So, naturally, when i got back home i wanted to recreate this piece of Mykonos. Warning! May contain heavy usage of megascans :)… -
Potentially obvious issue with object space normals.
Despite having more and more intuitive workflows every time I sit down to bake normal maps out for a project, there always seems to be that one thing that just plain doesn't work. At the moment, I'm modeling and assigning vertex normals in Modo, exporting and baking out normal maps from marginally higher poly models in…
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