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Re: Need advice on low poly char: Female Mechanic
Polygons mean 3 or 4 edges, you have some near the side of the leg that are 6 (A BIG no no). Back when I was first learning character modeling this is the tutorial I used: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/low_poly_character/low_poly_01.asp Its considered by many to be a very good starting point. For low poly models… -
Re: UV Mapping (Maya LT 2015)
Unwrapping UVs are problematic enough for my students that I've created two Maya UV unwrapping tutorials on the topic: a Character UV tutorial and an Environment UV tutorial. When unwrapping in maya, you don't do it all in the uv editor. It is easier to select faces in the 3d viewport, and then apply mapping either in the… -
Re: Need advice from experience devs on tessellation and the megascans library
Agree and too many tutorials are wrongfully leading artists to believe they can put zillions of nodes in SD and use tessellation all over the place without repercussion! Even with today video cards and CPU we still need to work almost like if we were 5 years behind to make sure performance will not be compromised. I don't… -
Re: [Portfolio] Zane Devon
What's up Zane, I saw you on the street the other day didn't realize it was you til we passed each other. The new site layout looks nice having the art in your face and big to start. As far as the spec maps are concerned this polycount thread helped me understand them a bit better I think. I'm sure there is someone with… -
Re: Ford Tudor 1936
Your modeling is not too bad but there are several forms that can be pushed to further bring in an appropriate amount of scale. I highly recommend you check out Xoliuls Hot Rod Tutorial http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/3ds-max-tutorial-hot-rod/ The lack of high poly normal mapping is causing your textures… -
Re: Figuring Out Dota Reborn Model Tool
Yea, I actually created a similar tutorial for the process almost a year ago (the difference was between using a material remap with the wiki tutorial, and a material group with mine; both adequate methods), when the alpha tools had been released. But it was on the /r/dota2modding subreddit, so it was kind of buried under… -
Re: Tron Inspired Environment WIP
Took a break from working on Flynn's Arcade and instead finished Flynn's Lightcycle. Texturing it took a surprisingly long time because I wasn't sure how to created the glossy shine. Most tutorials I read said to stay away from white diffuse color...which didn't work because the Lightcycle supposed to be white. I finally… -
Re: Ysalex new portfolio construction thread
I updated it again, this time I tried to simplify again. The structure this time is that there is a handful of projects up front, and then thumbnails for other images at the bottom. So my questions are, does this make more sense?, and, are those the right pieces to put full size up front, or should I go with something… -
Re: Lighting issues please help!
Your lighting looks that way because everything is being vertex lit once it's baked. Like previously mentioned, each mesh needs a second set of UV's for lightmap data. In Maya you can create a 2nd UV set in the UV Editor, and in Softimage you can add a new texture projection through the Property menu. The generate unique… -
Re: 3ds Max vs Maya
I have learnt Blender I regret it because in my opinion I like the UI and now that I am used to it I am trying to learn max and finding it very hard because I can just cheap back to Blender to model stuff and will just get frustrated with Max at many points. I have what I consider to be a good CPU however max takes 30 sec…
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