Hello, I'm trying to get a better understand on how lighting in UDK affects my meshes so I can avoid annoying little errors that take time to trouble shoot. Senario: -six 12 tri instanced meshes -1 dominant directional light -diffuse map only There's obvious seams when I build my lighting in UDK at locations #1 and less…
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I would find a real picture (not a render) of the knife you are working on, or as close to it as possible, and try to replicate it. That is the best way to start tuning materials and mesh details. You have too many factors right now working against you to get an accurate shading model. I say temporarily ditch any sort of…
Hi there. I'm using maya 2008 on XP 32bit. Whenever I create a light, the shape node doesn't show up. the light works and lights expectedly and i can move it and rotate it and everything, but i can't see the light node itself. how can i fix this problem. usually when i create a spot light, i get a little cone shape, or a…
Lit map is bake from lighting the environment with light so the have "light side that facing the light source" and the opposite "shaded side" But when I want to make Lit map for human character I don't want directional light but i want some kind of "form defining light" like this picture : It's from Hogarth. He said in one…
Hello everyone! Heres what i posted in my thread but figured i should post here as more people might check in (i really need to see how to do this so i can start texturing :( ) Ok so here is what i did, i set up the lights like in the second picture so that i could render out a light map to overlay ontop of my diffuse. The…
Hello! This is my first time actually posting to Polycount. I've been working on this library scene for a little while, and I've found lighting this to be a lot more involved than I anticipated, so I would love feedback on if I'm approaching this correctly. At first I ran into a lot of issues where small lights (even 1…
Anyone know why when I rotate my staff I end up with this weird light issue? Appears that only one side of the blade is getting proper lighting and the other side is completely black. The lighting issue went away after freezing my transforms when I initially import it, but as soon as I choose another lighting method (for…
Lighting & Special Effects Artist Threewave Software is looking for an extremely talented and proactive Lighting & Special Effects Artist to join our amazing art team. You must have at least 2 years experience in multimedia entertainment production. In this position you will be get to create lighting rigs for environments…
Lighting & Special Effects Artist Threewave Software is looking for an extremely talented and proactive Lighting & Special Effects Artist to join our amazing art team. You must have at least 2 years experience in multimedia entertainment production. In this position you will be get to create lighting rigs for environments…