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Re: Making foliage from an object - editing normals
You create and scatter the geometry yourself, the edit normals modifier doesn't create geometry it only adjusts the vertex normals of the selected geometry. There's lots of ways you could do it, I'm pretty sure 3DS Max has an object paint mode that lets you paint objects onto a surface. You could also use snap to surface… -
Re: Maya - supporting edges to make high poly result in nasty bakes
Ngons are fine in your high poly model as long as it visually subdivides the way you want it to. You want to avoid ngons on the model you intend to import into your game engine (the low poly). If when you smooth your mesh you have pinching on what should be a rounded surface, you just need to start with a more complex base… -
Re: [COMPLETED] SciFi Renaissance Dude and Dog
Oh man, that's fantastic @Pav3d! Thanks for going through the trouble to do the paint-overs and find some workable reference. I never considered a PVC raincoat! I'd been looking through every kind of jacket or baggy sweater I could think of so it's great to have a different perspective on things. I'll try to incorporate… -
Re: Normal bake issue
hmmm nope... I don't know why would you added those loops(ngon alert :D ) . In the first image you posted you had things kinda right... ofc you could have removed and reconnected some edges to reduce the tricount. I mean it is just a flat surface... no need for so many polys. What you need here is a combination of cage… -
Re: Anything like Modo's action centre to Element, for Max?
Hey GetDown, After messing around with Modo a little bit, then going back to Max, I started to rely more and more on the autogrid feature to somehow emulate local action centers. For instance if I need to create a rather complex 'plug' on the surface of an object, I create a plane or a cylinder on the surface, with… -
Re: [prop] power generator
Those are the stickers. :P You have and at once don't have right. Mind that diffuse actually sets colour of a surface, and the "white brush areas" here are... dust, which usually greys the surface it falls on (it is not a paint desaturation due to weathering - that doesnt happen in interiors that much). You can notice it… -
Re: Baking multiple object's AO in 3ds Max: I keep getting black BGs
U can try Skylight Lightracer with high settings, works for me in most cases otherwise i do AO in Xnormal. As for background issue well i have notice way too wierd stuff both in Normal and AO process, like pure pink color, black spots squares, jagged lines despite high AA etc on the background. The reason i found for this… -
Re: UDK drowning out normals
My guess would actually be that your lighting itself does not have enough contrast, and the amount bouncing around flattens the effect of normals because equal amounts of light hit the surfaces from most directions. You can compensate for this by increasing the Indirect Normal Influence but that would probably still leave… -
Re: How would you set up a beauty shots? (Props/ Marmoset Toolbag 2)
Find some examples of presentation that you like and deconstruct them. See if you can figure out what makes them appeal to you and then emulate that in your own work. Like Ex-Ray says, try to bring out the details in what you're presenting. For example, your microscope has a scratched metal surface, which you might want to… -
Re: Dune Buggy
Nothing wrong with beefy wide tires, but that is a very odd tread pattern. On tire treads all your V angles should point in the same direction, not alternating directions. Also, the tread isn't wrapping around the edge of the tire either, it's all on the flat surface. It should all feel like part of the same molded object…
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