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Re: Froya's art looking for harsh critique
For your sword, I would ask if you want the blade not fully curved? Maybe tweak the blade vertices to make a smoother sharper curve. Looking at the texture, I would analyse the importance of each part more before uv mapping, so the areas that are small and less important have less space on the texture map than other parts.… -
Re: Answered: 3DS Max modeling issue of random polygons and black spots
I found out it was an issue with Sketchup producing "bad geometry" because it doesn't work the same way as other modeling software's for games like 3ds Max. The solution is to clean up the models vertices because it creates a big mess of hidden edges. I had a large building to try with the same process but ended up running… -
Re: Tutorial: Zbush Tiling Textures_Overlap Sculpt Workflow
The overlap workflow is just like blend shapes for characters. The overlap.obj and the pattern.obj are the same mesh/point order, but the vertices have different positions. In zbrush when I drop to subd 4 and import the pattern zbrush knows its the same mesh and loads in the new vertex positions. That's why it retains all… -
Re: Warrior Mouse
Looking good! It looks a bit like a painted toy, and honestly I think that's great. Love the mix of material definitions. You could stand to ground the character with a subtle vertical gradient, though! Right now the feet area is drawing more attention than it perhaps should be. Did a REALLY quick example. The… -
Re: Maya Interactive Boolean Tool - Exposing Maya's Procedural Booleans
Looks like an awesome tool. Does this only work for latest Maya? I'm getting an error when I use it maya 2014 on Mac. The UI window builds correctly but I can't do any boolean operations. I've tried both the vertical and horizontal window versions. // Error: line 83: Cannot find procedure "polyCBoolOp". *EDIT: I changed… -
Re: Slaughter House Environment
Yea, I recognize the unreal wall and light prop. Use any reference for your crates and barrels or just wing it? They don't seem to be based on anything based on the shapes. The wood crate in particular has those horizontal slats on the vertical trims. Also, it's noticeable that the Sammy's Meat logo is just tossed on, but… -
Re: Blue seams dissapearing from Unwrap UVW in 3Ds Max
Huh? 11 days? Time to re-examine your process I'd say. Many artists I know take 1 to 3 days, tops. Also, no need to save a .UVW file if that's what you're doing. Everytime you collapse the stack, Max just bakes the UVs right into the vertices, they're never removed. Besides, a UVW file is vertex-order dependant, so if you… -
Re: UV mapping gizmo warping
A bit of misinformation there. The problem is not rotating out of sub-object mode, but doing non-uniform scale out of sub-object mode, then rotating. Never do non-u scale unless you're doing it to selected vertices/edges/faces/elements. Or, do it, but immediately reset the transform. There are two basic ways to reset the… -
Re: Futuristic Chinatown
Really nice start dude. I can't wait til i get around to tackling my first futuristic environment! Remember to keep vertical detail in mind. All the best futuristic Chinatown's (Blade Runner, Metropolis, A.I etc...) all seem to have just as much going on overhead as there is at street level. Fly-over's, signage, traffic… -
Re: Soviet KV-1 Heavy Tank WIP
The latest bake looks great. There are a few edges showing up as a little too hard, the vertical ones along the side of the turret and the lid of the storage box-thing on the side, for example. But they're hardly a big issue. Looking forward to seeing this textured, I've been playing World of Tanks recently with all the…
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