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Re: Substance Painter- Normal Map baking Problem
That's basically fine. You could probably refine this to look better but it will never be perfect due to limitations in the way normal mapping works. As long as you have padding turned on and you have made an effort to ensure that UV seams are horizontal/vertical wherever practical there's not a lot more you can do.… -
Re: how to model this
@kanga you are right, the booleans as i know only connect 4 vertices . These are the steps i followed: 1. booleans 2. triangulate and then a quadrangulate to get better subdivisions in zbrush (with the creased edges it only affects the parts i want smooth) 3. i use the techniques of dynamesh and polish in the thread you… -
Re: Normal Map baking issue (compared to Substance Painter)
thank you a lot for the explanations! very useful! I've got one more question: I work in maya. before exporting the mesh to marmo I averaged the vertices, triangulated. but baking the normal map gave me the following artifacts. when I separate the collar from the coat that part is baked ok when I took a look at the mesh in… -
Re: Did I UV this properly?
I've seen much, much worse But. The basic steps to make the layout better are to straighten the angled shells so they run either horizontally or vertically and overlap any shells that don't need unique information It's possible that texel density is a little uneven - can't really tell on my phone. Also, it looks like you… -
Re: Imp Warrior (WIP Thread)
looking at it more - because i enjoy looking at this concept - i would suggest not making the wrinkle on the side of the head so harsh, it looks like its getting there in the front view, but profile its too thin, also have it travel further up the head and fade out in width, i know its still extremely early in modeling… -
Re: Halo:Reach Weapons
Looking really nice man :) Be careful, some of the edges on your high poly models may be a little TOO sharp. In terms of presentation, the renders and angles are nice, but I would lose the blue background, or at least the vertical lines, as its a little distracting. When you're showing off your work, you don't want any… -
Re: My first ever Demo Reel
Some cool stuff in here for sure. Just a few things to look at: The neck snap in your takedown scene is a tad too slow and floaty. I also found that some of the vertical translation on the skate boarder to feel a tad uneven. For instance, when she begins to change poses after she grabs the half pipe, I don't feel the… -
Re: First go at a complete character!
If you want to do it proper, yes. Because pulling around vertices on the lowpoly will make it so the normal map doesn't have the right angles anymore (and of course you'll stretch the UV/texture a bit) so the normal map will technically be incorrect. But considering this is a organic shape, you can fudge things a bit, IMO.… -
Re: How Expensive is Parallax Mapping?
I'd have to argue that the extra increase in polies would be easier on the system than parallax mapping is. It takes less time and memory to pass vertices to the GPU than it does to create the effect. Am I saying don't use it? No, obviously it would be more efficient to parallax map those stones in the Oblivion picture in… -
Re: Capping a circle
The 2nd method there is probably better since it's more regular. However the way I do it is to actually have a vertex in the middle of the circle and just connect up all the circle vertices to that center vertex (like a pizza in slices). It's only one triangle more than your 2nd solution, and it smooths much more…
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