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Using just the normal map and Hi-Lo Filter in DDO
Hi I'm currently trying to make a tyre in DDO. Firstly I can't seem to find a way to generate an edges mask just from the normal map. I assume that it is all wrapped up in the curvature but I think it would be nice to have an item in the list for just normal edges. The curvature map adds too much other stuff into it for my… -
Re: Toolbag 3 vs 4
@EarthQuake Hey Joe, yes I do have the denoiser active. Turns out I have no screenrecorder installed at the moment to do a video but with Denoise set to GPU I get a really unstable image in motion that looks like one of these painterly-filtered flickering early 2000's music videos. Also can't seem to set Denoise to quality… -
Re: [3ds Max] How The F*#% Do I Make This Faster?
The best example I can think of is this: Question: How can I quickly add loops? Right now I am clicking Cut and than add the edges click for click. Answer A: Oh that is really time consuming, clicking that button, you can just use alt+c for the Cut-Tool. Answer B: Wow that is crazy, you can just select a edge in a ring use… -
Re: Obelisk
sculpt is nice, but The texturing is noisy and very generic all over, as if you just threw masks/color on to everything to act the same. I would make the edges lighter then the planar faces. Add a small gradient from bottom to top and also make sure that the faces that are faced more toward the sun, is more bleached. So… -
Re: Legend of Fae's Claudia: character & small environment
This is really cool. It seems a little impractical to paint something so uniquely with real-time limitations, but hats off to you for trying something different! Here's another trick for adding edge padding I used to use before Xnormal: 1) cut out your textures into islands, if they aren't already, making sure the edges… -
Re: Is this bad topology? Gustavo_Elliott
VincentHalman Thank you for your response, I appreciate it! I think what my problem stems from is the use of the subdivision workflow, which can be useful to go about complex weird shapes, but puts alot of extra geometry between the different parts of the cylinders depending on where the details are, like the support edges… -
Re: Low Poly crate
Agree with Marshkin. I don't know where the design for this came from, if it was your idea or one that you found/were provided with...but It doesn't look like a crate...it just looks like a fancy buildup of sci fi details. It does look like its just the lid. Overall though, its looking pretty nice. I'd say you could have… -
Re: Normal Map Distortion: Zbrush Generating bad normal map
The faceting is fine, that's not what bothers me. I can fix the faceting quiet easily, right now i'm mostly trouble by these weird edge distortions that are being generated. I want the normal map geometry to look exactly like the higher res model, with the facets. I do not want these random harsh lines that are being… -
Re: Normal Mapping - Surface vs Geometry Normals
You'll still have the same issue, as softening the normals on your mesh is the exact same thing its doing when you use geometry normals(just only on the "bake" mesh). The difference between surface and geometry normals is this: Surface normals takes the normals of your lowpoly mesh into consideration when baking. So for… -
Re: prolow tools thread
Run through the existing algorithm, then get the winding order of the border vertices and choose a likely starting point (orthogonally aligned, symmetry or closest radius or edge, or pre-calc and measure least distortion somehow). Then iterate in winding order, and rotate each vertex about the centre so the angle with the…
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