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Re: Art book recommendations?
Wow, those books look incredible, I just watched the video on Parkablogs, dude is crazy skilled! How/where did you guys buy the books? I can't seem to figure it out... only link I found had the first book for $355, that can't be right... can it? EDIT: Nevermind, I see the email address on the review. -
Re: UDK Lightmap Resolutions
on top of what pixelmasher says about strength of lighting, it also depends if they are stretched to HDR ranges, if they are then rendered AA can be stretched further than 0-1 (0 to 255) making the lit diagonal lines jaggy when viewed from dark areas, increasing the res between these can help. alternatively use soft… -
Re: Stump
I guess he might be confused because your "art test" was a digital tutors tutorial, coppied down to the last vert by the looks of things http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=355 sorry man, but I have to call troll on this one......member of polycount for three years and doesn't know how a forum works....love it… -
Re: Knald - Master Thread
I tried importing with alpha. Without alpha. With padding, without padding, with black background, with 128/128/255 background in 8 bit and in 16 bit ...... :/ Normalmap always gets completely destroyed by the Integrator. Its just a wobbly mess. Sadly the Concavity, Convexity and Curvature (which I need to generate from… -
Re: Hand-painted Wells
MeintevdS - They are not the same cow. They are just of one mind! :D I see what you mean about the cobbestones though. I will def go back into them later - thanks for the crit! chrisavigni - Thank you lots ^_^ Here's my villa model. The whole scene here is approximately 5.5 k tris. Critique and comments welcome: Thanks!… -
Re: How to paint flow/anisotropic/comb maps in Photoshop.
You have the blue channel set to a constant value (127 or 128 ), so in the areas pointing zero red and zero green, it appears blue. The reason why is because you're dealing with a 3d vector that's flat in the depth plane, and because normals get expanded from 0..255 to -1..1. So the halfway point (127.5) is zero. -
Re: Substance Designer - Master Thread
One idea would be to colorize your cells with a gradient map (0 127 127 and 255 127 127 on respective side), create a gradient linear 2, and use your cells to drive a vector warp to offset each cell by color. It won't result in a sooth gradient over the whole cell though, like it could be highest at the middle or… -
Re: Warhammer war hammer
hey Adam in Zbrush when baking your normal if you first go to Color and change the RGB to 128/128/255 then create a new Texture the size you want it will give you that nice even Normal Blue background so you wont have that ugly white behind your texture. -
Re: Normal map from a texture
Yeah just overlay another normal map on top of another one. nDo will do it or do it by hand. Adjust the levels of the one you're laying on top to output only 1/2 of the blue channel (so instead of 0 to 255 take it down to 0 to 127/128) and set the blend mode to overlay. -
Re: Problems with NVidia Photoshop Normalmap Plugin
Pior gives help! That may help. You can't make a full normalmap just by painting a greyscale and running it through the filter. You have to change it to Overlay mode on top of your base normalmap, set the blue channel's levels to 127 instead of 255, collapse that and run the filter again set to Normalise.
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