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Re: Nvidia Optimus and 3D MAx !! :/
Hmm.. And why are Nvidia such great drivers now???? My AMD gpus never complained... Anyhow, I saw a thread on the autodesk site from 2010. Which basically stated everything I attempted. The issue is with dx9, its not working smoothly when I rotate. It literally pops around on screen. While dx10 does rotate smoothly but is… -
Re: [Maya] Modeling Toolkit Questions
I guess you locked the temporary pivot by clicking on the small blue circle above the manipulator, which can be quite close to the manip, if you are far zoomed out. Click it again and you have default component pivot behavior. Look here under "To keep the pivot in place while working with components"… -
Re: Bake AO but not lights
You'd have to bake it like that, yeah. Then write a custom shader that takes the lightmap you've baked, multiply it over the diffuse and then add any dynamic lights you want. By default, lightmapped objects' materials won't get affected by dynamic lights because they're lightmapped and therefore don't need to - the shader… -
Re: What's a good domain name for my folio ?
i would advise something that you can verbally communicate without spelling it out to somebody. Proper names that aren't super-generic and have well known spellings might not be a great idea. my last name is Daufelt. pretty uncommon. nobody seems to know how it's spelled after I tell it to 'em. So i use Default - which is… -
Re: Milky normal maps - xnormal
Woops, I missed that link somehow. Sorry. When I opened up your model, the vertex normals were so incredibly jacked up, I don't even know. I unlocked them, which reset them back to default (all normals hardened). Softened the normals, threw it into marmoset, and everything looked fine. So yeah. I think the normals on your… -
Re: Painted metal in UE4?
If by "it still looks metal," you mean that it is still reflective and shiny, you'll want to adjust your Roughness and Specular values, not your Metalness. Try putting a constant of .75 into your Spec (the default is .5) and lower your Roughness to between .2 and .4, you'll probably get the effect you are looking for.… -
Re: What's the W coordinate for?
r_fletch_r: Most map types allow you to choose various Source coordinates - lots of parametric maps default to Object or World space, but you can still pass them the Explicit Map Channel if you want to use UVW coordinates for a 3D parametric map. In summary: Yes, the W axis of UVW co-ordinates can sometimes be useful, but… -
Re: Unity 5 Beta and PBR?
Unity 5 uses metal - the specular model is still there as an option and was really useful for getting the calibration right in the early betas but there was overwhelming demand for metal to be added, so we figured it made sense to make it the default. The spec/smooth model is pretty in-line with Marmoset's model and the… -
Re: 3point shader seam at symmetry point
Hi, hardly can see what you mean on this screenshot, but does the seam also show when using the normalmap in Max's scanline renderer (by using some default material and applying the normalmap to bump slot)? The main point of QualityNormals was to make sure Max's internal representation is consistent across realtime and… -
Re: Normal Maps for Water surfaces?
I haven't tried this myself, but theoretically you could use Realflow( I think there's a trial?) to generate a normal map. Which can be animated or not. They should tile by default. I'm not sure if you can render normal maps straight out of Realflow but you can render displacement maps without any problem. It will take a…
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