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Re: Normal Map Baking Issues/ Smoothing
NP! I'm glad you find my posts useful. Another thing to consider is what you can get away with by just using the normal map to convey shapes. Those 4 circles for instance would look a lot rounder with less geometry if the lowpoly was simply flat there and the circle shapes were added with the normal map. You want to make… -
Re: Latest Work, Please Critique
That's why your character looks muddy, you don't have clean meshes for high polys to work with. You need to spend the time making clean meshes, or your sculpt, then your baked maps, and then your textures suffer. You get a cascading effect of problems if you don't have a clean high poly mesh. I would recommend going… -
Re: First time poster. Looking for feedback on first low low poly model
Not a bad start at all. If the asset is just for practice don't be afraid to use more triangles, especially to get the silhouette right (not really saying you mesh is too lowpoly or anything though). The central piece seems to have a few smoothing errors. If you haven't, I'd suggest using different smoothing groups for… -
Re: GM LSX-LS7 carburetor intake manifold
Youre not gonna bake it down right ? Milled aluminum or steel whatever it is usually has a really sharp edges depending on the surface, and all your edges look kinda game ready. Like no normals lowpoly sharp, the edges are microscopic (well theyre done in CAD apps and they dont model edges for many parts with their nurbs… -
Re: Max to Xnormal bake issue
That's because a quad mesh in Toolbag 2 is still triangulated (behind the scenes) and the way TB2 triangulates might not necessarily be the same as the way max (or xnormal if you fed it quads) triangulated. It's not just the information you're baking to the map that is important, but the information on the mesh itself… -
Re: Wall E
It only counts as spare time if you have a life! : D Model looks good, though you have kept all the details pretty small, if I were you i would bump up some of those shapes so you justify adding them in the lowpoly and getting some nice mid-detail shapes in there. Like the circle-indent-thingy on the side, make that bigger… -
Re: Soda Machine
The topology of the last one is a lot better that the first ones. It could however - still use some improvements. Edges like below (the green ones) don't add anything to the silhouette of the model, and will only generate unnecessary triangles when exported. A topology like this (http://i.imgur.com/sM88ihq.png), is cleaner… -
Re: Hey all! New to game art
Ok guys, everyone seems to be on the "just go look for tutorials" page nowadays but I have a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig question and hopefully someone can answer.. WHERE exactly should I start? with the eons of information on the internet it feels like Im stepping into New York Public Library without a clue as to what I… -
Re: Questions about Face Weighted Normals in Production
I've used in production on multiple titles. In my experience with face weighted normals the script I used to apply custom mesh normals allowed me to keep my smoothings groups. But by using face weighted normals you can also reduce the amount of smooth groups since face weighted normals reduces the amount of gradient shades… -
Re: My Game Art Portfolio
Overall, nice work! I like all the Chinese Grocery stuff, it's good consistency and a fairly original setting which is nice. The rifle and army boots/feet don't seem as good as the chinese grocery prop work, they seem a bit bulbous and blobby. I don't like the last scene much, the textures seem very noisy/contrasty, they…
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