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Re: New model topology
Take a mirror and grin as hard as you can, now looks how the loops look around the mouth, slowly relax your face and take note where the skin from the bottom of the loop ends up at. Repeat untill you figure out all the loops. Also if you make an angry face you can see most features more clearly than with relaxed face. And… -
struggling with the quad draw tool in maya, specifically when retopo-ing the face
Hi. I'm using Maya 2020 and having a few struggles with the quad draw....when i draw big polys say for the back or torso, or arms and legs i seem to be able to move the points around pretty freely to resize/reposition the quads how i want and relaxing the quads seems to work fine. But on the face, where the polygons are… -
Re: Head UV Layout
:) Weirdest polar bear I've ever seen... I've heard about that, but for some reason when I relax the face it crumples up horribly and causes heavy distortion...would using a really small value in the relax dialog fix this? Sadly, this fellow doesn't have anything in his mouth. Thanks a ton, yiannisk, I'll give that… -
Re: Why can't I select verts in Edit UVW window (3DS Max 9)?
another bug that you might bump into, is where you do a cut to a vertex, and don't hit the vertex perfectly, but miss by a tiny amount. you won't see it unless you move the vertex around, but if you try to relax the model in UVW, the relax will wringe the UVs. to counter it, collapse stack, convert to editable mesh, select… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
thanks for the reply, ok so its still a very time consuming process to straighten up all those edges. Perhaps modos basic pelt/relax tools are really good and get you close to what you want but at work I only have Cinema4D and at home I try to use 3DSmax so I have to make do with the tools available in those apps. C4Ds… -
Re: Test Assignment Anxiety
If that's what it takes to get the job done... do you really want to do that all the time? Sounds like a miserable way to work/live. But if it lands you an interview... There would be be two questions I would ask. (remember you're interviewing them also) "Is the production environment as stressful as the test or is the… -
Re: Modeling Practice Here:
It's not really that big of a deal for rigging, well in maya at least. All you have to do is draw your joint chains twice once to position it how you want and then the second time you just snap it on top of the one you just posed as you draw it so your rotations are zero'd out. Well i didnt realize that the relaxed pose… -
Re: Blend UV or what is this technique
Oh! Well when you said Ape Escape, you didnt say that you meant the second one. The first one is indeed for PSX. And PSX often makes for en excellent example because their hardware was very limited compared to moderns stuff, so they had to get creative with their approaches; and sometimes their solutions were the best and… -
Re: Uni Project - 3d Character WIP
It looks like you've got waaaay more vertical edge loops than you need. Also, your polygons are really unevenly (and seemingly arbitrarily) distributed. For instance, why does the small of the back have a TON of tris but the butt is really low poly? The edge flow could be relaxed in a lot of places, especially the lower… -
Re: Is headus uv layout worth it?
@kanga You obviously missed out on the Max>UVL>Max pipe script, mate. :) Seamless one-click solution. It makes UVL essentially a part of Max. Works perfect every time. As I mentioned above, I still do use UVL for relaxing. If ever I've changed a finished, unwrapped asset slightly while bake-testing I'll just click it into…
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