I imagine this is seemingly simple but I suppose I really just haven't done anything besides organic stuff in a while and this has been something kinda bugging me. I just modeled out this quick helm to try and assist along here. Say this is a base helm I want to use for a high poly, but I want to maintain the hard edges of…
Hello! I have little experience in Zbrush and I've been attempting to learn about stylized sculpting for the past few days. I have found an interesting article belonging to Fanny Vergne in the Vertex book #2 related to sculpting stylized slabs of rocks. The end result of her sculpt is this: The rocky detail on these slabs…
One thing to keep in mind is exaggerating the roundness of edges in the highpoly so that detail is captured easier by the normal map, and so that edges still appear somewhat smooth at greater distances when there object is smaller on the screen. The age old example of this is here. How much you should exaggerate is pretty…
I'm baking a model @ 4096x4096 but I believe the final in-game texture size will be 2048*2048. What would be the recommended edge padding to avoid seams w/ mipmapping?
If I create a poleless sphere in max using spherify (on a subdivided cube) and then turbosmooth I get tight shading around the four quadrants that the sphere is composed of (caused by where the edge loops are closest together). Changing smoothing groups doesn't seem to prevent this. I'm basically making a bowling ball with…
@Fabi_G, looking nice! The only issue I see with this method are little polygonal diamond shapes where the metal arcs are damaged: either it's the contrasting color in vertex color, or sharp edges, or both, but they look a bit too sharp. Especially compared to the similar shapes baked into the normal map. I realize these…
ok heres some new artwork for the upcoming edge of twilight game for xbox 360 ps3 and pc. Southpeak Games is our publisher. hope you digg the artz -alti
Hi I’m having this annoying problem with polygroups and wondering if anyone can help I’m sculpting bricks on a lighthouse And I’m trying to re set up my poly groups so the side of each brick are in the same group so I can sculpt the edges and add damage I’m having a weird bug and whenever I have one particular polygroup…