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Re: How should I UV map complex object?
Usually starts with how much texel density you want on the object in contrast to the overall environment it will be. You can break this into 3 (engine, body and wheels) or do it as a whole with a 4k texture. Issues with using one texture for all elements is that some smaller parts will get very less td or pixels, that is… -
Re: Natalia's Art corner
Thanks a lot guys, appreciated! This weekend, I did a bit of research on real-time hair techniques and messed around a bit with ornatrix on 3dmax. Never tried it before so it was interesting to learn about it, especially about how it can be used for both baking realistic hair into alpha cards and placing and arranging… -
Re: Is it worth learning C4D if I already know 3ds Max
I use cinema on a daily basis but primarily for a motion graphics design heavy workflow. I for one ended up using blender for any kind of low poly/realtime work as the uv/polymodeling tools of cinema are way inferior. Another drawback might be that cinema doesn't seem to be able to bake normals from highpoly to lowpoly. I… -
Re: Hard Surface Modeling - Sculpt or don't sculpt
@perna This is all true, but these inconveniences can easily be offloaded to outsourcing or less senior staff. I think zbrush hard surface modeling will definitely upset the scene in a similar way as it did with organic modeling, but not necessarily in a good way. At some point, a job as 3D artist might be basically a… -
Re: 3D Coat's new Auto-Retopo
its not made to reduce the monkey work lowpoly artists sometimes have to do, what it does is create a quadbased evenly spread homogenous mesh. Its saves a lot of time and i have no doubt it will save even more time once its done, remember its just the first version he published of that feature - but i have doubts it will… -
Re: Renard Queenston WIP
I wouldn't say your doing it wrong. It's a step in the right direction but i would advise starting over. This should help a little i think. Anyone else feel free to crit the forms but i think there right. After you got the lowpoly block out you can easily add more detail since the poly flow is relatively good. Also, are… -
Re: Smoothing groups, Tangents and Binormals, Triangulate
- Every time you read "smoothing groups", replace it in your mind with "support for split vertex normals". Smoothing groups are not a thing in FBX and OBJ, it's just a terminology/approach to create hard edges in Max. There is probably a historical reason for that (probably related to the .3ds format structure?) but that's… -
Re: ID_Map question
Hi PlateCaptain, I think i figured out what i was doing wrong. i'm using blender to bake the colors from vertex colors to a low poly model. Main thing with this was that I was using first baking 4k maps which i resized to 2k maps. for speed purposes. and testing out. once i was satisfied what i was getting with the lowpoly… -
Re: Retopo with varying heights?
Typically, these kind of issues are not quite coming from retopology limitations or lack of features - instead, they tend to come from the assumption that one necessarily has to follow a linear process like : Polygon soup Zbrush model > Retopo > final ingame. There is a very, very small chance that the SoT artists worked… -
Re: Fixing holes on a model in ZBrush?
Quick way, Dynamesh and Zremesh, but you lose your original low poly and some sculpted detail. Slowish way, GoZ it back to Maya, delete the hand since it had some unwelded parts or strange geometry and remodel the hand, or you could try to find the weird parts n fix em in maya (delete, append poly, weld, etc). Then Goz…
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