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Re: Maya - transfer skin weights on a border from the body to attachable head
Okay, I wrote a dirty script TrasferBorderWeights which kinda works. The main idea behind it to place a body file in the root namespace and the head in another namespace then store vertex weights from the body to the weights list and then apply them to the vertices in another namespace. Everything should work if the head… -
Re: Why? - Normal issue...
These gradients are essential to compensate for the smoothing of your low poly mesh. You may be able to reduce gradation by using hard edges/smoothing groups. More here: https://polycount.com/discussion/107196/making-sense-of-hard-edges-uvs-normal-maps-and-vertex-counts/p1?new=1 If you're having issues with other… -
Re: How would you unwrap this?
I'd convert the model to quads first. That should be doable with tools like they can be found in Blender, etc. Surely won't work in one piece but you can make it work via selections of smaller chunks and working from one area to the next. Then placing seams and unwrapping will be a lot easier and from the looks of it it… -
Re: Environment/ Prop Artist looking for portfolio review
For the assembled environment, research and use some of the techniques used to hide the modular/tiling elements of the environment. Whether that's vertex blending on the ground textures, pools of dingy water, to larger scale grunge on the walls to hide the repeating brick. And as part of that, a lot environment leads are… -
Re: Struggling with Flex [3DS Max]
Thank you for your help! The video did help the main problem was that flex standard setting is to have the corners to weigh more then the middle. causing the effect to really only happen and remain at the beginning of the boats path! I had previously missed to make every vertex weigh equally and it solved the issue for me.… -
Re: 3DS Max Fbx export issues
I get that sometimes with imported meshes. It's a weird bug and it can be hard to reproduce and sometimes hard to fix. Usually if I apply edit poly or edit normals and collapse the stack it fixes it. Sometimes applying vertex color modifier will fix it too. Resetting xForm can sometimes fix it too. Or in some extreme cases… -
Re: L115A3 Texturing
Is it good to have so many UV islands? I remember reading somewhere it increases the vertex count and is not good for rendering (or something like that). Usually gun UV's are much more packed. You could also look into tiling more of your UV's. You gain better texel space. It's also important to remember in a video game,… -
Re: A solution to Normal Maps with mirrored UV's in UDK.
I'm not a graphics programmer, but my understanding is that the tangent basis is not based only on the geometry normals. It's basically deciding the "flow" of the UV space, so the per-pixel normals in the normal map can be converted into world space (or vice versa, the lighting converted into local space, depends on the… -
Re: Difference between Substance Painter's "Average Normals" baking and a traditional cage workflow?
@pior Really helpful, thanks a lot for your input. Now I need to get on and finish this piece! @Kobalt Kiwii Yes, perhaps I wasn't being clear enough with my terminology but this is essentially the method I was using. Smoothing groups rather than hard edges. I think Pior is talking about a more complex or organic mesh… -
Re: TerryMosier : Blizzard Student Art Contest
Add3r's advice sounds spot-on! On a more trivial, technical note, you can save a few polys by removing the centre vertex on all of your circular ends to one of the edges, doesn't save much, but it adds up and is just good practice :) Also, you may still be optimising, but the two edge loops running down each girder aren't…
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