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Re: Help! XNormal giving me strange tangent-space bake.
Looking further into this. Every other kind of map (vertex color, height, AO, object-space normal, etc) seems to bake fine. Derivative map follows the same strange contours as the tangent-space, but I'm given to understand those are just based on tangent-space calculations in the first place. Still, I guess it yields a… -
Re: UDK Lightmass/map seams won't quit.
UV for the plain walls. Just a plane. Most concerned with this since it's the most common element. Again, I'd (kinda rather) use BSP if I could doing anything similar to vertex painting on it. Result with lightmap res at 512. Still a seam, but much less noticeable in high contrast. Lit, however... Definite seams.… -
Re: Just a church
Have a look at Damian "teaandcigarettes" Lazarski's paper on reducing seams on environment art https://sites.google.com/site/seamlessandunique/. You could use the technique he does for his windows on your arch. And there's a bunch of other stuff in there you should try, like the vertex paint stuff. I really like it! Good… -
Re: Modular building texturing, advice needed.
Yeah, the trick is to make unique/non-tiled textures is to combine them in the material. It doesn't have to be extreme, for example a brick wall (1x1) with another grime texture masked over it (1.43x1.43) can break up the uniformity of the tiling. Other effects such as using masking to do color/brightness variations helps… -
Re: What defines the next generation?
For art production, I expect to see a lot more funky shader stuff. It will be more common to use multiple UV sets, overlayed textures, fancy shaders, vertex colors driving various effects etc. There is a fair amount of shader complexity going on in the current generation, but for the next-generation I expect artists to be… -
Re: Lowpoly projection texturing workflow with zBrush. No polypaint needed.
It may be beneficial to just learn 3DCoat, Bodypaint, or Mudbox for these kinds of things. I personally use 3DCoat as I've used bodypaint before but I'm just not a fan of the interface and it's pretty unstable for me. All of these applications allow both projection and direct paint on the model (per-pixel instead of… -
Re: [First low poly attempt] Sword !
Alright, a few things. How are you importing and exporting from UV layout and Maya? Are your UVs mirrored on your mesh overlapping or are they offset in UV space? Are you resetting your vertex normals after you mirror the object? Are you using a cage in xNormal or explicit projection? Is your image from toolbag? Have you… -
Re: Confusion over how meshes should connect
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The usual reason is the vertex portion of the shader when it comes to light and shadow; sunken but unwelded/unconnected meshes can bleed light depending on the engine. In characters it sometimes makes more sense to put it all together for the same reason or for animation reasons. It's mostly a… -
Re: A new section on Polycount?
The wiki and Vertex cover alot of bases so a full section that may end up sparsely used wouldn't be worth it really. We also have Technical chat's "how u model dem shapes" thread sticked up there offering advice on how to go about modeling, materials etc. So i think a mini forum specific workflows would be wasted space.… -
Re: [CRITIQUE] Head sculpt and retopo
One more thing I forget to mention before , it will be extremely beneficial to learn the face in planes About topology you pretty much got it right but that's not the point , you kind of putting carriage in front of the horse right now , first learn how to make a beautiful sculpts then worry about topology. You should…
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