So, I'm constructing a sci-fi gun for my space marine. I just finished baking the high polygon mesh and added a basic color. Just wanted to get some feedback before I start on the diffuse map. This first image in gray is the high polygon mesh. The second is the low polygon with the normal and an AO map. Thanks! :)
If I recall correctly, ZBrush started out as purely 2.5D with the whole "pixols" tech which was basically color plus some height data. They added 3d meshes that you could stamp down into pixols on the canvas. But it was still an orthographic view mode. Then people were manipulating 3d models more, and not stamping them…
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Hi Eric, thanks so much for the kind words and for taking the time to look at this! First, I want to thank you for creating those sample assets - they were invaluable as benchmarks for testing the importer throughout development. It's been great having high-quality reference models to validate against! You're absolutely…
It depends. It always depends. http://www.rsart.co.uk/2006/11/20/how-many-polygons-in-a-piece-of-string/ http://www.rsart.co.uk/2007/08/27/yes-but-how-many-polygons/ http://wiki.polycount.com/PolygonCount?action=show&redirect=Polygon+Count#Typical_Triangle_Counts
Mesh works with triangles. A triangle is a 3 sided polygon. Poly works with polygons, with any number of sides. Internally, each polygon is still made from triangles, but the trianglesness is hidden from the user. Instead of seeng a square as 2 triangles, they see it as a square.
Each toe has as much, if not even more, polygons than the rest of the foot. I'd guess that this is too dense. As far as I'm aware of it you want to get an even polygon distribution over your whole mesh. Meaning that smaller details have less polygons and vice versa.
Zbrush and Maya simply display polygons differently. You have two identical decimated models. If you want it to look better, then, you'll have to up the number of polygons... For an object like that I wouldn't be too shy with polygons, Maya can handle a lot :)
Ok. I remembered that once time I fixed this problem with splitting all of my polygons of this mesh. This time ... it didn't work. I kinda get crazy. They are not connected polygons and they still look like everywhere are softedges. But if I move one polygon from mesh, it looks like this: It is ridicoulus ...
You can select polygons by vertex count. On the right, go to Lists > Statistics > Polygons > By Vertex > hit the little + beside 2, to select all 2-point polygons (or enter the command "select.polygon set vertex psubdiv 2"). Then you can just delete them.