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Re: UV skewing?
The required count depends on the size of the area you're painting on, the level of detail you're looking to get, and how efficient the vertices are distributed across the mesh. A million might not even be enough if most of those verts are in the wrong place, or the detail you require is too small. A general rule of thumb… -
Re: [MAXScript] Finding closest verts in a different mesh
No problem. Yeah, MeshProjIntersect can do that. It reports back faces hit, normals, positions and whatnot. So, for each face hit, get the verts in that face, then sort by distance. MeshProjIntersect() is a voxel method, so it's very fast when looking up positions. It can take a tiny bit of time to create the voxel grid at… -
Re: Tips on building light substances
- Try to work in greyscale the most as possible (avoid greyscale -> color and color-> grayscale - Use the standard blend mode - For alpha blending: use the opacity input of the blend node (instead of injected the alpha in the foreground) - If the UV layout is composed of multiple parts (face, eyes, whatever), generate each… -
Re: 3dsMax Normal Mapped Beveled Cyclinder Issue
You probably want about 2x px of padding for every step up from 256x, so 512s with 4px, 1024s with 8 px, 2048s with 16x. Those are minimums, too. More padding literally never hurts, there is no reason not to crank that up high. -
Re: xnormal AO renders
AO takes so much time because lots of rays ( ==billions ) need to be traced. For instance, a 2k x 2k map with 4x AA and 256 ao rays(medium quality) takes exactly 2048 x 2048 x 4 x 256 = 4,29 billion rays. The best way to accelerate that is: 1. Get a better CPU or overclock your existing one. or 2. Use the Optix/CUDA… -
Re: The Future of the Dota 2 Workshop
Oh, i can totally see it already. While i completely get why would anyone wants some clear indication that his hard work was reviewed, i don't think that's a good idea. Receiving dev comment now means a great lot for people, can you imagine what they'll get through after they get "it's okay" mark and will have to sit… -
Re: iCores
Not quite. That's true afaik for the older generations, but the current sandy-bridge line of cpus goes the other way. ie they removed hyper threading from the lower models but added more physical cores. So the i5 2500 has 4 actual cores, but no virtual ones, and i7 2600 has 4 actual cores as well as an additional 4 virtual… -
Re: e6550 cpu upgrade ideas ?!
Well here's the passmark CPU benchmark numbers: e6550 - 1454 q6600 - 2966 - $190 new on ebay, ~$75 used on ebay I5 2500/K - 6745 - $210/$220 I7 2600/K - 9095 - $300/$325 So the Q6600 would be a decent upgrade if you're short on cash, but the 2500K at ~$200 plus a $100 mobo and $50 for 8gb of ram would be a much better… -
Re: Sculpt a day!
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Re: Hand-painted volcano castle
Guess it's more of a lava gate/cave and not a castle like the thread title say. Calling this scene done for the most part. Moving on to some smaller pieces for a while. 17,839 polys total though I wasn't really focusing on polygon count for this one. Textures are all 256x256 or 256x128. wires:
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