I've used Blender since about version 2.48. I decided to give Maya a try, since people around here seem to have good things to say about it. But then I tried to pan the viewport and the cylinder I put down started moving around, and then I tried to place the 3D cursor and I got a weird box that always selects vertices on…
@lotet Thanks a lot, lotet! @Dethling @kohg lol at the boner! Thanks for your comments, and im glad you ask! The bottom part of some of these assets were extended and blended into the terrain using vertex colors. The terrain's diffuse, normal and spec would then be projected on to this geometry depending on the value of R,…
Day 5's work. felt i should wait until daytime to post my work instead of exactly when I stopped. didn't get a whole lot done yesterday. spent most of the day experimenting with vertex deforms. I also decided to try and make a robot heart for her based on a dream I had. Perhaps I can hollow out the chesk cavity behind the…
Beginning Marvelous Designer tailoring. I used the pattern drafting method Andrei Cristea outlined in Vertex 3 to derive the pattern from a blockin sculpt I extracted from the body sculpt. Tonight I'm going to pull a Pinterest board of fold and seam reference of denim shorts so I can start authoring the fabric's landmarks.…
In addition to what the others have said, you can also select the history node tab from the Attribute Editor, click Select at the bottom of that same panel, and press Delete on your keyboard. Much faster than opening up the Hypershade if you just need to get rid of one or two history nodes. If you delete history nodes out…
That covers UV splits but not hard edge splits like eltarbos mentions. It's been a long day and I'm having trouble thinking this one through fully. Also, what maya version? Looks like polyEvaluate got buffed in 2018. -uvEdgePairs(uep) would be handy here at least. (how do i escape this textual hell?) I think a script for…
I was more-so just worried about the draw calls doing that and found it hard to get a lower saturated color due to the atlas being so widely used. Now I am not sure about having as many nodes as I do in my material being a major drawback or not as I have 3 parameters for each base-color texture…
What the heck is wrong with 2016! FFS, they just about broke everything which worked really well ! Extrude they broke, ok I can live with. What happened to the ability to tweak verts etc without having to select every single one of them? Like in this gif I found to illustrate the issue.? They also broke target weld, when…
vertex painting, decals, mesh objects scattered around to break up the tiling, even lighting can play a part in breaking up tiling textures if you have interesting shadows casting on it and also using colored lights creating different hues and contrast across a surface. Scale of the texture can also play a part in noticing…
I don't believe car's normally use a baked normal map, atleast not in the traditional flavor, they are applied more like decals and the overall shape is defined using only polygons and controlling vertex normals. That will save a ton of memory and allow higher quality textures at the same time. So you don't need a…