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Re: 3d models from image
I may simply be that printing a single pixel in 3D gets "overdrawn" by the fillament in that particular region ?? -
Re: Baking problem (or understanding-problem?)
I agree, the high poly probably does have sharp edges? They should be beveled so there is something a bit smoother to capture. goekbenjamin with sharp edges or ultra-tight bevels, you're basically giving the texture two extreme choices of pixels to choose from, 0 or 255, black or white, this face or that one. It's very… -
Re: Maya into GIMP/Photoshop?
I'm not sure what you mean by it wanting you to stroke the layer, as I don't use Gimp, but perhaps my method may still help. Generally what I do is I un-check the Anti-Alias box in the UV Snapshot window and set the image format to .PNG. This gives me solid, unblurred (pixellated) UVs in Photoshop; because of the… -
Re: precisely scaling uv coords
When you hold ctrl, you will constrain proportions on both axis, this is handy for the free form tool (the one that does everything depending on the handle you use in the orange box it displays around your selection). When you hold shift, it will try to stay snapped in the sense that, holding shift and dragging the scale… -
Re: Exporting vertex normals?
There are several things you'd probably want to keep in mind, -small triangles on screen bloat the number of pixel quads needed to render the mesh, so you're hurting pixel shader performance there, -a lot of triangles increases transform costs on the CPU side, eat up memory, etc. -if you use lower triangle, larger "quads"… -
Re: Using 2 Monitors of Different Resolutions?
Resolution isn't a huge deal. Pixel pitch is, though. For example my main monitor is a 27 inch 1920x1200, and my secondary is a 17 inch 1280x1024. Which is a huge difference in resolution, but the pixels are roughly the same size (84 and 96 ppi) and thus it's pretty okay. In fact I like that the secondary one is smaller,… -
Re: Practice - Shotgun - M37
Looks about right. Post the normal map. Do you see all those fine ring details in the normal map? I'm assuming no because 512x512 is not enough. Look at your normal map and look at the part where that piece maps to. It will need quite a few pixels to get that much high detail. You posted a pic that is 798 wide, that circle… -
Re: AT-ST W.I.P
It basically comes down to the actual amount of pixels that get rendered out to give the illusion of some sort of bevel or chamfer when translated into a 2d image. You probably spent a lot of time beveling edges and adding super tiny bolt details, but the reality is that in order to even remotely have enough pixel density… -
Re: Blender Mega Thread
@melviso that pixelation in the bump map comes from the low bit-depth of the generated image. Turn on Float Buffer in the settings of the image object ***. This will make the image go from 32-bits-per-pixel to 128-bits-per-pixel (or 8 bit color channels to 32 bit color channels, with each pixel having R,G,B,A channels), so… -
Re: Smooth Normal Map
No worries, it's not always easy to understand how they work. Normal maps are the angle a surface is on, so you can work out the normal using the height but the normal doesn't include the height. It's not so much the blur, it's more the gradient. Blurring makes a gradient, but any gradient will do. If you remember from…
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