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Re: 18th Century Ship
I did some tweaking and of the hull design and fixed the majority of the "blobs" I am trying to keep the polycount low on it while maintaining the form. The hull comes to roughly 1700 polygons I could probably cull some more but this is honestly my first try at low poly modelling within a polygon count quota. Still have a… -
Re: How do I know what should be normal mapped/baked in an environment?
It's easier when you think of a normal map as bump map detail. It was always intended to fake lighting detail that would otherwise require millions of polygons to do. Since games don't have the same luxury as Hollywood Movies to throw around millions of polygons in real time, normal maps are your best bet for giving your… -
I am stuck Zbrush/substance painter
Hello everyone. I will try to explain best I can. So basically I am doing 3d on my free time from about a year I am not so skilled, but also I am not a total noob. I started doing a model of a big double handed war axe I am trying to keep the polys as low as possible because I want to texture it later in substance. When I… -
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Re: How would you go about modeling this
edit: like this gif but with actual attention paid to scale etc Just start with a plane, cut the cross shape in the bevel/extrude. If the right side mesh is what you 'started' with then I guess it took too long because you were using too much geo. Actually the simplest way to do this is to start with a plane, and use the… -
Re: {Maya}normal-map and an AO-question
Whilst im not a native Maya user, this is pretty much the approach to sub-d modelling. However, I find that usually a subdivision level of 2 (2 subdivides) should be fine. There are many workflows regarding the production of normal maps however expect most high polygon models to run into the hundreds of thousands. However,… -
Re: polycount for game model advice
That depends on the use of the model in the game, and if it's either for a mobile or a PC/console game. If the ship is proportionally life-sized "environment piece" where player can walk around the ship, while it sails on the ocean or something, then 15k alone may be too low. It could be even close to 100k or more, if it… -
Re: maya - learning
Heh, yeah good call. Sorry about that. hawken, I can tell you that customizing marking menus is the key to a fast workflow in Maya. Also, what version of Maya are you using? We use 6.5 here, and for that, Combine and Separate are in Polygons and Edit Polygons menus respectively. That comes in handy a lot. Also, when you… -
Re: Turbosmooth error
The problem you got isn't that you have a large ngon, but that you have an concave ngon. Check out the picture I made below. There is three rows: Convex ngon, Concave ngon and an adjusted concave ngon. The first row got three shapes, ngons, which are convex. These are good ngons when using anything that adds more polygons… -
Re: Zbrush advanced masking
These are the first thoughts that pop into my head, in no particular order. * Sometimes getting a good mask can come down to the flow and density of the polygons in the area. It's possible a unified skin / dynamesh could help let you paint masks better in some by created a more consistent polygon density in the area you're…
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