Posts by marnamai

Thanks, the cage fixed the artifacts, but damn... xnormal is one cluncky piece of software ...

The seams are still there.

I added an extra edit poly modifier above my unwrap modifier in the stack and I assigned each island a different smoothing group, so no groups touch eachother with the same smoothing group (body = 1, legs = 2 should each island be unique as, in each leg their own unique group instead of all legs in smoothing group 2?), exported it to .obj. and rebaked it, but the issue still exists.

Isn't there an easy way to select the uv islands via the uvw modifier and assign smoothing groups there?

the entire mesh is on a single smoothing group

How do I use a cage in xnormal?

I have a problem with a rather ugly seam on my normal map, I am using 3ds max, mudbox and xnormal.

workflow

1 ) made the low poly in 3ds max (editable poly)

2 ) unwrapped it

3 ) exported as .obj from 3ds max

4 ) imported lowpoly .obj into mudbox

5 ) sculpted highpoly based on low poly

6 ) exported highpoly as .obj from mudbox

7 ) baked the normal in xnormal using the low and highpoly .obj's (has some artifacts, no idea how to fix it)

8 ) applied normal map in material in 3ds max

normal map seam (all channels normal)

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normal map red and green flipped

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wire on normal map

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checkers

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Quote from Pampers

Cute what was your approach on painting the fur?

First I painted a basic color layer, then used a brush with the stripes stamp (default mudbox stamp), modified the stamp a little to randomize the lenght,scale and width per stroke (not rotation). Then I painted the fur from dark to light (2-3 shades of brown) first very rought with a larger brush and then narrowed it down for the finer hairs. I looked a lot a reference pictures to somewhat follow the natural flow of the hairgrowth direction.

I also used some extra layers with multiply to make some parts darker (eyes and ears)

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not enough potato

Make it a func_brush and disable collision.

I have no idea why that's happening, it doesn't happen in 3ds max when I apply a turbosmooth ...

edit: I think it's due to some of the vertices from the mane planes being too close to eachother?

almost done

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Quote from FMPONE

I think Mr. Horsies' legs might be a bit on the short side, he looks sort of zebra-ish right now

it's just the species, a brabanter => reference http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Belgians.jpg

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On the first screenshot there is going to be a gunshipbattle. In HL2 those battles pretty much allways end up with the player camping next to a rocket ammo crate.

I 'm going to use the gunships ground attack to destroy those ammo crates. Hopefully resulting in a more dynamic battle, forcing the player to move to gather more ammo.

The particle will be used for the rocket crate explosion, hopefully some he 'll make some nice waterfall particle effects for the caves too.

heh, guess I am lucky then, just found an awesome guy willing to do it for free

As the title says, I am looking for an experienced particle artist to help me out with my Half-life 2: episode 2 modification named DownFall.

You 'll need to be able to show off previous work, either through links to credited mods or youtube vids.

Add me if you're interested. http://steamcommunity.com/id/marnamai

http://www.moddb.com/mods/downfall1

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Wouldn't the triangles (clusterfuck) cause trouble later on when adding extra edgeloops for the turbosmooth?

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wip ump45, learning hard surface modelling

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I 'll need some help/hints on how to do the holes in the casing

I tried with a proboolean and cleaned it up, but it looks awefull.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16324432/ump1_wire.jpg

I humbly present you my latest work in progress, de_airport

Quote from e-freak

nice any link to all the final submissions?

Here you go, http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewto ... 32#p451732