Posts by paranoidMonkey

Quote from FrieChamp

Hi. 3D modelling n00b here. I've been toying around with Maya lately, slowly getting the hang of the basic toolset. I see that all your faces have 3 sides. I see many places where you use 2 3-sided faces where I probably would have used one 4-sided face. Is this best-practice for objects in game engines or is this model simply not optimized yet or...?

What e-freak said is true. Game engines always triangulate.

But it is better if you do it yourself before baking the normal maps, because normally every game engine or 3d app have it's own way of triangulate the mesh.

And you don't want your normals to look different when you import a model to the game engine.

Of course you can keep a clean version of the model, for further iterations.

Don't know if you guys watched this one.

Just a model I'm working on, it's not for an FPS so it may have too much detail, but.. we'll see.

Made in zb, now let's retopo this little fcker.

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Did you solved it already? If not I'm open to bake it and try to see what's wrong.

marnamai: meh..

Well another thing I noticed is that you're not using edge padding. Try baking it with at least 6 or 8 pixels.

Did you tried that with the different smoothing groups bake?

Well I'm not a max user, I'm not able to answer software related questions, sorry.

But I think the 3ds max render uses +X -Y +Z so you have to invert the normal map's green channel in photoshop or bake it that way in xnormal and that should work.

Otherwise, try Marmoset Toolbag, it's a pretty cool tool for game model preview and render.

Everywhere there is a seam should be a "hard edge/split edge" or smoothing group. Try using a different smoothing group for each UV island and bake it.

You can use cages in the 3d view of xnormal. At the top would be a box with "View cage" and when you click on it should appear another "Edit cage" and a slider so you can extrude/scale the cage.

The cage should encompass the entire Highpoly model. Then save cages and bake.

Another thing, not related to your baking problems, you should optimize the uv space a little more imho.

EDIT: Don't forget to use the option "include smoothing groups" while exporting you models.

Are your seams "hard edges" (on a different smoothing group)? They must be.

For the other artifacts try using cages while baking with xnormal.

Well this looks amazing!

But why would they remake the first level of HL2? and keep the original image of Wallace Breen?

Would love this to be true.. but I'm betting on a April fools joke.

True detective was a blast, great series overall. I cannot recommend this enough.

Watched Stalingrad (2013) yesterday, despite not being a great movie, it looks gorgeous and its quite fun to watch.

It's something like 300, but in Stalingrad during the ww2.

ahah you are too busy making money so you can buy some free time?

Filled. Looking forward for new mini challenges and stuff. Bring it on!

I Verified cache integrity on the SDK only and solved the problem for me.

Awesome stuff! Can't wait for the articles.

I like it!

PogoP said everything.

Bake it!

Workshop

EDIT: Changed the presentation a bit.

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oh that's a good one! thanks

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wich version should I use? K33P or 1337?

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Is this better? i tryed to add more contrast.

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Yeah the shape is a lot more readable at distance.

About the contrast, something more like this would look better imho.