Roc's Thread

[rocneasta]

tried avoiding TS so i rounded edges via shader, but can't get the smoothing right, and i'm receiving some strange effects; so i'm of to use TS after i get some support edges in the mix... Can't have it all i guess...

[rocneasta]

with TS...

[JoeLaFrite007]

Try a smooth modifier on your lowpoly model : it will assign intelligently smoothing groups to your polys.

You'll probably have to correct manually some assignement but the result should be nice

[rocneasta]

Originally Posted by JoeLaFrite007

Try a smooth modifier on your lowpoly model : it will assign intelligently smoothing groups to your polys.

You'll probably have to correct manually some assignement but the result should be nice

i tried combining smoothing groups via edit poly with smooth modifier but the results were not good. TS worked like a charm - but one tire is at 3 iterations around 456k poly's

[needse]

if your poly count is real high maybe whack a ts on it then add a multi rez or optimize to see if you can keep the shape but lose some polys then make then make the other wheels proxys
also sometimes i whack a ts on then convert to poly and manually remove the edges that are not needed (but long winded way really)
my 2 cents

[rocneasta]

will try it. tnx for the input

[rocneasta]

doing a project for the museum - deadline is near, so I can't focus on lego atm.

One thing i have to say "Turboosmooth > Separate by Smoothing Groups" is a Godsend!!!

[Perversonality]

Originally Posted by rocneasta

One thing i have to say "Turboosmooth > Separate by Smoothing Groups" is a Godsend!!!

Yeah, that's one of Max's best little features. I explained how it worked to a load of Lightwave users and they were amazed

[rocneasta]

what i've been up to from monday in free time from work. Unfortunately having trouble with roof tiles even when using mr Proxy - laptop is just not doing well

[rocneasta]

funny thing is - mr Proxy works like a charm within the renderer, but the sheer amount of objects is not something my laptop can handle...

Not looking too bad, need to add more details if i can manage to find time.

[astroAJ]

why don't u keep the tiles low poly and then let the renderer take care of the smoothing for u?

[rocneasta]

the tiles were mr proxy, so the file is saved on the HDD and used when rendering - i think the laptop was acting poorly cause of the number of mr proxy objects, nothing more.

[needse]

hi roc i just stumbled across this lol maybe of interest to u

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhuO6mgtF6s

also you could use a normal map for the tiles maybe ?

[rocneasta]

Originally Posted by needse

hi roc i just stumbled across this lol maybe of interest to u

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhuO6mgtF6s

also you could use a normal map for the tiles maybe ?

If i expand to a project where i should do more of these houses in an old part of a town, then i would bake and use displace/normal maps or just displace. But It will still be consisted of actually making of the geometry and then baking a map, replacing the previously made map - each roof will be different, positioning of chimneys etc.

lol cool roof designer

[rocneasta]

gonna dust of the dirt and revive some of the wips posted here, including few more fresh ideas

starting with newest smc entry