[Viewport lighting position in 4.5]

It may or may not be helpful but this shader seems to provide very even illumination, better than the default

[Splitting a previously retopo'd object and repainting]

Hi guys,

 

I have a scene of approx 30 objects, retopo'd, baked and painted. I need to go back in and split what was a single sculpted and retopo'd object into two, and then retopo each individually and rebake. Thing is I don't want to lose all my previous paint information for the other objects, is there a way of doing this? 

 

A workaround is to just separate this object and bake the new objects to a separate UV map, but this won't be as efficient in ye'ole game engine.

 

Thoughts/ knowledge appreciated,

T

[New Autodesk game engine]

Anyone seen this? http://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview

 

The tight integration with Maya & 3DS max will be a big plus, and the render quality looks very nice

[Retopology for newbies]

I'm having trouble finding info on how to make uvs from the auto mesh.

 

What sort of UVs are you wanting? You can automap the auto retopologised mesh which will create UV seams & unwrap the mesh. This may be suitable depending on what you need to use the model for. 

[A lattice 'modifier']

Cool! I didn't find this option til you suggested

 

 

Thanks,

T

[A lattice 'modifier']

I'm enjoying using the primitives, especially tools like the free form blob whereby you can deform using a lattice. Once you apply your primitive however, the lattice is lost. I was wondering if there was a way to edit the shape of an object using a lattice after the event of applying as a primitive? 

 

It would be great to go back and make large changes to an objects general layout using the ease of a lattice.

 

Thanks in advance

[Split tool boundaries]

Bug fixed in 4.5.05

[Split tool boundaries]

That's just the workaround I was needing, thanks AbdnR, will give it a whirl

[Split tool boundaries]

Filed a Mantis report here, including about your mention of presence of split border option in Surface mode

[Split tool boundaries]

Although it doesn't seem to work well at the moment. At 0 it will split exactly, however setting even the small border width possible gives the same issue

 

[Split tool boundaries]

Nice thank you, I was looking under the 'E' set of tools. Obvious once you see it.

[Split tool boundaries]

The split tool is giving me odd results all of a sudden, - there is too much & irregular overlap. I've tried changing the border width in the tool options but it has no benefit. How can I make it so that the split occurs exactly where I draw, or leaves a very small overlap?

 

Gif below

[V4.5 BETA (experimental)]

I'm getting some seriously decent autopo results, not changing any settings, nor placing guides.. Great work 3DC!

[.3b file associations problem]

Same issue for me, I always have to open from within 3DC, I'm hoping in Win10 will be sorted so not too worried

[Generate screw threads]

The Blender bolt addon worked great, thanks

[Generate screw threads]

Cheers guys. Ben I will probably end up doing this, - I was wondering whether I could keep my entire workflow in 3DC, I'm feeling very rusty in Blender!

[Pose tool odd behaviour or lack of understanding]

Fortunately as it's only a distorted cube this is not a problem, cheers!

[Generate screw threads]

I'm trying my hand at some hard surface modelling and was wondering whether there's a technique to generate screw threads. I can see theres a pre-existing model but is there a way to create your own whereby you can change the thread offset, profile and distance between threads etc?

 

[Pose tool odd behaviour or lack of understanding]

Thanks both, I did this and it increased the length of the object along the Y-axis and the resolution of it to 18million triangles. Something else I should do first?

 

[Pose tool odd behaviour or lack of understanding]

Hi guys,

 

I'm trying to use the Pose tool to select a uniform area of mesh, but for some reason the selection is skewed compared to the underlying object. I'm not hugely experience with it but it does feel 'wrong' compared to what I'm used to with it.

 

I have done a lot of manipulating of the underlying object with the Transform tool prior to trying to pose it. Do I need to be applying it's local position or something? Gif attached

 

 

 

[Substances - any thoughts on integrating them?]

+1 here. I love 3DC, but Subtances integration with Unity means I have to start looking more to them for my materials ongoing. Additionally Painter doesn't have anywhere near the greatt feedback that 3DC gives whilst painting in my opinion. And there are even small other things like that you can't hide individual parts /submeshes of an fbx/ obj whilst working with your model in Painter (or Designer)

[Retopo mesh not selectable]

Ah yes. So I haven't unwrapped anything yet.

My workflow so far has been

- create my hi-poly in the sculpt room

- clone my hi-poly in the sculpt room.

- decimate the cloned hi-poly object down so it's a low-poly

- export this decimated, low-poly object to desktop

- importing this decimated lo-poly object from desktop into retopo room to use as my actual retopo mesh, I intend to mark seams on it and unwrap this object itself.

 

I've done this in the past but not for a while and for some reason now it doesn't seem to want to work..

 

Hope that makes sense..

[Getting a clean split]

Thanks Greg, I think I used to use a similar process; use the voxhide tool to hide everything except what I wanted to separate onto its own layer, and then the split tool to do this, but as you say it creates quite a definable visible transition between 2 objects. I'm interested in hiding the transition as much as possible, if you know of a way to do this?

 

T

[Retopo mesh not selectable]

I've exported multiple low-poly meshes from the sculpt room.

I'm bringing them into the retopo room with the option 'Import retopo mesh'.

I apply

I do not snap to surface mesh

My issue is that these retopo meshes that I bring in aren't actually selectable in the viewport. They just look like this

 

 

 

 

If I bring in multiple objects in one go (as I exported as scene from sculpt room) only 1 object is selectable

If I bring them in individually, none of them are selectable.

 

Any advice appreciated.

[Getting a clean split]

Ayone have any tips as to how to get nice smooth splits using the split tool? I've tried increasing the res of the submeshes but my triangle count gets very high very quickly.

 

Jagged edges

 

Slightly smoother after increasing res of mesh after using split tool

 

I've tried smoothing but all my smoothing techniques tend to cause the edges and mesh to melt (voxel mode).

 

Was thinking of using the local subdivide tool in surface mode but is hard to specify the exact area you want (just the rim)

 

T