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# 151 06-05-2012 , 06:05 AM
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Normal mapping isnt too hard though I do NOT like using Maya for it Rick. You need to have the lopoly model first...then duplicate and make a hipoly copy. I then use Xnormals to mesh the hipoly to lopoly. You of course have to UV map them before you do this. To be honest...I ahve been struggling myself as I need this for my game assets...and I can tell you its a pain in the butt. If you are not worried about poly count Creck then dont bother.

You dont need textures for normal maps Rick...just the 2 models..hi and low....no textures needed until you wish to see them. You do the normal map on the hipoly first...then apply just a lambert and use the normal map in the bump map option box. Mikes gaming tut in here shows it simply.....well worth having a look at it.

Looking nice Creck I might add......I hope you UV mapped one tread before duplication??? as this will then save you a lot of time later?

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# 152 06-05-2012 , 09:56 AM
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Damn it! no I don't bullet, so first need to UV one link of track and then create a whole? Don't know how it's going here, but in 3DS Max, if there were a lot of the same objects, I used to map just to one of them, then create something like the template and after that I applied that temp to the rest of objects. Is it possible in Maya too ?
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# 153 06-05-2012 , 10:04 AM
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You can use the transfer attributes but you need to do it one object at a time. How many pieces in a single track segment?
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# 154 06-05-2012 , 10:08 AM
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it has 112 pieces
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# 155 06-05-2012 , 10:45 AM
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It looks like each piece has 2 or 3 meshes. The track bit and the pin joining the track segments. That is 224-336 transfers @ about 2-3 sec per transfer (Sorry thinking out aloud here user added image ), 11 to 18 minutes. How long did it take you to repeat the one segment along the path?
 
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# 156 06-05-2012 , 10:56 AM
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At creative cow theres a plugin call Poly_UV_Transfere that would do the lot in one go.............dave


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# 157 06-05-2012 , 11:18 AM
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Thanks dave, I knew someone out there must have written a script to do this. Do you have a link perhaps. My searches of their site yielded no hits.
 
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# 159 07-05-2012 , 01:53 PM
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Well gents, I've tried to map one track link, but as I'm fairly new to UVs what do you think about it ??
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# 160 07-05-2012 , 06:22 PM
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Not the easiest thing to UV but it looks OK have you got Zbrush or Mudbox and whats it look like when you smooth it..............dave


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# 161 07-05-2012 , 08:25 PM
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Yeah dave, I got Zbrush....however, which of checkboxes should be marked before applying the smooth ?
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Normally Smooth UVs is ticked, best thing to do is test using the 3 button...........dave


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# 163 07-05-2012 , 09:18 PM
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after smooth applying it causes stretching :/ dave, if I will send you it, can you take a look?
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# 164 07-05-2012 , 09:30 PM
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Could you show us and a wire shot, some time you have to add more edge loops to stop that..........dave


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# 165 07-05-2012 , 09:38 PM
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