COLAB2021 – WIP – lexicolopolis

[Carlo]

Looks great! 

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis How are the faces looking with Multires on? Are they square or more rectangle. If rectangle it could give distortion if you sculpt in a certain direction. Hope I make sense 😉

[Beau Kromberg]

Well today was kind of a wash. I wanted to see if I could emulate the style sheet’s wood effect so I explored how I might do it.

Made a mask.

Inset the cracks, rough beveled the edges to make them choppy, and then used clay layers to get some wood grain. The result turned out pretty cool.

But multires hates this mesh. Cages hate the mesh. And even if I reset all the geometry using the erase multires tool, all results end up having the same issue. So I actually don’t think its the sculpt at all. Especially cause the normal maps look… ugh… normal. lol

Most of the faces are unaffected by light, and project any surface displacements in reverse direction.  

After hours of testing, it seems to be associated with the object itself, but I can’t figure out why. The faces all show up with backface culling, so they should be oriented the right way. The UVs don’t affect it. I have no idea what I’m missing? Anyone?

[Carlo]

I don’t mind to have look. Can you send the file?

[Beau Kromberg]

@lucky Well now I’m super confused, cause I hollowed out that file, sent it, and now in that file killing the old multires and putting a new one on works just fine. 

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis I checked it and you should add an image node, select the image, with the node selected click bake and it works. When you want to test the Normal map on your lowpoly model you have to select non-color in the ColorSpace. Connecting the normal map to the Material Output can cause problems.

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis You don’t even need a shader to bake the normal map. 😉

[Beau Kromberg]

@lucky Ehhh what did you change? My bakes do this:

At first glance it looks right but then isn’t. 

[Beau Kromberg]

@lucky Removing the multires and making a new one works fine using the same method. I just have to repaint a mask which is irritating. But I’m just gonna do the lines, find an inset that doesn’t make multires freak out, and call it good. Too close to the deadline at this point to get too crazy with the sculpt now. 

[Carlo]

Here I applied the normal map to the lowpoly model. With non-color the color of the normal map is lighter. In de 3D view you now see the correct normal map on your lowpoly model.

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis Save the normal map first, then change color space to non-color

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis My first bake was wrong because I changed the Level Viewport to 7 in the Multires. Apparently you have to keep that on 0.😉

[Beau Kromberg]

@lucky Oh, all I needed to do was use the normal map node instead of directly linking the image into the normal shader slot. Thank you, I knew it would be something dumb. I haven’t used a normal map since like… 2016. Hahah

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis  I didn’t even see that….. 😁, but still, use non-color instead of RGB 👍

[Beau Kromberg]

@lucky Though I don’t see any option for non-color anywhere. Though it seems to be working fine. 

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