Hey guys my mesh has some weird seams when I import the scene any help would be great!

Congratulations, you have some n-gons ! ^^

I had something like this when my mesh did not have proper uvs

Ohh ok thanks guys!

Trying to achieve something like this in Marmoset, not sure if it's possible or if I'm just doing something wrong (I suspect it's the latter).



My current attempt:

I guess you can try to fake some particles with some square polygons + clouds textures and their own alpha. And to get the glow use a powerfull emissive map with the Bloom enabled in the post-process.

turn the blending mode to additive

Oh, weird, I originally posted this in some dev version of the polycount forum stuck in February or something... anyway:

Finally got around to testing a model out in 1.05, and I have a question about the AnisotropicEnvironment material. Is there a way to edit the material so that it doesn't get so dark? I can't help but feel that the shader makes things more highly contrasted which is probably good for metals, but for something like hair it feels a little strong. Here's an example with a sphere:

Not that I would really know how to edit shaders anyway, but I took a look at the shader files, but none are named in a way to suggest which ones would have settings related to anisotropy. I hope this is possible because I'm mostly interested in the highlight behavior. Thanks!

Two questions I can't seem to find the solutions to. When it comes to AO rendering in Marmoset I change the background to white, set a floor and change the VIEW to AO under the RENDER tab.

1. So I created a turnaround for my model in Marmoset and wanted an AO turnaround as well. Yet when I clicked the 360 save it doesn't rotate so I guess it cant calculate a rotation in AO?

2. When I do render the single AO shot it has a grainy/posterized effect to it in the shadows. Is there a way to smooth that out or is it just the way its rendered? I'll attach an image of this.

Thanks!

First thing that comes to my mind is inverted normals.

bringing up the command prompt within marmoset and inputing "set render.shadows.res 4096" or 2048 gives me an invalid command. I'm wondering it they'll be bringing up the option again as i'd like to render my shadows without any jagged lines to them, even with AA turned on.

When using alpha-to-coverage, my alpha looks like its made up from lots of small dots instead of having actuall gradients (kinda looks like dithering) is this standard alpha for marmoset or is there something i can do in the command promt to make alpha to coverage look better?

Originally Posted by gilesruscoe

When using alpha-to-coverage, my alpha looks like its made up from lots of small dots instead of having actuall gradients (kinda looks like dithering) is this standard alpha for marmoset or is there something i can do in the command promt to make alpha to coverage look better?

Unfortunately, this is what Alpha to Coverage looks like.
It's a trade off between quality and order independence, which is a massive advantage over regular alpha blending.
http://www.8monkeylabs.com/toolbag/learn/blending

Is the "dithering" kind of effect it creates screenspace based or texel? the eyelash in the example image only has a subtle dithering effect, whereas the hair on my character has large, really obvious/ugly dither. Would increasing the texture size for the hair be a hack fix for this? for the sake of beauty renders? Also to my knowledge alpha to coverage isn't supported by the renderer? Whenever i've tried to render out using alpha to coverage in the past it's just given me opaque results.

Edit: my bad, i need to learn to finish reading articles before i reply, the alpha is saved out into the alpha channel so i can make a layer mask from it.

Uhh I've been waiting on 2012-2013 support in maya for the exporter since the start of the year, when I bought marmoset it seemed like it was being developed at a nice pace and support was good, I've not seen/heard of much since my purchase though. Is there any updates on providing support to these versions of maya? I use 2012 at present. Haven't seen much activity on the website or facebook page in a while, figure might have some luck here?

Originally Posted by Pola

Uhh I've been waiting on 2012-2013 support in maya for the exporter since the start of the year, when I bought marmoset it seemed like it was being developed at a nice pace and support was good, I've not seen/heard of much since my purchase though. Is there any updates on providing support to these versions of maya? I use 2012 at present. Haven't seen much activity on the website or facebook page in a while, figure might have some luck here?

I asked Jeff about it last month and from I have been told they are still working on Marmoset.

Here is the exact quote, hope Jeff doesn't mind:

"The short answer is yes, we are still working on it We have a small update nearing completion and a big update in progress."

i'm about to purchase a new computer and thus a new video card. I'm thinking getting the ati firepro 7900, how good would marmoset run on this video card? i am especially concerned with being able to view realtime displacement mapping.

yay, updates! do i see separate slots for gloss etc. on the horizon? DO I??!

Originally Posted by KonginChains

i'm about to purchase a new computer and thus a new video card. I'm thinking getting the ati firepro 7900, how good would marmoset run on this video card? i am especially concerned with being able to view realtime displacement mapping.

ATI + Pro model ? Good luck, it will sucks as hell.

A lot of ATI users have problems with Mamroset, so a pro model will be worse I guess. Drivers are very special, especially with ATI cards.

Originally Posted by KonginChains

i'm about to purchase a new computer and thus a new video card. I'm thinking getting the ati firepro 7900, how good would marmoset run on this video card? i am especially concerned with being able to view realtime displacement mapping.

While I love the build quality of ATI Cards I would have to recommend you go with Nvidia. As an artist you will appreciate both CUDA as well as the best driver support tied to Nvidia cards.

Have you guys ever thought about adding a fresnel map of some sort? Would be cool to control fresnel values without having to necessarily break apart a mesh and apply a separate material.

Originally Posted by Dataday

While I love the build quality of ATI Cards I would have to recommend you go with Nvidia. As an artist you will appreciate both CUDA as well as the best driver support tied to Nvidia cards.

would the gtx 500 cards have CUDA as well? i really don't want to have to resort to the more expensive quadro cards.

I tried to create an entire environment around Marmoset, it was an interesting experience, especially trying to get out some cinematic shots.

It can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/45562813 (also posted in the working on 2012 thread)



I am hoping for some environment artist friendly tools in a future patch, camera controls and such. =)

Originally Posted by KonginChains

would the gtx 500 cards have CUDA as well? i really don't want to have to resort to the more expensive quadro cards.

Yep, the 500 series will be fine and they are CUDA enabled.

I have owned a Quadro and still use an ATI FirePro. While they are great cards for cg work, I really havent noticed a big enough difference between them and the Gtx 560 I own when it comes to cg work, or at least where the cost vs performance is concerned.

You can do great work with a cheaper game focused GPU.

As another suggested feature that i found myself in need of just the other day. Multiple detail channels with a masking option would be great. breaking up meshes is a quick fix for this, but some times when you have multiple types of materials baked down onto one part of a mesh it really needs masks.