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  1. AngelModder

    Just gonna say it, I don't like Net radiant or Net custom.. There, I said it. I'll stick with old 1.5 that gets the job done without crashing, freezing during saves and unloading my folders during saves. I don't want to map in blender, if it ant done in gtk it ant real mapping... Maybe I sound like an old fart on that but all of the new crud is just broken, hacky, unnecessarily filled with lazy tools that just break half the time. Beginning to understand why so many just stick with modifying vanila, it's just to much. I shouldn't have to sit here 20 years down the road and learn a whole new program college kids are learning just to make a darn texture, gimme photoshop and lets go. This substance designer is just nope for me, taking all day to make ONE texture, nah thank you. 

    I was really wanting to get into rend2 and do some work with it, but I get why no one switched now, it's just too damn much, even modern games don't require this much work around. I can pop in ut5 and in a day make an entire world and this its like ah 1 texture at a time has to be REDESIGNED with all sort of weird sorcery and the blood of the innocent just to make it work. 

    I dnk maybe I'm just frustrated and old and dont wanna learn new crap, but to be honest I think I was doing just fine without it. If that makes me a B rated mapper, so be it. I outshine those I wanted to outshine years ago, got nothing left to prove. 

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      Wow.

      Let's start at the beginning. What broke about netradiant? 

      If you're switching back to radiant 1.5, does that support brush primitives yet? Otherwise going back may break some or all of your texcoords irreperably.

      About Substance Designer and rend2:

      All of the processes you need to learn to make textures or rather materials for rend2 also apply to UE5, Unity and other Engines that use Physically based rendering. 

      You may also be missing the fact that you don't have to remake every single material from scratch. There are plenty of free platforms and marketplaces that offer finished PBR Materials you may use across projects. Converting those for rend2 won't be an issue at all. 

      The only textures you need to remake are any special made custom designs, e.g. the large carvings from the temple entrance. And even then you can use other readily available materials as a basis to then remix and match into what you need. The difference being that you're working with full pbr materials as opposed to single image materials/"textures" as you're used to for jka.

      You could do all of this mixing and editing in Photoshop aswell - Substance Designer just gives you a nice node based interface to non-destructively and iteratively work through this process. You could also use Substance Painter to get a best of both worlds approach to material authoring. In painter materials become layers that you can mix and blend in plenty of ways, very similiar to photoshop.

      You could also check out Quixel Suite, which used to integrate into photoshop as a plugin and gave you essentially the same capabilities as substance painter. Quixel Mixer also offers tons of base materials you can use.

      Hit me up on Discord, let's see of we can't get you up to speed.

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  2. z3filus

    I suppose porting this outfit from Hitman would be impossible.

    Maybe a kitbash, but which models to use? 🤔

    nirvVoZ.png

    iNKNbDX.png

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      That depends entirely on what you are willing to do to make this model work ingame.
      unknown.png

      You can always retopologize a model, like I did here (left) for Willemoes Jester Model (right).
      I rebuilt the torso using retopology tools to get better edgeflow for rigging. This method can also be used to reduce the geometric detail of a model significantly while keeping clean topology and more or less the same shape as the original.

      This takes some effort but generally gives much better results than decimation.
      In this case I also reprojected the textures from the original model onto a completely new UV set to make working with the textures a lot easier for anyone aiming to reskin this.

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  3. z3filus

    I suppose porting this outfit from Hitman would be impossible.

    Maybe a kitbash, but which models to use? 🤔

    nirvVoZ.png

    iNKNbDX.png

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      Why should it be impossible?

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  4. NumberWan

    After the map crash checked the textures – some old files somehow were CMYK (print) 🙄 How and Why in the Galaxy? Doesn't matter, just a hint: if the map crashes textures profile might be an issue too.

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      Jpegs saved as "progressive" can be fun too

  5. TacoDragon74

    Can I mod MBII

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      As far as I know - yes.
      There are plenty of skin replacement mods for MB2 from what I have seen, you may want to head to the mb2 forums for help with that.

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  6. NumberWan

    What's your native language?

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      German

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  7. starkiller101

    Hoping to learn to mod this game

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      That's cool!

      Anything you're itnerested in in particular?

      The Tutorials Section is a great place to start out :)

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  8. DT.

    DT.

    Been a while https://imgur.com/86ezAXZ

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      will you ever fix these wonky creases here? :D

       

      https://imgur.com/a/DK5Uc6n

       

      I didn't point them out so far because I figured that you'd fix them later down the road, but I'm starting to get worried here ;D

       

      Looks great, besides of these few really obvious smoothing hickups.

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  9. Mandalorian

    Thinking of doing a tutorial on texture baking and high poly to low poly in blender.combining these techniques will allow some great and optimised alternatives to porting as well as a gateway drug to modelling your own unique stuff :)

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      It's not like tutorials on this didn't exist, they're not difficult to find either. Very few active posters here seem to be itnerested in taking any time to learn a new skill. More tutorials are always a good thing though, so go for it!

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  10. ChalklYne

    So custom rig.. bolt_r_hand is weighed to a rhang_tag_bone and all heriarchy us identical to jkas naming wise. Saber blade wont show up

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      I had this problem with my turntable. Is your gla folder prefixed with _humanoid? Try that, if it isn't already.

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  11. Noodle

    It feels good to map again. Hopefully I'll release something soon!

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      @IrocJeff would you like to join the beta test group? I could really use some more active testers.

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  12. Daedra

    Well then. After seeing SOLO A Star Wars Story, I know a character that'll become even more popular now than before.

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      oh geez. I have 2 more weeks before it's on cinema in germany. I have to leave this place...

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  13. ChalklYne

    Can you set different textures to different LOD versions of the model.

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      afaik this is not supported.

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  14. the_raven

    Gods damn, time is a problem to me - it's 2018, and I feel like the 2012 apocalyspe hype was just a couple of months ago!

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      I can't tell wether your alst statement was seriously stupid or overly sarcastic Onsy :D

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  15. minilogoguy18
    https://i.imgur.com/zSZlyuZ.png
    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      Only maps with the "HI" tag in painters baking menu need the high res mesh

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  16. minilogoguy18
    https://i.imgur.com/zSZlyuZ.png
    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      Wrong. AO, Normal and Thickness are all maps that painter generates from a high res mesh. It generates the rest from the normal map and the lowpoly.

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  17. minilogoguy18
    https://i.imgur.com/zSZlyuZ.png
    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      All I need to work with that mesh are a normal map and an AO map.

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  18. Langerd

    Power of Mapping is in lightning, smart brush and models using and of course OPTIMALIZING !!!

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      The correct term would be optimization. ;)

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  19. Langerd

    I will share with you soon with my latest WIP project. I am making ala ladder map but my main inspiration is th eblood palace from devil may cry 4

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      I loved the bloody palace levels in the DMC Games.

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  20. PreFXDesigns

    Working on a Preatorion Guard :o

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      It will be a while before I start on my model. So I'm not actually working on it, just planning it atm. I kinda want to get a release for my plugin before I touch anything else.

       

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  21. BDtropper

    Star wars

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      HIGH GROUND!

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  22. swegmaster

    Gr8 b8 m8. I rel8, str8 appreci8, and congratul8. I r8 this b8 an 8/8. Plz no h8., I'm str8 ir8. Cre8 more, can't w8. We should convers8, I won't ber8.

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      5/7

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  23. DT.

    DT.

    Had a go at painting, rather than photo-sourcing: https://www.dropbox.com/s/12y6qougvlmcmlk/Pic2.png?dl=0

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      coudl use more shape definition in the form of lighting and some more surface detail, looks like a doll atm

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  24. minilogoguy18

    Seems I have to buy a PC case from a few years back to be able to keep optical drives.

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      My recommendation: Bitfenix Shinobi

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  25. Fuse294

    I got a ticket for the Wednesday Midnight release of The Last Jedi :D

    1. AshuraDX

      AshuraDX

      I'll see TFA and TLJ as a double feature Wednesday Night

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