tis moi, the fool!

Just a quick one,
I've just realised that I am an idiot.
I wasn't happy with the results that I have been getting from mudbox for the entirity of the project so dar and I have only just realised now what it was. I have been stuck in a good habbit of making sure that my smoothing groups have been sorted out correctly before exporting, as you would if you were exporting it to unreal or something like that, however I have just realised that because you create a new normal map in mudbox it just causes conflicting shadows if you leave it like thaet, so you have to set your model to 1 smoothing group all over and this allows the normal map to take full effect. I am so much happier with the results now.

 Here you can see that the lighting on the left side of the archway is effected by the shading groups.

 Here is the results after I set the whole model to share the same shading group.
I'm so happy now that things are starting to look a bit better!
Oh by the way, I know about the mistake on the top of the arch, still trying to figure this one out. I think that the UV's are flipped.
cx

update from the cellar

OK so I forgot to update again,sorry people.

Here is what I've got so far in increments,

  Here I changed the shape of the bones and changed the archway slightly.

 At this point I had everything unwrapped.

 I had textured the skull and tentacle by this point.

 Here I had added a texture and normal to the floor and have added normals the archway. It didn't go correctly so I am re-doing this.

 Here I have included normals for the walls.

 Here I have just messed about with some lighting to show off the normals better.

Here I have fixed the strange Shadow issue above the window frame. I did this by altering UV's. I have also added normals to the pit.


So this is where I am up to. Now I want to at least add a basic normal map to everything and then I can include more detail as I go along.

Let me know what you think please guys.
cx

Muddy mudskipper

I've finally started to get the grips of this mudbox stuff so here is what I have got so far.

 

I'll keep you posted as I do more 

cx