About the christmas scene

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2018-02-16 at 12:04 pm #2179

Bildermensch
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Hi there,
i was browsing trough the gallery and found also the “Merry Christmas” scene, which is quite cool. What imideateley catched my attention was the facetted look which was very obvious on the snow of the roof of the house. In Blender one would only set the display on smooth to avoid that. I Verge3D not supporting it when a object is set to smooth? In other words, is the only way to display smooth surfaces high polygon counts?
Regards,
Bildermensch

2018-02-16 at 12:58 pm #2180

Mikhail Luzyanin
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In christmas scene it was done only to achieve the effect of lowpoly style rendering, smooth is supported of course. To avoid a huge amount of polygons in the scene you can bake a normal map from hipoly model on lowpoly as traditionaly in game modelling. You can see this method in Reclainer demo for example where the normal map was used to get smooth effect of the chair.

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2018-02-16 at 2:15 pm #2182

Bildermensch
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Hello Mikhail,
yes i understand, but i am not talking about smoothing by adding geometry. If you look at the image I attached, both shapes are identical by their geometry, but the left has the shading set to “flat” and the other is set to “smooth”. If that flat/smooth shading is supported i was asking about.
Best regards,
Bildermensch

2018-02-16 at 3:24 pm #2184

Mikhail Luzyanin
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Bildermensch wrote:

yes i understand, but i am not talking about smoothing by adding geometry. If you look at the image I attached, both shapes are identical by their geometry, but the left has the shading set to “flat” and the other is set to “smooth”. If that flat/smooth shading is supported i was asking about.

Yes, they are supported.

Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

2018-02-16 at 6:27 pm #2188

jem
Customer

Hi Mikhail,
I am interested in the technique that you described in the recliner example. I would like to know more about baking a normal map from a high poly model onto a low poly model. Will Soft8soft release the recliner scene as an example in the next build of Verge3D? Also, if you happen to know of any tutorials on this procedure I would appreciate if you could share a link.
Thank you,
Jem

Jeremy Wernick

2018-02-17 at 1:40 pm #2194

Mikhail Luzyanin
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jem wrote:

Will Soft8soft release the recliner scene as an example in the next build of Verge3D?

It’s already released in Verge3D for 3Ds max version of the engine, but we’ll discuss it and maybe we’ll remake recliner for blender version and release it in the next version of the Verge3D for Blender SDK.

jem wrote:

Also, if you happen to know of any tutorials on this procedure I would appreciate if you could share a link.

There’s a lot of different tutorals on the Youtube and all over internet for example this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QHkN7ke3w
and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r-cGjVKvGw

Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

2018-02-17 at 1:51 pm #2195

Yves Lécossois
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Hi Jem,
About normal map creation for low poly model made from high poly model, try these Youtube tutorial:

EDIT: Two replies almost at the same time ;)
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