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If you remove the reference I'm not sure if the animation data stays. Try re-creating the reference in the same scene that you removed it. It might work, but my assumption is that removing the reference outright will also remove the animation data associated with it. What you CAN do is *replace* the reference. There are a few reasons you might want to do that. It will only retain your animation if you replace the animation with one that has the same joint structure and joint names.

@@stefantom4 thanks

Realistically it not common to spread out a single uv asset into multiple shader sets, but sometimes it's useful, like if your substance file is very complex and you would rather break it into a few pieces. Otherwise colour IDs are enough to break up the asset for texturing without making shader sets

That's quite a specific question. It really depends on the model you're trying to make and if it's for Realtime or not. Really, this video is a little outdated. You can approach your modeling of an object in a modular way, and you can approach the making of an environment in a modular way. Making a model in a modular way means you make easily re-usable pieces that you can make assets out of. If your boat asset is going to use a lot of planks for it's high poly, and going to have repeated elements, maybe make some individual ones that you can then use to build up the model. If your boat model is very large then it's more of an environment than a model. And when making a modular environment you think about making ASSETS that can be re-used in the environment space e.g. if I'm making a dock, I can make one or two docking platforms and re-use them 10 times. Hope that was somewhat helpful.

@@stefantom4 my plan is to make it game ready however full size but its gonna have both purposes... model and detailed one, but also player would go below deck so its enviroment too...yea maybe model the stern and side planks do modular...

love to see part 3

Please!!

A few month later...

Wait it breaks the UV map nvm damnit

Hey there. There are some other tutorial series on my channel but the environment and trimsheets content is the most important to people it seems. I plan to make a series as soon as my schedule allows 🙂

@@stefantom4 I agree, out of anyone else's content your's has been my favourite to watch. Like all of it aswell, you do a great job.

Trying to survive the UK economy haha I'll be back one day 🙂

Level generated AO and lightmaps usually use their own unique UV set (objects can have multiple UV sets assigned to them).

Some of these vids were done as part of online teaching for a class in China

I'm so mad about this.

I was actually shocked when I ran into this issue. It's such a basic thing that I'm fairly certain they could get a basic version of it up and running within a few days.

If you mean that when you put your file in ZBrush, some of it disappears, it could be that your model in maya has problems or errors. Use he Cleanup tool in Maya on your model to see if it has any problems. I got a video that talks about that stuff a little czcams.com/video/ROMjemlGPT4/video.html

@@stefantom4 yeah i forget such a thing thanku bro

Hey, I ended up teaching this project at a university course, but my specialism is character art really. I'd like to do this series properly (these videos get hits every year) but it's hard to find the time. I won't promise anything, but I hope i get round to it sometime too!

Reducing the number of drawcalls by reducing the number of materials is standard. Doing a single 8k might be a bit much since it will take a while to load that content and also if you want to make a change, or modify the texture in the shader, you would be doing it to everything. But yeah, fewer materials, fewer drawcalls

haha glad to hear it, actually both me and Sawyer are teachers :D

@@stefantom4 oh cool when did you start doing 3d stuff ?

@@sassuskrassus3166 I used a couple programs before university, but I started a 3d university course in 2015, so it's been 7 years so far

@@stefantom4 oh wow thats a long time, i started with maya about 1 year ago, keep up the great work!

for me I used the grid and set units to make sure it should fit, or, making the tiles overlap the edge and copy pasting how they would come in from the other side. A little hard to explain. If half a brick stick out from the left side, copy paste it on the right side so that other half comes back in. If 3 fifths of a brick come overlap the left side, copy past that on the right side so the remaining 2 fifths come back in. as long as your borders match up then the middle is fine. More complex trims are different of course. You'll have to figure out how to match up the borders of whatever tile design you're doing. I'm sure there are more ways I don't know about

depends on the way you are overlapping and highlights themselves but it could potentially be an issue

Alot of times you can align the edges of a face to the sculpted/baked details on the edges of a part of your trim sheet, and it will do a decent job simulating edge wear. It all depends on how closely the object will be to the camera. You can additionally use baked decals overlaid over the edges on floating geo.

Im not a max guy but I'm pretty sure yes, you can apply different material IDs to your objects in 3ds max

@@stefantom4 ok its about material IDs. thank you lol !!!! so that is easy.

Interiors and exteriors are two separate project types but ultimately you still need to analyse the reference and find the unique assets you need to make. Block out the scene, make the unique assets, arrange the unique assets duplicating them for any duplicates and viola. I never finished this series because I've been working pretty much at all times since I made that video but I've had to teach a whole series like that. Interior spaces are made up of the structure (wall, ceiling, floors) and the props. You just need to make yourself an asset list. note - the interior and exterior structures don't need to be made by the same assets. In fact, each side of a wall could be made as a separate asset. You don't have to treat the whole structure like a house made of lego walls.

Haha what would you like to see in the second part?

There are... ways to access it. But yes, perfect world is just sitting on it.

No material Id is needed unless you yourself want to have it for a specific purpose. This one didn't have one.

This video's always gotten a lot of requests for a continuation. The past year and a bit has been very intense but I do want to get back to this. In the new year I have fewer work hours so maybe i'll finally be able to do this series properly!

@@stefantom4 sounds great! I'll have notifications enabled :P Definititely don't want to miss future uploads by you. Have a nice Christmas and new years in advance :D