This tutorial is dedicated to Polycount community. 1. Hairstyles 2. Game models approach 3. Example of hairstyle 3.1. Tools used 3.2. Painting the hair texture 3.3. Hair geometry 3.4. Using ... more

Subdivisions, Mental Ray’s approximation editor and displacement maps Elements: Polygon source mesh modeled with all quads, triangles, or a mixture of both Displacement map. Overview: Convert ... more

Many people keep asking if anyone got the custom mentalray bump nodes to work. Because many people think custom mentalray bump nodes are waaay better than the maya’s default bump2d nodes. Let’s have a ... more

This is a polygon-texturing tutorial for maya 5.0. In this tutorial, I am going to go through the steps it takes to layout UV’s of a model, create the texture map, specular map, and displacement map. ... more

I’m posting a very simple tutorial on how to model and apply shaders to get realistic eyes, the "windows of your character’s soul". A lot of times, bad eyes can "kill" your character literally, even if ... more

The following describes how I setup the UV’s for my model in order to paint the textures.

In this tutorial I will try to summarize what I learned throught trial and error about Mental Ray shaders, and how to achieve interesting volumetric effects only through shaders. My aim is to describe ... more