Andy Davies

VP at Knald Technologies, freelance 3d game artist & former Eat3d Admin/Tutor. Baking & Normal map specialist. My views are my own.

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

1/13 Ok, people. It looks like we need to talk again. I've seen a few new tutorials doing the rounds where people are painting out bake errors in normal maps & enough is enough. My last intervention was a few years ago, but now it seems you are back on the sauce.

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@HelderHP @EuropaGame Congratulations, mate!

[Helder @HelderHP]

The big day has come!

@EuropaGame is yours now, it's finally out of my hands!

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support. I sincerely hope you love Zee's journey and find meaning in his story.
Enjoy the game!! 🦋 🙏

[Europa 🦋 Out Now! @EuropaGame]

7 years ago, I started making my dream game while balancing a AAA dev job.

Today, it's finally out on Steam and Switch.

Making Europa has changed my life, and I hope you love it as much as I've loved making it. 💖

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@JaviSkau 3/ Pics & video of a test scene with some cubes. I triangulated the low poly meshes before baking & used SG/hard edges as per the descriptions above each cube. 2k combined normal map for everything. Baked in Knald & rendered in TB4. Everything looks very similar when rendered. :D

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@JaviSkau 2/ With a synced tangent basis you can use a single SG to get perfect shading, though it may be beneficial to have multiple hard edges/SGs b/c the normal map will compress better etc. Just split the UVs apart where you have hard edge/SGs in 3D space & you will be good. :)

[Michael Knubben 🔶 TwïtterQuiter @michaelknubben]

I'm a real tech artist now #polycount #b3d

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@AntonHand @troyosh Absolutely. The way to do this correctly would be to bake an OS normal from the HP to a MP cylinder > remove the extra geo from the MP to make a new LP mesh> Convert the OS to a TS normal using the LP. Everything should work great then. :)

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@Inside_TheRopes TIL SummerSlam 1992 didn't count because apparently the UK isn't part of the European continent. 😆

[Voultar @Voultar]

Good morning, everyone! I would REALLY appreciate a RT and share of my latest video. I want everyone to be included on all of the fun mods that we do so today, we're doing something very fun & cheap that requires no soldering!

Thank you so much!

https://t.co/0cFW64zulM

[Voultar @Voultar]

Wii-U NAND UPDATE!!!!

I designed the "SD TOOL", an extremely basic JIG that will allow you to dump most eMMC/NANDs without having to own an expensive programmer as most SD card readers and read/write to eMMC!

I'll be releasing it for free, along with the Wii-U NAND-AID.

[DarknessFX @DrkFX]

Another awesome shader that I wanted to copy to #UnrealEngine5 .
This one took some effort to copy and still isn't working perfectly, sometimes copy GLSL to HLSL isn't as easy as expected... 😅
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UE HLSL source code below 👇🧵

[Voultar @Voultar]

Start backing up your Wii-U NANDS, right now.

If you do this, you'll be fine. If you don't, you run the risk of the memory being unrecoverable killing your Wii-U, forever.

Follow the easy guide in my video, I marked it for you. It's free and easy.

https://t.co/lHCBp0Z96D

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@user_nikc the additional headache (and cost) of hand editing. :) Sorry for the long-winded answer, and I hope it actually answered the question ;) /9

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

1/13 Ok, people. It looks like we need to talk again. I've seen a few new tutorials doing the rounds where people are painting out bake errors in normal maps & enough is enough. My last intervention was a few years ago, but now it seems you are back on the sauce.

[Andy Davies @metalliandy]

@user_nikc Are they happy to edit someone else broken bake if they have to rework an asset? Is production happy?
This is one of the main reasons that I am such a big proponent of fixing bakes at the source. I feel it is generally much more efficient to do this, rather than deal with /8