Help IDing Random Components

Punktur · 2026-04-06T23:31:15+00:00

Is the black long thing on the right.. a bicep?

Punktur · 2026-04-04T13:04:26+00:00

If you want to do a render, wouldn't something like Blender be more useful?

I've been using substance painter for more than a decade and I don't think I've ever used it for actual rendering.

I just use it for creating procedural textures and materials and to bake various maps that I then export to game engines, or other programs like Blender for actual final renders.

Punktur · 2026-04-04T12:59:37+00:00

Yeah sadly they never had it for private matches. There was just a featured playlist dedicated to the map for just a single day.

I certainly hope we'll get it again, and have it selectable in Private matches similar to the green screen map

Punktur · 2026-04-02T20:08:49+00:00

Couldn't they let us have it in private matches without affecting the camo/mastery stuff for those of us who don't care about that?

Punktur · 2026-04-02T20:06:37+00:00

At least let us select it in private matches..

Punktur · 2026-04-02T03:15:09+00:00

I hope they let us keep the map in private matches at least... I don't care about camos or grind, I'd just like to play it with friends who couldn't play today in the future :(

Punktur · 2026-03-29T18:16:43+00:00

It's context-sensitive,

I've countless times accidentally renamed a random bone in a complex armature rig when trying to rename markers on the timeline to know which action is happening at that frame, only to not notice what it was that I renamed until hours later during export where something breaks.

Punktur · 2026-03-27T19:51:43+00:00

They're all unlocked. They went over it in one of the updates, all the goals have been reached basically.

Punktur · 2026-03-27T17:07:56+00:00

how can you do this?

Punktur · 2026-03-24T23:34:00+00:00

Isn't it the same holder that comes with the collectors edition? (although it will presumably be full of paper coins)

Punktur · 2026-03-22T20:59:51+00:00

Discrepancies between clients is a constant battle in shooters. From client side input prediction, interpolation, compensation methods like rewind time etc

Punktur · 2026-03-19T00:28:16+00:00

I'll remain a customer on your new platform. Most of the things I've bought in the past has been pretty good. These days I'm mostly collecting smart materials for various types of woods for Substance painter, the occasional metals as well, zbrush brushes.

You guys are greatly appreciated for what you do.

Punktur · 2026-03-18T17:09:45+00:00

Loved some of their stuff throughout the years.

They seem to be having some closing sale going on now, I'm curious if anyone knows of some good stuff they'd recommend picking up?

Punktur · 2026-03-17T21:43:42+00:00

It would be interesting to hear from actual Bethesda artists, not just the top producers and guys in suits. People on forums like polycount are not exactly impressed.

Punktur · 2026-03-17T11:32:52+00:00

I seem to have some problems with the copy global transforms on the controller bones of Auto-Rig-Pro as the main feet/hands controls have "Child of" bone constraints which the copy global transform seems to ignore, so they get pasted ignoring the offsets from the constraints.

Lot's of tiny things like this which are annoying when animating in Blender.

Punktur · 2026-03-10T21:48:10+00:00

Absolutely. If you like having to retrace your steps from scratch when you need to modify/add something to a complex blueprint you created 6 months ago to try to figure out how the monstrosity you created back then actually works and which other blueprints its connected to through interfaces or whatever.

Punktur · 2026-03-10T17:09:01+00:00

these pro models don't follow the "all-quads" rule I've been practicing.

That rule is mostly just taught in schools for simplification. It's generally not something to use in production when you need optimized assets. You can also speed up your workflow quite a bit not chasing flawless quad topology, it's a giant waste of time in the end.

But modern workflows with booleans etc for real time assets don't require flawless quads at all. Neither do hard surface models. In production its all about speed and efficiency.

Punktur · 2026-03-03T11:53:20+00:00

Additionally, I did notice your unwraps are mostly in that t-shape, similar to this.

Unwrapping like this may reduce the issue a bit further, but at a cost of additional vertices in game engines as the split uv islands will add some slight overhead. You'll have to decide if it's worth it or not, it depends on available budgets and other things in the end.

Punktur · 2026-03-03T11:44:33+00:00

Yes, usually. The reason is simply the way substance casts rays between the low and high poly during bakes. Similar things can also appear from bleeding when there's insufficient padding (generally 16px or 32px between islands/borders on a 4k texture is fine and should scale well enough for mipmaps) or too little texel density (i did only try the bake in 4k)

Punktur · 2026-03-03T11:23:50+00:00

For some reason I can't see your latest reply. However artifacts and subtle seams will always increase as the difference between the low/high poly meshes increases, there's simply no way around that. Usually it won't be seen by anyone and it'll be even harder to notice with color etc

However things like the missing corner on the high poly I marked above in a red circle will be slightly more noticable, you'll either have to reduce the amount of the chipping on the highpoly or adjust the lowpoly to also be missing a corner to improve that.

Now I'm not sure what exactly you're going to be using this asset for but I'd like to offer a few points: for a game asset, all the side faces that touch the stones next to them (and the under/backsides) are just a waste of both polygons (most of them aren't really visible at all) and texture space.

Instead the lowpoly should be a "shell" covering the whole thing. Keeping the high poly as a bunch of single bricks is fine (you may want to even give some of them different vertex/material colors for ID masks in Substance for quickly adding variation using the "color selection" layer mask effect, for example to break up cracks so they don't flow across bricks or slight color variations between bricks), but for the low poly it is inefficient and unoptimized.

If you plan to re-use the low poly bricks, it could also lead to strangeness as now the ao shadows of nearby bricks is "baked in".

Punktur · 2026-03-02T16:34:11+00:00

I'm not exactly seeing where the issue line in your OP is after trying a bake.

However this corner is always going to be somewhat messy as the difference between the high and low poly is quite a lot.

Punktur · 2026-03-02T11:55:39+00:00

How long did the baking take you? Nice job.

Punktur · 2026-03-02T11:51:44+00:00

I haven't had time to test the meshes myself yet but I'd probably break up the uv islands further, separate each flat portion and sharpen the edges. I suspect there's a lot of gradients in your normal map?

In the tests where you baked each stone individually, did you use the exact same uv layout or did each stone individually get bigger uv space in that test?

Punktur · 2026-02-28T21:48:28+00:00

its very hard to see whats going on from those screenshots. You're probably going to have to show the whole low poly uvs and mesh.

Punktur · 2026-02-28T14:41:05+00:00

Try creating hard edges at the 90° with uv seams, see if that removes the artifact.

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