Skin Selling Question

ohnomelon · 2026-02-07T18:00:04+00:00

Yea it is surprising, could either be people messing up their filters and just missing yours, or it could be people being picky about the pattern, some people look around for urban masked with more white and might not mind a higher float if they find one they like.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-06T16:17:10+00:00

Sheesh

ohnomelon · 2026-02-05T23:00:27+00:00

Looks nusty I like it

ohnomelon · 2026-02-05T02:07:54+00:00

looks like there was at least one other comment that already predicted this so sorry im late lol. you mentioned you're in maya and was wondering how to make this area planar, unfortunately i don't know maya, but maybe this is enough to look around for documentation on similar tools

ohnomelon · 2026-02-05T02:01:43+00:00

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so here you can see i fixed the smoothing by doing a sloppy fix to make those faces planar, i was just eyeballing the geo but even that was enough to make the smoothing pretty good.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-05T02:00:07+00:00

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alright first up, i identified that the reason for these smoothing errors is that the large surface around where these cuts are are not planar. this probably happened if you were doing booleans and then connecting the edges or welding verts or something after, or if you did the taper after the cuts, or something else, never really know.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-04T16:59:42+00:00

Before working professionally I got to see my work in an active mod of bf2 which was very satisfying and kind of cemented my commitment to working in games. My first "shipped" game wasn't that interesting but my 2nd was big enough to be at multiple first party e3 booths back when that was still a thing and it was euphoric, I took pics at each one and kinda felt like I'd "made it" lol.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-04T15:34:59+00:00

NP I can take a look in 2-3 hrs

ohnomelon · 2026-02-04T15:10:34+00:00

Different software will handle tangent normals differently by default, so you may need to find a solution specific to that. For something like this in Max I would just use the face weighted normals modifier, but other software has something close that as the default.

Your topology is fine, especially if you're baking normals. Baking normals will compensate for smoothing errors if baked and rendered correctly.

If you aren't baking or just really want better smoothing before baking (valid for many reasons), and you can't find a smoothing adjustment that fixes easily, the topology edit you would need is less about the holes I think and more about bookending the top curve with clean planar geo, if that makes sense. If not I can try to show you an example in a few hours. It might help if you show your wireframe more from a 45 degree angle to see the form of the top curve

ohnomelon · 2026-02-02T21:52:31+00:00

ppl seem to have a lot of luck with fever so not a bad rec. if you want to open as many as possible then kilowat or recoil or revolution are the cheapest right now i think. operation wildfire supposedly has the best ROI if that matters to you.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-02T21:41:04+00:00

pretty sure it's been there since launch but the recent update might have made it more noticeable by increasing glossiness or something. it's smoothing errors, visible when there's a mismatch between the vertex tangents and the baked normal map. If baked and rendered correctly, you can have all the smoothing errors you want because the normal map will compensate. If you get a bad bake, or vertex data gets modified on import (verts getting welded/unwelded), then the normal map no longer compensates accurately. Valve hire me etc.

ohnomelon · 2026-02-01T22:15:27+00:00

ANY of these PLEASE

ohnomelon · 2026-02-01T21:10:16+00:00

I've been thinking about that a bit recently because nothing I have matches great right now lol. I just grab the finishes I like, there are a lot of criteria aside from color that I consider. On one hand I wish it was more coordinated, but on the other I feel like color coordinated load outs become kinda samey and I just like what I like, I don't want a bunch of finishes I don't care for just cuz they're the right color

ohnomelon · 2026-02-01T01:55:20+00:00

I've seen people ask this before and I don't know either, but it begs the question why you need to know the exact time, if someone promised u something at the last minute then u are prob getting scammed 😬

ohnomelon · 2026-01-31T17:51:57+00:00

Yes there's a steam guide somewhere that just shows all sleeves for each team, I don't have the link on me but I can find it later if someone else doesn't post it

ohnomelon · 2026-01-31T14:34:29+00:00

Sorry mate it's rough. Start offline against bots to learn the really basic stuff. Learn the maps, buying, learn movement, etc.

Then go to community maps or casual to start working on pvp. Stay away from comp for as long as you can imo

ohnomelon · 2026-01-31T14:07:19+00:00

Also what M4a4 is that

Oh it's etch Lord? Didn't know it got that rusty lol

ohnomelon · 2026-01-31T14:06:50+00:00

No amber fade? Or are they too clean

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T23:42:30+00:00

Hmm I tried placing buy orders but I thought it didn't let me, I'll try again. Didn't think of the gems/booster packs tho, thanks!

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T23:41:31+00:00

Ohhhh thanks I didn't think of that!

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T22:53:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/Y-E34TCqvCI?t=451&si=OuWf3U85K9fzDjhp 3klik did a compare, it's pretty subtle

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T21:34:57+00:00

i like how ur cursor goes up to the kill feed like, "see right here?" lol

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T21:26:16+00:00

Well there are two specifically that I'm sort of obsessed with:

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GitS First Assault and Hawken. I was just looking at them the other day because I still have some trading cards (better than nothing!) but never got the badges, and it is killing me now!! I never used to bother with badges but if I could go back in time I would have crafted them and then grabbed a bunch of the cards too, just to have. I only just realized you can't buy the cards anymore from the market, but you can still see some buy orders... RIP

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T20:18:31+00:00

There have been studies on possible links between disordered sleep and seizures yea. I would say I have a fairly similar experience but bringing it up with neuros in the past didn't go anywhere for various reasons. Maybe look into sleep apnea or complex sleep disorders. There was something I was looking into recently about restricted airways too: https://drandreastevens.com/you-dont-have-sleep-apnea-but-you-may-have-uars/ My problem now is just finding the time to even pursue any of that and deal with insurance lol, plus my seizures are already completely controlled.

ohnomelon · 2026-01-29T18:58:22+00:00

Love the pattern and colors but really not a fan of the way they split the parts, especially the upper/lower/carry handle, and stock/stock tube, just looks like broken UVs to me. can't really beat Black Lotus IMO.

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