Arbitrary Mesh and Naughty Dog

[Piflik]

an arbitrary mesh = any mesh (methinks)

Edit: OK, maybe not...just thought so from the german translation...

No Idea what they mean by it...

[loked]

Just saw this now... not sure if you still want the answer... if so let me know and I'll explain a little.

[GamerDude3282]

Just saw this now... not sure if you still want the answer... if so let me know and I'll explain a little.

Don't feel obligated to explain but I am kind of curious...

Its seems really interesting...

[drawallday]

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I'm very interested! Please explain whenever you may.

[loked]

its a pretty common technique, that people may call something different, but basically for us, we create a clean "quadded" mesh (represents the basic form) that we take into zBrush or Mudbox and use for the high-res sculpt (this is where the character is sculpted and textured to completion)...we generate the normal maps and hi-res details from this sculpt. Then we step down to lower subdiv from the high res sculpt, take that into maya and retopologize the new mesh, which is what goes in game and what we call the arbitrary mesh. This mesh gets the hi-res normal maps and textures sampled onto it and its more optimized, has more tris to terminate things and has better looping/topology for animation. So basically there is 2 meshes of different topology in the pipeline, the hi-res sculpt and the arbitrary mesh... we have to maintain both these sculpts, so making changes can be tough...if we want to modifiy something big on the arbitrary and preserve a pipeline that we can go back and forth with the hi-res, we'll need to make the same changes to the hi-res and vica-versa.

Hope this clears it up!
Judd

[GamerDude3282]

its a pretty common technique, that people may call something different, but basically for us, we create a clean "quadded" mesh (represents the basic form) that we take into zBrush or Mudbox and use for the high-res sculpt (this is where the character is sculpted and textured to completion)...we generate the normal maps and hi-res details from this sculpt. Then we step down to lower subdiv from the high res sculpt, take that into maya and retopologize the new mesh, which is what goes in game and what we call the arbitrary mesh. This mesh gets the hi-res normal maps and textures sampled onto it and its more optimized, has more tris to terminate things and has better looping/topology for animation. So basically there is 2 meshes of different topology in the pipeline, the hi-res sculpt and the arbitrary mesh... we have to maintain both these sculpts, so making changes can be tough...if we want to modifiy something big on the arbitrary and preserve a pipeline that we can go back and forth with the hi-res, we'll need to make the same changes to the hi-res and vica-versa.

Hope this clears it up!
Judd

Thats really cool... even though changes may be a pain...

I can see why you guys at Naughty Dog are such masters of your craft ;)

[drawallday]

its a pretty common technique, that people may call something different, but basically for us, we create a clean "quadded" mesh (represents the basic form) that we take into zBrush or Mudbox and use for the high-res sculpt (this is where the character is sculpted and textured to completion)...we generate the normal maps and hi-res details from this sculpt. Then we step down to lower subdiv from the high res sculpt, take that into maya and retopologize the new mesh, which is what goes in game and what we call the arbitrary mesh. This mesh gets the hi-res normal maps and textures sampled onto it and its more optimized, has more tris to terminate things and has better looping/topology for animation. So basically there is 2 meshes of different topology in the pipeline, the hi-res sculpt and the arbitrary mesh... we have to maintain both these sculpts, so making changes can be tough...if we want to modifiy something big on the arbitrary and preserve a pipeline that we can go back and forth with the hi-res, we'll need to make the same changes to the hi-res and vica-versa.

Hope this clears it up!
Judd

Thank you for the explanation! I guess as long it makes a big difference then arbitrary mesh is the way to go.

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