Let me know if you need help setting up the first one.

Ha! First thing I thought when the video started was NICE VOICE!

Ha! First thing I thought when the video started was NICE VOICE!

Ha! First thing I thought when the video started was NICE VOICE!

I fixed it, it would appear that if I use a simple plane for the catcher it screws the sl bounding box, so i had to extrude the face a tiny bit to make is a very very short box and then the SL bounding is correct and it rezzes on the floor!

Well you just answered something i've always wondered.

@@bandortyrell7821 unfortunately it does not work properly, there is a block shadow now cast as well as the baked grrrrrrrrrrr so close yet miles away xd

I put links to both versions in the description.

I've never really used one, so I would have to look into it.

Yes, let me say that this was ONE test. There could be other things, especially things with more rounded and higher poly parts, where it does have more impact. Regarding the LOD and distance, the main t hing I look for with furniture is to make sure that the parts and especially the textures don't deform badly within a reasonably close distance, like say across a room. A lot of furniture gets used in clubs and venues, and it looks bad when they collapse as soon as you move away from them. The most complaints I get are when people have the LOD setting in their Graphics set to the default values, instead o f 4. This has been something the builder community has harped on since the advent of mesh, "Change your LOD setting to 4". But, some "purists" complain that it should not deform even with their settings at the default. Obviously, I disagree.

@@bandortyrell7821 mmm... i thought i had lod at max but i have been running at 3 it would appear, i dont really need to worry about gfx settings now i have a pc with 4060ti, but last pc i had was a 1030 and a very different matter XD Of course its one test, but at the moment nothing much I am making is very taxing for SL and using the auto lod calculation has given me models low enough in LI that it does not really warrant the extra effort and this video really shows that auto is not quite as evil as some would have you believe. Every day is a school day, well for those of us that like to learn :)

Thanks!

well, it may be the 3d cursor not the origin, but the terms have not fully sunk in yet XD

Thanks! I am not an expert. I am a perpetual student. I firmly believe the best way to gain mastery over a topic is to teach it to others.

You are welcome.

Awesome. Glad I was able to help!

Not yet.

It is a bit tricky to get working.

I try to.

I'm not sure what you mean, but perhaps play with the size of the reflection probe.

@@bandortyrell7821 I seem very far away in the mirror when I'm actually standing right in front of it.

Let's hope it is not the last time!

What would you like to see?

You can do it in Blender directly. I don't really do it that way, but I want to learn the new materials editor in Blender, so I will give it a shot.

You are very welcome. If any of it was confusing or needs clarification, let me know.

You are welcome.

Mine handles it fine.

You're welcome!

@@bandortyrell7821 😊

Thanks

Yep.

Not sure, it sounds like something up with the reflection probe.

Thank you!

It is very simple to do and very powerful.

That would be work. I don't get paid for these videos at all, so they are what they are.

AO is often called Shadow Map by vendors. There are a million ways to do things. This is how I do it. The scale of textures you apply depends on the scale of your UVs in your UVmap. You can adjust the scale in SP easily. As far as Blender, all you need to do is apply a material to each part you want to texture separately. You don't have to do anything with the material other than assign it. The name you give the material will be the texture set name in Substance Painter.

@bandortyrell7821 Thank you so much, that helps alot.

Flip the sides!

My mirror texture doesn't look like this when applied.

@@RoboticLiquids Thank you! I tried all that too but.. Ill give it another go soon :)

Without seeing what you've done, I can't really say.

We are not baking in shadows. This is ambient occlusion only and YES, SL does do its own Ambient Occlusion but it sucks. AO is included as part of the ORM texture in the PBR material. Not including AO in builds make them look flat and lifeless, even with AO enabled in SL.

@@bandortyrell7821 It sucks ONLY when you use third party viewer and/or poor comp. Third party viewers are so behind updates that it is already funny.

Thanks

I can try to do it in Black Dragon, but the process would be the same, the only difference the editor panels are not the same.

I tried it in Black Dragon and looks horrible. Maybe the viewer still needs work, because at least with the last update doesn't work properly.

Well, I could do one that's much shorter for people who know how it all works. I tried to explain it for the casual user to understand.

@@bandortyrell7821 dont worry you did well - to learn needs also sometimes time and practice

but he explains in deatail and doesnt babble like others !!

@@kathyp.6552 ? what i said xD

@@bandortyrell7821 you did perfectly fine. Your, not even 30 minutes, video was full of information and not babble. I have no problem listening to something that is super informative. Especially since this is KZbin and not tik-toks 2 minute ideal! LOL Then again some people have the attention span of a flea. 😂🤣

Yes, you can use the AO maps that come with premade mesh objects. That's what I do. If i get a prefab mesh, they ALMOST ALWAYS come with an AO map or "shadow" map. If they don't, you're wasting your money. You need it to texture the object, even without PBR. So, all you have to do is "convert" the simple AO texture (which is a grayscale texture image) into a PBR material that I call the PBR AO Material. You only need 1 for each AO you have. I use Photoshop to make them, but you can use GLTF Packer, Gimp, or other programs to make it. PBR does not have an AO compoenent... not directly. I wish it did. Instead, the PBR materials take 3 different grayscale textures and combine them into one RGB image to use for the Metallic-Rougness settings. Techinically, it is actually the Occlusion-Roughness-Metallic or ORM texture (but many people call it Metallic-Rougnness). They way it works is that the RGB image has a different grayscale image on the 3 color channels in the RGB image: Red channel = AO, Green channel = Roughness, Blue channel = Metallic. So, what I do is edit the AO in Photoshop, make sure it is in RGB mode, then go to the channels panel. You will see the AO is in all 3 channels and the RGB is a composite "color" that you get from the combination of the 3. Simply click on the GREEN channel and Fill it with solid white (white means MAXIMUM roughness or ZERO reflection), then click on the Blue channel and fill it with BLACK (black means ZERO metallic). I always set my PBR AO material to be matte, like this, then use the sliders to raise the amount of metallic and roughness I may want. If, I know ahead of time I want some materials to be shiny and some to be matte, I MIGHT make 2 different PBR AO materials, one for each. Now, click on the RGB channel to see the results. Export the image as PNG and upload it to Second Life as the PBR AO Material for the object or face you're working on. Now, create a NEW MATERIAL. Put a solid white image in the Base Color slot. Drag and Drop the PBR AO MATERIAL you created into the Roughness-Metallic slot. Leave the normal and emissive blank. Save the new material and name it significantly like PBR AO Material (Part name). Now, just drag this material onto the object/face for which it was made and you have not applied a PBR version of the AO onto your object. To add a texture to the object, simply edit it, go to the Texture tab, pick PBR Materials, and drag the texture you want onto the BASE COLOR slot. You can scale the Base Color image, rotate it, etc. and see the results on the object in REAL TIME. You can then SAVE AS and create a new material that is the combination of the texture with the AO. Then, just drag another texture on the BASE COLOR and Save As... repeat for as many textures as you want to have. It's SUPER simple at this point to mass produce a TON of textures all with the AO and not use Photoshop for each one.

I'm not sure I understand your comment or how it relates to this process. If I am in Substance and make textures for SL, I simply export them and use them. This process is for the creation of an ORM map for when you don't already have one. If using SP, you can simply put a white fill on the object and export the GLTF and you HAVE the PBR AO material. So, I'm not quite sure I get your comment. The purpose of this process is not to create a roughness map, it is to create an ORM texture map that combines the Occlusion, Roughness and Metallic in one. Substance can do that for us. I'm trying to explain how to do it when you don't have the luxury of using SP to make them for you. For that, you need something like GLTF packer or a tool that will let you put a separate grayscale on each of the RGB channels. So, it's been a while since I made this video, so I'm not exactly sure why I made you feel that I was using the Roughness maps at all, since in my PBR AO process, I don't even use the Roughness channel at al. The only channel I even care about in the process is the AO. I'll take a look again and see if I said something wrong. Thanks for the feeedback.

Thanks

It can be adjusted to a degree, but it also seems to be something with the PBR implementation in SL. So, I'm using Firestorm Alpha. It looks different with other viewers. I intentionally set Metallic to 0, which should turn it off, and roughness to 1.0 which also should turn it off, but you still get a little sheen. The only other thing I could try is to generate the metallic-roughness map manually in Photoshop. I'll play with that today and if doing so makes the output have less sheen, I'll make sure to update the PBR AO Materials to use it for the cloth bits.

Apparently the output PBR material for the default materials from SP has a 50% gray image for the ROUGHNESS value. By changing it to WHITE, the native shine goes away. I show how to do that in the video I posted today. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqmWk56HpKaFjtU