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Sticky How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)

Alright, so i see time and time again that people tend have trouble doing certain things with hard-shapes and sub-d modeling. So i thought i would try something out here. I'm going to open this up to…
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Neox

Sticky Blender Mega Thread

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg[/ame] As usual I'm impressed with what the blender foundation has come up with.. not bad for a free program.
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thomasp

Sticky Upgrading or building a new PC? This is the thread for you!

If you're a 3D artist in need of a new computer, or just want to upgrade an old one, this is the thread for you!Building a PC can get very expensive, and many simply don't know enough about computers…
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nomzod

Sticky Retro 3D Art FAQ - Everything you need to know to create PS1/N64/Dreamcast/etc. 3D art!

Welcome to the 'Retro 3D FAQ', a thread dedicated to sharing information about the creation of 3D art for game consoles made before the age of programmable pixel shaders. If you enjoy the look of 3D …
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StefanHQ

Sticky Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts

Of interest to most who will read this thread, I wrote an extensive tutorial that covers this topic and many other common baking issues. It's geared towards baking in Toolbag, but most of the Bas…
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ZacD

Sticky Long-Running Technical Talk Threads

We un-stuck many of your favorite long-time Sticky threads, to unclutter the forum and hopefully improve your browsing experience. A Practical Guide On Normal Mapping For Games Article: Game Art…
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Eric Chadwick

Does anyone know AI way to turn a piece of google map into hi res and hi detailed terrain image?

I mean just color  image , not the height . Using  google map or any sort of blurry low res  aerial picture screen as a guide ?       What generative AI would be ca…
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gnoop

Species Beta Test

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to share with you all that the Species Beta Test is here!!What is Species?Species is an exciting new character plugin for Maya 2023 or later. With it, you can model…
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Chris_Covelli

Species Character Framework

Hi everyone!I wanted to let you know about Species and welcome you to join our mailing list!Species is a framework for building digital 3d characters. Its distinguishing feature is that this system u…
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Chris_Covelli

Zbrush Buttons stop working once I do anything

Im completely stuck. I am not able to use zbrush currently. It was working fine and now it just started doing this. I am able to open zbrush and I can load something from the lightbox menu …
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KingCdogg1

Quixel Megascans API - 401 log in problem

Before the Quixel Store closes, I would like to download my models.I do not want to do this manually, so I want to utilize the websocket API:https://quixel.github.io/megascans-api-docs/quick-start-gu…
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Eric Chadwick

Maya: when moving/rotating mesh,texture is not following

Hi,im working on haircards grooming and im facing with something unexpected . I thought when i rotate haircard mesh the Texture will automatically follow its path but instead od that i get this …
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focus_method

Need help understanding topology.

Hello.I've been modelling for a while and can create all sorts of stuff. Like these for example:Yet, I'm still struggling with some shapes to create clean topology that won't result in pinching or di…
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gnoop

Help! Do you mix different materials and objects on one trim sheet or keep seperate?

Do you mix up lots of different materials and trims for multiple assets on one trim sheet?  I am trying to model georgian period bedroom interior, and i have a lot of details on doors, walls and…
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gnoop

how to export as png with tranparent background from maya arnold ?

hello,im working on haircards,i want to export  diffuse color map render from maya arnold and everytime i get this black image backgdound. I want it as png transparent. How to solve this?
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focus_method

3DS Max - Align Pivot to another object's pivot

Hey guys.  I'm looking for a simple script or hotkey that will allow me to center the pivot of an object to another object's pivot.  Something that will perform the following actions:Enable…
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ngngngnn

3D Character : Closed mouth Baking

Hey! So I'm making my second ever 3D Character, and it will be rigged and used for VRChat so I need the inside of the mouth to be textured and modeled.I saw about as many people saying to sculpt with…
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Alex_J

[Blender 3.1] Won't render anything new in Cycles, just sticks on an old scene.

[{"insert":"I'm having a problem where Blender won't render a changed scene (still pic). It just keeps rendering this persistent previous scene and I don't know if it's stored somewhere. Searching sa…
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yoshtov

Objects vanishes in Maya.

I've been working on a model for a while now and discovered a weird problem: Some objects disappears without a trace!! I have no idea were they are... I can select the objects in the outliner but I …
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poopipe

[MAX] How to assign "center pivot to object" to a key?

How to assing "affect pivot only > center pivot to object" to key?
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Sorution

Question about Face Weighted Normals in Maya

Hello, I recently learned about face weighted normals and just wanted to get some clarification on how they are applied in Maya.My current understanding is that Maya versions after 2012 apply face we…
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littleclaude

basic knowledge help

when do you bevel an edge on a low poly? what are the top tips for uv unwrapping for games which you wish you knew, and how do you do trim sheets and how do you use them?
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cturbo

3ds max old chamfer inside Editable Poly

hello, I´d like to know if there is a way to revert how the chamfer works inside editable poly, before it would do a regular chamfer by default, in recent versions of Max, it does like a round corner…
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HAWK12HT

[Blender] Sweep Toolkit

The purpose of the Sweep Toolkit is to provide you the better way to Sweep a Profile along a Path than the default Blender Curve to Mesh. The Toolkit consist of 2 GN Modifiers Sweep and Pipe, 8…
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vilix

Select surface objects script(Maya)

Hi all! I want to make a script in Maya for switching Select surface objects command. Now i have two separate scripts for this: setObjectPianckMask "Surface" true; and setObjectPickMask "Surface" …
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Kalugin89

How do you use the bevel?

How do I configure the wire frame to make the groove angled?
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okidoki

Do you texture the skin with alpha brushes before or after retopologizing the character for games?

hello, I am sculpting my first character in zbrush and would like to know if you are meant to retopologize the character first before adding the alpha skin wrinkle texures? Also after you have zwrapp…
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iam717

Z-Sphere retopology cant make verticies show

Hi there, in every tutorial as soon as they turn on edit topology on a z-sphere the vertices show as small squares, but when I try it only shows the edges, does anyone know why this is occurring?My m…
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kanga

Nostil shadows (Zbrush)

I can't seem to get the nostril to cast a shadow when doing a render in zbrushthey always seem to be illuminated and it's confusing me as what I'm doing wrong with the nose 
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kanga

Quad modelling

How do I maintain the quad topology in this space
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okidoki

Improving 3D terrain quality - Object space and bent normal maps?

Hi guys! I am thinking about how to improve the quality of my 3D terrains. I am using standard tangent space normal maps, but lately I have been reading about object space normal maps and bent norma…
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Noors

zbrush cant increase dynamesh resolution

Hi everyone,I have a very strange situation happening. I am importing a model from 3ds max and want to apply dynamesh. The thing is that I hit a wall with 4096 dynamesh resolution at 2 mill polygons,…
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HAWK12HT

[3ds Max Script] miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Aligner

miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Align allows you to quickly align the gizmo of the Symmetry and Slice modifiers by picking 3 points in the scene    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6gX8D03b8T…
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miauu

what do u think about iclone? character creator?

hello,what do u think about those mentioned softwares?is it used in AAA ?what about hair system? is it possible to export haircards obj/fbx with textures ?if u have experience with it, what are pros …
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focus_method

fibershop , is it worth buying it?

hello,anyone have experience with fibershop grooming?all these tutorials i saw on yt and on artsation , its awasome.Are there any downsides of it ?
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poopipe

[3DS Max] - Straighten UV's Problem

Hello!I'm trying to unwrap the UV's of this pan, and I'm having the following issue with the "Straighten Selection" feature in 3DS Max's UV Editor:In brief, I'm trying to straighten these UV islands …
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Klunk

XGen Clumping Issue

I'm creating an XGen groom for a character which is working for the most part. The issue I run into is how some clumps seem to clump on themselves for lack of a better term. Take a look at the image …
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Large_Leader

how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?

How do you go about making floor tiles when the dimensions of the building are odd  which leaves me with some of the tiles not fitting and stick out and you have to fit along a curved wall? What…
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Alex_J

Normal map visible seams baking issues with my rocks

Hey everyone,I struggle to understand how to best approach UV-unwrapping/baking the normal maps for these rocks.I'm using Maya > Substance Painter > Unreal pipeline.There are visible seams in t…
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Thanez

Hypershade - Textures - I couldn't place them correctly. (Redshift /Maya)

Hi polycount forum,How is it going ?I have a problem that I can't solve. This is an old project. I am trying to do it again. but the texture looks very shiny. I might not be able to place them correc…
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mountains

why are there holes in my mesh in unreal, when i cant see anything wrong with the geometry or uvs?

can someone please kindly advise, im new to unreal and need help. Why are there holes appearing in my mesh in unreal when i import the low poly? Also, when i imported a model the third player charact…
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cturbo

Trying to improve likeness sculpting

Just wanted to write down my thoughts and what I’ve learn so farI don’t really feel like there’s many good tutorials on how to capture a likeness probably cause the main talent it requires is observa…
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small99

How I reduced eye fatigue

This will be obvious for a lot of people but just want to report what I learned in case its helpful. Been working on computers since 2017 and most days I feel fatigue in my eyes at end of the day. So…
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Shrike

Texel Density and how to stick to it

Hello everyone, I would like to better understand texel density and how to maintain it in a scene.What blocks me is that I understand how it works, with the various mathematical formulas, even how ma…
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gpdav

What's new in cloth simulation? anything new and cool recently worth trying ?

  I stopped at Marvelous Designer 6.5 I ones got a permanent license as an Xmass deal .   It feels  so ancient, slow and and inconvenient nowadays .  Although I managed to ge…
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iam717

Strange Zbrush IMM behaviour (bug?)

When I frame all polygroups and use a IMM curve brush on the frames, only the line I click on (circled in red) has the correct curve step, everything else has like 0 curve step and all the meshes a…
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zetheros

Polygons' edges are seen after baking

Hello everyone! I cannot figure out the issue with polygon edges being seen on the low poly after baking. Here's the high poly and low poly models (Blender). These are the seams and sharp e…
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DC74

Alternative to Quixel Suite ?

I recently upgraded my PC, which meant pretty much replacing all the component.And my system was cloned to a new NVME drive.After that Quixel Suite just flat out stopped working, and nothing I've tri…
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gnoop

Weird bake issue

I'm having a weird baking issue on one component on my model. I am unsure of what the issue is, this issue wasn't here before and only appeared when I re-baked the model. I have included images of th…
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WarriorOfOld

Seam showing in mirrored UVs After Baking Normal

Hi everybody. I have a very persistent problem I seem unable to solve. I am working on a model and to save texture space I mirrored some parts. The process I follow in From Blender to Substance is:Un…
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Neox

[GeoNodes] Sampled curve only consider one spline (workaround)

I created a grid with an underlying curve and the "poles" are splines instanced on the curve points, poining up, the base curve gets duplicated n times and they are placed along the instanced splines…
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Yerus

Preferred Game Level Environment Art Dimensions: Powers of 2 or Base Ten?

For example should a kitbash trim piece be 32x16x128 or would 25x10x100 be better?
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poopipe

Are Weapon/Hardsurface Artists In Game Studios Like Activision Using CAD?

Hello,Just as the title says.  Are weapon artists in these Triple A studios using CAD to save-time? And no, I'm not talking about Junior 3D Hardsurface/Weapon Artists, I'm talking about Senior l…
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pior

USD updates in Maya and 3ds Max

The USD team at Autodesk is happy to share the updates to our USD plugins in Maya and 3ds Max. Maya:Use native camera viewport controls with USD camerasSee USD Light shapes and pick in viewportE…
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shawnolson

Looking for retro games with an old rigging technique

Hi everyone! I've read this interesting discussion Retro 3D Art FAQ - Everything you need to know to create PS1/N64/Dreamcast/etc. 3D art! — polycount and I'm interested in the "Character riggin…
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dimwalker

Is possible to apply the last scale value to a another face?

Some times when I scale a face up to a certain amount, I would like so scale another similar face up to the exact same amount. I thought I could do this with Maya's Repeat command, but it does no…
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Ralf_Reddings

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