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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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Eric Chadwick

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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Aerashi

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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AFsoft

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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Gasked

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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PolyHertz

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

Free Toolkit for Beginner/Intermediate Rigging, Animation, and Modeling users!

Hello Maya Friends!After a few years of working at various AAA companies, I have built up quite an archive of Maya Animation, Rigging and Modelling tools that have helped myself and my teams tremendo…
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myclay

What's wrong with my xNormals Bake???

i keep getting this result where it seems like a channel is being completely missed. it happened more than once, i've always managed to make it "reappear" but i don't know how i did and what is causi…
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iam717

FJTools - ZBrush plugin

Hey fellow Polycounters!FJTools is a Plugin for ZBrush, that will help you to organise your Subtools and speed up your workflow in general. It does so by automating repetitive tasks, or solving t…
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floon

Using some of the modifiers in 3ds Max

Hi, everyone. So, today i've learned some of the 3ds max modifiers such as, bend, lattice, FFD 4x4x4, Noise, and some others. I decided to use those modifiers to model things, but can't find anything…
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Justbro

[MAYA]Modeling/Texturing QuickTips

Just wanted to share with you guys some quick tips video that covers some modeling techniques along with some procedural workflow. Will be regularly updated. Thankshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-…
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onionhead_o

Ceramics glazing online

Hi all !If you are working with ceramics somehow - digital or real, you may be interested in these two applications for applying glazes of famous manufacturers to your models - Botz and&nbs…
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Yesbird

[MaxScript]miauu's Work Plane

If you are familliar with Work Plane in Autocad, Revit or Modo and you want to have such a tool in 3ds Max "miauu's Work Plane" is what you need. The "miauu's Work Plane" is a …
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miauu

Need help in baking related problem

 I’m experiencing a baking artifact and have tried various solutions but haven’t been able to pinpoint the cause. If anyone can help me identify the issue, I’d really appreciate it!Low Poly mesh…
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rafiii

My glass objects on small items keep disapearing in unreal when view from a distance

I've noticed that my glass objects, like the salt shaker and ashtray, seem to disappear when I view them from a distance in Unreal. I'm not sure why this is happening or how to fix it, so I'm hop…
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cturbo

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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okidoki

3DCoat Mega Thread

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! Dear Friends, In the light of the upcoming Holiday season, please accept our best wishes of Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May inspiration and …
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Carlosan

Online CSG gems editor

Hi, all !Gems enchanted me completely - after finishing database ofdesigns: https://gemview.yesbird.onlineI am switched to online gems CAD system and now stable working proof ofconcept is r…
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Yesbird

HELP CANT SAVE PROJECT

I cant save my file in unreal 5, it went crazy and wont let me save some textures and I dont know what to do? I have tried reimporting the texture it wont save. It wasnt like this until it crashed ye…
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cturbo

Radial Mat Picker

Hi Guys,I made an add-on that speeds up the process of assigning materials saving clicks and time. I shows all the materials in a circle around the mouse and by just click one material it assign it t…
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rfarencibia

Maya UV's Jumping back

Alright, this is just driving me NUTS, and I can't figure out the cause. I've had this happen for quite a while (not sure if it's just since I upgraded versions or not tho...) I'll be moving around m…
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kram

Terrain Shader Layer or Decal Projectors?

Hey! I'm wondering if you guys think these cracks are more likely a layer of tileable texture within the terrain shader, or if they're decal projectors? They seem pretty sporadic and intentionally pl…
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Michael Knubben

Indie developer: I created free 3D model generator

I made a 3D model generator (of course its AI) that can generate 3D model from 3-5 images. I personally use it to generate the base, and then, fix here and there in blender or brush.https://3d.beviai…
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Michael Knubben

Is Fibermesh outdated to use now?

Like can you get good results with it?I'm not sure if that's what Hossein Diba uses in his final renders? I'm trying to decide how to do the hair on a character I've been spending too long onI m…
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thomasp

Does anyone have experience with virtual textures?

Those huge ones  that allow to load   only a part at a time ? I wonder how big you go and what texel size  you are using with them. And  what method to create them do you use?&nbs…
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poopipe

Skin pores and tertiary details in normal map for overlay?

Hi. I've been thinking about this one and wondered if anyone has done any such thing.Basically I want to bake down the finer details of a body scan to a normal map. Then this normal map can be layere…
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Geuse

Selecting uv island from poly - 3DSMax

Its a quick one, how can I select a whole UV island by selecting a single poly in the viewport? Kinda like the "expand polygon selection to seams" but instead of using UVUnwrap seams (wich work with …
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iam717

ZBRUSH: How to fold (if is the correct word) part of a subtool

Hi, i'm new in the site and new to zbrush. I'm actually sculpting an anthropomorphic character and i'm trying to sculpt the ears like in the reference.Here is the sculpt:Here is the reference:first i…
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iam717

Do you combine all the props into a single texture sheet instead of making separate ones for each?

I'm working on a diner model and I'm curious about your approach to texturing. Would you recommend placing all the props on a single texture sheet instead of creating separate sheets for each ite…
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dimwalker

What's the median roughness of asphalt material?

Megascan  does  around  0.83.   Some guides tells it's 0.76.   Chat GPT told me  0.75.    Adobe substance libraries  have a lot of  around 0.5-0…
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gnoop

flickering on trim sheet

I am experiencing an issue with a trim sheet that contains detail and serves as a texture map on a plane. I have noticed flickering when viewed from an angle, which I suspect is due to the lighti…
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cturbo

Looking for Efficient Method for Creating Face Variations Without Disrupting Rig

Hello, I am working on a project that requires a large number of variations of different characters, especially variations of different face types/facial features. It is essential that modifying char…
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poopipe

UV-Remap: A New Tool for Rearranging the UVs of Textured Models

Hey Polycount Community!I’d like to introduce UV-Remap – a tool that allows you to edit the UVs of already textured 3D models. This is perfect for merging models with different UV maps and texture se…
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myclay

[3dsMax script] miauu's Manage Links

miauu's Manage Links helps you to link Sketchup, Rhino, Autocad or your preferred BIM or CAD program with 3ds Max. It is incredibly fast and will save you ages. Heavy files with millions of polygon…
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miauu

Converting PBR to Source (DiffSpecNormal)

The following tool allows you to quickly convert PBR materials to Source Engine games, as well as any other engine that uses the old-gen DiffSpecNormal workflow. Quite useful:https://github.com/koeri…
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armagon

Blender fbx export with custom properties to be read in UE ?

Hi!If I give custom properties like such to meshes, and export  as .fbx, how could I  read them back in UE ?If not possible through those, how would you pass some floats along with a mesh .…
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Michael Knubben

Gems rendering

Greetings !This is my first post here, so I want to say thanks for supporting this forum and hope for community assistance.I want to introduce my gems rendering application, containing 2265 different…
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Yesbird

showing rec light in the mirror???

hello, I have a problem with the rec light showing up in the mirror in unreal, can someone kindly help me on what i could do to disable it?
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cturbo

How hard would it be to recreate these visual effects?

Hello everyone, hopefully I'm asking in the right forum section. This texture here contains a lot of the major visual and lighting effects for a game I'm working on. It's 1024x1024 and I'm looking to…
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Tiles

Photogrammetry Thread

Hi guys, We would love to know more about cameras used, software used, break downs, pipelines, software and any other hints and tips for us to look into would be great. What are your favorite pipel…
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gnoop

PowerPreview: High Quality Nitrous Previews (3ds Max)

I just wanted to inform that i put a new PowerPreview version online over at Scriptspot. That version is fully Max 2014 compatible and contains various bugfixes and improvements. For people who never…
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spacefrog

Blender Texture Coordinates, is this even possible?

[short version]Hi all, not sure if this is even possible, but is there a way to keep the Texture Coordinates from a Procedural material, yet have them apply to a model using a different Texture Coord…
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okidoki

Blender Mapping Rotation Question

Is it possible to setup mapping so that the Z copies the mapping from the X or Y?I feel like it should be possible but can't get my head around the Math of it, I thought maybe something like the Text…
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okidoki

I would like to get feedback from those who are posing reallision's chactor creator.

As the title says.How do you feel about posing models created using character creator in conjunction with zbrush as shown in the link you pasted?I would like to 3d print my models in the future. Curr…
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yamato

Weighted normal missing in fbx

Hello,in 3ds Max 2025, I useweight normals on my objects to assist in correct smoothness - works a charm! Unfortunately the weighted normals do not seem to be exported in the fbx. I have tried modifi…
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ColMatrix

Modular Environment Pivot Question....

I'm about to start digging into building my first modular environment and was curious where it was best to put the piviot point in relation to the depth of the wall. Do people tend to build onto…
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Ghogiel

How would I go about creating textures similar to the game Solarpunk?

I've been trying to figure out a good way to recreate the textures in this game, specifically the flat wood texture on the table and trim. It looks flat with minimal/no normals maps so not sculpted, …
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Benjammin

TOPOLOGY - Solving Triangles on Curved Surfaces in Sub-D?

I want to model this concept in Sub-D. However, I've encountered a problem that I can't solve topologically.Can someone help me understand how I can convert these triangles into quads without cau…
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*Sebastian

How would you tackle these UVs?

I'm working on recreating the Castle Caladan library from the 2021 Dune movie in UE5 as a portfolio piece, but I'm having some UV/texel density issues on one of the modular wall assets. Since I inten…
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Neox

Blender Fork Bforartists

Blender Fork Bforartists Version 0.9.0Bforartists has reached version 0.9.0 now. It is feature complete. Just some smaller adjustments and mainly documentation work is left to reach version 1.0. And …
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Tiles

What is the proper way of using mirror in environment project?

Hey guys, in Unreal Engine 5.4.4, I’m experiencing an issue where shadows that aren’t visible in the scene appear in the mirror reflection. A Rect Light coming from the window casts the chandelier’s …
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SwordOfPeace

Question about the eye lid of game characters

i've been studying other game characters recently and I noticed that professional character artist do this method of extracting the eye lids based on what im seeing is that they have a seperate …
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pior

Translucensy is deforming other part of the mesh that isn't translucent glass material

Hey there! I'm bringing my textures into Unreal along with my static mesh that has various materials. I’ve run into a problem where applying the glass textures and setting them to translucent…
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cturbo

Road To Vostok: no specular, no roughness, no gloss

The author of this game is pretty adamant of his optimized used of texture work. The entire game runs only with an Unlit shader in Unity:
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poopipe

Can I do 16 bit UVs in Maya?

I sometimes encounter an issue with deformed textures and losing details in some regions of my models, like normals or edge highlights, after importing my assets to Unreal. The reason being is t…
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Kligan

What color management are you guys using in Substance?

Legacy , ACES, Adobe   and why?    Isn't Adobe one  basically same as in Photoshop ( ICC  profiles based)   the games usually ignore while in full screen ?&nbs…
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gnoop

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