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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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pior

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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poopipe

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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okidoki

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

Best practices when creating assets specifically for Nanite

We've been asked to use Nanite for a project (just a blanket order to enable Nanite on every mesh that even remotely supports it). Whatever one might think of that, I need to make sure we cause as li…
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ZacD

UV trickery

Hey guys. I chanced on this model on Artstation and noticed something very interesting on the UVs. It appears they have planar projected the red handle of the flaregun and the black grip as one piece…
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guitarguy00

How can I get this kind of shuttered glass effect in Unreal or Substance Painter?

I'm trying to achieve the exact same effect seen in the left corner. I have cracked glass pieces modeled similarly, but my technical art side not strong enough to find correct way to do it. I’m strug…
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SwordOfPeace

Unity's Smoothness HDRP to UE5 Roughness (RMAO)

Hello! I'm trying to convert a Unity project to Unreal and stumbled upon assets that are using Smoothness maps in Unity HDRP. It seems that they are just inverted Roughness maps, but I wanted to make…
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Sage

Blender Meshwalker - Transfers position of vertices from target to source having different numbers

Transfers position of vertices from target to source, even with different number of vertices. Works in object space or world space. Useful for aligning parts of character meshes, matching deform…
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revoconner

Blender Scripts Shelf

A blender add-on for having custom scripts on a shelf, like maya's shelf or 3ds max custom toolbar. Just copy and paste your scripts here to create buttons to run them later. Organise them, rename …
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revoconner

Editing Vertex Normals - Maya

Right now I'm creating a bunch of modular character sets. Each item starts off from the same base mesh which is divided into the individual sections, so there's a split at the base of the neck, waist…
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wyj666

What would be your approach in texturing a big asset like this?

Think Sea of Thieves, A big ship that is essentially a huge platform where 4 players can play on. Sitting at 150k polygons.Has two below decks which are also playable areas.Some meshes are separate i…
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Eric Chadwick

Problems with baking high to low poly between marmoset 4 and substance painter

Hi, I’ve made an optimized model from a high one using the least ammount of triangles possible and using UDIMS. Before exporting it I’ve triangulated it and exported as a fbx The baking were mad…
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illumisanic

Adapting roughness channel and normal intensity in whole project for a new render ?

Years ago I would use Photoshop actions. But I am starting to hate Photoshop.   Is there a new  easier  options   for easily  batch tweak something ? 
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poopipe

Two UDIMs without UV seam.

みなさん、こんにちは。初めての投稿なので間違いがあったらごめんなさい。また、英語は私の得意分野ではないことをご理解ください。さて、バイクのモデリングは完了したので、テクスチャリングを始めます。タイヤ…
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poopipe

Help! Corrupted Maya file?

I'm shattered because I've been working on a big assignment, saved it, and suddenly my pc crashed...upon rebooting and opening the file about 80% is completely gone from the outliner and everything e…
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Sage

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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Eric Chadwick

Phoenix is ​​not visible in V ray rendering.

Hello everyone, I have a problem with Phoenix fd and V ray rendering.Any simulation done in Phoenix is ​​not visible in V ray rendering.The simulation is running without errors but is not visible in …
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Egamberdi050

maya: wrapdeform to skin?

i'm having lot's of fun here with 3ds max's neat ability to convert wrapdeforms into regular skin. now i'm working on this project that's mainly maya-based and want to know if there's a solution out …
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thomasp

Are more 4K textures being used in games now?

Playing a lot of recent FPS games, so many of the textures look really high res, especially up close. Is it just a matter of using 4K textures, or are there more techniques being used? I feel like wh…
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HAWK12HT

Introducing DigiKlay: A New Digital Sculpting Tool (Free Beta & Full Version Available)

Hi everyone!I’m thrilled to share DigiKlay, a lightweight and intuitive digital sculpting tool, perfect for artists looking for a simple yet powerful solution. DigiKlay is designed to streamline the …
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digiklay

Rigging help

So having trouble with my rig. Just started it out and set up the basic ik for it as i want to have it where when the pole behind the move ups it has it where it bend keeping the knee forward but for…
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Wolfer

Stuck on trying to resolve this topology for highpoly.

Hello!As title says, I'm kinda stuck here. I feel like I'm being dumb and there should be an easy solution that I, somehow, don't see. This corner right here give me headache:If I just bevel it,…
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Eric Chadwick

The basics of creating pseudo volume textures in Substance Designer - Tutorial

I've been working with a lot of volumetric rendering related stuff recently, and sometimes it involves creating volumetric textures. The another method is to use procedural content in the volumetric …
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ghassenNQ

Setting up Toon Shader

Hi there so I'm trying to set up a toon shader. But I'm getting confused by how to set it up with the textures I use. Here is my screenshot of how i have it set up. Trying to get a simple cell s…
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Wolfer

maya2025: Maya wont snap all selected vertices to the vertex near the mouse ('snap to points')

A handy trick I have been using for a while is if I have a bunch of vertices that have all their varying height positions (y axis) selected, with 'snap to points turned on' and the pivots y axis act…
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Ralf_Reddings

Assistance with 3ds Max, workflow Pixyz Studio -> 3ds Max -> Unity

Hello Everyone!Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I am currently having extreme difficulties delivering assets without scale or rotation to Unity, and this problem is costing me days and man…
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Ghogiel

Tik Manager – Open-Source Pipeline Tool for Game Dev (Now with Major Updates!)

Hey everyone!I wanted to share something cool that might interest some of you. Tik Manager4 is an open-source project that’s been around for a bit, but it hasn’t really been in the spotlight until no…
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Eric Chadwick

Help - Mesh is causing flipped normals across axes in substance (non overlapping UVs), nothing works

Hi, I am following the tutorial for Handgun by Eugene, I am at the texturing step and when I try to paint across the seam, the normal is flipped for some reason on the opposing axis, Like in the imag…
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Eric Chadwick

3D Scanner- What Editing Software should I focus on using?

Hello all,I was wondering what the best free software and file format to use for editing 3D scans for export to a 3d Printer.I have a Miraco Revopoint Scanner and I have Autodesk Fusion, Meshmixer, a…
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pior

Uving hard edges

Apologies for two posts in a row... I was wondering if anyone had any advice for UVing the hair here! I heard the rule that all hard edges should be uv seams...however the hair here is stylized …
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poopipe

DroneCam Blender Addon (Fly a Camera like a Drone using a Controller)

DroneCam is a free Blender addon that lets you control the camera like you would a real-life drone using an Xbox 360 gamepad as input.Damn bro, you still animate the camera manually for aerial shots …
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globglob

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

Requesting assistance figuring out photomatching

So i've done a fair few models, usually with blueprints that are semi reliable, like for cars and such. but i've never really built a model from scratch using just perspective photos alone and i'm ha…
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count23

Weight paint in Blender

Hi guys! During the rigging process I encountered a problem. Weight paint just doesn't work. It just doesn't paint, no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong? Blender version 3.2.0
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Nikkitten

[UV unwraping]Why do we always put car wheels on a separate UV map when unwrapping

Hi, I am learnning 3D modeling. I've been working on a car lately, and I'm basically done with the modeling , and starting to unwrapping UVs. I was originally going to put part of the car frame …
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howardding2000

Baked-Bevel-Trim Workflow__How to unwrapp complex models?

Hi everybody. I am working on an environment and I wanted to try to learn this method I saw on a post by Matthew Trevelyan.You can see his post here:https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qQGK6yI underst…
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okidoki

Issues when mirroring after baking half-mesh

Hey there,I have recently been trying to go extreme with optimizing UV space and have seen videos on people deleting a mesh down the middle, UV-unwrapping it, baking it and then mirroring the mesh la…
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guitarguy00

Help Needed With 3d Rigging

Hi im new to this and this is the first time i am rigging something. and so far the only bones that work are the barrel and the whole weapon bone. i had already made sure prior to this to separate ev…
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TrynaLearn

3D Animation knowledge/tutorials

Hi, the question may be a bit odd. Do you guys recommend any tutorials for making game-ready character and hard surface animations in Blender/Maya? There's so many things to get to know and I don't k…
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Eric Chadwick

maya2025: What is causing these two large faces to pinch?

The object is very simple, it does not even have edges that are too close to one another, so am wondering why are the two large faces slightly discoloured (not sure if this is what is called pinching…
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dimwalker

maya2025:How to go about holding the corners of this model and avoid pinching?

I have been trying to model a revolver for some time now, and while I have learnt quite a lot with regards to Maya, etc etc, I am still stuck on the project, specifically on modelling the revolvers c…
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Ralf_Reddings

Maya2025: With image planes, how to snap its pivot to the base?

When you have an object selected and are editing its pivot (pivot editing mode) its possible to snap the pivot to the various components of its object. All the various snapping features work this way…
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Ralf_Reddings

How to achieve SilentHill2Remake style wrapping in 3dsmax?

Hello folks.After playing SH2R I was curious how to make cloth and plastic like game has in hospital basement. It might not be physically accurate, but most of the time looks convincing enough and mo…
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Eric Chadwick

parametric primitive addon recommendation for blender? (plus any other essentials)

I'm asking here because the internet is full of blender "experts" and what I actually want is good answers ...I finally decided it was time to commit to Blender a week or so ago,  As a max fanbo…
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DanGry

Maya 2025: How to make a rectangles long side parallel to another objects edge?

I have a rectangle whose long side I would like to make parallel to another objects edge. I have tried all my newly learned tricks and nothing is sticking. The closest I have gotten is moving a corne…
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Ralf_Reddings

Radial Loop texture animation in 3DS Max

Hi guys!I'm working on 3DS Max, with Standard renderer due the engine limitations we use at work.Is it possible to animate a texture like this in 3DS Max?Thanks a lot!
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Eric Chadwick

Typewriter lowpoly question

This discussion was created from comments split from: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2024.
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Klunk

What is causing / how can i avoid this baking error?

I thought this issue was caused by me decimating too heavily, but it seems even after redoing the high poly & decimating less the issue remained. I am getting black triangles on certain random fa…
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Neox

do you soften or harden beveled edges on hard surfaces?

do you soften or harden beveled edges on hard surfaces?  when do you use vertex normals and set to face?
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stray

UV view is not equal to viewport view

I have no clue whats going on but all of the sudden my UV view does not longer equal my viewport view (this worked fine an hour ago)I only have ONE set of UV'sYes, its the correct image in my texture…
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Eric Chadwick

[3ds Max] miauu's Tab Panel

     miauu's Tab Panel allows you to organize all of your toolbars into tabs. What you can do: convert existing toolbars into tabscreate new tabs and easily fill them with act…
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miauu

any good wood material tutorials

Hello, can someone tell me any good tutorials for creating realistic wood from start to finish, thats used in the gaming industry for aaa games?
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Joopson

how do I avoid stretch in my designs ?

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Noren

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