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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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FrankPolygon

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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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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kanga

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 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 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

Most Efficient Way to Render Ready Game Models

Hey,Game-Ready models are very low poly. Which makes them very hard to look good for portfolio renders. I generally spend extra time to re-bevel and subdivide the low poly version to make it look bet…
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pior

would a cheap prime lens improve photogrammetry on 24mp cam?

I have sony a6000 24 mpix APC-s camera with default  kit zoom lens pz14-50.  Photogrammetry have always been so-so an softy with this camera.      Chat GPT tells me it's a so…
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pior

Horizon Forbidden West "Average Skin-Tone" Extraction & LUT Workflow

I recently came across a presentation slide regarding Guerrilla Games' character texturing pipeline (specifically the improvements made for Horizon Forbidden West).I would be interested in finding ou…
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poopipe

Fibershop - Any alternatives?

Hello, I am trying to streamline hair-cards in Blender and really want to use Fibershop to generate the textures. However when I go to the CGPal website, the website comes up as unsafe. Is it un…
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okidoki

What Blender Tasks Are Still Wasting Your Time? Looking for Real Automation Targets

I build Blender tools with a focus on automation and production speed, primarily for game art workflows. Before deciding what to build next, I want to hear directly from people who use Blender serio…
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okidoki

Baking issues, before and after baking normal map

Hi all,I'm having some issues with baking, the first image shows how the mesh looks in marmoset without any baking done yet and the last image is after baking the normal map.I tried increasing the si…
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Arby

X- trans vs Bayer for photogrammetry ?

Have anyone noticed any advantage of Fuji X-trans cameras over Bayer ones with similar matrix resolution for capturing tiny mesh details ?    I heard rumors that xtrans performs better…
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gnoop

mgtools - blender power tools

Hey.This pack of tools originates from a toolset I wrote for 3ds max nearly 20 years ago which I converted to blender when I switched on version 2.8.They where used in a few productions so far and sh…
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Eric Chadwick

[3DSMAX] Something similar to Blender Mesh-machine Offset Cut?

There is a very fast workflow in Blender to simulate smooth intersections of booleans by using offset cut. It does not create nice geometry, but it works visually. Is there any sort of script that ca…
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PolyHertz

Nack: Single-Flash 16-bit Surface Scanning. Is Photogrammetry overkill for micro-details?

Hi Polycount!I’ve spent the last year obsessed with a single problem: Why do we need to take 50+ photos and wait for cloud processing just to capture the surface of a brick or a piece of wood?I’m dev…
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RKey4

How can I make powerlines?

I am trying to model a transmission tower and I want to make these powerlines using a transparent texture. Am I going to need a bunch of line segments in the plane for the texture to work because the…
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poopipe

[WIP] Lords of the Fallen - Pieta - need feedback on UV's

Hi, I’m currently working on a game-ready character for my portfolio and I’ve run into an issue. After baking my high-polys , some of the details were lost in the process. I know this is kinda normal…
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Benjammin

Blender Weighted Normals

Hi, any ideas on how to smooth the bevel using weighted normals to get the same look as the tutorial ? no matter what I do, the bevel looks sharp.   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1…
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Eric Chadwick

Blender Meshmachine Offset Cut geometry import 3dsmax problems

Does anyone know what causes these problems when importing wither OBj or FBX objects that have a Meshmachine Offset Cut into 3dsmax?Moving a problem vertex solves the problem
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OccultMonk

Does anyone know how to import blender models to Unity?

I am trying to import this tree model I made, I am having trouble with the leaf textures I made using mesh plane. One side of the texture shows but the other does not.
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poopipe

How to solve this baking issue?

(My English is not very good)…When performing hard surface normal baking, this issue often arises: strange fine ridges appear along the low-poly topology. How to fix it？
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HAWK12HT

Thickness for clothing in "Game Ready" models

Hi all, first post on the forum. I'm looking for advice regarding thickness and double-siding (interior plane, exterior plane) retopology meshes for models to be used in various game engines (an…
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pior

What small tablet ( without screen) is ok currently?

My Intuos start to constantly disconnect with any cable after having spilled coffee on many times    and I am looking for new tablet.     Whats good nowadays?    &n…
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iam717

Updating MSI gaming laptop to win11? TPM 2 is absent?

Have anyone experienced same problem ?   BIOS settings are abysmally small  and there is nothing TPM related .    I am on extended security updates for w10  but eventual…
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poopipe

Supporting Edges vs Bevels vs Creasing for 3d game art and cinematics?

Hi all,I wanted to know what use cases supporting edges, beveling and creasing would be used for 3d modeling. I'm creating a mix of game ready and cinematic models for practice.This is my software se…
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Neox

How is this kind of cloudy edge noise generated? (texture generated by ChatGPT)

I’m trying to identify the noise used for the edge, not the gradient. This texture was generated by ChatGPT, but ChatGPT could not guide me on how to recreate this effect myself. The edge has a clo…
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Neox

MathView - algebraic surfaces editor with VR support.

Greetings !I would like to show you my latest project: algebraic surfaces editor that can work as agreat source of unusual geometry for your projects.MathView 1.04 - algebraic surfaces editor with VR…
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Yesbird

[Blender Add-on] Smart UV Tool – Fast, Clean UVs for Dense Meshes

Hey everyone,I’ve been working on UV unwrapping workflows in Blender, mainly for dense meshes and production assets, where clean island layout and minimal distortion actually matter.Most automatic UV…
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meshmind

Weighted Normals (Mid Poly) Workflow Clarification?

Hi all, I'm playing around with the mid poly workflow in maya and had a question regarding the workflow from modeling to texturing to engine as I have yet to find a proper answer on this from th…
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sacboi

Automating quad topology for dense meshes (workflow discussion)

I’ve been working on quad remeshing workflows for animation and game assets, specifically around edge flow consistency and deformation safety.Most automatic remeshers are fine for previews, but I kep…
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anvilinteractive

Workflow challenges in Unity ↔ Blender pipelines — asset prep & scene export issues

Hi all — looking for thoughts from experienced artists and technical folks on a workflow challenge I’ve been thinking about.I’ve been examining common pain points when moving assets between Blender a…
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anvilinteractive

Scale drift between Blender, Unreal, and Maya — how do you manage it?

I’m curious how others here handle unit and scale consistency across different tools and engines.In my experience, scale drift tends to creep in over time — especially when assets move between Blende…
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anvilinteractive

This is a tricky one - decals and displacement

I have a snowy terrain that has displacement and character footprint interaction as they move through the snow. I need tire marks to show as well and Im unsure of the best approach here. Using decals…
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poopipe

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Eric Chadwick

Have anyone tried instaMAT recently ? Any cool advancements ?

I once  tried briefly their free  license , then uninstalled due to severe lack of free space .   Haven't found it good enough to switch from Designer .   Now Chat GPT&n…
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gnoop

Simple, artist friendly version control?

Anybody have a recommendation for some version control software that's relatively easy to pickup and foolproof? I only need it for local backup and revisions, no collaboration. I have some storage sp…
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taiwofolu

cant export mesh maps from substance painter after retouching?

hello,i get this error when i try to export from mesh maps from substance painter. I retouched AO and Normal and need them out as they retouched but substance wont let me do it probably because they …
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Neox

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

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

[Maya Script] Patch FBXASC codes in object names

Would like to share my script to replace all FBXASC codes to underscore symbol. You can download the script and find all instructions here.NOTE: for now its only works for objects that derives f…
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kofufyre

[Tool Release] glTF Importer For Maya - Full PBR & Animation Support

Hi all!I have published a Maya plugin for importing glTF/glb assets, which I think many of you will find useful.glTF Importer for Maya - handles the glTF 2.0 spec, allowing you to use those…
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kofufyre

Braided river, streams ?

Does anyone knows a terrain tools or just a simple way to generate them ?  Looking physically accurate more or less?   So far whatever terrain generator I tried  , Gaea and such a…
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gnoop

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

miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Align allows you to quickly align the gizmo of the Symmetry, Slice and Mirror modifiers by picking 3 points in the scene    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6g…
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miauu

I made this node based tool

Hi all, I've been working on this node based gltf viewer because nodes are cool af, you can check it on the link here or you can go to this demo link.Its still work in progress so its in read on…
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Eric Chadwick

Does anyone know a good modern vector 2d soft ?

Where I could  composite vector shapes  with feathered edges and bitmap fill of albedo textures ,  then easily replace the fill with normal map or spec for export .   Doing p…
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gnoop

Modular roads with unique normal

Greetings. In general, this is my first attempt to socialize among 2D artists and 3D artists. I hope for your understanding, since I am a beginner 3D environment artist. I ask for help and support. I…
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poopipe

SpeedTree - Smaller trees appeared inside of my tree? Polycount Ballooned overnight

I've been using speedtree for a little while now and I thought I had a hang of it. I made some trees and exported them yada yada and I reopened the file today and the previously 2k~ tri trees I made …
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Eric Chadwick

Can you vertex paint nanite meshes?

I'm curious to find out if it's possible to vertex paint nanite meshes. I've come across a few YouTube tutorials, but I haven't seen any official guidance. Can you do it, or is it not recommended?
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hallowseve

How to roll up in zbrush?

Hi guys,is there any brush in zbrush (or way) with whom i can roll up edges of trousers or sleeves like shown on the pic above?i hope u understand what im trying to ask
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iam717

Maya. Bonus tools - randomize transform issue.

Hi!I'm making a cactus, and I need to randomly rotate the "needles" around local Y axis: However, to my disappointed I found out that maya's bonus tool randomize transform only works in global…
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Eric Chadwick

Maya - Best way to approach

Hi all,I am in the middle of  a project creating an Arri Alexa Mini 3D model. I have shaped out some basic shapes and some supporting lines. But I am not too sure on how I would approach the ext…
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Benjammin

Current Industry Standard workflow for 3D artists??

Hi everyone,I'm currently working on my hard surface game art portfolio and was wondering if anyone had any insights on what workflow is considered industry standard so I know which one to focus on, …
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pior

Is there a limit to UDIMS?

I am creating a turret hero prop. When I bake with 2 UDIMs the normals are jagged, I've upped it to 6 UDIMS and they come out cleaner. The question I have is are they a limit to the amount of UDIMS I…
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poopipe

[ZBrush] OVERHANGS WITH SMOOTH GROUP BRUSH/POLISH GROUPS

Hello all,I'm trying to soften BevelPro edges using the Smooth Group brush or Polish Groups (open circle) and both are producing geometry overhangs in certain corners. Should I be approaching this di…
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Neox

3DSMAX - UnChamfer Pro released!

I've just released a script for reverting chamfered geometry back to its original shape. I think it's quite useful, and hopefully a few of you will too. :)(I raised the price a bit compared to my oth…
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JaySmitt

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