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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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AFsoft

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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Ruz

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 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

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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Noth

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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cturbo

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

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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gnoop

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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Eric Chadwick

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

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

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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rahimi001

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

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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Yesbird

Advice with secondary forms

HiI need some advice from fellow character artists. One aspect I've not had enough practise with and that I'm struggling with is the mid-frequency/secondary forms. For the most part, I understand wha…
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DustyShinigami

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

can you bake high poly and then apply trim sheets

I'm currently working with trim sheets to texture a roof, and I'm aiming for a smooth geometry. I'm curious about how to achieve a smooth appearance on low poly models without baking from a high …
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cturbo

Combining textures together versus combining materials together for landscape texturing

Hi guys!I am learning about 2 ways to texture large landscapes. Mask creating and terrain creation not a problem. I am more interested in texturing workflows. If someone who is pro can gave some good…
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Jazon99

PBR grass vs asphalt albedo/base color value?

Does anyone know why basically any  base color/albedo  gude  says  asphalts including old/worn ones base color  should be darker than any random grass/ foliage albedo and yet…
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Eric Chadwick

HelixEdit New Maya tool

Plugin for Maya – Free for the Next 30 Days!HelixEdit is a complete solution for custom AAA character creation. It works directly with MetaHuman topology, automating most processes to help you build …
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Rima

[3ds max] Help me to understand/recreate icon style from the game

Greetings.I would like to ask your professional opinion about such subject... Here are several item icons from one old game. From your perspective - are they drawn by hand (pixel art, etc) or rendere…
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Darkloke

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

Maxivz's Interactive Tools for Blender

About:This is a collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools to improve productivity that I did to improve my workflow as I transitioned into Blender.They are designed to be used as hotkeys, remo…
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The Devo

Texturing workflow for a large asset?

Hi, I'm a game artist and I'm in the process of making a large table that has a lot of sculpted detail. I just finished the sculpt in ZBrush and I'm now UVing it. The shells do not have enough texel …
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Eric Chadwick

Does anybody know a soft like Photoshop but working with material channels ?

Or like Substance Painter  but  working in 2d space  with pixel snap precision .    Something simple like 2x2 ?   Vector style maybe  including vector curves t…
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iam717

Zbrush extracted mesh causing doubles and inverted normals ?

I'm trying to delete part of the mesh I extracted from my body mesh to use for clothing, when I try to delete it the inside of the mesh loses thickness, see the rim of the sleeves compared to the del…
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iam717

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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Klunk

Cgtrader standards / glass

Hey guys cgtrader says that for a PBR workflow I should upload at least: BaseColor Normal Metalness and Roughness. And in case of a glass material I should add an opacity map. This I don't get. I usu…
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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

Issue with baking my normal map

Hello. I have an issue with artifacts on my normal map. The low-poly model was created in 3D Max, and I’m baking it in Marmoset Toolbag. The hard edges follow the UV seams. However, in Substance Pain…
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Neox

xgen guides disappeared from viewport after deleting history

Hi,I have a problem with xgen.I have made some grooming and i continued to work on some clothes for the character in the same maya scene. I deleted some history bcz i had to and next time i started m…
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Gourav

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