Technical Talk

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Simple(?) MEL Script I am attempting to write what I assume is a pretty simple mel script to achieve this behavior:• Select shortest edge path based on current selection of two verts• Switch to edge component mode• Set s…	5 Last	Klaudio2U Apr 2017
[MAYA 2017] Slice Plane Tool It isn't multi cut tool.Trying to find a tool that was in 2013, It's a slice plane tool that upon use creates a plane with no texture applied to it that will slice the object depending on the planes …	1 Last	BlasterMaster Apr 2017
[Maya] How to rig for complex polygon movement? (SOLVED) This is a simple problem and I'm hoping someone here has a simple solution. I've been rigging something, and in the below image I've isolated a single eye from the model along with the nurbs controls…	2 Last	Turbopasta Apr 2017
difference between baking a AO map and a normal map? Helo guysThis is kinda a Noob question but I just wanted to know what is the difference between these two. As far as I know, the AO map doesn't need high poly but is it suitable for games and ca…	3 Last	Laughing_Bun Mar 2017
How to consolidate workflow of Maya and Zbrush Hi, every one, I'm a newbie in Zbrush, and I hope to do hard surface modeling in a workflow contian Maya 2017 and Zbrush 4R7. I planned to build a base model in Maya, around 1000s of faces or lo…	6 Last	MasterOfKML Mar 2017
Best practice for unwrapping Medium Poly models Hello,I am trying to use medium poly modeling instead of baking out normal maps so adding a bevel to all my edges to handle the smooth transitions. I was wondering the best way to unwrap models…	1 Last	MaD Mar 2017
[UE4] How to correctly display Parralax on surface like walls ? [SOLVED] EDIT : Adjusting the reference plane setting fixed both the gap and the texture stretching, I had noise in the material but removing the Pixel Depth Offset node fixed it.Hi everyone !I'm actually str…	8 Last	Obscura Mar 2017
Hair Problems Hi guys,I dont know what I am doing wrong! I keep trying to make hair cards for my characters hair and when I input them into Marmosetthe hair has strange borders and isnt fully transparent.Here is a…	3 Last	.Wiki Mar 2017
Rectangular Cone Extrude Hello,I'm new to 3ds max.How can I improve my mesh so that it has sharp, smooth corners on the cheeks?GratefulRobson (Brazil)	1 Last	Obscura Mar 2017
How to rig thick cloth ? I have the following models:And i rigged the low poly of the robe:But i cannot keep the thickness even during animation, and worse the back faces pass throw the front during animations:I tried many t…	3 Last	Elzean Mar 2017
How to make tillable materials in Substance designer to limit draw-calls in UE4 So I'm just curious how I can create something like Uncharted 4 did, in which they would create only a few material bases in substance designer, and tile things onto it in the node editor, heavily/in…	2 Last	m4dcow Mar 2017
Zbrush Tablet Pressure Curve Hey all,I've been working with Zbrush for a couple months now and have been recently reworking and toying with preferences and settings to customize the software to my liking. Every time I see a tuto…	0 Last	zachagreg Mar 2017
Baking Deformations Into A Blendshape - Script A wrote a mel script that bakes animations into blendshapes.What you can do with this:- Bake skeletal animations into blendshapes- Bake Ncloth, deformer, and MASH animations into blendshapes- Combine…	0 Last	jengy Mar 2017
Material IDs vs Textures So I'm having a little trouble working out the differences between Material IDs and using Textures in terms of optimizations. I'm dealing with Mobile devices (Gear VR) and Unreal Engine 4, and from m…	2 Last	monster Mar 2017
(3DS MAX) Smoothing group error This problem has been plaguing me with a while and I simply can't get my head around it. The problem lies with models that I (or a coworker) may have created a number of months ago. When the assets i…	6 Last	Mirbobo Mar 2017
Mechanical Color's Replay for MODO Mechanical Color recently released Replay, a new tool for MODO, that allows you to create macros and scripts without writing a single line of code. Here's a brief overview of why it's…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Mar 2017
What component priority when upgrading PC? (Houdini, zbrush, mari and vray focus) This is what i have at the moment. Motherboard Name Asus Rampage III Extreme (1 PCI, 1 PCI-E x4, 4 PCI-E x16, 6 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) Motherboard Chipset Intel Tylersbur…	5 Last	ISUther Mar 2017
Maya motionpath & flowpath error This is odd, this worked previously for me, and now i can't make it work again.So i have geometry, that i want to follow a curve.So i click the geo and click the curve, animate/motionpath, and then a…	2 Last	Mcbeardo Mar 2017
3D encryption program we made. D3CRYPT3D. won SXSW Innovative Interactive Awards for Priv; Sec. Long story short, that problem we had of stolen assets and an attempt at trying to solve it came out to be somewhat of a roller-coaster ride. Last weeks award ceromony, https://www.youtube.com/embed/…	7 Last	ranek Mar 2017
Vizpack: Products - Material Library Vizpack: Products - Material Library VizPack: Products is a collection of over 160 materials providing a range of detailed and physically accurate shaders to cover many different needs. With a f…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Mar 2017
[3dsmax] UVW seams to Smoothing Groups? Hey polycount community! I was wondering if there is a script/tool which allows the user to automatically generate smoothing groups from UVW seams in 3ds max. That should help to quickly bake normal…	26 Last	jackrabbit82 Mar 2017
game geo vs. product render geo? Hi all, recently I've been working on a high res project hoping to create a realistic render of an old camera. I have only created game assets before so I don't have much experience in ultra hig…	4 Last	throttlekitty Mar 2017
Old Handplane gone? Hey folks,I recently went to use Handplane for the first time today to convert a world space normal map to a Maya tangent space map, and I don't see the option any where.....Does Handplane no longer …	3 Last	fattkid Mar 2017
3ds Max- Morpher target values exceeding 0 and 100? I've created a head rig and animations using morph targets. In between frames, the values of each morpher targets are sometimes exceeding 0 and 100 (so either going -678 for example having been set t…	2 Last	iiAdaaamV1 Mar 2017
MODO \| Convert UVs to Mesh MODO \| Convert UVs to Mesh This short video introduces the Convert UVs to Mesh command. This powerful command converts a UV map into a separate Mesh Item or a morph…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Mar 2017
XGen primitives not following guides correctly (braids) I've been following this tutorial step-by-step, until I realized that mine looks so terribly horrible.In the image above, the one on the left is nHair and the one on the right is XGen. I cranked down…	2 Last	gem2492 Mar 2017
Fur breakdown Since people requested it here's a little breakdown for the fur on my [URL="https://www.artstation.com/artwork/the-vajen-bader"]helmet[/URL] (and furry balls) It's not really revolutionary in any way…	16 Last	Sunray Mar 2017
How many Polys (Triangles) can the average 4GB/6GB RAM load in view. So I'm just curious how many polys (Triangles) can the average 4gb ram computer load at one time, in a Multiplayer High intensive game, Now I'm NOT wanting the poly count for the entire scene/level a…	8 Last	NoRank Mar 2017
Maya Hair System Issue Hey guys!Has anyone had issues with Maya hair systems creating spikes as seen below? The file appears to be fine, but after saving and re-opening, I get this effect. I started with Fibermesh from Zbr…	14 Last	kmacneil91 Mar 2017
Preserve UV's whilst grid snapping error in Maya Hey guys! I'm learning how to do tileable textures and I'm setting up this plane in Maya following along with this tut:http://www.purepolygons.com/store/p21/forest-snow-tutorialWhen I attempt to grid…	0 Last	FrellingHazmot Mar 2017
MODO \| Creating a Macro with Replay Replay is a powerful visual tool for creating macros in MODO. This tool is packed with amazing features that make the creation of Macros much easier than the built-in recorder. There are too ma…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Mar 2017
Onion Packer: free image manager Hi everybody,I am Michele Rullo, a Computer Engineer coming from Italy. I would like to present myself with a disclaimer: I am not a 3D artist.So, why did I land on this forum?Me and a friend of mine…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2017
Realtime Cars need advice. Hi there,I have my research about realtime cars and how they are modelled. They are mostly medium-resolution meshes with no normal maps.But there are a few things that elude me. For example.The engra…	5 Last	oglu Mar 2017
[Photoshop] - Color Settings (Possible Factory Reset?) Greetings,I haven't seen many Photoshop Posts in this forum, and I am a bit unsure if this is the correct Thread. Please correct me if this Topic is in the wrong place.I was wondering if someone has …	0 Last	EliasWick Mar 2017
Rendering GMH2 results back to hair planes (maya) Hello everyone, I just recently purchased the GMH2 hair script for maya. So far I love the script, but I bought the script because I was under the impression that it created lowpoly hair for use i…	2 Last	GeoCat Mar 2017
MODO \| Topology Pen Tool Shortcuts The Topology Pen tool can be found in the Polygon tools menu in the Model Layout, and the Tools menu in the Topology Layout. Whether you're using the Topology Pen tool for retopology or other model…	0 Last	WilliamVaughan Mar 2017
creating photorealistic textures in photoshop I know PBR texturing in photoshop, but there's a job position which requires artists to also have skills to create photorealistic textures in photoshop. Can someone please tell me what are those skil…	5 Last	Sunray Mar 2017
Closed Traditional Pencil/Paper Art - Beginner Requesting Help Hello! This is my first post here. I was recommended this site when I was asking around and I've browsed around before but didn't join back then. As a preliminary I typed "Beginner" in the search…	24 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2017
[SOLVED] [MAYA] Rigging/Skinning problems - Sort of double transformations Hey guys! I hope you will solve this problem because I have absolutely no idea how to fix this... I'm working on the eyebrows of my character and I followed this tutorial : https:…	0 Last	Alexandre_Mairy Mar 2017
WorldMachine export RAW16 file I'm trying to export a height map from world machine to put into unreal using RAW16 file the appropriate file type but for some reason its saving into a winrar file and prompting up with this er…	0 Last	F5_official Mar 2017
Mental ray 2017 problem with a normal map pass Hello everyone. I have no idea why mental ray 2017 in maya render normal map pass like this. Please could anyone help with it ?	5 Last	zhokz Mar 2017
Dealing with flowing string/cloth objects in ZBrush I'm looking to make a sword model in ZBrush to texture with Quixel and import into Unity to use as a portfolio piece. On the object itself, I want to add a string, cloth, or something flowing, a…	0 Last	aaeriam Mar 2017
Backing round and circle shapes in xNormal Hello everyone, this is my first post and I would like to say that polycount is one of my top sites that really helped me alot and I'm so grateful to you guys.Anyway, I'm having problems with baking …	2 Last	Adam_Black Mar 2017
How to change up axis to y in 3ds max ? helo guysi recently bought a new unwrapping program headus uv layout 2. The problem i am having is that whenever i try to export the models as obj, I dont have an option to change the up vector to y …	6 Last	spacefrog Mar 2017
How would you guy's go about animating a tree rig with bones? Hi everyone,I have a low poly tree for game(pine tree) and the rig is done with a bone for each foliage card representing a branch, so i was wondering about what would be the best way to animate it t…	2 Last	pixelquaternion Mar 2017
lightmapping confusion Hi there, Im creating a light map for a shipping container i modelled. Im wondering should i keep this part as one single seamless piece on the UV sheet or should it broken into many peices on the UV…	4 Last	HAWK12HT Mar 2017
Are my uv layouts correct? helo guys.I am nowadays doing unwrapping practices. So i unwrapped this really simple model today. The checker pattern seems to flow quite perfectly but i still have doubt that if something is wrong.…	5 Last	Crimzan Mar 2017
Head modeling, why do some artists model eye/mouth first? I was looking at the a few character head modeling tutorials and find some of them start with eye/mouth (where animation happens), instead of the whole head then add details. For example the ones fro…	8 Last	Mark Dygert Mar 2017
D3D/OpenGL: Question about shaders in larger projects Hi!I'm a game dev student and last semester we had a '3D-programming' course, in which we did some basic stuff such as rendering a textured quad spinning around in the "scene". We used quite basic ve…	0 Last	Finoli Mar 2017
[3ds max] what u should do after unwrapping a mesh? hi guys.I know its kind of a nooob question but what do u do after unwrapping. there are many options for me like i can pack the uvs or render uv templates. I mean what is ur workflow after unwrappin…	3 Last	EliasWick Mar 2017