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Normal baking object with thin straps

Modelling software: BlenderRendering software: UnrealUse case: Real-time render modelling portfolioI'm trying to figure out the best way to get good normals on a backpack object, with its various thi…
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dimwalker

Mirroring and stacking UVs leads to tangent discontinuity and seam

Hello all, I've been stuck on this for a while and would appreciate any help. In Maya I have a mesh where I mirrored the top half of the geo, which also mirrored and stacked the uvs. I did this to in…
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trs79

Maya: AO to Vertex Colors?

How do you bake Ambient Occlusion to vertex colors in Maya nowadays?Mental Ray is no longer supported, developed or even shipped with Maya. Arnold lacks this functionality, and TURTLE is yet ano…
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poopipe

How would I unwrap and bake this car model?

I'm currently working on a car model and am at the stages of baking and doing the materials. However, I've run into an issue when baking the low and high poly models. The material is a bit distorted …
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Neox

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 textures In viewport colorful and grainy, how to fix this ?

Hello, so I set the project to this main file, and opened the scene for this rig and this is what the viewport is looking like. Instructions for the rig are:Below are the steps to load the character’…
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Eric Chadwick

Creating Animations for games

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here could share a good workflow for creating game animations quickly? The animations I’m working on are very niche, so I’m unable to use Mixamo or other premade ass…
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Eric Chadwick

Stacking Double RGB Vertex color Info into 1 Vertex Painting potential solution.

Hello fellow polycounters. Thought I'd share a potential solution to how Naughty Dog is having more than the one set data in their Vertex Painting Setup for the Last of Us part 1. You can view the …
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Ghogiel

New Real-Time VFX, Animation and Rendering Software for Maya/Houdini Users

Hey everyone! We’ve built a new real-time 3D animation, VFX, and rendering tool called Univah Pro (The Univah Film Engine) — designed with Maya and Houdini users in mind. It’s built to give film stu…
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SmSoftwareCompany

Houdini HDA breaks FBXs normals into Unreal Engine

Hi everybody, I have a problem regarding normal maps and shading in Houdini and in Unreal Engine when I bring my HDA. I will try to be as concise and to the point to explain the issueCONTEXTI am maki…
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Dantexagc

Need advice: How to properly create low poly from high poly knife in Blender?

Hi everyone! I'm currently working on a knife model. This is my current high poly (image attached). Now, I want to create a proper low poly version for baking and texturing, but I'm not sure about t…
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okidoki

A short explanation about custom vertex normals (tutorial)

Hello everyone! I already made a few examples about this to a few of you, but I thought it would be more useful to make a tutorial from it, so I won't have to write it down every time when it comes i…
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Eric Chadwick

[Maya] Exported FBX skinned mesh with multiple skinclusters in it

HiI have a skinned mesh which I'm exporting from Maya in FBX format, the mesh has a single skinCluster and a blend shape deformer. When I import it has a bunch of skinClusters, I think one for each i…
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Yerus

Baked high to low normal map has seams in Arnold CPU render on all hard edges.

[{"insert":"Hi, I'd like to render my baked normal map in Arnold CPU, does anyone know how to get rid of all these seams? Scene file here if you want to take a look "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/…
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gnoop

Colmap/Neuralangelo

Does anyone have any experience working with colmap and/or Neuralangelo? I'm trying to construct a 3D mesh of a room from video and I have questions for someone who knows more about the process.
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benthedev

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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ZacD

Support Edges+SubD vs Bevel for baking

Hey,What are your thoughts on using bevels vs support edges+subdivision, for high poly mesh.I find it easier to use a bevel modifier on my low poly to make the edges smoother and bake it that way. Th…
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dimwalker

Self Oriented Lattice tool for Maya

Hi Guys,  I have made a version of my Volume Auto-Fit Lattice of blender but this time for MAYA, I have tested it in Autodesk Maya 2025 and 2026 and in both version works fine, if you try it in …
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rfarencibia

[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

Xgen Collection is not showing

[{"insert":"Hi, guys. I need help with my Xgen Collection.\nYesterday I saved my file and when I opened it today, my xgen collection was not there and the hair strands are not showing on the viewport…
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muted_carpet_950

Baking with a Cage and multiple materials breaks all material bakes but one.

I have set up a model to mimic a hand wearing a bracelet. The hand is one contiguous closed mesh. The Bracelet is one contiguous closed mesh, which intersects the hand slightly. The fingers are tight…
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almirageddon

Two Root joints for Game Rig ?

Hello,I am not a TD, but I am the solo animator at my current job and I need to deal with the creating of the rigs for Unity. The coder that deals with character skills and integretion is asking…
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poopipe

[Game Art] Modular Kits related Issues

This is my modular wall piece. For the wall, I am going to use tileable texture, and for the wood panel below, I am going to use unique texture. As the corners are so sharp, I wanted to sculpt those …
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rafiii

[3ds Max] Transfer Slate Material Editor views between files

Do newer versions of 3ds Max offer the possibility to transfer SME view tabs (so the exact layout/representation/ arrangement of the material nodes as opposed to simply merging the materials / materi…
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Noren

Asset Pack Textures

Hello,I just wanted to ask what the best practice is with regard to texturing for asset packs for sales. For example I'm working on a pack for a Blacksmith shop, a lot of the items are quite small, t…
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Ghogiel

modeling TV

What approach do you recommend for modeling this while including all the vents? I'm currently using booleans, but I'm curious about how you would avoid having too many edges around the model just…
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cturbo

How do you bake such a complex woven hat on a low-poly mesh that like that?

[{"insert":"I'd like to learn how to bake intricate models on low-poly meshes and this example by Angela Rico fits exactly what I aim for. How do you bake such a model with all the spaces, holes etc …
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Eric Chadwick

Where can I learn how topology should look when smoothened ?

Does anyone have any resources on how edge loops should look when smoothened? I always see these kind of  weird edge loops when doing SubD modeling, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to look lik…
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Spacewizard44

Weird problems with texture (with pictures!) (agisoft metashape)

HelloI made just a quick scan last year by my cheap old smartphone - Xioami Redmi 7A. Of some debris from a building renovation i went by by a chance. I loaded it into metashape, did high quality mes…
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Jonathan85

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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Skan

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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sacboi

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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kanga

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

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

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