Technical Talk

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Question about The Order: 1886 art style I'm looking at some concept for The Order: 1886 and they're providing reference on some of their weapons at the bottom of this sheet. Besides the obvious "steampunk" art description, what do you call…	6 Last	gsokol Jan 2017
Concept Art Brush Hacks, Please Share Yours! Been painting concept art lately but I've only been using the default round brush and it definitely has an affect on my art! It generally looks too flat and cartoony, way to many straight edges.I kno…	2 Last	Stinger88 Jan 2017
Substance Designer: Color Not Showing When It Should (I think) Hello all. I'm working in Substance Designer 5 to create a brick material. Problem: Grout color will not show up in 3D viewer even though Base Color shows the grout color correctly.Pictures:The …	1 Last	Devon M Jan 2017
ZBRUSH CENTERPIVOT Hi, I'm having some issue where I imported some objs in zbrush and then transposed them in place but now the pivot isn t centered anymore and all I found is some complicated stuff and I have a couple…	0 Last	simlartiste Jan 2017
Creating landscapes for still render hi guys,I am just wondering what is the best way to make some terrain for a still render of a character of mine.In the past, I learned, the best way to do this is to fake the real world scale by a pe…	2 Last	gestoryscht Jan 2017
Houdini - Vector Field Generation I've looked all over, can't find any information about how to make vector fields in Houdini. All I've got is an impression and a couple of tools for exporting and the documentation about a SOP Vecto…	2 Last	swann Jan 2017
Maya Script - Randomly Flip UVS, in either X & Y direction As title says,Does anyone know any scripts out there that achieve this?Cheers!	2 Last	emesjay Jan 2017
Baking ao for mechanical stuff for animation As title says, i'm wondering what would be best way to bake somewhat complex mechanical machinery in way that would be in-game animation friendly. I'm creating kind-of-a mech with hydraulic legs, ben…	4 Last	ZacD Jan 2017
Split view in z brush? Hello, Does anyone knows is there in zBrush a split view option?I was wondering this (example: you adjust something when looking at model in front but same time you need to see how does same cha…	1 Last	cryrid Jan 2017
Blender Game Tools - the fastest set of tools for game asset creation (free!) Hi!Download: http://linko.projects.free.fr/gametools.zipOfficial thread: https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?383624-Dark-Blender-(Official-Thread)-optimized-for-sculpting-and-game-asset-c…	8 Last	Linko Jan 2017
marvelous designer vs marvelous designer for steam Hello Polycounters!I have decided to buy a license of marvelous designer, but then i found that steam had marvelous designer at 3/5ths of the price, with the added "for steam" at the end.anyone know …	3 Last	allknighter Jan 2017
Help needed - techniques for sculpting skins Hello guys. I am looking for some techniques for creating creature skins. I've already got a lot of references but when it comes to creating it's complicated. I found some information on the process …	0 Last	Isunoj Jan 2017
Opinion on practicing in Asymmetrical vs Symmetrical sculpting? Hello,I been wondering if it would be better to work in asymmetrical as practice to understand form, gesture..etc,instead of working symmetrical?Would anyone like to share their experience if they fe…	1 Last	oglu Jan 2017
Remove empty groups in Maya? Hi everyone, I've been wondering if anyone knows a script or a way to effectively delete garbage/empty groups from the outliner in maya. I'm attaching an example. I tried to use Optimize -> D…	3 Last	antweiler Jan 2017
questions about baking hard edges and using cavity maps Question.Not sure but having some trouble with this recently. Normally I would use 1 mesh 1 smoothing group in order to bake off bevels. After this test though I may need to completely re…	2 Last	kysg Jan 2017
Fast and Stylized 3D Techs / Tricks ? I'm looking for anything (mainly unusual techniques, tricks, art directions) that could make it easier to make a large number of models quickly, without them looking entirely terrible. Realism or hig…	4 Last	plastic_sludge Jan 2017
3dsMax - How to remove interior edges of a selected polygon group while keeping borders intact? How to remove interior edges of a selected polygon group while keeping borders intact in 3dsMax? I can do it by a single command in Modo but couldn't find any tools or scripts that does it in 3dsMax.…	14 Last	Swordslayer Jan 2017
UV Map Preparation Comprehension Searched for 'UV Map Tips' and didn't see the question phrased in a way that I was looking for, so I figured I'd stick my head out and see if I could help with my understanding by raising the noob fl…	2 Last	Syncronocity Jan 2017
Polycount budget help I need to do an assessment of the polycount budget for a module-based service (not a game, but works as a game) where the main target platforms, or rather the comparing platforms, are tablets and PC.…	2 Last	KurtR Jan 2017
Texturing Then v. Now I was wondering it is now more common to use texturing programs like substance,3D Coat, and DDO then to use Photoshop from start to finish?	3 Last	CreativeSheep Jan 2017
Maya and the phantom wireframe Dear polycounters,I've got that sexy triangle shape I wanted (not 100% on how) but now I have this wireframe of triangle past going on. is this bad? how do I get rid of it? I've	4 Last	olgakoupt Jan 2017
Question(s) about UVs.. Hey, my lovely Polycount community!I know it... we all hate UVs and it's a pain in the a**..In the last weeks, I tried to learn UVs, smoothing groups to bake perfect normal maps, but I'm not really s…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2017
Maya - Sculpt Geometry Tool Hi guys Maya newbie here, I've been trying to use the Sculpt geometry tool to smooth out an uneven shoulder these last couple days and can't figure out why it won't work. Instead of smoothing the too…	2 Last	noface789 Jan 2017
MaxScript Knowledge and Question Thread From purely selfish needs and from what I learned from talking with others, I decided to start a MaxScript knowledge and question thread, where we can post all the resources for MaxScript we got and…	57 Last	Pedro Amorim Jan 2017
Zbrush freezes when attempting to dynamesh Hey,So I open up the project dynamesh032 to basically dynamesh this mesh: i used max turn to poly (set to quads) and tried to import it into zbrush. When I load up the mesh and try to ctrl+drag to dy…	6 Last	Bumblebee Jan 2017
3ds Max to mudbox and normal mapping question Hello everyone I am new to the forum. my name is Jan I am from the netherlands and I picked up modeling again recently. I am trying to model a character for "gaming purposes" and I ran into some prob…	18 Last	mirag3 Jan 2017
Modo: Rendering Surface IDs...Or: Iam loosing my mind Okay,iam trying to render out a surface ID map. I figured out how to use the standard Render Outputs and how to get just the color information down. The problem iam left with is, that the renderer pu…	2 Last	Anchang-Style Jan 2017
Two Sky spheres in a level (UE4) Hi all,I was wondering if there is a way to make two sky sphere blueprints to light a level where one is directly visible for the sky with no lighting effect on the level and another that is not visi…	8 Last	melviso Jan 2017
3ds max , rigged character not updating when I rotate a bone. I uploaded a model to mixamo, downloaded it and put it in 3dsmax 2016 and the character is skinned but for some reason the viewport it not updating, the viewport only updates the rotation of the bone…	1 Last	Mark Dygert Dec 2016
3ds Max 2015 Normal move acting strange I don't really know how to describe this so I just made a gif of the problem.So, how do I fix this? it's only happening on the lower arm object, so maybe I accidentally flipped a setting?E: I literal…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2016
3ds Max - Shift + Drag with Measure HELLO , i want to clone this edge loop with Shift + Drag move. But i want that it should be same length with the other edges. How can i do that. Or any other easy way ? Thanks.	6 Last	Crimzan Dec 2016
[3Ds Max to UE4] - Splitting up a model [Solved] Greetings, I'll make this short and easy.When do you split up a model into multiple parts? (To use in Unreal Engine 4, (Focusing Quality and Optimization))I'll guess the answer is, it's your choice b…	4 Last	EliasWick Dec 2016
Averaging normals of two different meshes? I have this a model which is composed of 3 separate meshes that need to appear as one.The model:The meshes:The problem is that the normals are aligned differently, just according to their own mesh, s…	7 Last	monster Dec 2016
Packing UVs This is part of a larger object. While unwrapping, I'm testing normals in the process. What's the smartest way to pack this unwrap? (Highlighted / selected area will contain floaters / floating…	6 Last	polypusha Dec 2016
Maya LT - IK Handle Going Crazy Issue https://gyazo.com/8bad465f84c2387a0cbc2a78eb9f839dIm following along with this amazing tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_A5XJmqSSE&list=PLt_Y4A81J7Bd7mxwP_Gi-ttVuL30QRY7d&index=58) …	0 Last	apollo580 Dec 2016
Is 1440p that much noticable for a monitor? I love monitors, have an obsession with them for some reason. We just got our christmas bonus and I've been thinking about buying one. I use my primary display for gaming and I had bought a budget 14…	32 Last	gnoop Dec 2016
Examples of modeling a low poly mane&fur Hey guys. I am working on a trophy on a wall kind of thing, which has a mane, like a lion, with thick fur in clusters.I have been looking at the wiki and googled around to find some good examples, bu…	3 Last	martinbaads Dec 2016
Best solution for Standalone program for easy rigging and animating? i have been rigging and animating using Blender i was wondering if there is a standalone program that is focused on that topic wich is easier or faster	3 Last	Eleszar1 Dec 2016
I Need Help Finding the Right Software For My Needs I am a 2D traditional illustrator, although I have been using Maya for creating models and lighting them for reference in my paintings. I had an older version of Maya that had MentalRay built i…	7 Last	kanga Dec 2016
Help a n00b with materials in 3DSMax Hey guys,I'm fairly new at using 3DSmax, and this is my first time trying to apply textures to a character.The texture on the clothing isn't really finished, but at this point I'm just trying to make…	3 Last	Revel Dec 2016
Smoothing Error on Sketchfab Upload... I'm not too sure what to do about this but upon uploading this mesh into Sketchfab, this smoothing error popped up. It isn't there in Substance Designer, I've checked vertices and edges in 3DS …	0 Last	acealmighty13 Dec 2016
Sketchbook Pro versus Photoshop Okay, so I just got a wacom intuos pro tablet. I'm debating over the $2.99 per month w/ Sketchbook Pro or $9.99 per month via Photoshop. At University I've taken some traditional drawing and oil pain…	1 Last	thomasp Dec 2016
Hand editing anisotropic maps to fake perspective? A couple of years ago I either thought of or read about faking perspective on textures using aniso filtering.Since we can infer the perspective from the particular mip level that's being picked, we c…	8 Last	gnoop Dec 2016
Maya Vray Fresnel ignoring displacement map Hello all, I hope someone can help me go around a Maya Vray issue I've been having. I have a mesh where I applied a displacement map that has a lot of detail. In the material I want to create a fresn…	0 Last	PoLLuX Dec 2016
What's the best way for render the big scene? Hello!I've low performance PC for that.And my scene will look like in the picture.What's the best choice for render the big scene with low PC? (Maybe scene isn't big, but I think about future project…	2 Last	PoBreCon Dec 2016
Maya Particle Emitter Problems Hello guys! This is my first time using particles in maya, I'm using it to create sand storm that's going to be exported in toolbag 3.My problem is when I use instancer it stops emitting after the fi…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2016
Normal map won't appear on my model in MAYA (Solved) I've just baked my high poly onto my low poly to get a normal map and I want to see it on the model so I can work on optomising and LODAfter applying the material it just won't show on the specific m…	1 Last	poopstick Dec 2016
Autodesk products and Windows 10 Hi,Has anyone had any issues trying to install Autodesk software on Windows 10 Home? I can't install anything. Seems like Autodesk packages aren't fully compatible with Windows 10 yet. I'm not sure.T…	16 Last	kanga Dec 2016
Zbrush File Organization / Bloated Incremental File Sizes Is there a way to reference separate Zbrush subtools as Tools in order to avoid bloating file size?I often work incrementally to prevent losing work, but find that if I have an ZTool with lots of sub…	4 Last	kanga Dec 2016
A few general questions from a beginner Hi!I just started with 3d modelling and would love to confirm a few things. My workflow right now is the following Make a low poly base mesh with maya, uv map it in maya or roadkill, bring …	9 Last	kanga Dec 2016