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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

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

Blender Geometry Nodes Help

Hello,Is it possible to use GN to create a collection of randomly shaped objects, but while keeping neat low poly quad topology? Like so that you can increase the number of faces the object(s) have a…
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gnoop

[Blender] Best technique to do this...

Hello, I'm making a game asset that is going to (essentially) be an open container full of 'rubble'. I have the container modeled and had planned to use cell fracture (on a cube or something) combine…
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okidoki

Better Uv Snapshot tool than Maya?

Hi!Is there a better tool to create UV snapshots than what's in Maya? I would appreciate recommendations.I'm tired of constantly closing holes by hand in Photoshop so that I can then use magic wand s…
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Klunk

Safari not working with embedded YouTube videos

I realized last month that people that use Safari to view embedded YouTube videos can sometimes not be able to watch those videos and will receive a message: “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Thi…
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Eric Chadwick

Trimsheet prop?

This discussion was created from comments split from: Medium prop texturing help.
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sacboi

Pixyz, does it work

I have models in my hand that has lots of support loops and some of them are already subdivided. Also I got models from CAD softwares which has terrible topology. I need to optimize them fast for VR …
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Eric Chadwick

Tik Manager – Open-Source Pipeline Tool for Game Dev (Now with Major Updates!)

Hey everyone!I wanted to share something cool that might interest some of you. Tik Manager4 is an open-source project that’s been around for a bit, but it hasn’t really been in the spotlight until no…
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Eric Chadwick

Requesting assistance figuring out photomatching

So i've done a fair few models, usually with blueprints that are semi reliable, like for cars and such. but i've never really built a model from scratch using just perspective photos alone and i'm ha…
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Benjammin

Best practices when creating assets specifically for Nanite

We've been asked to use Nanite for a project (just a blanket order to enable Nanite on every mesh that even remotely supports it). Whatever one might think of that, I need to make sure we cause as li…
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Sythen

Apple mini M4pro vs laptop with rtx4080?

    I am using 15" laptop but never laptop screen really . It's too small for working comfortably .   Prefer Samsung  22'screens  because with detachable  leg they&…
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gnoop

Is decimating your model in environment art good or bad?

Let’s say you were creating a door asset for a game and you sculpted it. If you decimated it afterwards and managed to texture it just fine, would that be considered acceptable or would it be better …
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gnoop

What would be your approach in texturing a big asset like this?

Think Sea of Thieves, A big ship that is essentially a huge platform where 4 players can play on. Sitting at 150k polygons.Has two below decks which are also playable areas.Some meshes are separate i…
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Eric Chadwick

Modeling a bunch of VHS & Music Player props

I need to make something like this for a interior room in Unreal Engine 5.A bunch of different CD, VHS players. Around 4-8 different ones.They are not major props but not minor either, something in b…
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okidoki

Can't Decimate Models in ZBrush

I don't know why my computer is on drugs all of a sudden.  I used to have NO problem with this at all, now it won't even pre-process one lousy model.  I'm trying to decimate my models, but …
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HAWK12HT

Blender Sculpting - Graphic drawing tablet vs android tablet (as second screen)

Hi everyone,I'm currently deciding between two types of devices for sculpting  mode in Blender: a graphic drawing tablet or an Android tablet. I'm specifically wondering about the XP-Pen Artist …
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yueguang

How can I get this kind of shuttered glass effect in Unreal or Substance Painter?

I'm trying to achieve the exact same effect seen in the left corner. I have cracked glass pieces modeled similarly, but my technical art side not strong enough to find correct way to do it. I’m strug…
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SwordOfPeace

Stuck on trying to resolve this topology for highpoly.

Hello!As title says, I'm kinda stuck here. I feel like I'm being dumb and there should be an easy solution that I, somehow, don't see. This corner right here give me headache:If I just bevel it,…
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Kligan

Adapting roughness channel and normal intensity in whole project for a new render ?

Years ago I would use Photoshop actions. But I am starting to hate Photoshop.   Is there a new  easier  options   for easily  batch tweak something ? 
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gnoop

UV trickery

Hey guys. I chanced on this model on Artstation and noticed something very interesting on the UVs. It appears they have planar projected the red handle of the flaregun and the black grip as one piece…
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guitarguy00

Unity's Smoothness HDRP to UE5 Roughness (RMAO)

Hello! I'm trying to convert a Unity project to Unreal and stumbled upon assets that are using Smoothness maps in Unity HDRP. It seems that they are just inverted Roughness maps, but I wanted to make…
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Sage

Blender Meshwalker - Transfers position of vertices from target to source having different numbers

Transfers position of vertices from target to source, even with different number of vertices. Works in object space or world space. Useful for aligning parts of character meshes, matching deform…
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revoconner

Blender Scripts Shelf

A blender add-on for having custom scripts on a shelf, like maya's shelf or 3ds max custom toolbar. Just copy and paste your scripts here to create buttons to run them later. Organise them, rename …
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revoconner

Editing Vertex Normals - Maya

Right now I'm creating a bunch of modular character sets. Each item starts off from the same base mesh which is divided into the individual sections, so there's a split at the base of the neck, waist…
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wyj666

Problems with baking high to low poly between marmoset 4 and substance painter

Hi, I’ve made an optimized model from a high one using the least ammount of triangles possible and using UDIMS. Before exporting it I’ve triangulated it and exported as a fbx The baking were mad…
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illumisanic

Two UDIMs without UV seam.

みなさん、こんにちは。初めての投稿なので間違いがあったらごめんなさい。また、英語は私の得意分野ではないことをご理解ください。さて、バイクのモデリングは完了したので、テクスチャリングを始めます。タイヤ…
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poopipe

Help! Corrupted Maya file?

I'm shattered because I've been working on a big assignment, saved it, and suddenly my pc crashed...upon rebooting and opening the file about 80% is completely gone from the outliner and everything e…
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Sage

Phoenix is ​​not visible in V ray rendering.

Hello everyone, I have a problem with Phoenix fd and V ray rendering.Any simulation done in Phoenix is ​​not visible in V ray rendering.The simulation is running without errors but is not visible in …
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Egamberdi050

maya: wrapdeform to skin?

i'm having lot's of fun here with 3ds max's neat ability to convert wrapdeforms into regular skin. now i'm working on this project that's mainly maya-based and want to know if there's a solution out …
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thomasp

Are more 4K textures being used in games now?

Playing a lot of recent FPS games, so many of the textures look really high res, especially up close. Is it just a matter of using 4K textures, or are there more techniques being used? I feel like wh…
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HAWK12HT

Rigging help

So having trouble with my rig. Just started it out and set up the basic ik for it as i want to have it where when the pole behind the move ups it has it where it bend keeping the knee forward but for…
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Wolfer

The basics of creating pseudo volume textures in Substance Designer - Tutorial

I've been working with a lot of volumetric rendering related stuff recently, and sometimes it involves creating volumetric textures. The another method is to use procedural content in the volumetric …
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ghassenNQ

Setting up Toon Shader

Hi there so I'm trying to set up a toon shader. But I'm getting confused by how to set it up with the textures I use. Here is my screenshot of how i have it set up. Trying to get a simple cell s…
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Wolfer

maya2025: Maya wont snap all selected vertices to the vertex near the mouse ('snap to points')

A handy trick I have been using for a while is if I have a bunch of vertices that have all their varying height positions (y axis) selected, with 'snap to points turned on' and the pivots y axis act…
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Ralf_Reddings

Assistance with 3ds Max, workflow Pixyz Studio -> 3ds Max -> Unity

Hello Everyone!Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I am currently having extreme difficulties delivering assets without scale or rotation to Unity, and this problem is costing me days and man…
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Ghogiel

Help - Mesh is causing flipped normals across axes in substance (non overlapping UVs), nothing works

Hi, I am following the tutorial for Handgun by Eugene, I am at the texturing step and when I try to paint across the seam, the normal is flipped for some reason on the opposing axis, Like in the imag…
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Eric Chadwick

3D Scanner- What Editing Software should I focus on using?

Hello all,I was wondering what the best free software and file format to use for editing 3D scans for export to a 3d Printer.I have a Miraco Revopoint Scanner and I have Autodesk Fusion, Meshmixer, a…
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pior

Uving hard edges

Apologies for two posts in a row... I was wondering if anyone had any advice for UVing the hair here! I heard the rule that all hard edges should be uv seams...however the hair here is stylized …
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poopipe

DroneCam Blender Addon (Fly a Camera like a Drone using a Controller)

DroneCam is a free Blender addon that lets you control the camera like you would a real-life drone using an Xbox 360 gamepad as input.Damn bro, you still animate the camera manually for aerial shots …
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globglob

Weight paint in Blender

Hi guys! During the rigging process I encountered a problem. Weight paint just doesn't work. It just doesn't paint, no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong? Blender version 3.2.0
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Nikkitten

[UV unwraping]Why do we always put car wheels on a separate UV map when unwrapping

Hi, I am learnning 3D modeling. I've been working on a car lately, and I'm basically done with the modeling , and starting to unwrapping UVs. I was originally going to put part of the car frame …
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howardding2000

Baked-Bevel-Trim Workflow__How to unwrapp complex models?

Hi everybody. I am working on an environment and I wanted to try to learn this method I saw on a post by Matthew Trevelyan.You can see his post here:https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qQGK6yI underst…
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okidoki

Issues when mirroring after baking half-mesh

Hey there,I have recently been trying to go extreme with optimizing UV space and have seen videos on people deleting a mesh down the middle, UV-unwrapping it, baking it and then mirroring the mesh la…
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guitarguy00

Help Needed With 3d Rigging

Hi im new to this and this is the first time i am rigging something. and so far the only bones that work are the barrel and the whole weapon bone. i had already made sure prior to this to separate ev…
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TrynaLearn

3D Animation knowledge/tutorials

Hi, the question may be a bit odd. Do you guys recommend any tutorials for making game-ready character and hard surface animations in Blender/Maya? There's so many things to get to know and I don't k…
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Eric Chadwick

maya2025: What is causing these two large faces to pinch?

The object is very simple, it does not even have edges that are too close to one another, so am wondering why are the two large faces slightly discoloured (not sure if this is what is called pinching…
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dimwalker

maya2025:How to go about holding the corners of this model and avoid pinching?

I have been trying to model a revolver for some time now, and while I have learnt quite a lot with regards to Maya, etc etc, I am still stuck on the project, specifically on modelling the revolvers c…
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Ralf_Reddings

Maya2025: With image planes, how to snap its pivot to the base?

When you have an object selected and are editing its pivot (pivot editing mode) its possible to snap the pivot to the various components of its object. All the various snapping features work this way…
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Ralf_Reddings

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