Technical Talk

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Opinions on Open Subdiv for Autodesk Products I would really like to know what everyone's opinion is on opensubdiv, I only recently saw it and I am very interested in finding out what is everyone's opinion is for this new extension.	8 Last	sziada Sep 2014
Help/Advice on how to approach modeling certain things from this character concept Hi there. I'm working on a new game character model, and I have problems getting the results I want, admittedly I'm a bit frustrated :/ Can you help me with some mindset/approach methods for the 2…	2 Last	BagelHero Sep 2014
Help needed making ice cubes! Hey guys, I'm making a game with a friend, we are using Unity. I need to make ice cubes for this game, but I don't know how I can do that, so I'm asking here. Does any of you know how I can make…	4 Last	vbr2809 Sep 2014
Question regarding complete workflow chain Hello everyone, I've been learning how to model for the purpose of generating some 3D assets for inclusion in a video game I am working on, and was hoping that perhaps some more experienced eyes cou…	3 Last	Chimp Sep 2014
Local Axis angled in 3ds Max [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NjKR7v2.jpg[/IMG] How do you solve this issue in 3ds Max? You are modeling an environment prop, and because of the environment placement, it's at an angle. As you you modelin…	5 Last	ScottHoneycutt Sep 2014
Padding Script? So, I'm working on a project that requires 12 PX padding around each UV shell, but as you can tell from the detailed UV below, simply auto-packing with 12 PX padding won't due. It needs to be done/ch…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2014
Xnormals not giving fine details Why xnormals is not giving fine Details do i have to do some extra setting in Xnormals .Fine Details get smoothed	1 Last	EarthQuake Sep 2014
3ds Max Render to Texture - Mental Ray Projection Mapping Is there a way to projection map using Mental Ray without getting errors? I want to bake Ambient Occlusion from my high-poly to my low-poly. The scanline renderer can do it but I'd like to use Ment…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2014
Cryengine Texture issues ! HELP pleaseee Hey guys, When I Import my textures into cry-engine it shows the "compiling texture" all over the mesh. Usually it would happen for a couple seconds before the textures were fully complied, but now …	0 Last	oxblood Sep 2014
Maya freeze after opening mb scene Hi, i have big problem for me, i dont have any backup and when open my scene maya freeze (whole pc are slow). Scene contains LPs and HPs and mb file has 320MB and ma file has 575MB. Maya only freze w…	3 Last	Bartalon Sep 2014
DDO I haven't opened DDO in a reasonable amount of time. So looking at the most recent tutorials on DDo it looks alot different. I'm assuming you have to buy the suite to get the newest version? [URL=ht…	2 Last	Bartalon Sep 2014
Rendering Textured Shore Waves (water) I would like to create the following effect for a planar water object: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eu1onD7.png[/IMG] Does anybody have ideas how to create those kind of flat white wave animations? M…	2 Last	Zky Sep 2014
Surface shrinkage/self-impingement when rotating joint Hey all. I want to use a 3D character as an underlay for one of my art pieces, but I'm running into this issue; [URL=http://s1177.photobucket.com/user/InvertedVantage/media/heatmapissue_zps8ef7e102.…	0 Last	InvertedVantage Sep 2014
New video card or wait? Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has some suggestions for a good video card or knows of any impending release that i should hold out for? I'm not to up to date on current cards and the latest in t…	6 Last	ZacD Sep 2014
CryMayaTools Control panel? Hi guys! This is my first post on Polycount forum! I am a beginner to cryengine at this moment and I got stuck at this "CryMayaTools" control panel. This control panel thing pops up when I start up M…	5 Last	sbiswas Sep 2014
Compressed zig zag folds Hey guys. Been scratching my head a lot when trying to sculpt pushed up sleeve's folds on a leather jacket, but just can't get it right. Can anybody recommend some good reading material about it or a…	1 Last	Drew++ Sep 2014
3dsmax UV normal map seams after file merge So i take each part of the model and bake it, then i get the multiple files and merge them together (selecting alpha making a new layer and duplicating into a merge file), but when i do that i get ho…	3 Last	Afon Sep 2014
Drawcalls VS Triangles More triangles ( atlas textures ) or small tilable textures?! Maybe this was discussed somewhere before but i didnt find it... Hey guys! I worked on a several titles in the last years but this ques…	2 Last	newton Sep 2014
bake surface shader to texture? maya Hi! its me again... This time I am needing to do a baking of my surface/lamber shaders onto a texture map. I have a big asset to texture in mari and I will like to use multiple surface shaders with …	3 Last	maze Sep 2014
3d Studio Max - getting an object to follow an object following a path I understand why this doesn't work - the green box doesn't directly inherit the transforms of the path so it doesn't translate the transforms to the child object (axis stays at origin through the who…	3 Last	PaulJCampbell Sep 2014
Zbrush cloth texturing Hi there i am new to Zbrush i am working on soldier character in 3ds max unwrapping done Zbrush detailing in progress.What can be a better way to texture Cloth which looks appealing or realistic .As…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2014
[MAXScript] Editable Poly vs Edit Poly Hello guys, I've been trying to make a "smart" script that combine many functions based on what sub object level I'm currently in and map it to a single hotkey, really inspired by Perna's thread a l…	11 Last	Revel Sep 2014
CryMayaTools Control panel? 1	0 Last	sbiswas Sep 2014
Zbrush -Trial version Hello, i use autodesk mudbox but i am not sure which Programm is better for me. Because of this i want a Trial Version of zbrush. can someone tell me if a Trial Version exist?	4 Last	Confrontation Sep 2014
Skining the model, triangulate or not? Hello, I have a simple question, but I did not yet find the answer to this. For a game, is it better if I skin and animate a triangulated model, or original, with quads? Or does not matter? Becaus…	4 Last	Nixellion Sep 2014
Best Displacement Workflow Hi folks, I wandering if anyone has had any issue with displacement mapping in Unreal 4 / various engines and what the best approach is.	0 Last	Showster Sep 2014
Black/grey specs when rendering to texture [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/l55Wd7m.png[/IMG] I've been trying to render out a normal map using Max for the past two days. Every time I do these black spots appear and screw up the map. I've searched po…	0 Last	james swanson Sep 2014
No spline IK in Maya LT. How should i proceed with this? Im transitioning to maya... suddenly Spline Ik is not supported in LT lol. Just LOL. Just. LOL. What a mockery. /rant What can i do without spline ik? [IMG]http://i.…	5 Last	pointcache Sep 2014
3ds max weard baking Hi everyone i don't know why 3ds max render to texture normalmap and occ is working weard i resized the highpoly a bit more than lowpoly and triangulated the lowpoly but why triangles are coming in …	2 Last	shubham kumar Sep 2014
Modo users How many screens / monitors do you use with modo ?	16 Last	peanut Sep 2014
Quixel Suite or Marmoset? I'm wondering if there's any sort of advantage using Marmoset versus 3Do from the Quixel suite. I'm thinking of purchasing the Quixel suite for ~130 usd, which comes with nDO, 3Do, dDo, and a Megasca…	5 Last	james swanson Sep 2014
Strange texture behavior after bake As most of you know, I've transfered some textures from one channel to another using that method: [IMG]http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/3Joez/step1_zpsdf0c3b49.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1089.p…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2014
Maya Paint Geometry Help Hi, I'm trying to paint some hair-cards on to a character model in Maya but they're all generating with a huge offset in the y axis. [URL="http://imgur.com/glTTgv4,hMglIGK,Qj5ITka,mDaUn0Y#2"]http://…	0 Last	Lilacwine Sep 2014
script for fast export Hello, Is there any way to take 'Export Nodes' button and put it in some floating panel?! (or shortcut key) I'm sic of switching to utility tab and click that button.....10 000 times a day! ;( :p…	4 Last	CollinBishop Sep 2014
Maya 2014 to Cryengine Export Hello guys! I searched in the Internet and couldn't really figure out a way how to import a object from Maya to CryEngine. My Maya Version is 2014, and I downloaded a CryEngine to Maya Converter or…	5 Last	CollinBishop Sep 2014
Unified method of get and set sub-object selection for Editable Poly and Edit Poly. I accidentally found a unified method of getting and setting sub-object selection for an Editable Poly objects and Edit Poly modifier. The main problem is that the object must be selected. I found …	0 Last	miauu Sep 2014
Occulus udk version. Em..guys I am trying out a project using udk with occulus. I registered and I can't find the udk download. What I see are Occulus runtime time- - OCCULUS runtime for Windows. - Occulus SDK for Wind…	2 Last	melviso Sep 2014
"Cavity" maps. Hey guys, I was wanted to share my photoshop actions I use when texturing/concepting/image editing as a thank you for the game art community. I basically use my actions as someone would use their sh…	36 Last	combo_jerman Sep 2014
3D Studio Max 'Convert To Deformable GPoly' crash Hi all I'm getting this a lot, and it's very annoying - in 3DS Max 2014 x64. I use 'Convert To Editable Poly' and sometimes accidentally click on 'Convert To Deformable GPoly'. It looks like it was…	4 Last	Violet Sep 2014
[Maya script] Maya selections to Photoshop paths Hi, I've created this script that takes the selected edges, faces and objects and create paths and selections into your Photoshop opened document Here is a video explaining the script. [url]https:…	6 Last	c.buliarca Sep 2014
3ds Max squishy UVs I've got this issue in 3ds Max where I'm unwrapping an object and when I use the flatten mapping command in the UVW Unwrap modifier, the result is UV faces that are squished by approximately 2x the c…	2 Last	sushi Sep 2014
3ds Max to xNormal for many separate objects Assuming that I have a scene with 20+ exploded low poly objects each having a high poly and a cage, which is the fastest way to bring these in xNormal for baking? The UVs are all packed on a single U…	5 Last	SuperFranky Sep 2014
Bumpmap painting - Sculptris (how?) Helllllo, I'm wondering how can I use a feature known as "bumpmap painting" or "bumpmap projecting" or whatever in Sculptris. This feature can be seen here: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFz…	0 Last	groch Sep 2014
Problems creating a chain using the curve brush Problems creating a chain using the curve brush Hi all, As you've no doubt garnered from the title, I'm having problems creating a chain using the curve brush. The problem being that the li…	3 Last	werewolf125A Sep 2014
Can anyone take a look at these scripts? I'm doing some freelance work and it involves rendering a product into different parts as layers. The layers are assembled as one product and uploaded into a website where the user can manipulate the…	5 Last	amartinez Sep 2014
Need some help with a scalpel I'm making. [IMG]http://www.xum.ir/images/2014/09/13/1074e7.jpg[/IMG] I have made this scalpel but it has no depth. The polygon is one sided therefore but with a 2 sided material of course. The problem however…	5 Last	ZenDavis Sep 2014
3D Printing with 100% accurate scale - Need tips Hi, I am trying to print an object that clips onto a PS Vita joystick. I got a vita for Destiny remote play with PS4 - but the joysticks are so small that it's impossible to accurately or efficient…	3 Last	kodde Sep 2014
Need some guidance! [url]http://postimg.org/image/e6v5khhbf/[/url] Hi guys, would you guys let me know if I've blocked that sword out correctly and that if i could proceed to sculpting in zBrush? P.S. just started le…	4 Last	dreamcatcherx Sep 2014
A Few Questions ! :) Hi, first thanks for taking time to answer me. First about a carrer choice, i heard the better way to get into the game industry is as a environment / props modeler ? But is it also true for Film in…	5 Last	Burpee Sep 2014
Simple Render Technique Maya So i finished modelling my rifle model and because i dont want to texture it, im planning to use default materials within maya, i still want to achieve believable renders. Somewhat like this [URL="h…	2 Last	rube Sep 2014