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Artefact BAKE

Hi everyone,i have a little bit problem that i think is easy to fix it but i can't after several testsI tried smoothing 45º and smothing groups from UV shells. Doing that, this error is fixed BUT the…
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SuSo

Displacement seams gaps

Hello guys, how are you doing?So, I have this old problem that is driving me insane, where the model will exibit the gaps between some areas precisely over the seams when the model is rendered.I've d…
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Finardi

Rigging in Maya 2022

Interesting blogpost from Mathias. http://saihtam.com/posts/maya-2022-falloff/
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oglu

long object uv

Hi guys! making a portfolio peace and stuck with UV. I have pretty long object and dunno how to slice it properly. I wanna make as little as possible seams and in 1 variant it's just streched out fro…
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oglu

Do you use Maya or ZBrush? When modeling ornaments and pillars for a church.

 Do you use Maya or ZBrush? When modeling ornaments and pillars for a church like this photo.I'm not very good at curvilinear modeling, and I'm planning to model church ornaments and pillar crow…
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Naoto

Rhino or Maya/Max for product design (High Poly version)?

I'm running into a bit of a dilemma for product design. Maya and 3DS MAX is what I've used for the most part and I only touched 3DS MAX awhile back due to a new project, but now I'm on product design…
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poopipe

(Arnold) How to Create Shadow layer for transparent shadows

I am currently trying to render a separate shadow pass to use while compositing. I have a colored glass with a transparent colored shadow, however, when I try to use aishadowmatte to isolate those sh…
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oglu

Zbrush 2021.6.4

I stopped to update Zbrush for  quite  some time ago   because  usually it's nothing useful,  just some crazy  weird  modelling  tools nobody  use&nb…
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FourtyNights

3DS Max Shift Extrude/Extend+Maya Mode Selection?

I recently switched to the Maya hotkey navigation in 3DS Max to have more consistency between applications. Which meant I had to change to "Maya Mode Selection" for the mouse as Alt is used to rotate…
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Juvi

[Blender 2.8] Eksporteur - Asset Exporter (UE4, Unity, Godot, etc)

ONLY FOR BLENDER 2.8!Hey guys. I recently released new Blender tool for gamedev folks called Eksporteur.https://blendermarket.com/products/eksporteur BlendermarketGumroadCubebrushEkspørteur is a…
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Ubuska

Capture grass

Hello, do you have any sugestions on how to do to apture grass textures to make grass patcges , flower beds etc in a game ? I mean technically strip out grass of soil or else ? Take pictures how and …
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Obscura

Anime Eye Rig Difficulties

Hey there! I've been working on an anime character for a friend so they can use it on VRChat and FaceRig, and I'm having some trouble constraining the pupils to the eyeballs in a way that makes them …
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Alfax

3DS Max - Textures not updating in material editor

Lots of times when I overwrite a texture from Photoshop or 3D Coat it will not update in 3DS Max 2020. Max basically still has the old version in memory. The Reload button in the material editor will…
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Nhdeitmers

Mouse for Digital Artists

The mouse i've used for the past 3 years has just crapped out on me, and I need a new one. I went to office depot and found that most mouses were wireless (which need batteries). That's out of the q…
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malcolm

3D Game Character - Bake or not to Bake?

Hello Polycounters!      I am currently creating my first 3d Character, with "game ready" thought in my mind. I wanted to aproach it as a "pro" so I did my research about i.e work…
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Alex_J

Glock handle problem

Hello new here. I been out of practice and started a refresh by modeling glock. Im currently at the handle section. I have an idea on to build the grip section  the solution was wire deform and&…
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sacboi

[Maya] Animal ear rig suggestions

Hi there!I have been looking everywhere for the best way to rig the ears of characters with big pointy ears, such as canines like wolves, coyotes, foxes and spitz type dogs, or various other fantasy …
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BTDarmstad

Unreal Engine - Modular Character + Physics Cloth

As I understand from this page:https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.htmlyou cannot use "physics" cloth + "Set Master Pose Comp…
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goekbenjamin

Maya Texel Density keeps becoming uniform after I use Layout UVs

So I'm trying to layout all my UV's for my model. I have some uv shells that I went to be set at a texel density of 50, others at 75 and a few at 80. I've gone ahead and set specific ones at those le…
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Alex_J

Maya where can I find help on .obj export settings?

I'm looking for a description of the checkboxes in the .obj export settings in Maya? Some of them are obvious, but some are not. Does anyone know?Groups:Point groups:Materials:Smoothing:Normals:
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malcolm

mouse that's really easy on the fingers (super easy to click)

(Yeah, I know there are at least two recent mouse threads floating around, but those are more general-purpose "what mice do you like?" threads. I've skimmed them, and they don't seem to offer what I'…
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Axi5

M.D to game engine directly with both topology and uvs

is it possible to use the retopo tool in MD to retopologize the cloth and just export it directly to the engine to be used in a game with that topology and uvs that came from marvelous? I do understa…
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Vamptacus

Turbosmooth equivilent in Maya?

Hey guys, I'm a Max user and I'm switching to Maya. I'm curious if there is some sort of way to mimic the turbosmooth modifier in Max. Primarily, the way you can set turbosmooth to respect smoothing…
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Jamsketch

Help on some modelling

Hi! could I get some help on how to approach this? I start with a smoothed cube, sort of a watered down sphere and then used the multi cut to create the details that i would carve out, sadly the edge…
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lenteja

Interactive feedback for heavy multi-scattered nature related subjects?

Every modern render has interactive view but once you do something really complex of gazillion of instances  like  rocks covered with actual 3d moss tiny sprouts   or grass or   a…
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gnoop

Problems with UDIMs in Maya 2020.

Hi all,So I've exported my textures from substance painter and tried to plug them into aiStandardSurface shader. My problem is that Maya won't even recognise a single UV tile (no number of UV tiles i…
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Tatjana_J

Splitting a single huge mesh into many managable parts (automatic)

Hi, anyone know of way in maya (or in an another software) to split a huge single mesh file, anything over 1 million polygons into chunks where each chunk has a max allowed polygon limit (like 10.000…
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UDFX

Maya/Arnold colour variation within MASH-distribution

Hey there kind people of polycount,so I've been trying around with various forms of "distribution" of objects in Maya/Arnold. Mostly nParticles and MASH. For the time being I've found MASH to be the …
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shifty24

Need advices for hard surface model's UVs management

Hello everyone, i hope that all of you are doing good ! I allow myself to make this post, because i need some good advices. Actually, i was asking myself some questions, because i'm trying to ge…
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Tokushima

Tileable Texture UV Issue/Seam

Ello ello,Im having issues with my WIP trim sheet/texture atlas im making for a building. Even though the UVs are perfectly lined up there is still a seam in the texture when looking at it in Maya.&n…
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Sloth_42

Dota 2 Shader for Marmoset

Hi everyone,I've seen some nice examples of the Dota 2 shader in Marmoset and wanted to give it a try, too.I downloaded the "full featured" Marmoset 4 trial, hoping the shader would be available, but…
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DavidCruz

Does anyone know any good retopology tools for importing meshes from CAD programs?

Hello! I've recently been experimenting with some CAD programs due to how well they handle boolean operations and whilst the stl imports are usually fine some of them have some pretty bad topology ar…
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AdalBertZ

Nvidia Marbles RTX

Some Art drop on Artstation shows how well the Assets are made.I hope Nvidia does release the USD files. I would like to take a close look.Alessandro Baldasseroni, Gregor Kopka and  Reno Le…
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thomasp

Convex triangulation.

Hello!I'm using Maya to make my 3d models, and I'm wondering, is there a way to automatically triangulate so that each surface becomes convex?Specifically, this is needed for making collision to impo…
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Obscura

Blender Modular Bricks Curve/Corner?

I am trying to do bricks around a plane and would like a proper sharp corner, however when I use a curve and array it just curves the bricks around. I need to do this for more than one object so I'd …
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SnowInChina

Root Bone Issue: 3Ds Max bug or am I ignorant?

Hello,So, I've been trying to setup the root bone for my rig in 3Ds Max 2022. With the intention of importing it into UE4.The steps I have taken to do this are:1) Create a Root Bone and zero it out s…
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spacefrog

Can't create Combination targets in the Shape Editor in Maya

Can't create Combination targets in the Shape Editor in Maya.This is what was in the console. doCombinationShapeCreate 1 0 4 R_LidLower_CTR; // Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2019/sc…
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LAMAJ

How should I make this planet landscape environment (UE4)?

I'm making a planetary landscape environment that is very spacey sci-fi. The landscape is similar to the moon but different. There will be tall thin mountains and craters. There will also be planets …
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Oblivion2500

Baking Normal Maps of an Angle?

Hi,I have a furniture piece and I'm trying to bake high poly to low poly.The issue I've been getting is that there is the seams of low poly being kept too visible in the baked normal map.The images a…
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sprunghunt

Shading Issues on curved surfaces

Hi, long time lurker here.  Been modelling for years, but only just got into low poly modelling for gamesI usually like to look for solutions in the forum before posting, but I haven't found a s…
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no1nja

Convert UV Island to Perfect Square?

Hi guys,Is anyone aware of a way to convert a rectangular UV island into a Square UV island inside of 3DS Max? Similar to taking the freeform tool and squashing the island to a square. If not, is the…
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Ghogiel

Problem with seams in uvmapping ( 3dsmax)

Hello , I am trying to make a perfect junction seam between two parts of uvmap islands, on splitted mesh parts but no matter how much I increase the resolution in viewport and in uvmap editor , I alw…
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Ghogiel

How to make a water bottle for a game...

that has no complex pbr material system?So I am wondering how it could be the best approach to make a water bottle for a game, ( secondlife ) to make it look realistic, I modeled thebottle, inside an…
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NAIMA

Need help for Udim textures in marmoset toolbag 3

Hello everyone, i hope all of you are doing good ! Please accept my apologies if my english sounds a little weird, it's not my first language. I am a new user in Substance Painter and Marmoset T…
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Tokushima

Zbrush symmetry

In my symmetrical model I have individual parts that are also symmetrical in themselves. E.g. Finder or other parts.I can't find a way to add symmetry to these parts afterwards.It would be much easie…
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starcow

Topology Help

using Maya, and I'm fairly new to modelling, I've watched a lot of tutorial videos, tho the best videos that have helped me the most are Paul Conner's tutorials, his videos have been invaluable, …
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sacboi

Can someone please explain to me how polygons and height maps work together?

I've been prototyping a game/level idea in Unity, and have been using square planes with only a single polygon (or two triangles I guess) along with various materials I'm creating in substance design…
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gnoop

Photoshop - Layers Preview box showing weird warm hue adjustment over actual colors in file

Photoshop layer preview is giving me a distorted and incorrect preview of my layer, adding a slight warmness to the actual image in the preview box. I can not find anything about this online, help!!!
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Method14253

Texture atlas texture creation confusion need some info (examples in post)

Hey, Was just wondering how are texture atlases generally constructed, I've been playing with trims etc and i now understand those but I'm doing some distant buildings in the background that really d…
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lockey1995

rounded edge on large building

Hello today I was walking around on valorant map and seeing some buildings, I was wondering how to get that rounded edge effect on large buildings that normally require tiling textures.I thought of s…
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copenhagenjazz

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