Technical Talk

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First High-Low Poly Asset. Questions with final stages. [BLENDER] I'm working on my first High-Low bake project. I've hit kind of a wall in terms of how to finish the project. Below I posted my current progress with some workflow info, and questions. [B]Block Ou…	6 Last	nickersf Mar 2014
HELP!! Maya viewport shading error Hi, I just had this weird Maya viewport shading error. everytime I start a new scene, I got this kind of geometry shading in my viewport. I dont know how to get it back to normal. So now I have open …	2 Last	Bartalon Mar 2014
Low Poly + Zbrush + Polypainting. Currently myworkflow for creating some low poly models is: base mesh Import zBrush Sculpt + Polypaint Low Poly Bake into xNormals So I was wondering, is there a way for me to polypaint after I made …	3 Last	cryrid Mar 2014
New docs on 2d/3d Sky in Wall Worm I've made a new series on working with your 3D skybox and 2D sky renders in 3ds Max and Wall Worm. [LIST] [*][URL="http://dev.wallworm.com/document/142/making_your_sky.html"]Introduction/Table …	0 Last	shawnolson Mar 2014
Maya 2014 Mel script help request I'm trying to select several objects and move any uv set not "map1" to map1 and delete the leftover, now unused, uv set. I pulled a mel script I found off another thread. However when you have multip…	2 Last	mikelantel Mar 2014
Automated Lip Syncing About a month ago, I started looking for a lip-syncing solution that I wouldn't have to break the bank over. I had cooked up a script for Unity that would read a text document with lip-sync timings, …	14 Last	monster Mar 2014
Parallax shading and stuffs! So, I've managed to keep myself away from Cryengine all these years, but I thought it'd finally be time to give it a proper go. And with that being said I'm completely new to it. I'm building a new …	3 Last	Legend286 Mar 2014
Alpha map casting shadows Hi, Is it possible to have the alpha map of my glass material casting shadows? I don't want to mask the area completely like you can using the alpha test. I want the shadow to take into account the …	1 Last	Legend286 Mar 2014
Maya to Mudbox Workflow with Buildings Hello everyone, so I have been asked my by art lead to model some buildings for a level of an unannounced game, this game will be for mobile platforms so my buildings need to be around 200-300 polys,…	1 Last	oglu Mar 2014
Retopology question Hey everybody, I am working on a game project for class and I was chosen for the job of character artist. Im pretty descent at sculpting stuff for a 3d print, but ive never really made anything that …	2 Last	RaptorCWS Mar 2014
3DS max for users with multiple screens So I use multiple Screens and I'm having a bit or a problem With 3ds max because often times when I work with it on my secondary screen the mouse bounces from the location on the second screen to the…	4 Last	JedTheKrampus Mar 2014
PBR texturing in Mudbox?? I've never used Mudbox before, I've tried the Substance Painter beta (which looks promising). Does Mudbox allow an artist to paint textures on a model in a similar fashion to Substance Painter? Fo…	2 Last	MeshMagnet Mar 2014
Maya: Transfering maps to multiple tiles Woes I am trying to transfer a texture from one UV set to another the second one have multiple tiles. I can't seem to be able to do that maya doesn't seem to recognize that I have multiple uv tiles. I tri…	2 Last	deohboeh Mar 2014
Can a 6 sided look like one with round corners only with normal map? (unity) Hello there, the title says it all. I've tried this with 3pointshader and it works but in unity it doesn't. if I have a cube with 6 polygons, and bake normal map of a cube with rounded edges on it ([…	5 Last	Mark Dygert Mar 2014
Stitched UVs and Edges Hello, Can someone tell me what i need to setup in max to avoid edges on objects when a normal map is projected on them? I set the padding alreday to the max of 64 but it doesn't change a bit on the …	33 Last	Neox Mar 2014
Are triangle counts a thing of the past? With the new consoles and high end video cards coming out on a yearly basis; would you say that triangle counts no longer matter? I've heard from various conversations that most consoles and high en…	19 Last	Mark Dygert Mar 2014
Changing Joint Orientation without breaking the rig Hi guys, I've got an issue with a rig at the moment that I just can't get my head around, hoping you guys can help me out [IMG]http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/smilies/smile.gif[/IMG] I have …	1 Last	monster Mar 2014
why there are no modern polygonal modeling tools? I mean polygon modeling workflow established roughly at the end of 90s. And since then for about 10 years we have been using same set of tools. Nothing changes. Look at how sculpting evolves. With e…	7 Last	jeremiah_bigley Mar 2014
Mudbox 2012 - Textures across multiple UV Tiles Hey! So I currently have an issue with mudbox right now. I have a model with a rectangular texture (or just 2 regular square textures, makes no difference at this point). Basically, I have a charact…	5 Last	deohboeh Mar 2014
3DS Max: Connect (poly) won't work on edges I used to have the same key connect both edges and verts when I'm in their respective modes. For some reason it now refuses to work on edges and I have to manually select the command or use a differe…	2 Last	3Dyan Mar 2014
another pc building thread so . yeah finally got some cash to upgrade my 7 years old computer .. his been a good soldier . and well ... im a total noob when it comes to these stuff .. so i went to some of the famous computer h…	5 Last	ZacD Mar 2014
Making grass look good in-game? Hello :) I have a quick question to the foliage masters out there, how do you get the grass to look so good in-game. I know of a few techniques, both modeling the grassblades in 3Ds or taking pict…	9 Last	leleuxart Mar 2014
Environment Concept: Help me finish this scene! (UDK) Hey everyone, so here's the concept I'm creating an environment from for one of my portfolio pieces (Artist is Joachim Barrum): [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BN5RIas.jpg[/IMG] And here is my current prog…	1 Last	ZacD Mar 2014
Zbrush FiberMesh Bake with xNormal I decided to do a little test to see what would happen baking the Zbrush FiberMesh. all maps 512x512 AO bucket size 64 to be fast. baked the zbrush polypaint. the good part is that we can paint th…	32 Last	Neox Mar 2014
Texture painting on 3D models ? I am looking into getting a 3D app that does excellent job at offering wide variety of tools to an artist for painting textures directly on 3D models (low- to med- polycount, UV mapped models). I am…	11 Last	Jeff Parrott Mar 2014
3ds max scale group of verts at the same time issue I have the following verts which are selected, I need to use the Scale tool to expand them out so they are move even. There are a good 50 odd sets of these 3 verts. If I select them all at the same t…	4 Last	martynball Mar 2014
Quick Object Picker - MaxScript Question Hey guys, I am making a really quick script to be able to move from one object's Editable Poly to another's rapidly. Script: [CODE]macroScript RaySelect category:"Tools" ( on Execute do ( …	4 Last	Dubzski Mar 2014
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Cryengine texture compiler Hello, So after my initial drawback of not getting the shelf in maya, that has now been rectified. In engine I now get this, I think it has something to do with one of my textures on the mesh…	14 Last	e-freak Mar 2014
Mirror Problem/Crash Hi there just wondering if anybody could offer some advice for my current situation. I'm currently in the process of working on a character who's boot I want to mirror to the other side of the model.…	5 Last	Xane Mar 2014
UDK Mesh Paint issue Hiya folks! I come to you today with an odd problem that's been plaguing me on and off for a while, but now has come to a point where it's really causing trouble for me. On a number of my imported …	11 Last	Utility Mar 2014
Image Noise Problem Hey guys, Whenever I import a custom texture that has either low saturation or is very dark, I get what I can only describe as image noise, like when you take a digital photo. The noise doesn't sho…	2 Last	Equanim Mar 2014
Efficient modelling technique; preferences, benefit and drawbacks. Hello. This thread might not last long since the question might be a noob question so i'll be ellaborate anyway. 2.5D sculpt tools vs Analog modelling tools. Zbrush, Mudbox, 3dcoat. Maya, Max, Blen…	6 Last	Zh4ngZ13 Mar 2014
UDK split screen problem Ive set up split screen on my level my changing this line of code in the GameViewportClient.uc ActiveSplitscreenType = eSST_2P_HORIZONTAL; problem is, its not displaying properly needs stretchi…	0 Last	Danielj_B Mar 2014
Need Cry Vertex Paint Workflow/Shader! Hellooo :) Can someone point me to a vertex paint workflow with Maya (I use 2014) and Cryengine? I am struggling to learn this engine, and I can't find nearly as good and up to date tutorials and inf…	6 Last	Sinking Mar 2014
Maya 2014: Transparency map issue I'm trying to use the alpha channel of a targa file to cut out portions of the hair bangs for a character. So I plug the file's outAlpha (with Alpha is Luminence checked) into the shader's transparen…	2 Last	AviKohl3D Mar 2014
Marmoset 2 bug? or being stupid Hey guys, after Marmoset picked up my Mossberg 500 and put it in their gallery (which i am over the moon about) it inspired me to fix a few things i wasnt happy with. The first being the scope lens.…	3 Last	EarthQuake Mar 2014
Backface normals lighting question I've just recently got back in to 3d modelling and have spent the past three days solidly trying to work out bump maps etc. I'm building a treasure chest and for some reason. My mirrored UV's seem t…	10 Last	craigrmsmith Mar 2014
DOTA 2 - Publishing a Set? Hi, I'm having a question regaring the process of publishing a set in Dota: Let's say you want to make a set that consists of 5 items and you only want to publish them as a set and not individually…	1 Last	D4V1DC Mar 2014
Serious help with rigging / skinning! Hi everyone, I'm in serious need of help with rigging / skinning. I need to learn it for university, yet I've followed the tutorials the lecturers have put up, I've looked at so many tutorials on you…	4 Last	monster Mar 2014
Duplicate along curve script[WIP] - Maya [SIZE=1][I]Full Page Edit: (Just to make it easier if this thread becomes huge)[/I][/SIZE] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xajEw4s60nk"]Maya -Duplicating Objects Along Path - YouTube[/ame] I a…	22 Last	ilerchik Mar 2014
Serious lighting issue in UDK (lightmaps) Ok so I'm just going to start by saying that I do not have a good understanding of lighting or displaying my work in UDK. I have modelled and UV'ed the major assets of my scene (I use maya), and crea…	15 Last	repete Mar 2014
Color by UV Coordinates, UDK I was wondering if UDK has built in functionality to determine the UV coordinates of a mesh. For instance, I have a plane with four quadrants, each quad's UV's are in the corresponding quadrant of t…	5 Last	Xenier Mar 2014
How to get rid of the "wireframe" - Curvature Map in xNormal Hello everyone, im fairly new in texturing and to have a good base for the gloss map, I created a monochrome curvature map. Well, in the last projects it worked very good, but this time I have some p…	5 Last	Blackbox Corp Mar 2014
Lightmaps in UDK woes. Let me know where i'm going wrong. So, I started a new modular street scene in UDK. I began making my assets and well, getting the lightmaps to behave is doing my head in... I've followed tutorials and read up on them the best I can,…	13 Last	repete Mar 2014
How to model a cage? Hey guys! I'm working on a modern gunsmith's workshop for a school project but I've hit a roadblock: I don't know how to efficiently model a locker with holes in it that you can see through. I've at…	2 Last	m4dcow Mar 2014
Zbrush shennanigans SO I am just doing some simple learning of zbrush(Taking a break from substance designer for today), I figure I needed to learn it passed sculpting with dyna mesh to be proficient. Edited this orig…	11 Last	Frawmus Mar 2014
Shading Errors with Normal map Hey guys and gals, been a lurker for some time now but that comes to an end today because I have hit a wall and need help understanding my problem. So I am currently trying to bake out a normal map …	4 Last	Bal Mar 2014
Polygonal Style Question Hi guys. These days i have been watching a lot of renders with a nice style and i wonder how it is done. This is an example: [url]http://www.pinterest.com/pin/517351075916484574/[/url] I have see t…	1 Last	cryrid Mar 2014
Q about Animation Hello, I will create a 2D animation in the following months for my diploma. I know a second has 24 frames. I intend to do a 10 min movie. 1.) Does this mean i should have (2460 seconds)10 = 144…	2 Last	Red Deliallisi Mar 2014