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How to achieve SilentHill2Remake style wrapping in 3dsmax?

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Eric Chadwick

parametric primitive addon recommendation for blender? (plus any other essentials)

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DanGry

Maya 2025: How to make a rectangles long side parallel to another objects edge?

I have a rectangle whose long side I would like to make parallel to another objects edge. I have tried all my newly learned tricks and nothing is sticking. The closest I have gotten is moving a corne…
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Ralf_Reddings

Radial Loop texture animation in 3DS Max

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Eric Chadwick

Typewriter lowpoly question

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Klunk

What is causing / how can i avoid this baking error?

I thought this issue was caused by me decimating too heavily, but it seems even after redoing the high poly & decimating less the issue remained. I am getting black triangles on certain random fa…
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Neox

do you soften or harden beveled edges on hard surfaces?

do you soften or harden beveled edges on hard surfaces?  when do you use vertex normals and set to face?
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stray

UV view is not equal to viewport view

I have no clue whats going on but all of the sudden my UV view does not longer equal my viewport view (this worked fine an hour ago)I only have ONE set of UV'sYes, its the correct image in my texture…
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Eric Chadwick

any good wood material tutorials

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Joopson

how do I avoid stretch in my designs ?

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Noren

Certain "Homemade" matcaps make ZBrush very unstable and crash often

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Erwin0265

UVPackmaster 3 - GPU accelerated UV packer for Maya and Blender

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Noren

Fire in blender

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DarkFire002

Display123 , any thoughts , experience?

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gnoop

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Eric Chadwick

Problem with viewport in 3ds max

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AeHarbor

(MAYA) ktModelingToolSet

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gnoop

realistic old wood for furniture help!

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pxgeek

Why am i getting these baking issues with my mesh?

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cturbo

[3DS MAX] Someone explain to me how textures work

I downloaded an object made up of flowers from the internet, together with the object there were 3 different textures attached for the different types of flowers. When I open the object it is a singl…
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Fabi_G

do i have to bake complex curtains made in marvelous?

hi I created some curtains in marvelous Designer and retopologized the curtains in maya, now i have to texture, but when I bake the high-poly curtains to the low in Substance Painter, it's awful beca…
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gnoop

How can I obtain this type of topology?

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Klunk

Agents - Crowd Simulation Addon for Blender

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globglob

A few workflow questions regarding Zbrush, 3D Scanstore and TExturing XYZ assets

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Geuse

How do I UV this?

1. 2. 3. 4. I want to bake the normals from the mesh detail in picture 4 onto some low poly planes in picture 3. I wish I could take some of the UV islands that don't contain anyt…
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Fabi_G

USD for 3ds Max plugin now Open Source

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shawnolson

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davidrussen

[solved] Speedtree: How to increase size of the trunk in final atlas.

Hi! I am combining bark and leaves texture in a single atlas to reduce draw calls.I am having trouble finding out how to increase size of the tree trunk compared to leaves in the final atlas tex…
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Eric Chadwick

Cut Edges Outside Document View [Trying to Make Tiles]

Cut Edges Outside Document View [Trying to Make Tiles] I know i can create heights but I am trying to export in substance painter
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Help! Do you mix different materials and objects on one trim sheet or keep seperate?

Do you mix up lots of different materials and trims for multiple assets on one trim sheet?  I am trying to model georgian period bedroom interior, and i have a lot of details on doors, walls and…
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poopipe

what texel density 2048 or 4096

what texel density do you use for the average high end games? 2048 or 4096
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Noren

The problem with transparency in UE 5.4.4

Hello, everyone. I don't understand why I have such a problem, the transparency is not displayed correctly. I watched several lessons to make sure I was doing the right thing, but I still have all th…
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DemigodOfShadows

Is this normal map ok?

The normal map has some banding along the edges after baking in Substance Painter. But should not this be a smooth gradient?
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Noren

Does anyone know AI way to turn a piece of google map into hi res and hi detailed terrain image?

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gnoop

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Chris_Covelli

Zbrush Buttons stop working once I do anything

Im completely stuck. I am not able to use zbrush currently. It was working fine and now it just started doing this. I am able to open zbrush and I can load something from the lightbox menu …
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how to export as png with tranparent background from maya arnold ?

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Alex_J

[Blender 3.1] Won't render anything new in Cycles, just sticks on an old scene.

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I've been working on a model for a while now and discovered a weird problem: Some objects disappears without a trace!! I have no idea were they are... I can select the objects in the outliner but I …
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[MAX] How to assign "center pivot to object" to a key?

How to assing "affect pivot only > center pivot to object" to key?
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Question about Face Weighted Normals in Maya

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littleclaude

basic knowledge help

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cturbo

3ds max old chamfer inside Editable Poly

hello, I´d like to know if there is a way to revert how the chamfer works inside editable poly, before it would do a regular chamfer by default, in recent versions of Max, it does like a round corner…
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HAWK12HT

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