Technical Talk

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Deleting objects in 3DS max..? Sorry if this sounds ridiculously basic, but I'm using bootcamp to run 3ds max 2011 on my macbook pro and there's no DEL key as it's a laptop keyboard, fn+backspace doesn't work, so I was wondering i…	11 Last	WarrenM Dec 2013
Crytiff Normal map error The normal map appears perfect on the model in Marmoset toolbag however, when I was converting the normal map to Crytiff format in Photoshop I got this error: [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img13/4862/…	6 Last	NanoTurtle Dec 2013
3ds Max Normals in Marmoset Toolbag I can't get Normal maps that were baked in 3ds Max to display properly in Marmoset Toolbag. Below is a screenshot of 3ds Max Normals in Marmoset Toolbag: [URL=http://s222.photobucket.com/user/Lydok…	4 Last	Zyth Dec 2013
change colors of edges and verts in maya UV editor? title says it all. can it be done? right now, inside the editor, if i have nothing selected the wireframe and the verts are both white. i need to select the entire "shell" just to see the verts in…	5 Last	Bartalon Dec 2013
Upgrading from Intuos5 to Cintiq 13hd? Hey guys! I was wondering if it's worth upgrading from a intuos5 to a cintiq 13hd! At first my biggest problem would be lack of touch, which I use to zoom in/out and turn the canvas. Intuos has the…	3 Last	technokill Dec 2013
Closed TB2 beta thread Pre-order discount! [URL="http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/store"][IMG]http://www.marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/tb2/tb2-banner.jpg[/IMG] [/URL] [IMG]http://www.marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/header…	813 Last	EarthQuake Dec 2013
Closed Gavin's video uo \| Marmoset Toolbag 2 \| News & Announcements	0 Last	EarthQuake Dec 2013
how to make your site a .pdf or viewable offline Sorry for asking most likely a noobish queston but I haven't got a lot of time to be learning/searching myself for an answer to this question. I have recently submitted my portfolio to several studi…	6 Last	MethodJ Dec 2013
Zbrush hard surface problem Hi, I'm working on a car design currently, following this tutorial: [URL]http://pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/vehicle-design/[/URL]. I found it really helpful, although I got stuck in on…	8 Last	Fisher007 Dec 2013
SUBSTANCE DESIGNER 2.1 Check out the brand new webpage dedicated to Substance Designer, now in its version 2.1, and see in particular how Kenny Lammers, ex Activision, Microsoft Technical Art Director uses the tool as a …	14 Last	littleclaude Dec 2013
Brief tutorial on using the Google Photosphere camera to create cubemaps. Hey guys! I've been playing around recently with the leaked Android 4.2 camera app, and especially the photosphere feature, and I thought it could be pretty cool to use it to fairly quickly create c…	22 Last	Kosai106 Dec 2013
3ds max weighting issue working on weighting the seam of two separate meshes. Before deformation test the verts line up 100% but when I rotate the joint the verts separate as if the weighting isnt the same on the verts. H…	5 Last	spacefrog Dec 2013
maya: What to do if individual files are buggy? As I'm working on my model, more and more bugs suddenly appear out of nowhere. all of them so far are small but very annoying bugs. Such as I can't snap a vertex to a CV curve unless I toggle the mov…	5 Last	Decoyz Dec 2013
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3DS Max Snaps not working Hello everyone. I'm having a problem with the snaps in Max, it's really weird. Snapping works fine while creating objects, be they primitives, splines or bones. But when I try to move or edit object…	11 Last	Impossible9 Dec 2013
Can't get multiple material elements in UDK to work Hi all, My mesh consists of multiple different objects, that I need to assign different materials to in UDK. When I export from 3DS Max, I'm not getting these different objects having their individ…	10 Last	VisceralD Dec 2013
3ds max 2012 running slow while doing simple operations I love modeling in 3ds max but 3ds max 2012 64 bit runs slow on simple operations like jumping out of edit poly and into turbosmooth. I turned off direct x and re-enabled nitrous but its still the sa…	12 Last	nufftalon Dec 2013
i broke symmetry in maya modeling toolkit Hello, I've been using symmetry in mayas new toolkit, and it's been awesome. however, recently i tried cleaning up my scene and the symmetry button has stopped working on the asset i was working o…	1 Last	MethodJ Dec 2013
Normalmap flipped when baking Hi polycount, first thread I started here :) I'm having a problem with my normalbake, I created a gun, and when I started to bake my normals from my high poly onto my low poly, my normals on the oth…	10 Last	JedTheKrampus Dec 2013
Does anyone use Blender? I've been browsing this forum for awhile, mostly just lurking and occasionally poking my head into a forum. I wanted to ask, am I the only one here using Blender? If others are.. they don't make it v…	6 Last	JedTheKrampus Dec 2013
FPS weapons texture resolution Hi guys,I was curious to know what is the current trend about texture resolution for FPS weapons games, like Crysis 3 weapons and similar. I'm doing a weapon myself,I soon have to texture it and I w…	11 Last	Marcus_Aseth Dec 2013
Zbrush, unexpected end of file encountered.. The subtool I'm using has multiple uv patches so im trying to use the multimap exporter for its UDIM feature, but multimap exporter keeps writing tifs that I cant open in photoshop. Has anyone enco…	1 Last	Tadao215 Dec 2013
Photoshop - help with wood Hello! I have a problem in Photoshop. My wood texture looks very ugly. Does anyone know good hand drawn wood tutorial? I'm creating a medieval village environment, so I need a wood texture. Thanks fo…	3 Last	Lev216 Dec 2013
Maya Isolation selection problems This has happened in the recent Mayas for whatever reason and it might be an option that you can toggle. But case in point: I isolate a mesh in maya and then isolate it's "elements" further. For exa…	6 Last	JohnnyRaptor Dec 2013
zBrush Alpha not applying on curves properly I'm trying to add scales to my Dragon, but when I try and apply it using the DragDot stroke they are not really applying properly. Before: [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63494571/before.j…	2 Last	martynball Dec 2013
Renderer taking way too long for a basic normal map Over the past few weeks I've noticed 3ds Max's Scanline has taken an enormous amount of time to bake. We're talking a 2048 map to take upwards of an hour to render. This has just come out of the blue…	10 Last	Chase Dec 2013
Symmetrised mesh in Marmoset Hello, I have this strange problem with almost all my meshes, when I symmetrised, the seam is all fucked up in Marmoset, but it seems OK in UDK. I already posted this on my thread but maybe people h…	8 Last	cptSwing Dec 2013
Cant Delete History-Maya Hi guys i have run in to a snag. I am UV mapping a character that is already rigged so to fix the UV problem you have to delete the non Deformer history to fix it. I have been doing that and its work…	7 Last	herrj5880 Dec 2013
Photoshop CC - shape tool > color in layer tab ??? I used to work on CS5, but now i'm a bit lost with shape layers : Is there a way to show "colors" for the shape in the layer, like before ? [IMG]http://pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/basics/shapes/vect…	2 Last	-Em'- Dec 2013
wrapping my head around modular design Hey guys, I've been struggling with getting some principles of modular design into my head, and was wondering if someone could explain something to me. Modular texturing/materials is obvious enough …	9 Last	passerby Dec 2013
Metal Texture help Hey guy im texturing a robotic cat and i am having trouble trying to hand paint a metal texture. If anyone could give me a tutorial or some good tip that would be great. P.S. im using photoshop and …	4 Last	Drayzers Dec 2013
Maya: Melscript statements , the moment an object is selected) I wonder if this is possible... What I'd like to do is: The moment I Left-click the mouse button down to select anything- an object, nurbscurve etc [Using dR_DoCmd("selectPress")] I'd like to perfo…	2 Last	StephenVyas Dec 2013
Best practice unwrapping uncommon meshes, like cones Hi everybody, this is a relatively simple question, but I'd appreciate some feedback or techniques on how resolve similar problems. Here is a simple flashlight model with temporary baked normal map:…	8 Last	Valandar Dec 2013
Polygon Budget for Next-Gen Games So the new age of gaming is upon us, and I wonder what budgets we are looking at. Suggestions? -Polygon budget for 3rd person action game with lots of enemies. (A bit like Warframe) -Polygon budget…	11 Last	corrosion Dec 2013
Architectural modeling Maya Do you guys know any documents/tutorials about Architectural modeling in Maya? I couldnt find anything valuable. Thanks.	0 Last	Mayalicious Dec 2013
UDK Vector Material for Landscape Hey gang! I'm currently trying to learn how to use the Landscape tool in UDK, and I made a material for snow and rock. I managed to somewhat get the result I want for my rocks, as it applies snow o…	6 Last	passerby Dec 2013
Zbrush - imported UV map/displacement map bake issue I have simple mesh. I first used UV master to create UV on it, and then exported mesh, to external map for further tweaking (seams). After that I imported the uv maped mesh, and used UV master to cop…	2 Last	iniside Dec 2013
(Maya) FK/IK Switch set-up trouble First time working with an FK/IK switch, so I could have easily missed something. When setting up the set-driven key, I am having trouble with one particular joint "popping" after I attempt to chang…	4 Last	RoxyPox Dec 2013
Normal Map Artifact (Maya bake) Hey guys, I was wondering if you have seen this before. I am modeling a mechanical object and doing a high to low bake in maya. When the spec is strong enough i am getting these artifacts. The surfa…	3 Last	uge_sl Dec 2013
Handplane-3dsmax problems Hi guys,I'm having problems using handplane. I've baked a test object space normal map (wich is the first image below),loaded into handplane togheter with my obj,set the "rendered" field to max and t…	2 Last	Marcus_Aseth Dec 2013
Having trouble learning Unreal Script and Scaleform HUD Hello guys! Got such a useful help last time I posted here, so figured I would try again :) First of, I should mention that I really don't have the knack for scripting, and I've run into a few probl…	0 Last	eidriaen Dec 2013
3Ds Max 2014 Reverse Rendering Hey is there a way to render an animation in reverse in 3Ds max 2014? I know people are going to say just do it in a post video editor program to get your animation in reverse. Thats not what I need…	3 Last	JohnnyRaptor Dec 2013
What does MTriangles/s mean? I was looking up a GTX Titan performance and ran into this site [URL]http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx27&D=NVidia+GeForce+GTX+TITAN&testgroup=lowlevel[/URL] and one thing that is shows is…	1 Last	Snader Dec 2013
Creating ground dust/sand Hi guys, So, I'm having a rocky, desert environment with a tank. I want there to be an ambient particle system of some sort to show dust in the air. Also, some dust coming from the ground as the ta…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2013
how to convert zbrush dynamesh sculpt to animatable model [IMG]http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/330/7/8/sci_fi_soldier_by_macchiarto-d6vssml.png[/IMG] i recently finished this sci-fi soldier sculpt in zbrush 4R4. An animator friend has expressed …	2 Last	paulchen83 Dec 2013
Stylized rock modeling, help me out! Greetings, Polycount! Been lurking and submerging in the forums for a few weeks now and finally had the guts to start posting. I'm fairly new to the whole game dev/art design/assets scene and wish to…	2 Last	kraed Dec 2013
Which game engine? - Jump N Run Hello everyone, this is my very first post on this board and I have a very noobish question I think. Well, first of all, Im a german guy and my english is sometimes - naah - name it wonky. Please ign…	9 Last	Blackbox Corp Dec 2013
Animating displacement maps I will post here too , because i think is more active forum:D I watched Blizzard, Making of Reaper of Souls. They did a technique like, animating displacement map for more facial expression or detai…	1 Last	BARDLER Dec 2013
Poltergeist Polygons Goodday gentlemen, I have a problem with a part of my model. I have made a model of human, fully rigged as far as my understanding of rigging goes, but whenever I move the wrist control the pinky fi…	2 Last	Kim Kimera Kimes Dec 2013
maya noob - transform subobjects numerically? So in Maya, when in object mode, I can manually input numbers to translate, rotate, and scale an object - either in the channel box, or in the attribute editor. But what about subobjects (compone…	4 Last	transistor Dec 2013