Technical Talk

Topic	Replies	Latest Post
How to effectively color a black and white painting I can never seem to do this, all results end up being sort of mono chromatic. Not sure if its my blending mode or what I mean this in the context of hand painted textures though. Like if I were to p…	24 Last	Fireflights Oct 2013
Mudbox problem Everytime i project a stencil on to one area it some how appears on another area is well when i made sure i made the brush size and stencil size i want to suit the area.	4 Last	burgone Oct 2013
New to 3Ds Max/Modeling Hey guys I'm new to 3ds max and i have an idea of what i want to model but i don't know where to start what should i do?	7 Last	baconboltz Oct 2013
Braid Generator (MaxScript) Started a small generator for braids :) I simply converted an old tutorial (KevinJohn's) into maxscript and made it parametrable :) [CODE]-- BRAID TOOL try(destroyDialog BraidGeneratorRollout)catch(…	3 Last	nyx702 Oct 2013
Forcing 3d max into alpha test Hey guys, I hope you can help with this problem I'm having. Been reading a lot about this the past few days and that leads me to believe that there just may be no solution. I'm making the hair for a…	4 Last	Xolo Oct 2013
Foliage Mode Lighting Settings. UDK. Hey guys just a quick noob question. I am in final the final stages of lighting my scene in production quality. I have some foliage in my scene, and most of it is placed using the foliage mode in UDK…	2 Last	MetaAlex Oct 2013
What is sub-d level? So? Pls be detailed but clear	10 Last	Noors Oct 2013
Help! max 2014 UI broke! k so this happened: [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15275414/halp.PNG[/IMG] at first when i started, the icons appeared except they were abonormally small and the UI was glitching, so i res…	3 Last	Olli. Oct 2013
how to get behind things in prerendered background Hi, i was working on a project using fairly large prerendered partial cubemaps as background (like in ukarena of time) [URL="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484680/cubic/Debug.rar"]its an xnaXNA…	2 Last	arrangemonk Oct 2013
Maya 2014 Skin weights bug? Just wondering if anyone has encountered this golden nugget. Doing a copy skin weights + paste from one mesh to another seems to break the max influences of the skin. eg if your copying to a mesh a…	1 Last	rorozilla Oct 2013
Modeling a character. How u do it So in 3ds max there is tutorial about creating human in classic way, from boots to head, but there is other way where people firstly create box in middle for body and then make it mirror and from it …	3 Last	sargentcrunch Oct 2013
Cloth Tear's (Maya to Zbrush) I am having a hard time making tear's in Maya for import into Zbrush. Particularly, my character has torn sleeves up to his shoulder. I have imported clothing from Maya into Zbrush which look pret…	3 Last	darkmanx_429 Oct 2013
"Cracks" in paint in Mudbox Hi there, I'm getting "cracks" in an object I've painted in Mudbox. I've tried isolating it on a particular layer but it seems to be on the layer selected but I'm not able to paint over them. It loo…	4 Last	DougClayton4231 Oct 2013
3dsmax ambient occlusion bug? This is a new one that cropped up today and is killing me. I need to render ambient occlusion using render to texture. No problem so far. Ive done this a lot before so I know the steps. Weirdly, …	28 Last	GIS3000 Oct 2013
Is it ever okay NOT to connect vertices? In a low-poly game model, is it ever okay to NOT connect vertices and instead just have a poly-face stick into a mesh? Example: An arm connects to the shoulder of a character. You connect the shou…	7 Last	Tiles Oct 2013
One Whole Mesh or Broken Up Combined Into One Mesh I have been wordering what is the best way to create a final low poly mesh for riggers and animators to work on in terms of either retopoing one whole entire mesh or combining broken up parts into on…	3 Last	Inhert Oct 2013
Is anyone here experienced in the program called Nuke? I am trying to land an internship and I must learn this program called Nuke. I was just wondering if anyone on this site knows about Nuke. If so I want to know if you are able to edit videos in the w…	1 Last	Noors Oct 2013
IK solvers. Example for what we use them? I have no idea what are they. Are they some kind of custom objects like bones, or they give some special effects on bones, like custom moving/scaling/rotating and such. Please give me excample for wh…	5 Last	Moosebish Oct 2013
Seams in UDK using Mirrored geometry, whilst it is all lightmapped correctly So I have mirroed an object to make use of the texture I have created, in maya, it looks fine. However, once it is in UDK each object i have mirrored in maya has seems in UDK, The object is lightmapp…	1 Last	Chase Oct 2013
Digital Camera for texture sourcing? Im not sure if this is the correct place to put this, sorry if it's not. I am thinking about obtaining a digital camera so i can source my own textures from the environment, however i happen to kn…	8 Last	ExcessiveZero Oct 2013
rigging, skinning and rendering? I think this two things are actually one the same but am I right? I think skinning means to you aply vertexes to the bone, but I also think to rigging means that too, am I wrong? Also what is render…	5 Last	HammerFist3D2D Oct 2013
Baking AO with Mental Ray ...... HELL!! Hi there again! So I've been able to bake AO using the Skylight method in 3DS max 2012.:) However, the results are not as good as Mental ray. The skylight method would always leave a light rim in c…	7 Last	GIS3000 Oct 2013
Humanoid: skinning with 5 bones Hello For exercise and study purpose I'm making a low poly human character with only 5 bones (body, legs, arms) with harsh weight (1 weight per bones). I'm toying with edge case to learn and develop…	1 Last	monster Oct 2013
UDK over exposed reflection Hi guys, does anyone know why my reflection get super bright even though d real object didn't? One thing that should be noted is that there is a DominantDirectionalLight pointing towards it. Is there…	15 Last	Revel Oct 2013
Texture Painting Tutorials Texture Painting Tutorials Please feel free to add your own or your links and finds. Texturing Overview, tutorial, Ellie from The last of us (3d model fan art) [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe…	2 Last	Titus Oct 2013
3ds Max VMF Importer and Exporter Updates I wanted to share with you some updates I've done to Wall Worm lately. A huge percentage of my efforts lately have been on enhancing the level design tools in Wall Worm for the Source Game Engine. …	4 Last	shawnolson Oct 2013
UV Islands from Smoothing Groups Hey guys, Just a quick question, is there a quick way to get UV islands from the Smoothing Groups I've already created in 3DS Max 2013? TexTools appears to have this function, but does not work wit…	1 Last	StormTheGates Oct 2013
real world size uv mapping? i know that real world size means to make your model big like in real world :). But I also heard that it makes uv mapping easier, why, could you please answer me, can you make some excamples with pic…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2013
Xnormals height map problem I'm having a problem with Xnormals. When i try to convert a height map to a normal map, the resulting image is in gray scale instead of the colours a tangent space normal map usually has. I'm kinda …	0 Last	dune3001 Oct 2013
[Maya] Material List... Now with Menus Hey guys, I posted a while back on a MEL script interface tool for materials I created. I have completely revamped it and it's a hundred times better now! For those who might have missed my last po…	59 Last	SMac Oct 2013
Marmoset toolbag gone wild Hello, I am currently hitting my head on the table. I made the model in 3ds max 2014. Import, and I see this in 3ds max 2013 [IMG]http://puu.sh/4Olj0.png[/IMG] I export to obj, using 3ds max 2013.…	7 Last	[Deleted User] Oct 2013
Seams in normal mapping. There are a handful of military weapon models created from scratch that I would love to put onto a 3D asset store and see if they sell but before that must first conquer these normal mapping noob mis…	3 Last	Xzulian Oct 2013
Normals whack, how you bake this stuff? Bout as basic as it gets...a pallet. I'm using turtle for baking, and Unity. Any settings I should know about? What the hell is this shadow? [IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7368/10034453824_d7b…	12 Last	latitudeclear Oct 2013
Few questins for high-poly models. Hey guys, how lond did it take for you to master high-charactes? For me high poly characters are over 7k polygons. And when u do new human model do u do it totaly from scrath or u have some simple ba…	5 Last	WarrenM Oct 2013
Cant get simple extrudes to bake I've been working on a Tardis model from Doctor who and cant seem to progress around a baking issue im having. The model is essentially just a box with some extrusions here and there and yet whenever…	3 Last	WarrenM Oct 2013
How to optimize models in Blender? Hello. I used to use this method. On the low-poly blank I added modifier "Subdivision Surface". This method is now no good for me, since lost the original geometry of the model. Recently, I learned…	7 Last	Estavos Oct 2013
Topogun issues Topogun is starting to seize and crash. The verts won't move all the time. Anyone else run into this problem??	1 Last	katana Oct 2013
Zbrush/Max GoZ/Import scale/pivot issues/woes I am trying to transfer an object back and forth between Max and Zbrush but the two tools from the topic title have not behaved as I have expected them to. Using GoZ Max > Zbrush > Max will keep the…	5 Last	katana Oct 2013
Efficient Vehicle Rigging Methods, Tutorials or Scripts? Hi guys, I've been recently tasked to do some rigging and animation of vehicles and machinery parts for mining equipment and trucks, excavators and such. I'm working in 3ds Max and Unity, with some …	5 Last	lukepham101 Oct 2013
Maya 2013 weird obj/sub-obj selection Greetings everyone! I spent last week on studying Maya, everything is perfect but there is one thing that drives me crazy! When I have more then one object in my scene and trying to select one (whic…	0 Last	voronov.art Oct 2013
Game engine Wires and groups of wires - How? So I've done some browsing on the forums to try and find an answer to this but so far I've only gone around in a giant circle to find my self in the same position. Nowhere. Here's a few of my main …	7 Last	Mossbros Oct 2013
Annoying AO error Hi there. At times when I'm baking AO, areas which have intersecting faces are not being occluded fully. Example: [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67063985/AOerror.jpg[/IMG] I'm baking wit…	8 Last	3Dyan Oct 2013
3DS Max 2013 Painting weights tool lag So I haven't really had this issue before, but lately i've seen that when i go to paint weights the response time is lagging like 2-3 seconds behind the stroke...could anyone give me a reason why? I…	2 Last	katana Oct 2013
Polygons and Maps: In-Game vs CG Hi, guys! I'm trying to have a further understanding in how game's cinematics are made. Generally speaking, a ps3/xbox 360 in-game character has somewhere between 10.000 to 20.000 polygons and the …	8 Last	Valandar Oct 2013
How can I unchamfer multiple chamfers? Does anybody have a quick and smart way to unchamfer multiple chamfered areas without going in to select and delete the edges I want to remove? I have a script which helps me select chamfered areas,…	2 Last	Bryan Cavett Oct 2013
3dsmax - Custome RenderToTexture Hi, I am not very comfortable with renderToTexture with 3dsmax even if I can render Normal maps, AO maps, Diffuse maps, etc... (not very difficult...) But I need to render a very special type of map…	5 Last	fire67 Oct 2013
Resculpting Seam Areas in Mudbox (Separate Objects) Hi! I'm working on a 3D creature design and had to cut the creature into separate objects for sculpting because the computer couldn't handle the subdivided polycount if it was a single mesh. Obvious…	0 Last	Arbinn Oct 2013
3d text tools. Hey guys, Just wondering whether you know of some tools, or which app you have found most easy to make 3d text in. Whenever I try to make 3d text with bevels and what not, I always end up doing all…	5 Last	fatihG_ Oct 2013
voxel cone-tracing GI discussion Ok so I was thinking about voxel cone-tracing for GI, especially now that UE4 is implementing a version of it, and have a few inquires as well as misgivings that I hope can be cleared up. Foremost, …	31 Last	gboxentertainment Oct 2013
Maya Grouping Problem Hi! I seem to be getting this continuing problem while making and creating polygon primitives in maya. I create the object, but right off the bat it's stuffed in it's own group. While it seems insign…	4 Last	nosyT Oct 2013