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[Blender] Sweep Toolkit

The purpose of the Sweep Toolkit is to provide you the better way to Sweep a Profile along a Path than the default Blender Curve to Mesh. The Toolkit consist of 2 GN Modifiers Sweep and Pipe, 8…
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vilix

Select surface objects script(Maya)

Hi all! I want to make a script in Maya for switching Select surface objects command. Now i have two separate scripts for this: setObjectPianckMask "Surface" true; and setObjectPickMask "Surface" …
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Kalugin89

How do you use the bevel?

How do I configure the wire frame to make the groove angled?
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okidoki

Do you texture the skin with alpha brushes before or after retopologizing the character for games?

hello, I am sculpting my first character in zbrush and would like to know if you are meant to retopologize the character first before adding the alpha skin wrinkle texures? Also after you have zwrapp…
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iam717

Z-Sphere retopology cant make verticies show

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kanga

Nostil shadows (Zbrush)

I can't seem to get the nostril to cast a shadow when doing a render in zbrushthey always seem to be illuminated and it's confusing me as what I'm doing wrong with the nose 
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kanga

Quad modelling

How do I maintain the quad topology in this space
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okidoki

Improving 3D terrain quality - Object space and bent normal maps?

Hi guys! I am thinking about how to improve the quality of my 3D terrains. I am using standard tangent space normal maps, but lately I have been reading about object space normal maps and bent norma…
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Noors

zbrush cant increase dynamesh resolution

Hi everyone,I have a very strange situation happening. I am importing a model from 3ds max and want to apply dynamesh. The thing is that I hit a wall with 4096 dynamesh resolution at 2 mill polygons,…
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HAWK12HT

[3ds Max Script] miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Aligner

miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Align allows you to quickly align the gizmo of the Symmetry and Slice modifiers by picking 3 points in the scene    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6gX8D03b8T…
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miauu

what do u think about iclone? character creator?

hello,what do u think about those mentioned softwares?is it used in AAA ?what about hair system? is it possible to export haircards obj/fbx with textures ?if u have experience with it, what are pros …
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focus_method

fibershop , is it worth buying it?

hello,anyone have experience with fibershop grooming?all these tutorials i saw on yt and on artsation , its awasome.Are there any downsides of it ?
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poopipe

[3DS Max] - Straighten UV's Problem

Hello!I'm trying to unwrap the UV's of this pan, and I'm having the following issue with the "Straighten Selection" feature in 3DS Max's UV Editor:In brief, I'm trying to straighten these UV islands …
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Klunk

XGen Clumping Issue

I'm creating an XGen groom for a character which is working for the most part. The issue I run into is how some clumps seem to clump on themselves for lack of a better term. Take a look at the image …
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Large_Leader

how do you create tilable textures for uneven floor tiles not all the same dimensions?

How do you go about making floor tiles when the dimensions of the building are odd  which leaves me with some of the tiles not fitting and stick out and you have to fit along a curved wall? What…
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Alex_J

Normal map visible seams baking issues with my rocks

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Thanez

Hypershade - Textures - I couldn't place them correctly. (Redshift /Maya)

Hi polycount forum,How is it going ?I have a problem that I can't solve. This is an old project. I am trying to do it again. but the texture looks very shiny. I might not be able to place them correc…
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mountains

why are there holes in my mesh in unreal, when i cant see anything wrong with the geometry or uvs?

can someone please kindly advise, im new to unreal and need help. Why are there holes appearing in my mesh in unreal when i import the low poly? Also, when i imported a model the third player charact…
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cturbo

Trying to improve likeness sculpting

Just wanted to write down my thoughts and what I’ve learn so farI don’t really feel like there’s many good tutorials on how to capture a likeness probably cause the main talent it requires is observa…
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small99

How I reduced eye fatigue

This will be obvious for a lot of people but just want to report what I learned in case its helpful. Been working on computers since 2017 and most days I feel fatigue in my eyes at end of the day. So…
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Shrike

Texel Density and how to stick to it

Hello everyone, I would like to better understand texel density and how to maintain it in a scene.What blocks me is that I understand how it works, with the various mathematical formulas, even how ma…
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gpdav

What's new in cloth simulation? anything new and cool recently worth trying ?

  I stopped at Marvelous Designer 6.5 I ones got a permanent license as an Xmass deal .   It feels  so ancient, slow and and inconvenient nowadays .  Although I managed to ge…
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iam717

Strange Zbrush IMM behaviour (bug?)

When I frame all polygroups and use a IMM curve brush on the frames, only the line I click on (circled in red) has the correct curve step, everything else has like 0 curve step and all the meshes a…
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zetheros

Polygons' edges are seen after baking

Hello everyone! I cannot figure out the issue with polygon edges being seen on the low poly after baking. Here's the high poly and low poly models (Blender). These are the seams and sharp e…
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DC74

Weird bake issue

I'm having a weird baking issue on one component on my model. I am unsure of what the issue is, this issue wasn't here before and only appeared when I re-baked the model. I have included images of th…
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WarriorOfOld

Seam showing in mirrored UVs After Baking Normal

Hi everybody. I have a very persistent problem I seem unable to solve. I am working on a model and to save texture space I mirrored some parts. The process I follow in From Blender to Substance is:Un…
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Neox

[GeoNodes] Sampled curve only consider one spline (workaround)

I created a grid with an underlying curve and the "poles" are splines instanced on the curve points, poining up, the base curve gets duplicated n times and they are placed along the instanced splines…
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Yerus

Preferred Game Level Environment Art Dimensions: Powers of 2 or Base Ten?

For example should a kitbash trim piece be 32x16x128 or would 25x10x100 be better?
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poopipe

Are Weapon/Hardsurface Artists In Game Studios Like Activision Using CAD?

Hello,Just as the title says.  Are weapon artists in these Triple A studios using CAD to save-time? And no, I'm not talking about Junior 3D Hardsurface/Weapon Artists, I'm talking about Senior l…
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pior

USD updates in Maya and 3ds Max

The USD team at Autodesk is happy to share the updates to our USD plugins in Maya and 3ds Max. Maya:Use native camera viewport controls with USD camerasSee USD Light shapes and pick in viewportE…
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shawnolson

Looking for retro games with an old rigging technique

Hi everyone! I've read this interesting discussion Retro 3D Art FAQ - Everything you need to know to create PS1/N64/Dreamcast/etc. 3D art! — polycount and I'm interested in the "Character riggin…
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dimwalker

Is possible to apply the last scale value to a another face?

Some times when I scale a face up to a certain amount, I would like so scale another similar face up to the exact same amount. I thought I could do this with Maya's Repeat command, but it does no…
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Ralf_Reddings

Retopology for game ready asset question

Hello, this is my first post here. I've been doing 3D Art for the past few years but I still have some doubts about some stuff sometimes so I decided to register here to step up my modeling game :)I …
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Ceqatre

Modular Assets and Tiling Textures

I am trying to make my first big set and am trying to figure out how to break the chunks up into modular pieces and how to texture them.I want to use a tiling texture as the base and add details with…
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King Mango

Smooth group import plugin for Zbrush

Please help me find the plugin for zbrush "smooth group import". I can't find it anywhere
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Neox

[ Maya ] DecalMaster - Accelerate Detailing Through Decals and Trim Sheets

DecalMaster is a Maya plugin designed to accelerate the surface detailing phase by providing a UV-less, non-destructive, non-committal workflow through decals and trim sheets. It does this by enablin…
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Xealot

Blender: Precision Question

I want to create a circular tube 6' high and 1" thick. In Blender I have set my units to Imperial and inches. I created a circle curve - set the x dimension (front view) to 72". I reset the scale to …
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CommonOne

Quick question, the cost of alpha blend.

Hey, I have a quick question about alpha blend materials in UE5.If a rendered pixel is 100% opaque, does it incur less processing cost, or does the shader still process all pixels equally since it's …
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gnoop

Any tips creating this with shaders?

Is this kind of look (transparent with elements floating inside) possible to be created entirely in shaders, Arnold or Unreal? Any tips how I can get started? If not, what other approach would you us…
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Panupat

[GeoNodes] Find angle between verts or edges

0I'm trying to figure out how to do it, I only neeed the angle from the X-Y axis between one segment and the next one. I checked out some other similar questions, but none of the ones I found were ab…
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PolyHertz

Smooth group import plugins for Zbrush

Please help me find the plugin for zbrush "smooth group import". I can't find it anywhere.
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AlbertS

Folds topology advice

Hello guys! I'm looking for some advice about my folds topology, what should I change? Is it good enough? Cause I really don't understand how PERFECT topology (for game dev) supposed to look like ( e…
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iam717

[Maya] GN Quad Fill Hole

Update version 2.01:Hello!I just updated my script on ArtStation which now comes with a new option "Force offset" that might help achieve a better result in certain situations. Basically, as you can …
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Gabriel Nadeau

Should boundary meshes like walls and cliffs be planes or 3d objects?

I am modeling in Blender to use the meshes in UE5.The walls and cliffs that bound the scene should be made with a plane with displacement (high poly baked into low poly) or should it be a 3d object? …
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Benjammin

Zbrush reconstruct subdivisions ruining UV’S

Hi guys! I've been stuck on this stage  for so long, I have my retopo blouse with UV, I added thickness in maya (I have subdiv 3, added thickness with Local Translate Z in my case 0.003 and…
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Neox

Maya basic functionality (like selectAll, select child objects) questions from 3dsmax user

Hey guys! I am trying to switch from 3dsmax to Maya and got many issues on the start. Could anyone please help: SelectAll is actually selecting top parent objects and highlighting the rest but I wan…
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sergsse

Help me in low poly for games

Hi all i am unable to figure out how to proceed for making low poly for this pasty
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Klunk

[3ds Max] miauu's Get External .MAX File Properties & Thumbnails Generator

miauu's Get External .MAX File Properties & Thumbnails Generator allows you to: get the file properties of any .max file and see its thumbnail without opening that fileextract and save thumb…
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miauu

How do I clean up these edges?

So I've been modeling a cassette player (the image provided is a closeup of one part of it. I'm trying to practice making cleaner models especially when they're smoothed out. I could be wrong but I a…
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Tiles

Automatic re-adapting of same clothes on different meshes? (on Zbrush/Blender/3dsMax)

Hi community! I'm wondering if exists in the deep of web, a script or a plugin that allows to adapt the same clothing (so the same mesh and topology) to different type of bodies, having different top…
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Alex_J

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