Technical Talk

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Mirroring animation How do I mirror animations in maya? Lets say the characters kicks his left foot. I want the animation to be flipped so that his right foot kicks instead.	2 Last	monster Jan 2012
Manipulator Meyhem!...Please Help In Maya 2012 my manipulators for both the Extrude and UV planer mapping do not show up. The actual functions are still working just no manipulator. The manipulators for everything else still work fin…	0 Last	_Swerve_ Jan 2012
exploding mesh in zbrush? hi all! I haven't been on in a while. I'm taking another crack at next gen character modeling and sculpting. When I'm making a gun or something I explode the mesh before baking it. For characte…	1 Last	Oniram Jan 2012
Modo UV's Hello, I've been trying to make UV's with a proportion like 512x256 in Modo, but couldn't quite get it right. Is there any way to make this properly? Thanks! :)	8 Last	Farfarer Jan 2012
Problem with normal map weird artefacts Hi sorry for all my questioning but I am really new to normal map extraction and I am making lot of errors seem , but Right now I am incurring in artefact problems coming from dunnowhere ... as you …	4 Last	Novian Jan 2012
[Windows 7] System keeps 'microstuttering' I run windows 7 64bit and after a while my system has been running it periodically every 4-5 minutes freezes for 1-2 seconds causing everything to freeze and if i'm playing a video or music it kind o…	23 Last	scourgewarper Jan 2012
Maya, white screen in all views. I did spent a good 3 days, and waste my time, figure it out, what the hell is my problem with maya, instead of practicing modeling. When i am trying to switch from perspective to either, front,top o…	2 Last	BojanStankovski Jan 2012
3dsMax 2011: Shaded UV Display Does Max (left) have a "Shaded UV Display" feature similar to Maya's (right)? [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/192198/UVQ.jpg[/img]	6 Last	killnpc Jan 2012
Sandbags! HELP! I'm currently working on a WW1 trench environment in 3DS Max and need some help with piling up sandbags. I've got the sandbag modelled, but I want to get a realistic stack/pile of sandbags around th…	7 Last	tyddynroger Jan 2012
dual screen 3dsmax and mouse button Hi I have a small problem with 3dsmax , when I click the central button to drag around the viewport , it does so in one screen but when I work on 3dsmax on the other screen instead it switches the mo…	3 Last	poopipe Jan 2012
Maya to Max - Internal Polygon Reriangulation Few month ago I've faced a strange problem. When I create polygon geometry in Maya and export it to Max (OBJ or FBX) the hidden edges of the polygons become turned! It's making me mad - e.g. I simply…	11 Last	beartraps Jan 2012
Maya Crease Tool Vs Holding Edges So Ive just recently discovered mayas crease tool, and ive noticed it can have a lot of advantages over using holding edges for smoothing, do any of you guys actually do this or do you just place hol…	17 Last	Crispy4004 Jan 2012
Mudbox Paint Problem Hello there, I'm having a problem with an important assignment I'm doing in Mudbox... I want to preserve previous versions of my file before I do anything drastic and possibly ruin it. What I did wa…	3 Last	StanHibbert Jan 2012
Problem with normal maps seams overlay Hello , I have created a normal map for my furslips model and looks fine on all seams , in xnormal , but then I needed to add fur details , so I painted fur on the "furry meshes parts" in mudbox and …	9 Last	NAIMA Jan 2012
Question about creating color variation in textures with Photoshop. Hey Folks I usually create my diffuse textures by layering different elements together then setting the blending mode to Luminosity to take on the color characteristic of my base color/texture. Usu…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2012
Photoshop Question - Tonal Representation I'm wondering if there is a function in Photoshop that allows you to check values of your image to see how wide or narrow the tonal range is? When you are writing and mixing a song for music you wan…	4 Last	jeremiah_bigley Jan 2012
[photoshop][chrome] saving images error Strange error this, but when I save an image in google chrome (right click - save as etc) to my HDD, photoshop steals focus and alerts me that it can't open the document because it's not the right ty…	1 Last	nfrrtycmplx Jan 2012
Receding vs Protruding normals I am running a couple tests to see how normals work. Protruding normals seem to be no problem, but Receding normals are being a bit of a pain. Maya screen: The left mesh is a sombrero-like shape. […	2 Last	JoshWilkinson Jan 2012
Normals from Zbrush to maya Hi i been trying to make normal maps for my work i use zbrush to scuplt it I been using GOZ is easier putting into zbrush i create the normal map for it from zbrush i am not using zmapper. But when i…	2 Last	cryrid Jan 2012
Hand painting tiling textures Quick and easy question here guys... and I feel like a total bonehead for not knowing how to do this, but I'm pretty sure it's a case of me overthinking things like I usually do. How do you create h…	4 Last	Nelios Jan 2012
Car modeling Hey everyone currently working on a car model, but been having some trouble. As many of you know the model has to be very smooth for highlights and such. My problem is that even with turbosmooth, my …	3 Last	gsokol Jan 2012
Rigging / boning a '2D' character Hello all, I am in need of some advice or a tutorial- I am working on a '2D' game (it's actually 3D but constrained to the side, characters are made of quads that overlap) and was wondering if som…	2 Last	Chimp Jan 2012
Unwrap help Hey everyone, I made a pillar type model, and I have no clue how to unwrap this thing. I have finished the Eat 3d Old Pillar tutorial, and the pelt mapping method work pretty well, however the model …	11 Last	MagnificentMicrowave Jan 2012
centering issue...3dsmax I dont know what this is called. But is effecting my symetry In 3ds max.... [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/266/pivm.jpg/][IMG]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2197/pivm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] …	6 Last	Rockley Bonner Jan 2012
error parsing xaml file Hi I got this error yesterday that makes me not load the graphite tools in 3dsmax , does anyone know hot to fix it? I have looked around the web and the solutions I found didn't help ... XAML Parse …	2 Last	NAIMA Jan 2012
FBX & stripping resource? Hello, Having some difficult to understand the FBX PolygonVertexIntex function. For instance a plane with 2 triangles gives the following : [code] PolygonVertexIndex: *6 { a: 0,3,-3,0,1,-4…	1 Last	sama.van Jan 2012
3ds max 2012 - must click wireframe to select object? I feel like I must have stumbled onto one of the landmine-like hotkeys Max has, like X killing gizmos. In order to select an object, I must click where the wireframe is, even if I'm not in wireframe…	3 Last	aajohnny Jan 2012
how much performance increase from modular environments? Im wondering how big of an increase there is from modular environments and where it actually increases performance. In my mind, logically, I feel it would only really help load times since the compu…	34 Last	commander_keen Jan 2012
Texturing workflow question, crazy or common? Just a quick one, can't really search for this on google. If you are working towards a low poly game asset but aiming for a highly realistic [B]diffuse only[/B] texture, could you use this workflow …	3 Last	Snader Jan 2012
Standard Bone rigs Vs' CAT I'm sure this is the right part of the forums to ask; Recently I started taking interest in animating again, but i'm not sure what to use as there's a new rig type on the block and i wanted to know…	5 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2012
Need help with the photoshop batch hiya everybody, i'm want to save a bunch of files in PNG-24 safe for web for a little game we are making. I open one of the files of the batch i want to work on, set up my action by pressing the re…	14 Last	cw Jan 2012
Photoshop SmartObjects - For Bakes I don't know how many people use this little trick, but I did a search on smart objects and didn't find any threads. That being said, I recently tried using smart objects to see if you could just lin…	10 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2012
How to enlarge multiple subtools ? Hello , first of all sorry for all my questioning about Zbrush , but I am learning it and I am very new to it :) .... now my next question is how do I enlarge multiple subtools together without brea…	8 Last	cryrid Jan 2012
UDK - Renamed files in content browser removed from scene I was just going through my content browser and renaming my static meshes and materials to fit the naming conventions of my assignment. When I hit save, UDK crashed and when I opened it back up my sc…	0 Last	JamesClarke Jan 2012
Multi UV sets / Textures in Maya Hi Does any one know how to connect Multi UVs set in Maya? * I have a model which it has a multi uvs sets (4 sets) ..I want to connect all of them in one material ..how can I do that? Thanks! exam…	5 Last	oglu Jan 2012
The future of asset creation for games Hi all, I am currently studying video game art at university. One piece of research that I am doing is looking at the future of asset creation for games. We all know about current asset creation p…	28 Last	Computron Jan 2012
Baking to Low Poly from Many High Poly meshes laying atop one another. So I have a character model I am doing for Mutant League Challenge, [URL]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91884[/URL] This is the first time I have extracted the clothes, for example,…	4 Last	dproeder Jan 2012
Max to FBX export - Multiple UV Channels? I'm exporting some files through FBX to be used in our engine, and we're noticing that the UV channels are being written to the FBX file incorrectly. Basically, what's happening is that our importer …	2 Last	leechdemon Jan 2012
Two texture sheets to one character model I'm making a character and we've been told to use 2x1024 for diffuse. So I made my UVs and the only once i started painting i realised i don't know how this is going to work. How can two texture s…	7 Last	Z3NZY Jan 2012
USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders? I'm looking for a piece of software that I can configure to do regular backups of my c: drive and store the back up on an external USB drive. Anyone got any suggestions?	18 Last	malcolm Jan 2012
What are Skyrim's .FXP shader files? Skyrim is awesome and I want to mess with their shaders but they seem to be compiled into some sort of binary .FXP format. Anyone here from Bethesda or otherwise know how to open them and touch them …	3 Last	mLichy Jan 2012
Maya 2012 change border edge colour? Is it possible to make border edges a different colour. I know that you can make them thicker than regular edges, but I'd like them to be a different colour.	2 Last	Froyok Jan 2012
3DS Max - CAT GUI Hello forum, I've been asked by a client to handle a bit of animation using CAT in 3ds max. So far I've ever only been in touch with Character Studio. I haven't had the chance to work with CAT yet. I…	2 Last	Mikael P. Jan 2012
Building a portfolio website? I'm learning the new HTML5 standards along with JavaScript and CSS3... and thought it would be incredibly useful to document the stuff I learn... I find having a knowledge of web development helps…	4 Last	nfrrtycmplx Jan 2012
3ds Max 2012 Nitrous Problem Please Help I transferred my Maya scene into Max 2012 because of its viewport preview capabilities - I like the cast shadows - but the textures - when you zoom out look blurry and when you zoom in they are fine.…	2 Last	Arthur Ramazanov Jan 2012
3Ds Max/ Zbrush: Industry vs personal workflow Hi all, After reading, watching and searching on Zbrush workflow I am facing the point of decision making on the subject of workflow when using Zbrush and Max together. I am going to prefer making …	15 Last	Shuriken UK Jan 2012
workflow question - maya and Zbrush So i want to at least to try to figure this out before i get too far in. Correct me when i screw up: 1. I make highpoly mesh in maya 2. import to zbrush 3. do whatever i want to in zbrush, scratche…	6 Last	n88tr Jan 2012
Zbrush problem transferring uvmap data with uvmaster Hi , I was working on a polymodel and I carved out a shape , but then I realized that I could make a nicer work using an alpha mask directly from photoshop so for this I needed the model itself to ha…	5 Last	cryrid Jan 2012
Trying to create... ...rising steam/smoke in UDK and am stumped on how to go about making it. It's rising from a grate in the floor lightly, as in you can see through it, similar to [URL="http://www.travelpod.com/users/…	4 Last	Psiward Jan 2012
fur technique Hi I want to make this fur into those slips and I am not sure what I should do : 1 Sculpt manually all the furs with brushes and eventually after paint them with texture or other fur? 2 Leave it s…	3 Last	NAIMA Jan 2012