Technical Talk

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3ds max render issue Hi all, im currently having an issue with 3ds max's rendered where it will not refresh. Like this.[IMG]http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/KennyA_2010/renderproblem.jpg[/IMG] Anyone have any su…	4 Last	KennyTies Jul 2011
I can't remember how to unwrap stuff in MAx anymore :( So I've been working with Luxology's modo for years now and one of it's best features is it's power UVW unwrapping tools. I've gotten so used to them that I when it comes to doing it in max I don't e…	6 Last	Perfectblue Jul 2011
Zbrush Decimation Master- Errors when using Planes Decimation master is destroying the form of any object that's a plane. In the first image below I imported a plane from max and quickly modeled some detail onto it. After running decimation master it…	4 Last	metalliandy Jul 2011
AO BAKE QUESTIONS Hi guys, I have modeled a weapon for tf2 which will be included in a pack I am working with. It consists mainly of two materials, Wood (for the main body of the weapon)and Obsidian (for the part that…	5 Last	e-barron Jul 2011
3DS Max - UV's and Viewport Canvas - Straighten and Clipping Hey to all, have two issues, anyone up for helping me solve them? [U]Issue Number one:[/U] I have some fairly complex models (hard surface) which require unwrapping, and they also need to be straig…	4 Last	Ace-Angel Jul 2011
UDK Spec and Normal Hey guys I wonder How to keep my Spec and Normal when baking the lighting with light mass in UDK... When i Bake everything my Spec ans Normals becomes not dynamic anymore or seam to disapear in the …	3 Last	Ben Apuna Jul 2011
Tablet delay For some reason in zbrush when I start a penswipe, it takes a second to register, and if I hold down the pen it seems like its trying to do some sort of auto right click thing. Ive tried deleting my …	3 Last	SpeCter Jul 2011
MaxScript - Network RTT help So I've got a working automated RTT baking tool, trying to get it to send the job to render node instead of baking locally. I can't find any documentation anywhere :( In the Macro_BakeTextures.mcr …	0 Last	marks Jul 2011
Recommended Comsumer Level Video Card For 3ds Max, Maya Etc. Mods my apologies if this has been asked and or answered elsewhere in the forums before. I checked but could not find it. I am wondering what sort of video cards you guys are using and what you'd re…	14 Last	ChickenNoodleSoup Jul 2011
Studiocompiler not working. Two major bugs. Hi, I'm trying to start modelling for TF2, and that means decompiling a player model to base things off. Thing is, I downloaded the latest version of Studiocompiler and I've run into two pretty major…	23 Last	X82 Jul 2011
[Source - Tf2] Cry for help on compiling custom models Heyy guys! I could really do with some help, or a up to date tutorial on the steps to compile a custom model for tf2, from exporting the smd all the way to using the model, all tutorials I have used…	2 Last	Gingerkiwi Jul 2011
Hello, 3 days new to modeling and ran into a problem in 3ds max 10. [img]http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9265/tailproblem.jpg[/img] I am trying to rig a new model to the old hydralisk bone animations. However whenever I apply weight to any part of the model from…	0 Last	PSG_Mud Jul 2011
Zbrush4 Projection Master: Alphas Not updating zIntensity/ focalshift in real time Normally when you use projection master, any changes you make to z-intensity focal-shift or draw size will automatically show in real time. For some reason whenever I change these settings zbrush wil…	1 Last	cryrid Jul 2011
Unreal - Specular texture vs Material Nodes? This might be a bit of a noobish question, but I'm a bit unclear on this. I'm looking at some materials in an Unreal3 project, and instead of having a baked specular texture (or alpha channel, etc), …	36 Last	equil Jul 2011
System recovery image, & formatting I remember a while back there was a thread that had a tool that could take an image of a freshly formated system and store it for future uses to avoid having to do total reformat, cant seem to rememb…	3 Last	DataCain Jul 2011
Quaternion versus Euler Hey everyone, I believe this would be the right subforum for this question. I tried using search but the topics were really broad. I use 3ds Max to animate and I have wondered what is best to use be…	16 Last	pen Jul 2011
From Max to Maya--Need Some Advice ---------	28 Last	m4dcow Jul 2011
Please Help! 3ds max 2010 laggy interface problem Hi polycounters, I tried my best finding something useful for this problem on various board and google search, but i am running out of ideas and maybe somebody experienced the problem before and man…	32 Last	Amslon Jul 2011
Realtime PTEX Applications So, when will we start seeing PTEX type texturing methods in realtime applications such as games? It is open source so I imagine its adoption would be quick, but is there any technical explanation wh…	22 Last	malcolm Jul 2011
max save script? ok once again max blue screened my rig and forgot to save my progress so lost what i had been doing. is there any save scripts/plugins that will say save iratations (sp?) every 5/10mins incase i get…	2 Last	cdavidson Jul 2011
3ds max user learning XSI Hi there, I find myself learning XSI lately for work reasons, and being really used to 3ds max... I have some questions about some stuff I couldnt figure out yet. If you can help me that ll be grea…	81 Last	maze Jul 2011
Max 2012 weird viewport shading Hello folks, I recently downloaded Max 2012 student license and I got a weird problem. Sorry I am a newb and I don't know how to get around (yet) ^^ In my viewport I get weird shading when I am usin…	6 Last	hamzaaa Jul 2011
What do you use for Uv Unwrapping? Ive been using Uvlayout since the first beta. . .5 years ago? ive been using ever since+Modo. Ive been using these same tools for the longest time that i dont look into any new uv-unwrapping tools th…	29 Last	[HP] Jul 2011
help with creating characters for game. i currently have a character i want to import into my unity project. its a hack and slash style rpg and im hoping to add the option for swappable amour, hats ect. what is the best way to do this? i …	1 Last	Giometric Jul 2011
How do you turn off seeing triangles in 3ds max 11 viewport. I imported a DAE file into 3ds max 2011 and the tris show up and I just want to see the model in quads, how can I turn the triangle view off?	3 Last	snake85027 Jul 2011
CGFX shader trouble Hi, I'm having trouble getting some CGFX shaders (namly the IcUber Shader from [url]http://blog.leocov.com/p/downloads.html[/url]) to work. I have an Nvidia Quadro FX 3500 and am running DirectX 11 a…	7 Last	Xoliul Jul 2011
Blender Motion Trail 3 Released :) It now has support for armatures: (skip to 1 min to see it) [url]http://player.vimeo.com/video/26670975?title[/url] It essentially replaces the f-curve editor with a motion graph in the 3d view. You…	3 Last	LoTekK Jul 2011
Zbrush Smooth brush the old way To use the smooth brush in zbrush 3.5 it seems you have to always hold down shift, while in the older versions you didnt have to. Instead you could select it and use it away like the standard brush o…	8 Last	mornings Jul 2011
Photoshop makes transparent pixels turn white Here's the problem: [IMG]http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~pluchini/Photoshop_white_pixels.jpg[/IMG] It's been driving me up the wall! Does anyone know why this is happening?	14 Last	leechdemon Jul 2011
TextTools Issues When using Textools in the UV editor, you get an orange selection box around your selected sub-objects. However, you cannot select/deselect anything inside that selection box once it's inside the bo…	2 Last	Insulaner Jul 2011
Unity Questions So I've never really worked or even opened Unity for that matter and now having to dive right in I have a ton of questions. Basically some features that are in UDK / Unreal that I would like to find…	16 Last	Campaignjunkie Jul 2011
[TUTORIAL] Getting your TF2 hat into Source as a Prop_Physics [CENTER][CENTER][SIZE=4]Getting your TF2 hat in game as a Physics prop[/SIZE] [/CENTER] [/CENTER] Many of you in the TF2 contribute thread have been having trouble getting your hat in game to view…	73 Last	Noors Jul 2011
Rigging Book Suggestion. Hey I was wondering if anyone had any suggestion on the subject of rigging ? I have a friend who let me barrow his copy of The Art of Rigging Vol1 which has been a great help so far ,but I have to g…	6 Last	pen Jul 2011
Xnormal - cage problem Hi, i have a problem, i have a model of vase, i need to use external cage to get nice normal, so what i do: copy my LP mesh tweek some verts to get it right, and save cage as .obj (i only move some …	4 Last	knj Jul 2011
Direct x 11 Tesellation and parallax map question Hi I have seen the awesome videos of tessellation enabled environments with direct x 11 , tough my question is what does it need to achieve those reliefs? A normal parallax map or there is a new entr…	43 Last	almighty_gir Jul 2011
3dsmax CAT Problem - Set as Skin Pose/Assume Skin Pose [COLOR=Yellow][COLOR=yellow]Hi, i need set a initial state for my controllers and the Set as Skin Pose/Assume Skin Pose doesnt work in my cat rig. When i choose Assume Skin Pose …	1 Last	wagner.sz Jul 2011
Help on Baking AO in maya hi there i recently learned how to bake my ambient occulsion on my model but it seems it went wrong in some places I dont know what i am doing wrong but i followed a couple of tutorials and it was th…	15 Last	Samuraigun7 Jul 2011
Png to one walkcycle png Hey folks, so iam working on a little sidescroller right now and my task is to build animations in 3d - render them out and put it all in one png. Iam looking for a tool or programm that puts my …	6 Last	Elyaradine Jul 2011
Approach to modelling roundy building facades (Modular?) Hello! I'm working on a building, and I'm looking for the best way to model the facade. Here is a lowpoly sketch of more or less how the shape of the building is going to be: [img]http://uppix.net/6…	4 Last	rasmus Jul 2011
Interview with Thiago Klafke about modularity Hi guys, I'm currently working on my thesis paper for my bachelor's degree. The title is "the use of modularity in the making of game environments" and in the process of that I have contacted Thiag…	0 Last	Twister3 Jul 2011
UDKUDK - foliage painting on elevated terrain problem Im unable to paint any foliage on elevated terrain in UDK using the new foliage mode in the june build.. is there a fix for this? or just a known issue with no work around?	1 Last	SeanO'Connor Jul 2011
Imported fbx to 3dmax (cant find materials) I'm very new to max, i imported a fbx file from modo and i can see in the viewport all my materials came over, but when i open the material manager i dont see any of these materials? can someone expl…	2 Last	Mypeople Jul 2011
Import to max maintain scale? I'm importing FBX file from modo where i have Metric units, i have my units in max set to Metric (or meters i forget) and it keeps importing my fbx file incredibly small. Anyone have any idea what i …	2 Last	Mypeople Jul 2011
Mesh extraction for clothing? Mesh extraction seems simple for stuff like tight tshirts or clothes, but its not every popular, is there any reason for this?	3 Last	Damien_B Jul 2011
Masking VS Pixel lock (Photoshop CS5) Greetings PCers; This thread is for those who use Photoshop for their concept art. Anyways I've been practicing making concepts before I follow them in 3d modeling. I tried using both methods. 1) p…	10 Last	pior Jul 2011
Adding bullet holes that may span UV boundries I'm currently working on my first (properly UV) mapped 3D model. It is very low poly because it is for use in Flash (No molehill, see attachment). I envisage it being used for a multi-player FPS and …	8 Last	Ace-Angel Jul 2011
Simple Lightmap Question I am trying to use Mental Ray sun & sky in Maya to generate a light map. When I render in the viewport it looks fine, but when I try to bake it looks like crap. All i did was: 1. make a couple boxe…	2 Last	locus Jul 2011
need help with mobile asset pipeline Hey all, I've been working on a model using mobile (i.e. iphone) specs to try and learn some of the techniques. Truth be told, I've found myself a wee bit lost. My idea was to make a high poly and …	7 Last	BelgianBoolean Jul 2011
Zbrush 4 Importing Objects Issue: Leaves ghost trail when rotated or moved [picture] When I import an object from max to zbrush, for some reason whenever I rotate or move the object it leaves a "trail" behind it. As seen in the simple imported cube below. Any idea what could be causi…	7 Last	cryrid Jul 2011
Transfer an animtion to a different rig (maya) So, I've got a rig animated in one scene file, and I would like to have that same animation applied to a rig that is proportioned a bit differently (a male and female rig). So my question is whether …	4 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2011