Technical Talk

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Map baking Problems Hey guys, I'm haing issues bakign my maps down from a highpoly mesh exported out of zbrush onto my low poly mesh. Any ideas? This issue is in both Maya and Xnormal, here's an example: [IMG]http://…	9 Last	Mathew O May 2011
3DS Max - 2012 - Making it defualt icon for files Heya to all my peeps in the neighborhood, Spider-man here, and I have a question, one which is complex enough that it send Dr. O-Man in the fritz, but hey, as they always say, you can split an atom …	3 Last	Ace-Angel May 2011
Reccomend some Maya tools, along the lines of digitalRaster? Anybody use any external Maya tools/scripts to make life a little easier? Had a look at DR tools: [url]http://draster.com/nex-1.5/faq.html[/url] but I wonder if anybody else has had experience with…	24 Last	bugo May 2011
3ds max rigging [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]I need to rig a few monster models that the biped would not fit very well. Like a monster with a snake lower body and a human upper body. A two headed monsters, f…	0 Last	jnoe May 2011
psd tga, etc. preview in vista 64-bit this has probably been discussed before but i'm having a hard time finding a simple fix: what do i need to do to be able to preview .psd/.tga files in the file viewer(explorer) of vista 64-bit?	59 Last	r_fletch_r May 2011
Need Help With Video Game Hi, I am looking for people who would be willing to help me with my video game project. Me and a couple of my friends are working on this project together but need some help to push it even further a…	0 Last	CryWolf May 2011
Ligh Linking - udk Hello, I am a big fan of light linking in maya. I was just wondering if people know of something similar in udk? I checked a few places and googled it, but nothing too relevant. The only way i …	2 Last	Sharvo May 2011
Fraps Video to Youtube? I bought Fraps and it records fine and plays fine on my machine, but when I upload it to Youtube its extremely dark. I have tried taking the AVI into AE and making a Quicktime movie with Mp4 as the c…	0 Last	knak47 May 2011
Meshmixer 05 Released (Epic) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0wJGovQwM[/ame] it has it's typical mesh mixer stuff from before, but recent features make it a legitimate competitor to the other sculpting applications today.…	5 Last	Ace-Angel May 2011
Low poly joints - How can I stop the deform? I'm working on an engine in XNA but before I can do anything with it I need an animated model to test with. So I've made the main character, the topology was perfect it was 260 poly's sticking with t…	9 Last	Wrath May 2011
Fastest re-topology application? I'm in need for a quick reliable retolopgy solution. I only have limited experience with the technique so I am going to have to learn a solid workflow. I'm using 3dsmax and zbrush in my pipeline. …	8 Last	BeatKitano May 2011
Normal map help please So I tried maya transfer maps and Xnormal, and I am getting this weird thing with my normal maps. And I was hoping some one would be able to help figure out what I am doing wrong. [IMG]http://img.pho…	20 Last	tehrobster2 May 2011
dual monitor color calibration hey everyone. ive had 2 separate monitors for quite some time, and ive noticed that one of them is a bit more blue than the other. (ex: polycount background on my main monitor is a dark grey, but on …	13 Last	sprunghunt May 2011
UV's in Maya and Max Hi everyone. I have a second UV channel for each object in my scene for light mapping. I'd like to combine all the second UV channels for each object into one UV Map to lightmap my whole scene. …	4 Last	ajv3d May 2011
Padding in Render to texture? Hi. I never have the time to fully unwrap a model. i usually just flatten map the model and bake out a scratch mask and an ao map. It is really heavy models and to save as much texture space as i c…	17 Last	sprunghunt May 2011
Seam issue with normal map Hey guys, I've hit a wall with a seam issue, and I could really use some help to find a solution. I have modeled and uv half a gun, and hoped to just mirror the other side, but I get a terrible seam …	2 Last	chris_d May 2011
New computer suggestions (mac) Okay so for some reason this didn't post the first time so excuse me if I'm brief. My custom built desktop pc died today and I have been having so much trouble with it since I got it that I'm just g…	17 Last	Talbot May 2011
Philipk Working with Modular Sets Hey, I want to start by saying that his tutorials are amazing. Although they are really informative I am having trouble wrapping my head around this one. [url]http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/mo…	16 Last	SnakeDoctor May 2011
Color map + vertex lighting? Hey geniuses! I'm using Maya 2011. I'm trying to figure out how to have a mesh with a 512x512 color map with vertex lighting info over the top of it. Does that make sense? So, I want the color map…	1 Last	bugo May 2011
[Zbrush] Multiple Sub tool adjustments @ once? Like the title says I need to know how to manipulate various sub tools or selected sub tools without having to adjust each one manually. Example torso and lower half can be scaled together but they …	7 Last	iconoplast May 2011
File hiding virus scewed me over - Help! Last night my PC started getting these "hard disk error" messages, which didn't look very genuine, it was asking me to reboot my system to avoid data loss... i googled this, and it said it was a viru…	4 Last	gilesruscoe May 2011
HELP! Photoshop CS5 Ok so this happened out of nowhere and I have no idea how to fix it. Photoshop seems like it's treating my background color as the default color. So when I am using my brush and hold alt to color sel…	1 Last	Funky Bunnies May 2011
Yeah i get it i'm new to the Quake III Animation and Models Since no one's answering my post to help me with this on quake3world, i'm posting it here: [LEFT][B]"Hello. I made a new model named Marie it consists of Crash's Head, Mynx's UpperBody, and Slash's…	0 Last	CrazyKillaMalik May 2011
Multiple textures or single texture Hello, Normally i would texture everything on one map for example a barrel or chair. However, i have recently started to try layered textures so i would have a base colour map and seperate maps fo…	3 Last	naked_chicken May 2011
Max - TexTools AO bake faceted? I'm using TexTools quick AO bake button, which I love for some simple quick work. The issue I'm having is that, while my model is all set up with smoothing groups, and there's no overlapping anythin…	2 Last	Tumerboy May 2011
Clean Cut script I might not be the only one that thinks the cut tool in max does not work properly. It creates double verts, jumps to wrong edges and so on. i found this script : [url]http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-…	8 Last	Sean VanGorder May 2011
Zbrush Sub Tool Groups Split Problem [URL]http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/zbrushgroupsplit.jpg/[/URL] Hey folks, I split my polygroups from my 3 main sub tools up into different subtools using Groups Split. However when I dr…	5 Last	synergy11 May 2011
Questions about Biped Hi there! So, I have a biped character and I need his hands' IK to be constrained to a moving object. But that's easy. I need it to let go from this object, be free for a little while and then hold o…	8 Last	Mark Dygert May 2011
Color Variation Mask Does anyone know how to create a color variation mask like the ones you can find in UDK for their moss and plant masks? We used RGB masks on one of our projects, but they were to mask out specific p…	3 Last	passerby May 2011
3ds max 2012 viewport I remember when seeing a demo at GDC the viewport background in 2012 had a gradient, like that in maya or mudbox. is there a way to set that in max? EDIT: and while im here, ill ask another question…	7 Last	Arahnoid May 2011
[ZBrush] Retain brush settings across all brushes? Been trying to do some tiling textures in ZBrush and it's really starting to annoy me that every brush I use, I have to dive into brush > curve and set the correct wrap amount. This might be an obvi…	2 Last	Farfarer May 2011
Uncharted 2's Tile-able textures created in zbrush by I have been experimenting with creating tile-able textures in zbrush and have had some great success thanks to these forums. However I have found that these types of shapes in the following screensh…	24 Last	synergy11 May 2011
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Tomb Wall: How would you create this? Hey All, I wanted to do an outdoor environment, for my portfolio in UDK. This concept caught my eye: [IMG]http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4819/originoal.jpg[/IMG] I box modeled it all in but d…	8 Last	jocose May 2011
Retopo In Zbrush WTF? Hey PolyCount, im making a character for a class i am in this quarter and i decided to learn a new pipeline. I started with my basic mesh in Maya and did the rest of my detailing in Zbrush intending …	16 Last	PolyTech May 2011
Retaining 2nd UV Channel Info So I unwrap my model in the 2nd channel so it can be all nice and prepared for lightmapping and collapse the unwrap modifier down. Now, a while later I add some more stuff to the model and need to ed…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2011
VRender... error. Hi there, I have an issue. I was running Max on my old PC until it died and then had to borrow my friend's pc for a week while I waited for new parts to be delivered. I carried on working on my pro…	2 Last	BadgerBaiter May 2011
Derive from existing animation/rigs Well, I need some help with animation. I'm working with blender(2.49) doing all the modelling,rigging and animating of a single character works great. But I'm now in the process of deriving many char…	0 Last	Ashaman73 May 2011
Are Floating Edges Bad in-game? Hey all. Got a bit of a technical question for you... when it comes to modeling world geometry, are "floating edges" a bad thing? IE edges that aren't connected back down into nearby verts like the …	19 Last	PredatorGSR May 2011
Zbrush: Subtool Navigation I have a model I diced up into a bunch of subtools, there are about 20 of them. I'm having a really hard time navigating through all them. It takes me almost a minute to locate one before I can edi…	3 Last	Stinger88 May 2011
Zbrush: Subtool Split I feel dumb. I created a mesh with a bunch of polygroups. I want to "explode" this mesh so that each polygroup is its own subtool. I read here: [URL]http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/GrpSpli…	3 Last	jocose May 2011
How to rotate a vector around another vector x degrees? Hey maxscripters, How can I rotate a vector around another vector x degrees in maxscript? Maxscript exemple [QUOTE]staticVector = normalize (point3 1 1 1) rotatingVector = normalize (point3 0 1 1)…	3 Last	Xoliul May 2011
High quality AO maps ? I'm getting frustrated trying to render out AO maps from 3ds max 2010 to be used in texturing. The quality of my renders are not what i'd expect.Some areas are too dark, details not clear enough, unw…	42 Last	Bubba91873 May 2011
Viewport Smearing [max2012 nitrous render - shaded] Hey all, The problem I'm having exist about my viewport being smeared out when I have the Nitrous driver loaded and if the shader type is being set to "shaded". example: [IMG]http://i55.tinypic.co…	4 Last	TomDeVis May 2011
Question about rendering or recording a turntable in 3DSMax's viewport Hello folks! I have a model that i shaded with the Xoliul Viewport Shader in 3ds max with some lights set up, and i want to render a 6 second turn table of the model with this shader and lighting se…	3 Last	puddypud May 2011
Light maps and vertex colors Hi folks I am trying to learn more about light map and vertex color lighting after coming across the Polycount wiki on lightmaps: [url]http://wiki.polycount.com/LightMap?highlight=%28\bCategoryText…	1 Last	throttlekitty May 2011
[MaxScript] Axis Poly Extrude [URL="http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/scripts-wanted/enhancement-of-3ds-max-poly-extrude"]This thread[/URL] was inspired me to wright the script that do the "magic". :) [ame]http://www.yout…	14 Last	miauu May 2011
Issue Baking Complete Map I'm working on a quite basic seating bench in 3ds Max. I have created a high poly with some subdivision and floating surface details, similar to the cg-tuts [url]http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/auto…	5 Last	Oniram May 2011
Mudbox 2011 Sub-D problem, huge artifacts Hey guys. I just got the Mudbox 2011 trial to try out and am having a few problems. I started off with the default head so the topology is fine, but when Sub-D-ing from level 2 (35k) to level 3 (310k…	2 Last	circle of friends May 2011
Tablet's USB ports broken This pretty much sums it up: [IMG]http://shotgun-graphics.com/postage/WACOM.jpg[/IMG] Anyone knows if: a) Are these generic parts that be can obtained elsewhere? b) If so, how r they called?	8 Last	shotgun May 2011