Technical Talk

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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
Help with zbrush texture from polypaint for low poly models! Hi, I modeled a gun in zbrush which now I want to export to low poly. [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11214337/legend/rifle_03.jpg[/IMG] I've done the retopo and projected the high poly into the low …	9 Last	dogzer May 2011
tangent basis - normalmaps from xNormal to Ogre Hi, I'm again hitting this topic and maybe someone of the shader coder can lead me into the right direction. I want to bake normal maps in xnormal which show up in ogre as nice as in the xnormal vie…	3 Last	leechdemon May 2011
Deep UV 3d Studio Max plugin Hi guys, Really need some help please. Does anyone have a solution/script/ for Deep UV v1.3.09 to run from within 3D Studio Max 2008/2011. During installation under 3d max plugins option it only wen…	5 Last	renderhjs May 2011
3ds Max Skinning issue Hi there everyone, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me; I've been skinning a character for animation, but unfortunately I've come across a rather awkward error where the character's …	1 Last	monster May 2011
Merging Maya scenes I have several scenes here with a character. Each scene has the same model, but different animation. How can i merge them in one single file?	5 Last	Jason Young May 2011
Tiling Texture Script Hey guys, I am making a tiling texture script and have run into problems. I tiled a texture fine by pasting it and setting its transform in a for loop but I each of the layers to be smart objects. I …	5 Last	Kessler May 2011
Rain VFX in 3DS Max Hi, I've created a rain event inside my scene, but for some reason the event stops after only 150 frames, even though the emitter is set to last much longer in the birth event....Does anyone know wha…	1 Last	ajv3d May 2011
3ds max painting weights Hey there polycount, I was wondering if there was a way I could manually assign percentage values to vertices in max when painting weights? The skin modifier lets me paint them via colors etc but I …	7 Last	Drakon May 2011
Maya 2011 Relative transform Scaling issues Ok so I want to scale a couple of groups of vertexes separately, but I want to scale them all the same amount. Now I thought using relative scaling would work, since I use it all the time for moving…	7 Last	bugo May 2011
UDK Lighting Glitch Hello everyone I've been building an environment as part of a Final Major Project at university, and I'm running into an infuriating lighting-build glitch. Please see the images below. The first …	7 Last	Guy123 May 2011
Pixel Maniac Tutorials Hey guys! I've began to do misc tutorials on some areas that I'm quite strong at in some technical aspects to the game dev pipeline.. I'll be updating these from time to time and hopefully it will…	1 Last	MattLichy May 2011
Blender TF2 Origin issue? I've been using 3DS max for over a year now and thought I would make the leap to blender. Its a learning curve, but so far its impressed me. I've tried doing more TF2 modelling in Blender but came ac…	4 Last	X82 May 2011
Cavity map, seperating concave and convex details Hey everyone, I've been wracking my brains about how to separate the concave and convex (dark and light) areas of a cavity map in Photoshop. Im talking about a map such as you get from the 'normal to…	7 Last	ianucci May 2011
{MAxScript}Spline in middle This script was requested in [URL="http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/scripts-wanted/script-to-extract-spline-in-center-of-a-tube#comment-11498"]this thread[/URL]. The main purpose is to get ed…	2 Last	miauu May 2011
3DS snapping vertices? Hi folks, simple question but its driving me crazy. Looked all over the interweb. How do you snap a vertex along one axis to another vertex? For example, I would extrude a series of oddly shaped fa…	6 Last	duckman21 May 2011
Maya 2010 64-bit Windows 7: Lag with viewport and component selection. :( I've been having this error for the past few months since installing maya 2010. I'm running on: 8gb ram Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Intel i7 Cpu AMD Radeon HD 6950. I've had multiple complete sy…	6 Last	m4dcow May 2011
GCFScape - Team Fortress 2 Content.gcf corrupt? Hi all, long time lurker first time poster here, I'm interested in making some custom weapons and suchforth for TF2, and that means having access to the base models and animations to work off. Only p…	0 Last	Masich May 2011
GCFScape - Team Fortress 2 Content.gcf corrupt? Hi all, long time lurker first time poster here, I'm interested in making some custom weapons and suchforth for TF2, and that means having access to the base models and animations to work off. Only p…	0 Last	Masich May 2011
Zbrush focal angle and faces Hi guys! When you work on a face in ZBrush, do you keep the focal angle at the default (90) for perspective view? In my current face project I ran into a discussion about the general shape of the h…	6 Last	wannabeartist May 2011
Maya 2012 and Hair Has anyone seen the Hair menu in Maya 2012? It's strangely absent. In the Plugins menu I can find and enable Fur, but not Hair. According to the 2011 Documentation it's in the Dynamic Menu Set, but …	3 Last	MNeMiC May 2011
How to get object back on the Grid. Softimage XSI. [URL]http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/capture1gridhelp.jpg/[/URL] Everytime I snape to grid to transform, move the object. It snaps over a unit but relative to its current position. How t…	3 Last	cryrid May 2011
How to export 3dsmax object to Zbrush? [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Hi everybody![/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]There is one thing I wonder about which is very important to me right now. I would apprec…	5 Last	bludragon May 2011
[TF2] How to create weapon skins from scratch? Ok here's the dilemma I'm in. I want to create a skin for the [URL="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Nail_Grenade"]scrapped Nail Grenade[/URL] in TF2, as it didn't come with a skin. However, I want…	15 Last	iliketoplaytf2 May 2011
3ds max non-uniform texure map? Hey all. Just wondering if anyone could tell me how to properly set up a non-uniform texture map in 3ds max (2010)? It seems that max defaults to square textures and when I tried to change this to…	13 Last	TorQue[MoD] May 2011
UDK Crowdsystem Glitch I have my crowdsystem set up but they wont stop glitching. Words can't describe better than this video I made on the issue. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58v8Sg1q7_E[/ame] Here's an image of m…	6 Last	kernersvillan May 2011
how can I bind in 3d studio max Hi, I have this weird problem, where a robotic arm transport pieces from one self to another. My question is how in the earth can I bind the objects to the robotic arm only for a short period of tim…	2 Last	SunSetter May 2011
Frusturating UVW Unwrapping I fairly new to 3ds max and I've been trying to create my own assets for my projects. I've have followed and read numerous tutorials and I swear I follow them correctly but something always goes wron…	26 Last	Scizz May 2011
Unity material question Were having a problem when we try to rename a material and having the material stay associated with the object. For example, I rename the characters material to JimBob_D_Material. The material works…	2 Last	Farfarer May 2011
epic/nvidia dx11 demo [url]http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/epic-tim-sweeney-and-nvidia-talk-samaritan-and-the-future-of-graphics[/url] there was a similar pdf version around for a while on the technical background…	1 Last	cman2k May 2011
Importing I'm working with my schoolmates to create a small video game, and we need to import animations created with 3dsMax into XNA. It looks like XNA only takes FBX, with a very strict bone hierarchy. I'v…	3 Last	Lord Fryingpan May 2011
Screenshots?? Just curious as to how some of you grab screenshots of your work. I see a lot of high-res, large screenshots of desktops and WIP in 3ds Max or what have you, and whenever I PrntScrn and paste in to P…	13 Last	cw May 2011
ZBrush GUI Having some problems with ZBrush 4 GUI - when i open the program there is like a menu bar at the bottom and I can't fiugre out how to get rid of it! Looked it up on google, and i seem to be the only …	5 Last	Gail_Blitzy May 2011
Max + Python (the second coming) After a long downtime, Blur have re uploaded their Python plugin for Max/XSI. [url]http://code.google.com/p/blur-dev/[/url] This is awesome as not only can you access the whole maxscript API from py…	7 Last	cw May 2011