Technical Talk

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3Ds max Baking NORMS with holes hey guys... 3Ds max is starting to do some crazy stuff... i baked a NORM map for a model im working on and this is how it came out. [IMG]http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb417/Enrico_Santi/RKMP1…	15 Last	HornyRhino Mar 2011
hired with no experience? What are the odds of getting a environment artist job with no experience at all, but having a very very strong portfolio? and also strong character(personality wise) thanks, michael	15 Last	fearian Mar 2011
Modo to UDK Hi all i have been trying to get the objects from modo to UDK. I have been using the collada format. As far as i know this is the most current way of doing it . There are jus a few small things that…	5 Last	Coldeath Mar 2011
Dissertation help - MAXScript to help Environment Artists Hey folks, Im design student currently on placement and am beginning to work on my final year dissertation. I wanted to try and make it relevant to (what will hopefully be) my future career path, s…	8 Last	Wesley Mar 2011
rotate your normal maps Just wanted to share this script - allows you to rotate a selection of a normal map by any angle in Photoshop - works like the regular rotate tool, except it adjusts the normal map accordingly. [URL…	5 Last	tristamus Mar 2011
Simplygon anyone? Hello Im just wondering if there is anyone here with some experience using Simplygon. We have been recently using it at the studio and I would like to share some tips and tricks for using it, specia…	0 Last	Jhotun Mar 2011
Normal Map Issues Hi all, I'll apologize in advance for the newbie-ish tone of this thread, but i don't have much experience creating normal maps. I've searched the forums and the wiki for any info, but i find it a …	8 Last	Zakk Mar 2011
Maya, merging mess up the entire scene. Hi everyone, I am building a big scene that has alot of different objects in it. carpets,stones,barrels,candles you name it, but when i merge everything in the scene together maya mess up the entire…	0 Last	jimpaw Mar 2011
Walk cycles, opposing key calculations Hey guys, Just getting my head around animating a walk cycle, and I'm having an idiot moment where I can't work out how you'd calculate opposite frames. What I mean by that, is let's say I'm worki…	7 Last	mdeforge Mar 2011
Techniques, Tips, Or Tutorials For Modeling Furniture? As the topic states. Anyone have any tips or tutorials for modeling furniture /seating/upholstery. Preference to high polygon methods that dont rely to heavily on texturing to create the furniture/se…	4 Last	scottparris Mar 2011
Maya for Level Designers I recently joined a studio who uses maya for their levels and environment work, I am switching from 3ds max and am wondering if you could list any useful maya addons/user content, such as: Scripts T…	7 Last	rebb Mar 2011
Looking for Blender Tutorials Hi, I'm interested to learn modelling with Blender but I'm struggling to find a suitable and free tutorials for beginners that isn't on video, I'm profoundly deaf and I need subtitles to watch these …	4 Last	megalmn2000 Mar 2011
Looking for that stone tutorial from a while back. Apologies, I'd like to say I'm a complete moron in advance, but I've been searching for that video tutorial posted here a while back that was made in max, of a procedurally modelled stone. Northern E…	14 Last	Joshua Stubbles Mar 2011
Finding good sound effects? Hey guys , I was woundering if any of you could point me in the right direction for finding good sound effects? (without background noise) I have made a transformer and I need a sound to represent t…	4 Last	barnesy Mar 2011
Maya vertex normals. The only thing i want to do is to make the top/bottom look flat, and the rest of the faces blend smootly between them. shouldnt this be really easy to do ? , i have harden the edges of all the top f…	2 Last	jimpaw Mar 2011
UDK Tranforamtion wiget of being silly Hey all i am learning UDK and am going through the tutorials but for some reson the wiget in UDK is off by 45ged or something like that :S [IMG]http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab292/Coldeath/defu…	4 Last	Coldeath Mar 2011
Maya: Curve vanished from graph Apologies for spamming TT today :) I appear to have lost a rotate.Z curve in my graph editor. For the control in question, all channels except rotate are locked and hidden, but up until a few minute…	1 Last	Tom Ellis Mar 2011
Yet another noob zbrush question \o/ So i've made my first head sculpt (no laughing) and am currently following a tutorial on polypainting. Now the problem as shown below is, in the tutorial, he paints with whatever material is selected…	2 Last	mixeh Mar 2011
Texture Resolution So I always see people baking their textures maps at twice the resolution of the final map they'll actually use, and then down res them before importing to the engine. I've always been under the impr…	5 Last	ceebee Mar 2011
Fun ? about LOD acronyms We probably all know that LOD stands for Level of Detail and we probably know what it's for and how it works, but what does SLOD stand for? What does the S stand for? Is it: silhouette level of de…	15 Last	Kwramm Mar 2011
6 Maya questions. 1. Everytime i start Maya i have to open preferences and set up the undo steps to 100 becouse Maya doesnt seem to remember this. what am i doing wrong ? 2. i want to use the keys 7,1,3 for top,fron…	15 Last	malcolm Mar 2011
Closed Heavily Modified P90 "Savage Hunter"	0 Last	Perfectblue Mar 2011
Topology issue with SubD [Picture Included] There is an ngon in this topology. For this particular issue I tried to cut in some quads; however, it is the equivalent of a max inset topology wise and will result in the area rounding when subD is…	3 Last	Brendan Mar 2011
Any essential tool updates from Maya 8.5 to 2011 We just got switched over from Maya 8.5 to 2011 at work and I'm wondering if any of you guys can recommend any of the new tools/features in 11 for game development. Is there anything you've used in…	6 Last	KICKER Mar 2011
What do most people use for Retopology? Hey there, I have always been interested in which program or plugin that people (personal and professional work) use for Retopology. I know that Zbrush does it along with programs like 3d coat,and pl…	32 Last	KICKER Mar 2011
Maya \| mesh smooth problem here is the picture. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900572/maya_troubles.jpg[/img] The mesh was created in MAX (without sub-divisions). Then I brought it into Maya to bake normals, but after I appl…	3 Last	HitmonInfinity Mar 2011
maya - when saving, doesnt save selected type file what's up with Maya being dumb and not saving the latest selected file type and having to change it by hand when exporting it all THE F... TIME!	0 Last	bugo Mar 2011
Unwrapping and Instances Hey guys, Really confused at the moment and hope you can help me out. I am in the process of unwrapping the tank and have for example about 8 wheels. In Max they are all an instance of each other s…	5 Last	mats effect Mar 2011
Vertexpaint Modifier, Hotkey to Invert Paint Colour? (3ds max) I've been working with something that involves a lot of vertex painting in 3ds Max lately, and I pretty much only need to go back and forth between black and white as far as my palette goes. Selecti…	0 Last	Uly Mar 2011
Quick Maya Skinning/Rigging Question I have a rigged character in Maya. I need to add/remove geometry to the model. How can I do this whilst preserving the rigging/weighting? I am relatively new toMaya,however in my last studio it was …	2 Last	Warheart Mar 2011
Wtf is up with linear falloff?!?!?! Come on guys?!? Stop using linear fall off with spot an point lights. Have u ever seen a linear falloff in real life. Sorry... Sorry. It just pisses me off to no end to see a production game wi…	14 Last	gsokol Mar 2011
Max 2011, Swiftloop Disappearing When Zoomed in on Object [Picture] Max 2011. This tends to happen when the meshes get a little bit busy geo wise. When I swiftloop zoomed out on the area I want it will show up correctly. However, if I try to add a swift loop to the s…	4 Last	Playdo Mar 2011
Baked AO map appears to be to dark Hi, Having a bit of a problem with my AO map. When baked out it appears its way to dark in some areas and im losing a lot of the detail from the high poly version because of it. At the moment im b…	7 Last	mortalhuman Mar 2011
Adobe Photoshop feedback Hey folks, Tomorrow morning me and a few other artists will have the chance to meet up with a member of the Photoshop programing team. Hopefully this will be a great, open-minded feedback session. …	202 Last	BeatKitano Mar 2011
reboot cycles with blue screen This afternoon after classes I come back and start up my tower. It gets done loading xp I think and right before the login it flashes a black screen with some text and a blue screen for like 1/2 a se…	22 Last	Snader Mar 2011
Popping my Win7 cherry Alright, so after using XP 64 for a number of years, I've made the switch over to Win 7. I skipped the whole Vista nonsense, so I feel i'm a bit out of the loop when it comes to setting Win 7 up. Wha…	65 Last	Snader Mar 2011
64 bit! NVIDIA Plug-ins for Photoshop released [QUOTE] [B]NVIDIA Plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop[/B] #col { color: #F00;}This installer contains two plug-ins and several helpful scripts for Adobe® Photoshop®. [I]These tools operate within Photosho…	10 Last	BeatKitano Mar 2011
High Quality Rendering Is Not Supported By The Graphics Card i have a nvidia geforce gts 450, and im running windows 7 64 bit. i keep getting this error in maya 2011 64 bit. whats going on?! :( someone help please i really wanna see the bump map in the view…	5 Last	Vailias Mar 2011
UDK Screenshot banding Does anyone know why my udk is doing this banding as seen below? I turned off all light shafts but im still getting this. Is there a way to get screenshots without disabling light rays? Thanks [IMG]…	8 Last	Reverenddevil Mar 2011
Question about TF2 Player Models and "bones" So I recently downloaded an early Alpha version of TF2 that came with some models such as "[URL="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Invaliencommando.png"]Alien Commando[/URL]" and "[URL="http://w…	1 Last	passerby Mar 2011
A couple of issues with normal mapping Hi, I'm new and i have been browsing these forums mostly because of BRAWL. I've looked around the internet, and I have also looked through the normal map sticky thread, but I am just so very uncerta…	0 Last	Aves Mar 2011
Please help a noob with Maya and NURBS I am trying to model a couch as the book I am reading recommends this as good practice with NURBS. Ref picture I picked [url]http://www.sleepshop.co.za/images/MontClos_sleeper_couch_large.JPG[/url] …	3 Last	BARDLER Mar 2011
Maya Spherical Environments HELP :(!!! Hi all! I am posting with anothing Maya issue. Hoping someone will be kinda enough to share their expertise XD. Anyway as I have mentioned in a previous post I am new to Maya, and I wish to know how …	1 Last	elementrix Mar 2011
Trying to create a blister pack effect Okay im not sure if anyone saw my last thread but i've had to stop trying to character model for a whyle as a friend needs help. What i am trying to create is a blister pack with 2 holes where the w…	15 Last	haiddasalami Mar 2011
3DS Max Keybinds is there anyway possible to get xsi or silo style viewport navigation in 3ds haven't found a way to change mouse actions and set alt+Left to orbit alt+Middle Mouse to Pan and alt+right mouse to zoom.…	7 Last	r_fletch_r Mar 2011
Maya \| Bake texture from one UV channel to other. Hey guys, as the title said, I'm looking for a way to bake stuff from UV Channel 1 to UV Channel 2 in Maya. I tried searching, but couldn't find anything. In MAX I remember it was done using RTT dia…	5 Last	osman Mar 2011
Hmm... whats best? Texturing question. I am trying to understand the different methods of texturing modular pieces. I have come up with two different ways and I would like to know what is the best way to go about it. The model pictured is…	6 Last	polygonfreak Mar 2011
Barrels are hard. Who would have thought barrels would be so difficult? Someone Poleaze halp: These are what I am trying to bake: [URL]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1483473/images/barrel/barrel2.png[/URL] this is one by i…	23 Last	mdeforge Mar 2011
3DS MAX - Can't Render with Default Scanline?? I've been having this problem with my 3ds Max, Mental ray works, and Quicksilver Hardware works but scanline for some reason crashes also the viewport has been real buggy. any ideas?? thanks!	1 Last	SpeCter Mar 2011
How to make 4096 maps in 3DS Max 2011 Hey guys, I am unwrapping my model in 3DS Max simply because I am comfortable with those tools and noticed that in the options pallet the map dose not go any larger then 2048. I am going to be makin…	1 Last	Farfarer Mar 2011