Technical Talk

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questions about vid cards So long story short my "new" laptop sucks and isn't anywhere near good enough for my ambitions of high poly modeling and lots of Zbrush work. Despite it's hardware being about twice or 2.5 times bett…	4 Last	n88tr Mar 2011
Rigging a beholder Hey all, Looking to rig a beholder creature I've created for a baldur's gate 2 mod project I'm working on. I've worked with mostly humanoid characters up till this point but now I'm looking at riggi…	2 Last	ablaine Mar 2011
maya script questions. What is the easiest way to create an ambioent occ. render with wireframe in maya ?	2 Last	kodde Mar 2011
change "see through" (alt-x) color ?? 3Ds max for some reason when i pulled up 3ds max the "see through" is now a nasty ass dark green, im sure i did something to get it that way but...dont know what. so if anyone could help me get it b…	3 Last	longhornfan25 Mar 2011
Hard Surface Modeling Q First, the question: Do you do much/any editing to Sub-D models above your Turbosmooth modifier, or do you try and keep as much as possible below it in the stack? My main problem is that, in trying …	5 Last	leechdemon Mar 2011
Anyway to turn triangulated model to poly in Max? hi guys , Are there any automated way to turn tesselated model to polygonal model ın max?	5 Last	krisCrash Mar 2011
Animation in Maya I'm currently trying to animate in Maya after building a simple model. The model itself is 776 tris, I will lower this. Right. I have a waist and a set of legs. I have placed connecting joints on e…	1 Last	Warheart Mar 2011
Really Strange Normal Mapping Issue Alright so been struggling with figuring this out for a few hours with no luck so thought I'd throw this up here. This is after searching through this forum and several others for similar problems of…	0 Last	dwgagner Mar 2011
DDS Plugin for photoshop cs4 64bit? Oh, I just realized that the nvidia plugins don't work for photoshop cs4 64bit. Does anyone have an alternative? I assume the best course of action is to get one of those free image viewers and save …	46 Last	Numerator Mar 2011
3DS Max 2011 / Chuggnuts UV Unwrap tools Hey Guys, I've just started to use Max2011, and I'm trying to get chuggnuts UV Unwrap tools working with this version. I've been trying to find something that will work. I found this site: [url]h…	3 Last	Snader Mar 2011
Ctrl + Backspace - Remove not working ... Hey there, dunno where this belongs but i seem to not be able to get my "clean remove" to work. When i hit "ctrl + backspace" nothing happens and if i press backspace it turns on the "selection lock…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2011
Creating Character Rigs for UDK using CAT (Character Animation Toolkit) in 3dsMax2011 [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wZ_R8_wR3uA/TTDglbq9-DI/AAAAAAAAACU/D7ASnMW9Ung/s1600/CatBanner.png[/IMG] Hi all! I've just completed a set of tutorials covering the creation of a character rig using…	25 Last	mennekke Feb 2011
Maxscript texture gathering I'm making a quick script because we're going through a lot of old models and extracting parts of meshes to use in a model library. [CODE]HiddenDOSCommand ("xcopy " + oldtexturename + " " + newtextu…	3 Last	eddybrown Feb 2011
Creating Buildings and Levels With Pieces? So I was reading this tutorial that kind of became famous thread its from a Gears of War Artist and he was talking about making environments in zbrush and than bringing them into 3Ds max. Anyway he m…	28 Last	billredd Feb 2011
How to use pre-rendered AO Map with 3ds Max Hey all! I've been trying to figure out how to use a custom made AO map that I exported from Mudbox with my scene inside 3ds Max 2010. I'm not sure where I would use the tga inside the material edit…	15 Last	arshlevon Feb 2011
Symmetry in Modo Sup folks. I'm having this big problem while learning modo. As you can see in the image, I have half of a model. I want to mirror the other half and work symmetrically like I would in max. I know m…	17 Last	EarthQuake Feb 2011
Region Render Script? I'm trying to render an image out of Max 2010 that's going to be around 50,000 pixels wide. Ive done this in the past using "Region" render, breaking the image into about 15 pieces, and stitching it …	2 Last	leechdemon Feb 2011
Viewport and Render: Procedural Bumps/Textures Match I have always had this issue that pisses me off. I get a procedural texture how I want that works in view and totally different in render (not same scale, most times larger than set). How do I get t…	3 Last	r_fletch_r Feb 2011
Animation Cuts Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on animation loops in character re-topped meshes. I've seen loads of different ways but the two in the image are the two most seen. Is it right to have the extra…	0 Last	Addieo Feb 2011
Matte/Shadow in Mental Ray Is it possible to render a matte/shadow material on a ground plane in mental ray in order to catch AO shadows on a render? I know there is a matte/shadow/reflection mental ray material, but it doesn'…	4 Last	r_fletch_r Feb 2011
Simple AO tip for skin Alright so I've seen people complain about using AO multiplied onto their skin materials for characters, and I've seen some people mention doing something else, like the multiply blend mode is the pr…	27 Last	TSM Feb 2011
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Glosiness Texture Sheet Help. Hi guys. I need some help navigating the Hypershade in Maya. So I'm working on this Sci-Fi panel trying to progress my texturing/normal map baking and dont really know where to apply the texture s…	14 Last	passerby Feb 2011
Noob Question / Scale Tool in 3ds Max closed	0 Last	Spiral Feb 2011
Wavy lines and weird Normal map I'm trying to get a normal map from this cylindrical object: [URL=http://img571.imageshack.us/i/highpoly.jpg/][IMG]http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9834/highpoly.jpg[/IMG][/URL] But this is what …	2 Last	styx Feb 2011
Next Gen Shader problems in Maya 2011 (Incorrect Lighting) Whenever I try to use HLSL shaders like lcnextgen and xoilul it gives inverted lighting like this. How do I fix it so it shows things correctly ? [IMG]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9752/weirdli…	2 Last	Cooljay Feb 2011
Is this a good bake? I did a simple test on a table to see if I could bake properly, since I am pretty new to it. I came up with this: [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12243880/goofbake.png[/IMG] Im not sure if it is a …	12 Last	EarthQuake Feb 2011
Max 2010 "get Material" Button broken I was trying out some of [URL="http://www.polycount.com/2011/02/24/helpful-maxscripts/#more-5592"]the scripts[/URL] when I suddenly noticed that the "get Material" Button in the Material Editor does …	2 Last	THE 5 Feb 2011
Maya Shaders? I am looking for different HLSL shaders to render viewports in maya. But my search has not been so easy. In max you can just use xoliul shader and be like FTW! But it doesn't work in maya. I was wond…	5 Last	kodde Feb 2011
problems with the Ambient Occlusion Map As much as I try i can't seem to get the circular part of the spartan helmet from the movie 300 to get the right shadows of it ,whenever I get the Ambient Occlusion Map. I would like some suggestion…	2 Last	Sean VanGorder Feb 2011
IK handle tool Issue/Maya 2011 SP1 Hi mates, I want to rig a cable, which is conneting 2 objects so I made a chain of joints between, then I used the IK handle tool - ikRP solver, then on a first LMB click it should recognize the sta…	0 Last	cad4 Feb 2011
Snapping vertices in Max Hey, I was wondering if max has any tool similar to snapping in Maya. What I mean by this is, if I have a row of vertices that I want brough at the same level as another vertice, how would I do tha…	7 Last	Yozora Feb 2011
Advanced painter or similar for 3ds Max 2010? I can't seem to install Advanced Painter for 3ds max 2010. It keeps giving me a "copy error" every time I run the script. I'm on win 7 64bit, is there a way to install this? Or is there a built in ob…	2 Last	alexk Feb 2011
Camera for textures? Hi do you have any suggestions on what Camera coudl be good buy for taking good textures ?	19 Last	hyrumark Feb 2011
3dsMax: Texture Resolution Inconsistencies. Since I am learning modular design for Max and UDK, I am moving some of my old textures to a texture Atlas, so I can start extruding my blocks. For modular shapes, I have a brick textures (512x512) …	5 Last	renderhjs Feb 2011
Baking AO problems in maya 2010 Hey guys for some reason my AO just isnt baking anymore. I have been using this version of maya for ages and for some reason its just started to not work and i get rubbish thin lines instead! Scree…	3 Last	SaferDan Feb 2011
Rendering the Hidden Line Wireframe Hi, I heard that wireframe is very important to present your modeling skill~ But I feel that the see-through wireframe is not very effectively to present a model which have many polygons~ So I found …	2 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2011
Closed How u model dis shapes? Hey all. Spent a day trying to figure out how to model these damn chairs. Most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. Moan moan whinge. I kinda got the seat shape ok, but just lost all hope whe…	0 Last	Tom Ellis Feb 2011
Strange looking normal map I am having trouble with baking my normal maps. [IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/primativ/maxscreen.jpg[/IMG] The settings above produce this map [IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/…	8 Last	SaferDan Feb 2011
Shading in my normal map? So basically what i've done is rendered a normal map from 3ds max and i am using marmoset toolbag to see the results. I'm pretty sure i got the smoothing groups and uving right since the rest of the …	3 Last	EarthQuake Feb 2011
Headless Spineless Motionbuilder character Hello! I am trying to rig a headless spineless creature in Motionbuilder. The body is the creature's head. Unsurprisingly perhaps, I end up with a Character Definition Error demanding that I map a…	1 Last	Snader Feb 2011
3dsmax, Saving animations Hello I creating an animation with the biped object. Well, how do I save my animation for export into a game engine (JMonkey)? I do animation->Save Animation but it says no animation tracks to save.	5 Last	SpeCter Feb 2011
Mudbox: tablet problems Hello polycount forums :) I'm trying to learn to use mudbox because it's taught in the college I want to go to. when I use the tablet some of the tools, eg smooth pinch etc - paint a little to the…	6 Last	SpeCter Feb 2011
Normal map smoothing groups problem Hello, Sorry for the generic title, I too have looked through far to many normal map problem posts and its been something simple like not splitting the uvws by the smoothing groups. However I seem to…	8 Last	lloyd Feb 2011
XSI Shortcuts without options Hi ! I'm learning XSI these days and i got a problem concerning the shortcuts. If I click the Modifiers into : Model/Modify/Polymesh/Bevel (bevel is an example but it's the same for extrude or othe…	4 Last	Sora Feb 2011
zbrush head sculpt mouth set up question Hey guys. So I just want the opinions of other character artists out there working with high poly zbrush sculpts. I am just wondering if its common practice to have at least a bit of you model's zb…	1 Last	[Deleted User] Feb 2011
Comet Post Deformer increasing calculation time Hi. I just started using the Pose Deformer Comet script today to start making some corrective blends. I'm a modeller and not a very experienced rigger, so maybe I'm missing something obvious here.…	0 Last	Shagrath Feb 2011
3DS Max and Backface Culling OK, Firstly for those who don't know what it is, Backface Culling is a step that a renderer takes to work out which polygons are facing away from the camera. If a polygon is facing away from the came…	1 Last	r_fletch_r Feb 2011
Mudbox: 8bit layers & Photoshop = bad? Hey everyone. Just a quick foreword, I just want to thank the people on this thread for putting up with my nonsense and helping me with my mudbox problems, It's been a rough beginning but in the end…	12 Last	Tmotion Feb 2011
UDK drowning out normals Hi,im giving an environment a lighting pass in UDK and i am having a problem with my normals being drowned out by the lighting. Any thoughts on why this might be?	15 Last	Ark Feb 2011