Technical Talk

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Ati HD Radeon top right corner lag Hey ! I'm wondering if some other people have this "bug". I get this problem on 2 two computers. My laptop and my desktop computer. My problem is : When my mouse is to the top-right corner of my scre…	17 Last	Froyok Jan 2011
Modtool export to .smd causes strange distortion... Can anybody help me figure out what is going on here? Here is what my model looks like in Modtool: [IMG]http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6817/table01.jpg[/IMG] And this is what happens after I expo…	7 Last	cryrid Jan 2011
Arm Rig! Hi guys! I'm fairly new to the world of rigging and animating, and I'm just wondering what type of game rig for a standard human arm would you guys prefer? I kinda figure that Inverse Kinematics is…	5 Last	asjo07 Jan 2011
Bake vertex normal direction in maya Okey, so i found [URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1149155#post1149155"]this[/URL] thread through the wiki. I'm making a tree and the leafs and what no could need some normal m…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2011
Mudbox: Multiple UV's Along the U I am back to texturing some old assets. I know I want to take them into UE3 soon, and so on most of them, when I was laying out the UVs I took any overlapping parts and sent them out +1 +2 ... along …	4 Last	Incomitatum Jan 2011
How to move in image from desktoop into Photoshop Hi there, I have 2 monitors on one i have Photoshop open the other i have a texture folder on my desktop open. I grab and drag a texture and move it across to drop into Photoshop but it will not. At …	2 Last	kunglao Jan 2011
Editing NURBS with 3ds max 2011 Hi everyone! I am preparing a set of furniture, and need to make some organic forms (many curves and very soft), so I'm trying to 3ds max 2011. I've read in some forums that NURBS is a good tool, b…	1 Last	renderhjs Jan 2011
Ultimapper Softimage problem Hey all I have a question about Ultimapper in soft image, all my normal maps are coming out as a flat color, there is no normal info on the pictures. I'm making sure to 'compute' before I 'generate'…	2 Last	ZacD Jan 2011
Batch Exporter Problem I've written a batch exporter using bits and pieces of code I've cobbled together. src_files is an array that stores a list of max files to export. There a few variables which store whether or not to…	4 Last	renderhjs Jan 2011
UNITY --Diffuse material and or point lights using extra draws? I was hoping somebody might be able to help me with this. In Unity I have character "A" at 4000 tris and when "A" uses a diffuse material, the tri count doubles to 8k- 2 draws- Then each time I add …	4 Last	commander_keen Jan 2011
Interchangeable Equipment I should start by saying that I've only just gotten into working with 3ds max and wanna break into game modeling. A friend of mine is making a game that involves interchangeable equipment, hair, weap…	8 Last	Kizmet Jan 2011
Blender/Complex collision models/HELP Hey, So I searching or asking for tutorial, "Complex collision models" in blender. So far [url]http://developer.valvesoftware.com[/url] have a great step-by-step tutorial how to make simple model/…	0 Last	i74s Jan 2011
Lighting with normal maps in Maya Maya 2011 How do you render an object that has normal map in Maya?	2 Last	Drawallday Jan 2011
[Maxscript] Making UV mapping suck a bit less. Hello all. I've been working on a tool to help me save some time unwrapping by eliminating the time spent changing modes, aligning faces, etc. Namely, it's to get UVs done right where automatic met…	9 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2011
Vertex Optimization techniques with my current project i'm limited to 256 tri/vert/texture size and while the tri count isnt too difficult, keeping the verts low is throwing me off. i've been reading through the wiki about keepin…	7 Last	MikeF Jan 2011
Photoshop CS4 lag Hej,im having an issue with my photoshop at home. The problem is the perfromance of photoshop,while programs like 3ds Max and z brush run like a dream, CS4 is incredibly slow,especially when i paint …	4 Last	JO420 Jan 2011
Mirror normal map problem at render Hello, everyone!:) i'm so sorry for my poor English.:\ I have some questions about the Mirror normal map.:poly122: Below is my attach relevant pictures to illustrate my problem seam effect is not co…	3 Last	cartoon man Jan 2011
[Max] Script for UV island smooth groups? Hey guys I tried searching but didn't come up with anything. Is there a script out there that can automatically assign smoothing groups based on your UV islands? Just been really tedious lately doin…	4 Last	SideEffect Jan 2011
How to manipulate vertex positions of Edit Poly modifier with MaxScript? MaxScript is strange. Some of the more difficult or intricate tasks it pretty much does for you, and yet some of the absolute simplest tasks like modifying a vertex position is difficult or undocume…	7 Last	rumblesushi Jan 2011
How do I get a showcase banner? Just wondering how I get my image up in the showcase banner, what are the rules of submission who decides whether the piece is worthy or not?	20 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2011
Mel Help Hey been working on a pivot tool for maya just so it makes it easier to put the pivot easier for common areas. I have that all up and running though where I'm running into a problem is putting the pi…	8 Last	Warheart Jan 2011
Character customization help! Hi everybody! I'm new to this forum so I'm not sure this is the right place to post this question, but I hope you'll bear with me! So my question regards a game project I'm currently working on, bu…	0 Last	asjo07 Jan 2011
Another xNormal issue =\ So, I have my HP rock mesh sculpts going, and I retopologized them. I laid out my UV's on the retopo'd meshes and want to bake my HP to my new LP retopologized meshes...however, when I throw my HP an…	1 Last	tristamus Jan 2011
UDK FBX Import failed Hi I just installed the newest UDK release and having been away from UDK for a while I was overjoyed to find FBX support added. Thats as far as I got however as no matter what export settings I use …	4 Last	Numerator Jan 2011
Changing the 3DS Max 2011 Camera? Hey folks, This is probably a really basic question, but is it possible to change the camera in 3DS Max 2011 to emulate the camera in 3DS Max 8, the version I'm also using? I use 2011 as it has s…	1 Last	renderhjs Jan 2011
Generating Bump Map in Zbrush4? so yeah, did they take this feature out or ?	2 Last	cryrid Jan 2011
Wet surfaces [IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk301/Chudwanker/Gothic1.jpg[/IMG] I've been working on this scene for the past couple of weeks, and I'm at the point where I want to texture what I have bef…	13 Last	StefanH Jan 2011
Remove edge+vertex I've once again found myself confused by Max. For whatever reason, I used to be able to hit Ctrl+Shift+R and it would remove both the edge and it's vertices, but now that no longer works. I searched …	2 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2011
Welding Im getting frustrated with not being able to weld.I cant target weld to a differnt object.I dont know if its because its all in one group or what the deal is. I cant weld edges from two differnt ob…	20 Last	Builder_Anthony Jan 2011
Cars, keeping a clean mesh? Recently bought GTAIV for the PC (ive had it for the xbox) and have become sort of motivated to model some cars, but my first few attempts failed because of little mesh errors in shading because of m…	21 Last	MainManiac Jan 2011
CGFX shader that blends between 2 textures based on normal angle? Hey guys, does anyone know a good cgfx shader that comes with install in structions for Maya that blends between 2 different textures based on the normal angle.	2 Last	Brice Vandemoortele Jan 2011
Xamn you xNormal...! Baking problems, would love some help Trying to bake a wall piece with some minor protruding geometry. It's not perfect, but I'm getting gradient artifacts around the edges that simply are NOT there in the normals of either the low OR t…	11 Last	Scruples Jan 2011
Zbrush- Subtool not maintaining UV's after decimation I am having some issues where when I decimate a mesh the UV's are not maintaining themselves in Zbrush, the problem is only happening with one subtool, my characters vest. I have exported everything …	1 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
Mudbox: black fill left when i erase parts of layers Hi, this time I saved my work, came back and all layers with partial coverage on the paint tab have black fill where there should be nothing, so everywhere I've erased or not applied a projection is …	2 Last	pior Jan 2011
Color management workflow questions Since I've had some free time over the break, I've purchased a calibrator and have been focused on getting my color workflow down. Everything I've found has been dealing with offline rendering so I t…	1 Last	sprunghunt Jan 2011
Studio Max Camera Orbit Hi all, maybe someone knows the answer to this one. In 3dsmax, I need to animate a camera orbiting around an object, but, the object needs to be fixed in place on screen-left. If I make a Path Const…	2 Last	Sean VanGorder Jan 2011
UV unwrap troubleshoot Hi all, I've got a unwrap problem. I don't know if it's my plugins or not, but I got this frustrating problem theses days: - I got a model - I unwrap it with the modifier "Unwrap UVW" - I unwrap it…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2011
Converting to editable poly turns out strange after importing from roadkill (in max) Sorry for the weird topic title but I couldn't find any better way to describe it (which may be the cause I didn't find anyone with the same problem before). So it is my first time at a 3D character…	3 Last	amoeba Jan 2011
NTSC: Never The Same Color. I have 2 monitors, but for some reason, they never match up color wise. The monitor on my laptop is better than the one on my desktop in terms of color and resolution, but it get's kind of frustratin…	5 Last	haikai Jan 2011
windows 7 64bit workflow announces. We're upgrading to windows 7 64bit at work and immediately after doing the switch I've noticed some holes in my workflow. Does anyone have a solution to the following? 1. SOLVED install sage thumbs …	50 Last	claydough Jan 2011
3dsMax 2011 problem Got some problems with 3dsmax 2011, in the 64bit version, when I import something it just doesnt show up, it says it's importing but nothing shows up, I do get a polycount and everything Tried it wit…	12 Last	Neavah Jan 2011
Cannot use hq rendering? I'm trying to create normal maps and have several tuts to follow, all basically tell me the same thing which I get but when I'm done baking they all say to select hq rendering from the rendering opti…	3 Last	n88tr Jan 2011
(MAYA) buggy mirror cut has it always been buggy like this. btw im using maya 2011. mirrored meshes sometimes becomes invisible where i have to reapply the shader to the mesh to fix it. and the most annoying thing is it cre…	4 Last	Treacharous Jan 2011
3ds Projection Modifier MAXScript Questions for Source Game Engine Project I am building a displacement/terrain exporter for the Valve Source Game Engine. One of the things I am trying to do is use the Projection Modifier for the source of the displacement geometry. For e…	0 Last	shawnolson Jan 2011
Zbrush to Max/Maya or standalone I have been tooling around with the basics of the major 3D packages, and now I'm looking to focus on a workflow that will let me do most of the modeling and texturing in a single app. The game compan…	4 Last	adobbs Jan 2011
2D.5 normal map problems This is my first (of many) posts so hi people. I've been finally given the motivation to join the chat and stop perving from the shadows due to a really annoying problem I've encountered with z-brush…	2 Last	Scruples Jan 2011
3dsmax 2011 Edit poly - flipped faces after mirror/clone/attach Hey folks, I think that problem exists for several 3dsmax versiosn now. And I don't know how to fix that bug. You may have ran about something similiar too. The problem is that 3dsmax accidentally …	6 Last	sebi3110 Jan 2011
Need Help, how to put 3dsmax script to toolbar how to put selection[1].pivot = selection[1].center to my toolbar ( UI)	4 Last	xvampire Jan 2011
laptop for art and gaming? I was looking to get some feedback on this laptop if I could use it for gaming and my 3d/2d arts. Hopefully b-day present, mine comes up this month. Gfx, cpu and memory look plenty good for gaming b…	34 Last	n88tr Jan 2011
A better edge flow? Hello polycount :) I started my new job today. Thanks to those who posted in my other threads, my transition from Max to Maya has been a smooth one. I'm pretty comfortable zipping around the menu's n…	3 Last	mdeforge Jan 2011