Technical Talk

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zBrushe's ACTUALLY Recommended Requirements? Hey guys, my PC blows. My processor is a Pentium 4 @ 3.2ghz w/ 2mb L2, and my RAM is only 2gb DDR2 @ 266mhz. I'm running 32 bit XP and I'm sick of it. Render to Texture in 3ds Max (even on simple geo…	9 Last	Calabi Dec 2010
Need 500 triangle game character tutorial I need a tutorial on modeling a 500 tris game character. I'm using Blender but doesn't matter in which platform is the tutorial. Thx for your help	3 Last	xXm0RpH3usXx Dec 2010
Tablets: lots of questions EDIT 12.23.2010: There are some new questions down there [url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1260137&postcount=16[/url] --- I got this 140€ Aiptek/Genius/noname "Media Tablet 1…	34 Last	Kripto Dec 2010
[Tutorial] Creating Hard Surface Textures from 3D Models (both Max & Maya versions!) Hi guys, this is by no means a "legitimate" texture, and it is evident. I really winged the entire video, and became impatient part of the way through :P [I][B]This is by no means at all production q…	0 Last	keres Dec 2010
Modo 501 is out now. How are the smoothing groups? [URL]http://www.luxology.com/modo/index.aspx[/URL] One of modo 5's new features is smoothing groups. Just wondering how it compares to what Max has and whether it will be as useful as people hope.	9 Last	Ben Apuna Dec 2010
Maxscripts/Melscripts/etc. you can't do without Thinking about adding a wiki page listing the best scripts that Polycounters know and love, inspired by [URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1261760&postcount=15"]this[/URL] thread. If…	9 Last	Nysuatro Dec 2010
Wire mesh Working on this. [img]http://home.comcast.net/~weiser_cain/Images/UTGAL.jpg[/img] The fishnet is actually supposed to be wires. Is there another way to do them, with the idea that this is going into…	8 Last	dazarooney Dec 2010
Alpha map over tiling texture I wanted to create one texture map over the top of another. I want one tiling texture with tree bark and another texture of moss for the base of the tree with transparency so that the bark can show t…	0 Last	Destinatus Dec 2010
dds compression Either I am doing something wrong or nvidia and ati are using inferior DXT1-DXT5 compression in comparison to 'DDS converter 2.1's compression. And I am kind of miffed since I have been using nvidia'…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2010
Post one thing your favorite 3d app does well. Tech Talk is often a pretty negative place, always discussing problems, errors, and what people do not like about certain applications. Every once in a while solutions to problems here will bring a r…	97 Last	ivars Dec 2010
Mudbox: UV blues Hello, I realised that at some stage I'd accidentally bumped the UV coordinates to the right while in 3ds max before I exported =( Short of getting my head read, is there any way I can fix the probl…	32 Last	Ben Apuna Dec 2010
Reactor physics proxy mesh? I want to do some intricate piles of rubble and use max's physics to create piles with hundreds or possibly thousands of objects. The catch is that I also want to sculpt all of those objects. What …	2 Last	Builder_Anthony Dec 2010
fog colour faliure ok so i have been doing this tutorial : [URL]http://www.aversis.be/tutorials/vray/vray_basic_material_settings_02.htm[/URL] i have been changing my fog colour, using their settings, then when i go i…	0 Last	aNarchy Dec 2010
3dsMax - Chuggernaught UV scripts Anyone have chuggernaughts UVscript? I was trying to use the workflow described on [URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/member.php?u=17398"]jesseMoodys[/URL] site here: [url]http://www.artbyjessemoo…	14 Last	renderhjs Dec 2010
Infernal Engine Help post removed.	2 Last	Racer445 Dec 2010
Mudbox Help I am doing a tutorial on digital tutors, and when sub divided my model I get an error that says "not enough memory". I did not have any troubles on the previous tutorial on mudbox, and I am running 4…	2 Last	tehrobster2 Dec 2010
3dsmax 2011 nurbs question does anyone know if nurbs can be converted to quad polys now in 2011.	15 Last	onionhead_o Dec 2010
zbrush w/ Tablet or Mouse? Which is everyone using? I'm decent at drawing by now, but I much prefer to work with a mouse. I want to get into sculpting pretty badly, but I don't know if I should without buying a Wacom. How muc…	10 Last	XenoKratios Dec 2010
3d max - Selection 'Ring' - question Is there any easy way to select every second edge by 'ring' ? [IMG]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7797/s1s1s.jpg[/IMG]	7 Last	Neox Dec 2010
Z Brush being rebellious again. Help! [URL=http://img221.imageshack.us/i/angryy.jpg/][IMG]http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5227/angryy.jpg[/IMG][/URL] 1) Sculpted this mesh but didn't like how his arms got in the way of trying to scul…	13 Last	pangarang Dec 2010
Envelope question Anyone know if this is possible to automate or do without a great deal of work in Maya or Xnormal?. I know that baking [U]without[/U] an envelope respects hard-edges but you lose the ability to bake…	3 Last	ivars Dec 2010
Max 2010 mat editor glitch with directx shaders Hey PC techies! Problem: The max 2010 mat editor rollout is not wide enough to check boxes or load maps when using direct x shaders?! Is there a way to change the width of the editor in some config …	7 Last	Psyk0 Dec 2010
3dsmax, normalmap woes. Max be buggin' on me ass =(¨ For some reason whenever I have more then two textures activated in my material, max kills my normal map... more or less. Its still there, its just very very weak. Scanl…	6 Last	cw Dec 2010
tf2 lighting and import problem Hi! I'm trying to track down a lighting issue I ran into when importing a hat into team fortress 2. Essentially the hat is always illuminated from the underside rather than in a manner consistent …	14 Last	Scruples Dec 2010
UV tiling tricks within 0 to 1 space. Hello, Some of your views of tiling is probably the auto tiling of a single map, that goes outside of the 0-1 space, such as the UVs generated by Loft, or the auto tiling that most 3D engines provid…	16 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2010
Maya Split Polygon Tool + snap problem Hi all I come with a strange problem that I apparently am the only one to have (just asked a friend and it works perfectly for him, both at work and on his own pc). I don't have problem to split po…	6 Last	GoSsS Dec 2010
Detach with modifiers Yo, maybe a noob question but I don't know how I could tackle this. My model is to big to render the normal map(not enough ram, I think). I reduced my turbosmooth modifiers as much as I can but sti…	3 Last	NBLM Dec 2010
Converting .pose to .obj Hey guys, Someone just gave me a 3D model to play with. Problem is, it's a .pose file tag (which I'm assuming means that it exported from Poser). Since I don't have that program (and the person who…	4 Last	ivars Dec 2010
Need help with swiftloop I am trying to use swiftloop on my model but it is for some reason only allowing my to do the command on certain parts of the model. Or in other words I cant get it to loop around certain faces of my…	5 Last	polygonfreak Dec 2010
MAx 2011 jerky Viewport so just got Max 2011 demo to mess with over the break loaded in a moderate lvl polygon model (300,000) when the viewport is maximized, the arc rotate jerks around like a meth addict looking …	1 Last	low odor Dec 2010
Max user wanting to learn maya, need some advice! Hi everyone! I will like to learn maya...and keep delaying it for some months now, because every time I "tried" using it I ended up in 3ds max as I am more used to...... the main problem I found …	13 Last	maze Dec 2010
Edge flow (Hard Surface) Hi guys, Im in need of some help with this HUB im creating in Maya. Can you guys help me out...I cant seem to get the ploy flow right around the area which curves upwards...and its becoming less sh…	3 Last	BreaK Dec 2010
Multiple Texture Plates Hey there everybody, I'm fairly new here and I'm a little lost, so I hope I'm posting this in the proper place. I have a question about textures for in game models. I'm trying to make a fairly simp…	5 Last	8-Bit Dec 2010
Creating a very specific type of rock... ...that covers a large amount of space, in the shortest amount of time. Hey everyone, I am trying to create a very specific type of rock. IMO, 90% of rocks in videogames look like blobby, messy si…	22 Last	Peris Dec 2010
Way to move frozen UV verts in 3dsmax? Is there a way to move frozen UV vertices in the UV Editor in Max? I know it sounds counter-intuitive. But I'm basically looking for a UV-pinning feature. Mark some verts to be excluded from Relax.	4 Last	Bigjohn Dec 2010
3DS MAX Unwrapping: Flip vs Mirror? So I just started unwrapping a model I've been working on over the past week when something caught my eye. In the UV editor there is both the option to flip and mirror both horizontally and verticall…	2 Last	camza Dec 2010
3dsMax Reactor Problem Hey, Trying to use 3ds Max Reactor feature to make a pile rubble like the one in this tutorial. [URL]http://www.3dmotive.com/product-reactor-junk-pile[/URL] The problem Im having is my bricks a…	3 Last	Maxim Dec 2010
Looking for a good uv packer for maya for lightmaps. i know roadkill pro is no longer available.	5 Last	renderhjs Dec 2010
Normals and rotation Never seemed to have this issue before or maybe I just never noticed it. I have a simple 8 sided hose that I want to slap normal map on so I get a little more interest out of it. It looks fine when t…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2010
Max strange uv bug Hello everyone, im having this strange bug in my models.. first a screenshot: [IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/kool2rul/bug-1.jpg[/IMG] Now you see the pixel wide transparency, well thats…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2010
3ds Max Key binding confusion I've been binding keys to increase my workflow lately and I've come across a problem. When in the Editable Poly modifier, the Connect function used to be bound to (Ctrl+Shift+E), which I'm pretty sur…	3 Last	Bigjohn Dec 2010
Modo 501 Smoothing Groups and udk? I have tried exporting out of modo 501 with fbx and collada into unreal to see if smoothing groups work. Smoothing groups do work with collada, but my mesh is about 250 smaller than if i export wit…	4 Last	g0th Dec 2010
UVW Mapping problem Hey guys, i'm having a lot of trouble figuring out the options and tools in 3ds max 2010! I'm reading this book 3ds max modeling for games, but it does not show me how to fix the problem i have. The…	0 Last	Heindorff Dec 2010
rendering trouble so at the moment im rendering this pokeball, with a gold stand if you like, and the pokeball renders fine but i cant seem to get the black to disappear from the stand. [IMG]http://img98.imageshack.u…	3 Last	aNarchy Dec 2010
Painter 2011: Copy Merged Color Degedation Newbie here, I've found that when I use copy merged + paste in new image to convert a RIFF into a filetype I can post, the copy's colors are not quite the same. Here's an example from my current pr…	2 Last	Pencil-of-Sketching Dec 2010
PShop: Maintaining clean layers / textures Yo Santa believers, I was hoping to create a base in this thread for discussion revolving around the process / techniques you've come across and have used that best maintain a clean and orderly Phot…	29 Last	Grimm_Wrecking Dec 2010
The point.... I already Have Z brush but I keep hearing Zbrush used in tandum w/ other programs like 3dmax. should I invest in getting 3d max as well, or does z brush cover all my modeling needs? I have 4.0.	2 Last	Justin Meisse Dec 2010
Creating a bland blotchy hand painted surface? Im wondering how you would paint something like this and have it look so natural, there seems to be surfaces like this in almost everything ive seen hand painted. [IMG]http://img441.imageshack.us/img…	6 Last	sprunghunt Dec 2010
Beginer Question # 3 [LEFT][IMG]http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa442/Builder_Anthony/hotpokerphoto.jpg[/IMG][/LEFT]	6 Last	Builder_Anthony Dec 2010
Normal map with weird angle First off, I am terribly sorry if this has been answered before, I did search but I couldn't really find any. I'm creating a SCAR-L weapon and I'm having some baking issues. As you can see from the …	28 Last	EarthQuake Dec 2010