Technical Talk

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Need a tutorial on jets Hello guys! I am doing 3D since the end of 2018 self taught and I've learned a lot so far. Most of the times I figured out problems all by myself or with the help of certain tutorials (bought or yout…	9 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Sep 2020
Box Cutter - Blender addon, not cutting? Hi,when I click drag then release to create a cube which is supposed to cut into a shape it creates a new shape instead. I seem to almost never get this add on to work please help	5 Last	Justo Sep 2020
Blending textures (no smooth transition) [3D] Hello everyone!First I would like to apologize because I am very new to 3D. I've used unity a little and experimented with 2D. I think I want to try some 3D in Unreal now.So in 2D we have tiles:I can…	2 Last	PinkestElephant Sep 2020
How Should I Unwrap Organic Mesh Without Visible Seams? Hi!I'm kinda losing my nerves here. I made a 3D model of eggplant and now I wanted to give it some textures, but I stumbled upon this issue.The seams where I have put them, are visible. I tried to sn…	1 Last	Kanni3d Sep 2020
Doom Eternal Great id tech7 review. This game is crazy! https://youtu.be/UsmqWSZpgJY	24 Last	oglu Sep 2020
uvs and retopology in high poly models? Hello, soo I´m starting a project but I have run into an issue that I do not know how to resolve. I want to make a scene in the kitchen with fruit and things like that and I´m looking to make somethi…	2 Last	wandering_snail Sep 2020
[Maya]How to select polygon components by other object hi, I wanna search for intersecting faces between two objects, and then delete or select them.I know Boolean can be similar, but the results I want is to avoid…	0 Last	babybus Sep 2020
3d Screenshot Capture I think this is the right place to put this. I'm looking for a program I had years ago where i could take a 3D screenshot of what was been rendered at that time while playing a game. I thought it was…	2 Last	Doongas Sep 2020
Maya - Referenced Characters for Rigging Hi folks,I'm trying to understand about referencing-in characters before rigging. This is a recommended doing by Advanced Skeleton team but I'm really not sure about it's benifits.Will referenced cha…	3 Last	throttlekitty Sep 2020
how to specify a location before creating an object (line) in 3dmax ? Is there an option in max (2017) to specify a location before creating the object (line) ?eg I would like to create a line with a z-offset of 10. so i can see my line above other objects in the top v…	2 Last	skydoll Sep 2020
[Blender] Generate rig creates bugged controllers I'm having a really weird problem. I added a metarig to the scene, edited the pose to fit my character, apply it as the rest pose, applied loc/rot/scale, and Generated Rig. The problem is that on the…	4 Last	RN Sep 2020
Blender Eevee - I am missing Material and object ID passes? I've attached an image with all the information. hellllp, please	2 Last	Method14253 Sep 2020
Blender Eevee - Matching Camera orientation to viewport resolution? Hi guys is there a shortcut/way to match the Camera orientation to the exact Viewport resolution/perspective in Blender?	4 Last	Method14253 Sep 2020
UVW Unwrapping - Distortion Problem Hi @all, i made this cup and tried to unwrap it in 3ds Max. The overall unwrapping looks good so far.But at the beginning of the handle i have a bit distortion. (marked with red circle)Is there a way…	0 Last	ChristophLechler Sep 2020
How to texture a wall using two materials for the inner and otter side? I'm making elements for a modular scene for Unreal Engine and I would like to texture the walls using two different materials, one for the inner side and another one for the outter side. So, I have a…	3 Last	icegodofhungary Sep 2020
Maya - Blendshapes on different meshes Hi!I've learned sometime ago that you can sort of connect two meshes' blendshapes with some menu option in Maya but I can't quite remember what that is. This method allow you to add joints in a side-…	1 Last	throttlekitty Sep 2020
How can I offset the fog effect 300 units in the camera direction? Error	0 Last	EliasWick Sep 2020
Reduction Topology, Triangle Question Decided to pause and ask before getting ahead of myself with it. With something like seen in the picture, is this topology good, bad, okay? In the reference there not separated parts which is why it'…	12 Last	Aionard Sep 2020
What is generally a good habit, parenting or grouping meshes? (In Maya) I am still, a newbie and I have little knowledge and experience of how this hierarchy system works down the line on a working environment/pipeline. That said, what are the pros/cons of these two meth…	2 Last	Welcj Sep 2020
Maya - Popup Tool Options Reset? Does anyone have any Idea how to reset the Tool options for the popup windows in Maya. Some how Extrude + Duplicate have switched "Keep Faces Together" to "Off" Each time I turn the Tool on. It …	2 Last	Alex_J Sep 2020
Procedural World Generation - Tutorials and Presentations Hey guys! Do you know any good resources (tutorials and presentations) for procedural world / city generation? Maybe something that includes Houdini as well, but not necessarily.Also what tutori…	10 Last	VanessaCeline Sep 2020
3ds max inset orientation When you use the inset function in 3ds max it seems the vertices kind of all do what they want going in unsavory directions.Is there a setting to orient the vertices to move toward a central point?I'…	2 Last	poopipe Sep 2020
To UV map in 3dsmax or polygroup in zbrush? Henlo,so, when it comes to uv mapping ,painting and rendering i did some creature 3d model and didn't turned out very well because i have had issues with uvs. I uv mapped in 3dsmax then imported mode…	2 Last	Ghogiel Sep 2020
3ds Max Arnold Render Multi-Sub Material Hi,I have a project I'm working on - a robotic arm - it's modeled, UV'd and rigged. All the moving parts are separate objects.I've setup this (pictured) shader to give it a plastic effect in Arnold, …	0 Last	Chrismartinartist Sep 2020
MaterialX & USD MaterialX: An Open Standard for NetworkBased CG Object LooksMaterialX is an open standard for transfer of rich material and look-development content between applications and renderers. Origina…	47 Last	oglu Sep 2020
Tool Announce - ZBrush: A3D Tools 2 Hello Polycount! I'm Pete, long time lurker and full time TA. In my spare time I develop tools and scripts to help automate some of the more tedious parts of making art. I've recently relea…	2 Last	PeteThatPete Sep 2020
Which 3D-Software fits our needs? Hello everyone,we are a small team, working on a VR-Game in Unity 3D.In the University we learned Cinema 4D in our courses and are still using it right now.But in the last months we are sometimes get…	9 Last	gandhics Sep 2020
Maya - Possible to ignore namespace when exporting, or remove namespace from materials? Is it possible to export an animation and strip out namespace at same time? Or otherwise, remove namespace from materials only? Reason is this messes up material name matching in software I export to…	1 Last	Alex_J Sep 2020
Geforce 30xx Ampere New great video from Digital Foundryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWD01yUQdVAThe 3080 looks nice to me if there is a 20GB version.	0 Last	oglu Sep 2020
zbrush triangulation from max (fb) Hi all,I've been knocking my head over this issue.. when I export fbx from max to zbrush. It won't come as quads. Any body know a solution?also read about having editpoly on top when exporting out...…	3 Last	decorix Sep 2020
Zbrush / Maya question about decimation. Hi! Currently experimenting with a few different things and one of the them is decimation master. Is it correct to do base mesh(maya) > high poly(zbrush) > duplicate > decimate > exp…	7 Last	Toby3D Sep 2020
Something wrong with this model? Hi, I'm having a problem with Zbrush. as Gif shows depending on the position of the camera one of the model faces disappear, does this indicate something wrong with this model or is it just some…	2 Last	D4rkhunter Aug 2020
Daz3D to Marvelous - imported posed model not entirely accurate Hi,I am trying to get my Daz model gesture to match up in Marvelous when I import it, for some reason the arms are not conforming to the Daz pose I made. I am creating a keyframe at frame 1 (tpose) a…	1 Last	Method14253 Aug 2020
Customizable game character - what do I need to do with my model? Hi guys. I'm very new to game development and trying to create a game with character customization. I have moderate 3D modeling and animating skills, but very limited knowledge on how to get things t…	6 Last	zakrich Aug 2020
[Blender TexTools] Baking Diffuse Color Wondering if there are any Blender 2.8 + TexTools users here:- I am trying to bake a Diffuse map by reading the Base Color value out of Principled BSDF materials.- Despite all other map baking to be …	1 Last	bitinn Aug 2020
Software Recommendation is there any free or open source software like " pureref " which will allow me to inspect each channel of texture map? like i would just drag-drop the map and then i can see each channel presents in …	5 Last	jamilahmmed Aug 2020
Maya - Human IK rig has some hidden offset value, botches blendshapes edit: I narrowed it down but not sure if there is any non labor intensive fix. I summarize in 2 minute video here : https://youtu.be/uZaaZScRlPATL:DW is somehow Daz2Maya Bridge holds mesh at differen…	2 Last	Alex_J Aug 2020
Maya transformation tool doesn't work as expected. Hi,I have recorded to GIF the issue.When grabbing green square of transformation tool, I would expect moving the object in two axis. As you can see, that is not the case unfortunately.Thank you for a…	1 Last	throttlekitty Aug 2020
Animation noobie - Maya IK Spline rigging problem Hi. I'm trying to mod an old video game by adding some new animations to the main character. The original model files are long gone, but I've been able to extract the mesh and skeleton data, along wi…	2 Last	emmix Aug 2020
Closed Moved: Marmoset Custom Animation playback skipping 1+ second of my animation This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2020
How are made terrain / ground in video games ? Hello ! I'm planning to get on my very first environnement piece, in Unreal Engine 4. So I found my concept, but a the stage of the blockout, I'm wondering : what are terrain in video games made…	1 Last	poopipe Aug 2020
I want to make a hair card and texture. I want to make hair for a game.I also want to make eyebrows and eyelashes.I tried but failed.Tell us what you recommend in our hair card and texture tutorials.Currently these are candidates.https://g…	0 Last	taki39 Aug 2020
Blender Tutorial: How to Easily Bake Assets in Blender using "Match by Name" With EZ Baker Addon Hey guys. I decided to make a tutorial about a cool plugin made by a guy called AquaticNightmare. In this video, I show how to utilize a really comfortable, user-friendly addon called "EZ Baker". Thi…	0 Last	mrgesy Aug 2020
I would be happy if I could scratch all the letters I made an example of some of the letters that made up my name and planned to move them on the Unity game engine, and it was necessary to make them (real-time rendering stuff ) or Latters in my case !…	3 Last	DavidCruz Aug 2020
Closed Moved: Quick question! Why do I get sharp angles on the edge in Marmoset? This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2020
system specs for substance painter (help me upgrade) hello,i would like your advices...ok, so lets put it like this..........what to upgrade so i can run nicely substance painter on this machine?is it adding more ram?or graphic card?here is screenshot:	9 Last	sacboi Aug 2020
Problem with two texture set list uploading to Mixamo Hi, I will try to explain me the better I can and I will upload a lot of photos for improve my explanations because I don't know how to explain this, apologies in advance.I have a model with two "par…	4 Last	kaiman Aug 2020
Hard surface maya to zbrush baking Hi,I'm trying to make sense of the workflow from low poly to high poly.Basically here is one of my model: My goal is to bring this into zbrush and just trim some edges to make it looks old.My i…	2 Last	efwfew16 Aug 2020
What makes houdini good? Hi!, tl;dr at the end if you prefer it that way.I just started 3D and im totally in love, I have used cinema 4D and Maya years ago when I tried to learn 3D but lack motivation (I was mostly doing 2D …	1 Last	gnoop Aug 2020
Realworld scale modeling questions (sorry if its wrong forum) Hello there! Sorry if its wrong forum, but i am really tired of searching answers for like about a few months already.I really like CG and my goal is to make CG short movie sometime in future. And, i…	5 Last	Revizion Aug 2020