Technical Talk

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Photogrammetry Thread Hi guys, We would love to know more about cameras used, software used, break downs, pipelines, software and any other hints and tips for us to look into would be great. What are your favorite pipel…	204 Last	littleclaude Nov 2023
Tricaster virtual studio. Good evening! There is a 2d Tricaster studio, I want to make a virtual studio myself in 3ds max. As I understand, when rendering a picture, I save the alpha channel and then render individual element…	2 Last	okidoki Nov 2023
What are your thoughts on modeling? I am not very good at polygon modeling.I am not good at polygon modeling, especially for objects that do not have clearly separated surfaces, such as an organic body.I am not sure what steps to take …	11 Last	yamato Nov 2023
I used AI to directly generate a 3D model from an image. How do you feel about the results...? Just as shown in the image below, I took a picture of a mushroom, and the AI directly generated a mesh. Since it was quite irregular, I used Quad Remesher for retopology. I feel the results are borde…	30 Last	poopipe Nov 2023
Maya Animation Rig Question about extra joints for interactions wondering how best to handle having extra joints in a rig for handling things like carried objects, attachment points, attack points, interaction points. These should be outside of the skinned rig an…	3 Last	Alex_J Nov 2023
[3dsMax][Vray] Could not allocate buffer of size X [{"insert":"Hi. I've been trying to render my scene on and off for like a few months by now. And it (almost) always ends up with a message\n[V-Ray] [GPU light cache] Could not allocate buffer of size…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2023
[Maya] Advice for animation weight/overlap plugins? Greetings!I'm currently looking for some animation plugins for Maya to make overlapping and overshoots, and adding weight to animations in general, less manual and time consuming. While I enjoy the p…	0 Last	BTDarmstad Nov 2023
Anyone have the DOTA2 Rigs? the links to download these rigs seems to be broken, anyone have these downloaded and able to share? thanks!https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=187943419I want Broodmother specific…	1 Last	Noth Oct 2023
can't find 3ds max pie menu by bryan or perna? While searching for a pie menu for 3ds max read about an apparent pie menu by bryan and perna here https://polycount.com/discussion/197212/3ds-max-plugin-radially-pie-menu-editor-for-3ds-max. The lin…	6 Last	nitron Oct 2023
Insane cleanup EDIT: Seams there is no way to do exactly what I asked for:Thanks to all who commented.-This is the model I have to work with, it is a CT scan of a part, of a Femur bone. And I need to close th…	3 Last	Hellgnome Oct 2023
Combine High Poly Bake & Trimsheet ? Hi,I'm learning trimsheets at the moment and I'm asking a question that may seem a little stupid but I'm asking anyway.Is that possible to combine high poly bake & Trimsheet ? When you'…	14 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Distortion in Corona Renderer Hi! So,help me to solve a problem,please.I do render in corona 8.0, but I have trouble. Distortions appear on the model.There is no any problem in substance painter and marmoset.May be something wron…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Portable Art tablet Recommendations? Hi All, I have a Cintiq 22HD for office/home use, but I'd like something I can travel with (meaning take somewgere and plug it in, or use in a mobile fashion). Do you guys have any recommendati…	18 Last	Neox Oct 2023
scale for big city backgrounds? creating a vista of a big city background in UE4. using very simple 3D buildings and some 2D images for filler. I had it about half scale and it felt really off even though its at a distance, so I sc…	1 Last	Alex_J Oct 2023
HELP! Cant Export Polygroups as Mats while UV Unwrapping in Blender?? This is so odd. So what i want to do is make a Polygroup in Zbrush then export it into blender so i can Hand Unwrap it, And then Assign a SINGLE MAT to it, so when i open Substance painter ill be tex…	4 Last	AverieBrenner6 Oct 2023
Different types of normal maps? Why do some normal maps in 3D engines differ in color?For example:In one normal map the "neutral" color appears to be grey (#7F7F7F), but in another blue (#7F7FFF).	7 Last	NephilimFree Oct 2023
[3dsMax script] miauu's Quick Spline Measure miauu's Quick Spline Measure allows you to quickly measure: - the lengths of the snapped segment and its closest adjacent segment- the distance between the points of the snapped segment and its clos…	0 Last	miauu Oct 2023
Scaling and freezing a skeleton with a rig driver in maya (Metahuman) Hello Polycount, it's been years since I've been around.I'm sorry if I may have posted this in the wrong forum. Things look different nowadays. I am not very skilled in Maya, I am a 3ds guy. Nor do I…	5 Last	Alex_J Oct 2023
Scene Complexity: Any software benchmarks for this? Curious if anyone has seen anything that does a scene to scene comparison for simple smooth viewport navigation between Maya \| Blender \| Max, etc? Curious if Blender can handle more geo/objects than …	4 Last	oglu Oct 2023
[Blender] Swingy Bone Physics : an easy-to-use, artist-friendly bone chain physics solver. Hello everyone, As I was watching several technical presentations from big Japanese studios (Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco etc), I noticed that bone chain physics simulation using simple col…	0 Last	ehcya Oct 2023
3ds Max partally twist or rotate a spline I have a issue with control over path-deformed (WSM) objects along splines in 3Ds max. I all comes down to when I can not utilize rotate and twist along the whole spline, using the pathdeform twist a…	13 Last	GutiRRs1 Oct 2023
Color Grading Problem in After Effects Hi,I'm having problems with my new pipeline from Blender to After Effects. It seems like there's some issue with the settings in After Effects that makes my renders having only like 8-bit color space…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Scan Browsing Software? Hi!At work we have lots of scans, and I'm looking for a good solution to browse them and sort them, something like XnView for 3D files I guess.Ideal features would be:Support ~300mb obj filesSimple v…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Xgen hair/groom not showing *SOLVED I have an issue in Xgen that my groom won't generate when set to the standard Generate Primitives mode: Randomly across the surface ( which I usually use ) but when I change the generation mode it di…	0 Last	vonboe Oct 2023
RIGHT "flow and behavior" of UV's Good time, comrades! I'm on way to create 3d character and now i'm on phase, where i must create UV map for my subject. So, cause i'm self-taught, I watched and read a lot of information about IT, bu…	5 Last	Kkyc Oct 2023
[Rigging] Issue in twist bones in 3DSMax Hello all, for a while I've been stumped on how to properly achieve forearm twist in 3DSmax. Out of the many methods I had found, I followed this tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJmMTJboqJ8…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Distorting Procedural Textures in Blender Hello!Recently I've been learning about geometry nodes in order to create procedural landscapes, and have come across something I can't find information about elsewhere.When distorting a procedural i…	6 Last	PinkTortoise Oct 2023
Normal maps messed up in Cycles (but not in Eevee for some reason) While experimenting with different ways to bake an AO map for fairly lowpoly objects with normal maps on them inside Blender I noticed that - for some reason - normal maps don't display correctl…	20 Last	Buffinbag Oct 2023
Trimsheet Visible Seam Hi there ! I'm making my first trimsheet texture and I having issues with seams..First, I made my base on maya with grid snapping, so all is perfectly tillableThen, I sculpted the details on Zbrush w…	8 Last	gnoop Oct 2023
how to create a character using maya or blender that is practical and good at making clothes. I am looking for a tutorial as indicated in the title.The most important thing is the way the clothes are made. In particular, we are looking for tutorials where the topology of the body and the clot…	0 Last	yamato Oct 2023
Zbrush auto closing holes question Hello guys.I would like to ask if anyone knows the trick to auto close holes in that scenario.I am trying to have this kind of effect on model shown below.But to do that I need to manually bridge hol…	7 Last	Don_Wasyl Oct 2023
Rounded Hard Surface Topology Question Hey guys I am modeling Robocop front armor, and since this is a rounded shape with details/holes, but what happens is, if I make the topology quads too big, I will be left with a lot of pinchin…	2 Last	Fabi_G Oct 2023
3D Robot Project : I need some guidance. Hi Polycount forum,I am modeling a robot in Maya. I brought it to a certain stage. From here, what should be modeled and what should be done? What do you recommend. I need some guidance, fe…	1 Last	Alex_J Oct 2023
Trimsheet Plane size ? Hi guys, I'm trying to make my first trimsheet texture using a plane as low poly in Maya who will be baked in substance painter. I saw multiples tutorials on the subject but every times, they ma…	2 Last	Elliott Oct 2023
How can I boolean in Maya without massively ramping up my poly count I'm kinda lost here. I'm trying to boolean this hex slot into this knife handle, but I need to keep the poly count down because this is going to be the game-version (not for an actual pipeline, this …	2 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2023
What's the best quad re-meshing solution now? For terrain, hard surfaces etc. Does modern Zbrush advanced it over old free one?Some cool addons for Blender maybe?AI something? isn't it a perf…	5 Last	gnoop Oct 2023
Anyone w CPU 5.5-6.0 clock speeds to help run a PS test? Hey guys , Does anyone have a cpu that has clock speeds of 5.5-6.0? (Even if being overclocked)If so, I would like to ask if you could do a quick test in Photoshop, opening a new PSB file (20x29in, 6…	6 Last	pior Oct 2023
Spherical Surface Wave ? What is the term used for a radial that starts at a single point at the north most pole of a sphere and continues to equally expand and move to the alternate pole of the sphere until it contracts to …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2023
Pedro's Super Smart Create for Blender Hey Guys, I have been playing around with blender and some scripting lately. I decided to port Pedro's excellent super smart create scriptI am really new to Blender and my python coding sk…	18 Last	Fredrik_Maribo Oct 2023
Optimizing modular environments by merging meshes together? Hey PolycountI am working on a modding project which uses a pretty ancient version of UE, meaning it lacks most modern open world oriented optimization bells and whistles. (And its DX9, yay!)Currentl…	2 Last	poopipe Oct 2023
TFlow - Motion Vector Generator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAk4HT72IwAt Tuatara, we are super happy to announce the release of TFlow !Unity Asset StoreUnreal Engine MarketplaceTFlow is a motion vector gene…	32 Last	oktomus Oct 2023
(Noob) Shading issues in Blender (or Substance, i don't really know) I wanted to bake a high poly model onto a low poly model. Texturing wasn't a problem, but now i don't understand why a problem arises when i export the textures on Blender.Here is the issueI think th…	4 Last	gnoop Oct 2023
Texture Merge Help! Hello I really need some help,I work with lots of props that are their own separate objects but they share the same UV space.When I finish modeling each one: I export it, bake it and paint it and exp…	5 Last	poopipe Oct 2023
Best approach for animating a timed movement (walk, run) in space? Hey guys, I started animating a rat which is supposed to walk quickly to a certain point in the scene, then stop, then walk some more in another direction, then turn around and quickly run away. I've…	7 Last	Alex_J Oct 2023
Advice with clothing texture seams HiThis is something I've been struggling to get right for a while now, so was wondering if anyone can offer advice on how they deal with this.At the moment, I'm working on finishing off my high poly …	28 Last	DustyShinigami Oct 2023
The Art of Realism with Blender Click here to Download now Designers frequently grapple with the formidable challenge of achieving the pinnacle of image quality, often resulting in exasperation. To address this pervasive conce…	0 Last	Earvin Oct 2023
Retopologizing garments and baking overhanging details Hi all, I'm new to the forum but I've read a lot of wonderful info on here and this community is amazing so I figured I'd give it a shot to ask here before I try and reinvent the wheel on my characte…	8 Last	MagicMeister Oct 2023
Baking Directional Light Maps in Blender? Is that possible? Hi folksI was trying to make a Directionality Lightmaps (Radiosity Normal Mapping)Find whis topic, but unfortunately its outdated and all the images are gone :/ : https://polycount.com/discussi…	5 Last	AlexandrL Oct 2023
[Blender] Geometry nodes trouble (solved) Hi folks. I'm having a little difficulty with Blender 3.6 geometry nodes. I created a simple fluff material and applied it to the mesh.And I just need to remove it from the beak, eyes and p…	2 Last	EmptyField Sep 2023
re Using HDRI to light a scene so there are two things here, providing reflections from the sharper/High res version of the HDRI. From what I understand you are supposed to actually light the scene with a smaller blurry version of…	5 Last	gnoop Sep 2023