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Exporting FBX with animation:

I am back to school, and we have gotten an assignment that is due this comming tuesday, and no one in the class who uses Maya can solve this, only the Blender user have solved it ( Like wtf ;P ) BTW,…
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Mark Dygert

[Blender] DECALmachine: surface detailing using mesh decals

DECALmachine is a blender addon, which through mesh Decals, allows for surface detailing in a very non-committal, non-destructive, UV-less way. As such it represents an alternative approach to hard s…
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kanga

[3ds Max] V-RayMax Converter PRO

V-RayMax Converter PRO - the professional tool for 3ds Max for converting materials, maps and other scene components (lights, cameras, modifiers, proxy, render elements, etc) from various re…
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Eric Chadwick

Bulb in gaming asset

Hi everyone, I'm creating a game asset that includes a bulb. My question is: should I make the bulb double-sided in both the high-poly and low-poly models?
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Eric Chadwick

Fingerprints for Clay Mansion

Hi Polycount forum, I plan to create a project that looks like a horror movie scene, all made of play clay. I am trying to apply fingerprint to the model now. How can I do it, what do you recomm…
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Eric Chadwick

[3ds Max] miauu's Fit Camera to Objects

miauu's Fit Camera to Objects allows you to place the camera this way so the selected objects to fit entirely the camera view. The active view must be a camera view. Perspective, Orthographic and o…
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miauu

Maya "Create UV Shell" after adding thickness issue

Hi guys! I found out that after I add thickness to my clothes and then click "Create UV Shell" to split inside and outside parts , thinkness part splitted in some weird way, I showed it on video here…
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KiraKira99

Is it possible to revert 3dsmax back to the legacy shift+drag behaviour in edit poly / editable poly

I've not done much modelling by hand in a few years and miss the good old days where I could select an element, hold shift and duplicate it.  Nowshift+move defaults to extruding your select…
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poopipe

Doubts about what to do with a texture/UV map that still has a lot of room left

Greetings, I'm making a car asset for use with game engines. Currently, I have a 256x256 texture map assigned, to give the car model a pixel art look. The car is meant to have a LOD variation model, …
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Noren

Visible edges on baked mesh

Hello, im not new to baking so ill quickly explain what im doing. Im using Blender, in there i put hard edges on places i need them amd put a seam over thoes hard edges, I unwrap the mesh with 4px of…
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gnoop

Unwrapping a Sphere?

Hey all! So I'm working on a model of the solar system and obviously have a lot of spheres that I need to unwrap. I didn't think this would be an issue when I started but now I'm finding that unwrap…
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Noren

UV mapping a sphere

Hi all, I've been trying to get my head around UV mapping a sphere (excuse the pun), I've checked the Polycount Wiki and tried a few of the methods but I seem to keep getting a lot of distortion no m…
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Klunk

Blendshapes/Shape keys/Morphtargets etc. (Especially regarding the facial ones).

Hello you goody people, I need your help.I thought I knew something about blend shapes, but it seams that it is mostly the word/name, and a tiny tad of what it does, that I know a little about. So ba…
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Hellgnome

Blender Merging Objects making some textures black?

Hi, I went to merge objects and to my surprise the hair turns black, any ideas on a fix?
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okidoki

UV errors while extruding

Hello, I'm having a weird error where everytime I extrude and edge, the corresponding face's UV separates and fills the whole UDIM.I've pressed 3 and seems like the faces are intact, not sure why the…
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Alex_J

Seemingly random faces appear inverted when baked

Learning Substance painter for the first time an encountered an issue when baking my world space normal map and ambient occlusion, as seemingly random faces appear inverted. I then went to blender to…
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poopipe

Blender dark pixel artifacts while rendering - How can i solve this?

HeyI've been recently trying to render an animation, but i have an issue with the light. Here is th eproblem.As you can see those pixels are horrible and shouldn't be there. Here are some info a…
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Tiles

UDIM vs UV sets ?

Hi guys,Sorry this is a stupid one ...What is the advantage of UDIM's over UV sets ?  For exemple :- i have a props - i need four 4K maps to texture it - what is the advantage / difference of u…
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PolyHertz

Max Nitrous Viewport Clay in Blender?

One thing I miss about Max, having transitioned to Blender last year, is the viewport clay mode. I believe that had something to do with a nitrous driver that Max uses? Is this something that can be …
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Daf57

exporting curves from Blender to Maya?

I am sure that i used to export curves from zbrush to maya no problem as either ma or obj, but if I do the same from Blender it just crashes mayaAre there any scripts/addons that are available to do …
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gnoop

Modular vs. Unique Approach for Walls in a Small Interior Scene (Bathroom) in Unreal Engine

Hello everyone,I'm currently working on a small interior environment project in Unreal Engine that includes only a corridor and a bathroom. I have set up my perspective and blockout based on a concep…
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SwordOfPeace

3Ds Max - Tycoon - Custom Bend Tool

Hello,I've recently updated my custom bend tool for the latest version of 3Ds Max.With Tycoon you can easily create custom bending objects and auto snap/align them together.Tycoon is extremely useful…
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cgtoolsmith

importance of LODs in game ?

hi,when doing retopology , i am aware what is the purpose of  LOD but are all those LODs really necessary for every in game asset ?
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poopipe

3dsmax straighten map using a quad as reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJquhzjwVg Video of this tecnique in Blender, at min 7:20.he has a distorted uv, straight one quad of the mesh, and align all linked quads.there is something similar …
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Noren

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…
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elios

does maya have any form of material inheritance?

Say I want MaterialA to be used on objectA and objectB, but I want to use a different texture file for each object.Is there a way to do that in maya?analogous to material instances in unreal engineth…
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poopipe

holes in geo unreal, but not in substance painter or maya

I am new to unreal and games and I have imported my low poly mesh into unreal, and its been unwrapped and checked face normals and made sure all vertex are merged and it baked fine, and i couldnt see…
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Uekicks

Trimsheet Question

Hi everyone, I'm working with trimsheets for the first time and have a few questions:How can I maintain a consistent texel density with my UV shell? My object often ends up being too large, so I have…
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aprats91

Blender Line Art with tons of extra lines all over geometry in render

Hi I am trying to use a blockout from Unreal engine to render with in blender but when I do I have tons of these lines all over, it only happens with blockout meshes from UE. Anyone know how to solve…
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okidoki

zbrush non square tileable technique?

does anyone know a good technique or workflow to sculpt non-square (1x2) tiling textures?i dont think wrap mode will work for this.
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gsokol

(Solved) [Blender 2.8] How to maintain normal on mesh split?

Not sure what the terminology is in Blender 2.8, but can I somehow lock the custom normal (created by Auto Smooth or Edge Split), and maintain it on mesh separate?For example, say I have a pipe shape…
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gnoop

Normal Curve Highlights "tip/trick"[1 img].

If you find this img useful give it a go helped me with the tennis object if you need more explanation ask.The normal folder and Krita are important the idea is to get more details out of the maps.If…
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iam717

torn fabric topology - need advice

Hello again guys! :) I have another question. I saw a lot of tutorials about how to sculpt this torn fabric but how to optimize it? Is that have to be baked into displacement and opacity map?
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iam717

Anything new in nowaday Zbrush for texture painting ?

Zbrush once was my only soft for everything.    Both sculpting and textures .    Nothing procedural but so easy  to do textures  natural way  with brushes painting …
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gnoop

What is a typical deadline in professional studio to retopo AAA character with UV & 5 LODs?

Hi guys,How many days u need for one AAA character (or creature)  to finish with 5 LODs and UV ?
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Neox

Cloth folds topology advice

Hi Guys! I made retopology of my MD pants but not sure if it is right, I do this for my portfolio as game ready character asset, I saw works of some other artist's and they often highlight folds with…
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Alex_J

Blender 4.2.0 Crashes During Cycles Rendering – Seeking Advice

Hey all,I'm experiencing crashes in Blender 4.2.0 whenever I use Cycles for rendering. The crashes start as soon as my model becomes more complex with higher geometry. Blender closes without any erro…
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okidoki

Different triangulation ways

I encountered the following problem: when exporting/importing normal maps from software to software such as Marmoset, 3D Painter, blender, artifacts appear in areas where the geometry on the lowpoly …
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MechanicSuperman

Zbrush 4R8 project all not working

anyone else notice how project all in 4R8 does not project detail from your high poly to your retopoed model?
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BradMyers82

What type of bake is this?

Hello, im new in the forum ^_^, i usually make models in which the bakes will be distributed to texturers who have to carry out the work using the bakes in photoshop, i have come across other people'…
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Alex_J

Maya xGen hair doesn't follow guides

Hello,I have a frustrating problem with maya, where the hair I shape using guides doesn't seem to care about the guides.The hair barely cares about the shape or the length of the guides, just doing i…
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oglu

Issue with normal map and rotated clusters in UV

Hi people. I need help or tips with an issue I'm having with normal maps related to the angle of the clusters in the UV mapping.Here is an example (ignore the wasted empty space in the UV):Since ever…
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poopipe

[3DSMAX] 2024.2 Array modifier problems after scale / rotate and re-loading file.

The array modifier behaves strangely after I close and reopen the 3dsmax file. It seems like transformations are changed and the array modifier gets confused. Arrays are rotated etc. If I make an ins…
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darkmagick

Weird normal maps outside Substance Painter & Bake glitch

I have a two problems with normal maps on my model.1st: outside Substance Painter there are seams visible. Inside Substance Painter:Outside SP (UE5/Blender/Marmoset) (please don't mind different albe…
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poopipe

How do I turn off these annoying alignment pop-ups in photoshop?

That little black box with the 714px...etc. I don't want to see these, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to disable them. Huge thanks if you've already got the solving sauce.
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pixelpatron

[3ds max script] miauu's Statistica

miauu's Statistica offers you a lot more statistics information related to your current selection and entire scene. The statistics are separated to 4 sections which you can customize by turning …
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miauu

Photoshop showing 32bit Normal maps from Marmoset washed out

I've gone through quite a lot of threads on polycount that seemed very promising but none of them anwsered one of the seemingly most important questions in regards to washed out normal maps.My goal s…
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Sidney Eliot

Signature URL Labeling Problem

Hello fellow Polycounters, I have an issue with my URL links in my signature. I want to label the links as "Portfolio" or "Sketchbook Thread" instead of spelling out the entire website. Several other…
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buzzkill

Water Doplets Brush - Substance Painter Physical Paintbrush

Hey everyone. Just a quick question (didnt know where else to ask?)I'm trying ot use a Physial painty brush in Adobe Substance Painter to mask roughness to give the effect of 'Water droplets' from co…
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Ryan_JJ

Bevel / Face Weight Performance Cost

Could someone please explain the performance cost with reguards to the Bevel / Face weight technique - There is lots of content out there on how to use the technique but not a lot on the performance …
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poopipe

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