Technical Talk

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max normal mapping problem well i'm trying to normal map this gun and was going by racer445's tutorial [URL]http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/how-to-bake-a-flawless-normal-map-in-3ds-max/[/URL] , but my project…	6 Last	Piflik May 2010
Maya - Working with the pivot point I'm taking a Maya class this quarter for reference after having only ever using Max. The project I'm working on is an abandoned missile silo and I'm wanting to set up a series of panels on the inter…	7 Last	Mcbiskit May 2010
Portfolio Variety, opinions? Hey, So I have a few issues concerning variety in my portfolio at the moment. I'm starting out, and I would love to hear some advice from people who know what they are talking about. So here's the t…	17 Last	Will Faucher May 2010
MR AO Bake errors Hey guys, I am getting some weird errors when I bake an AO map in 3ds max using Mental Ray. I followed this tutorial exactly, using method #2. The weird thing is that I tried it out on a less complex…	8 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Question: scale vertically in 3ds Max Curve editor as I'm new to motioning, so maybe this is a noob question! how can I scale down my curve in vertical direction? [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1008694/Forums/Polycount/Curve%20editor/01_Curve%20Editor…	6 Last	Mark Dygert May 2010
Vertex colors in real time Hi, I'm looking to view vertex colors, overlayed on diffuse and normal maps, in a real time direct x shader, via 3d studio max. Does anyone know of such a thing? Alternately I'm using a composite …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
Illustrator CS5 for concept art I was watching this video featuring a few of the new features in Illustrator CS5 and now it's so easy to do perspective drawings, so easy I thought it could be a quick and easy way to sketch out envi…	3 Last	Ben Apuna May 2010
pack maxscript undos together? hi I'm working with maxscript again a little bit I'm now wondering if I can undo a whole function at once - undoing all changes the function did in one undo-step instead of disabling undo or undoin…	5 Last	rollin May 2010
Mudbox 2010 - 30 Day Trial Did a search and couldn't find a post, so here it is. :) [url]http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=13571415[/url]	27 Last	CopperHaze May 2010
Closed UV Errors on UDK Import	0 Last	Sean VanGorder May 2010
Closed DSiware Art Academy (Not an Ad)	0 Last	yiannisk May 2010
Base meshes in the wiki Added some base meshes to the wiki, might be helpful to some. [url]http://wiki.polycount.net/Digital_Sculpting#BM[/url] If anyone knows who did the mystery models, please let me know.	8 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
charcoal questions hey dudes i just picked up some willow, vine and compresed charcoal, and i have some questions.(im new to charcoal though ive been wanting to get some for months) ive read that you need a large piec…	6 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Closed UDK - Full-screen effects (using Kismet)	0 Last	adam May 2010
Best way to approach unwrapping UVWs with Meshsmooth? What's the best way to approach unwrapping UVWs for a model which has a Meshsmooth modifier?	6 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
looking for methods to create distortion effect in 3dmax i m looking to create a animated distortion effect that they used in games like bayonetta, devil may cry and ninja gaiden 2. like the trailing effects of the sword and shockwave when charging for a s…	9 Last	onionhead_o May 2010
[3ds Max] doesn't start up anymore, Winpatrol? Hey guys, I recently installed [URL="http://www.winpatrol.com/"]Winpatrol[/URL] and got rid of some programs in my startup list and now everytime i try to start up 3ds max 2009 i see the mouse loadi…	6 Last	inspectorweb May 2010
Help on EZ topic. =) I'm sure this is EZ for many of you, but I'm stuck on something bizarre. In max 2010, I've created a plane object , put 3 grass shaped scatter objects on it to create a simulated grassy feild. [im…	23 Last	PrancingJenny May 2010
Closed UDK Lightmass Artifacts	0 Last	kdm3d May 2010
Python, Meet 3ds Max 2010 Guys, I've installed Blender along with the Python Script on my machine with no problem. But recently I notice that 3ds Max acting weird after I installed them, which is the viewport default light be…	8 Last	Revel May 2010
Biped and Twist Joints Okay, I'm using Max 2010 and I'm messing around with biped. I can not for the life of me figure out how to get twist joints on the forearm. So I select the biped, make sure Figure Mode is on, I go to…	3 Last	monster May 2010
Wierd Blown out normals in Max 2011's RTT Can anyone tell me what setting i need to switch to fix this problem? The normals are waaaay screwed. Everything is pretty much on default settings. EDIT: Something i've noticed, it says in the re…	3 Last	Ryan Smith May 2010
Texture Proof Sheets I know what they are, but for those of you that have created proof sheets, as I haven't had to for whatever reason, what did you include in the sheet? Obviously diffuse maps, but did you include spec…	14 Last	Progg May 2010
Sub-D Methods I was just thinking if there were any other ways to achieve sub-D models with polygon modeling without having to add support edges. Isn't there a modifier out there that enables you to define edge s…	8 Last	Racer445 May 2010
Creating/rendering in 3D for 2D sprites and backgrounds? So that's basically the question. I took a peek at the threads and didn't find this question Can anybody share some known/good methods of doing this? I keep thinking back to those Rare games for SN…	5 Last	kodde May 2010
Graphite - Max 2011 - Anything New? Hi all, Has anything new been added to the Graphite tools in Max 2011?	2 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
Textures won't load from CD! GARGH! GARHG!! I have a Maya project with various models in one folder and textures in another, it loads fine on my computer because the source is my computer - but how do I get this to load correctly from…	6 Last	rube May 2010
Bending images in photoshop... or a better way? Hey there, I'm trying to figure out a way of creating a decent looking circular texture for a tyre sidewall. I figured it'd be a straightforward thing to do but I can't seem to find a good way of …	11 Last	Vrav May 2010
Texel Density w/ Detail Maps We've recently decided to go from Tiling textures to Unwrapped Textures w/ Detail Maps to get more model-specific variation at a lower texture cost. The thing I can't get my head around though is how…	11 Last	aphexx May 2010
Maya rendering issue I'm having a rendering issue that's causing all kinds of delays. I need to render with mental ray and since I'm bring the renders into photoshop I turn premultiply off. But, I'm getting weird iss…	3 Last	rube May 2010
Anyone know what's wrong with my mapping? I'm new to mapping so excuse me if I've missed something obvious. I've made the letter N and, for the top surface, I want to change its colour and add graphics. To do this I've selected the polygons …	2 Last	Playdo May 2010
MAXScript select by Material ID (ish) I've been maintaining a model export script for a few weeks now, and I've reached an impass in improving it. At present, the exporter has loops to export polygon, vertex, vertex normal, and texture v…	6 Last	Dude May 2010
Maya Rendering - Invisible occluding object I have a little challenge I'm trying to work around in Maya. Unfortunately I don't know the correct term for this situation so I'm going to have to explain it. Luckily, it's simple: I have two objec…	7 Last	acc May 2010
Modeling velcro? Probably a rather weird question, but what is the best way to model velcro for ingame use (using cryengine, but generally would be fine :P). I'm modeling a Remington 870 MCS shotgum for a unannounce…	7 Last	mystichobo May 2010
Fixing seams on AO map? I'm having some trouble getting rid of seams on an AO map. The map is rendered on a black background, and I've added some padding around the UV's, but I'm still getting black seams where the geometr…	6 Last	CJE May 2010
Maya 2010: create edge between 2 verts Okay, just learning Maya 2010 (coming from Silo), so hopefully this is much easier than the software has shown it to be thusfar: [COLOR="YellowGreen"]I create a 6-sided polycube (no extra loops), s…	41 Last	elte May 2010
max 2011 multiple select so I'm used to selecting multiple objects with ctrl. left click. Then deselcting with another ctrl. left click. Did I miss something? This doesn't seem to work in Max 2011.	3 Last	CompanionCube May 2010
Floaters or Modeling better? okay so I recently have been hearing some different opinions on floaters. I recently modeled a jukebox and there were quite a few details on the back that I modeled in instead of using floaters. Why?…	23 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
Chain array / spacing Hey there, I'm trying to model a bike chain and get it to duplicate along a path. I'm sure this is one of those situations where there's 101 ways to do it but I don't know any! I've tried the spaci…	7 Last	Tom Ellis May 2010
Alpha not saving? I've got a low poly house I have to do for a school RTS that has some alpha elements on the side of the house, broken boards and what not, and I'm trying to save as a PNG. But whenever I bring it int…	8 Last	throttlekitty May 2010
Unwrapping multiple object UV's and stacking I haven't been able to figure out a simpler method for doing this, and it is driving me bananas.... So here is the situation. I am given a scene with some decal cards for grass... easy enough. Except…	17 Last	Progg May 2010
3ds max ribbon "drag" Hey, its really annoying me so long time and i think now its time to make a change ! In Max you can easily move verts / edges / polys / elements in to space with the "drag" tool. Cool function, not …	6 Last	rasmus May 2010
uvw uv space Hello! I'm making game assets, normally when doing a uv's, if i had the space I'd start scaling pieces bigger, filling gaps in the uv. However with game stuff, should i try and keep the uv layout e…	10 Last	leechdemon May 2010
MAX- Selection problem I've been messing around in Max today, and for some reason it will not allow me to select faces unless I click on a vertex, then it selects all adjacent faces to said vertex. I'm sure I must have pr…	1 Last	MegaMoogle May 2010
html frameset/table questions I'm trying to figure out how to make a set of 3 frames where the middle one is locked at a specific pixel width and the side columns can stretch to fill the rest of the browser. Right now I have it a…	11 Last	PolyHertz May 2010
Baking into... diffuse? I just got the strangest request from a client: he has a standard set of textures (diffuse + normal + specular) that he wants to convert to diffuse only. In other words, he wants the detail from norm…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
DX shader for Max, modulated texture blending Heya, Anyone know of a DX shader I could plug in to max to see some modulated texture blending? E.g.: [url]http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Advanced_Vertex_Painting.html[/url]	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
max "screenlock" Hi all, Is anyone aware of a way to make max lock to a viewport so that when the cursor goes off the screen the screen follows? The main issue I am having is that when I'm creating splines I can't s…	3 Last	Piflik May 2010
Max 2011 locking up Exporting OBJ I'm using Max 2011 and I'm trying to export my model into an OBJ format for UVW'ing in an external application. However whenever I try to export my model, it gets hung up on the export details screen…	2 Last	disanski May 2010
Netting Help Hey guys im making a hockey net and trying to decide the best way to attack the net itself. I have the frame constructed already to size and scale. How would some of you guys attack the net? Simply…	2 Last	cryrid May 2010