Technical Talk

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Closed Sculptris 1.0 is here This is a nice little sculpting app I've been playing with lately. The new release just came out. It's free too. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNRg6pdNeE[/ame] [url]http://www.sculptris.com[…	1 Last	MoP May 2010
A newb question - low & high poly I'm very new to modeling, like days new, and I'm trying to learn everything from tutorials, but they all seem to address more complex problems. Assume i have learned enough, or can learn enough, fro…	6 Last	yoplatz May 2010
Mudbox Materials Hey, I was looking around for some other mudbox materials, and I can't seem to find any. The ones that come shipped with mudbox don't please me all that much. I'd love the bronze material that zbrush…	3 Last	ianucci May 2010
Ref Image SIte? Hey guyss, does anyone have any good image sites for weapons? because DeicideNBF gallery is down , SO does anyone know any good weapon/gun ref image sites?	5 Last	sltrOlsson May 2010
uvw mapping help for a noob can any1 help with a quick overveiw of uvw mapping. it seems that when ever i try to apply a material it adjusts to the size of the object. how can i get it to all be the same size for tiling purpose…	2 Last	Mark Dygert May 2010
Modeling: Maya Vs. Max I assumed this would be something that was discussed pretty frequently, but was pretty disappointed with search in this forum and few others. Basically, this is what I have come to understand. Most…	220 Last	Harry May 2010
Newbie rendering with Blender needs tips I'm working a developer working on an independent puzzle game in which the whole thing is an animated painting hanging on a wall. (I go into more detail about it [URL="http://www.gamedev.net/communit…	0 Last	jwezorek May 2010
Bulk Character Model Workflow? Is workflow the right word? Anyway, how do you guys usually go about the character modeling process when you have a large amount of characters to do? Do you completely finish one character (Modeling,…	8 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Blueprint Help :( Hey guys, im new to this stuff , so dont be mean, ive got my blueprints of my car cut out and everything, and now when i try have then as my blueprints in 3ds max, they just dont line up, btw im doin…	9 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Game rendering definitions on the wiki [URL]http://wiki.polycount.net/CategoryRendering[/URL] Started this page today, hopefully to start to fill in the gaps of my understanding about game rendering terms. I'd like to clarify things lik…	6 Last	CrazyButcher May 2010
Geo-loop Anyone familiar with Geo poly from polyboost? You select a face, of any number of sides, hit it, and it makes the poly perfectly planar and equi-angular. So an 8 sides face becomes a perfect octagon…	77 Last	cdrose May 2010
Mirrored geometry+Normal map/Texture? Ok, so Im building a small robot, Ive modeled half of it and mirrored the other half, Im using the normals i captured from the original by keeping my the uvs of the mirrored geometry the same. I have…	3 Last	EarthQuake May 2010
CAT - path constraint loop Hello everyone ive been animating a little firefly, nothing special, but i want it to wander around in circle on the same place (follow a path, closed spline). unfortunately i have no idea what i hav…	0 Last	noktek May 2010
Maya batch render & transparency I'm using maya 8.5 rendering in mentalray draft mode. I have objects with alpha maps that also fade to being completely transparent. I did this by having the shader's transparency controlled by th…	1 Last	kodde May 2010
A couple of Unity questions I have recently started working more with Unity engine. It's rather fun to work with so far and an easy to use editor. However coming from an Unreal engine environment it's a big change. So naturally…	1 Last	commander_keen May 2010
How to tackle this? Can anybody show a way on how to model and sculpt this window entirely in Zbrush 3.5. I'm having a hard time making this circular shape shown in red. Sry bout the bad picture quality. [IMG]http://…	10 Last	OBlastradiusO May 2010
Maya 2009: combining geo w/o affecting pivot Whenever combining geo, the pivot is automatically centered to the newly created bounding area of the adjoined geo. I'd like the geo being combined, or attached, to the parent, to adopt the parent's …	7 Last	greuh May 2010
Character Modeling Progress Hey there, I'm currently working on my Head Mesh. What i got is the Basemesh and UVs on it. So my Question is: What to do next? i think making the HighPoly is he next step. And then make a Displaceme…	3 Last	3DRyan May 2010
mudbox tuts? Im finding it had to get free mudbox tuts for users who are just starting to use the software. You guys know any good beginners tuts? (im not completely a beginner, ive used 3ds max for 3 years)	5 Last	LosPescados May 2010
Seamless textures(Painted) Hy i am wonder when you guy's paint textures, how do you make sure that they are tileable? What i have done is copying the left side and flip it and paste it on the right, and the top and flip that a…	32 Last	Revel May 2010
PathDeform (WSM) deforming my object? Hello, I'm trying to use the PathDeform (WSM) modifier in 3ds Max 2010 on a spine like collection of cubes. I want the cubes themselves to be rotated 360 degrees UP a line spline, which is does for…	8 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Ok to use UDK assets to help put portfolio piece in an environment? Hi all, I just finished an entire tent environment, including props inside the tent and exterior. I'm building it in UDK at the moment, and it looks far better(obviously) when I put it in a proper …	4 Last	Shogun3d May 2010
Maxscript Idea: Sort Alpha Order I keep reading how often people have problems when displaying alpha transparency on Max's viewport. As far as I know it is dependant on the order you create the objects, right? If that's the case cou…	8 Last	felipefrango May 2010
how do I delete edges whilst keeping UV mapping? I making a complicated, twisting, turning length of rope, that joins back onto itself. I've have a 6 sided cylinder, mapped with a tiling rope texture. This then follows a spline path to make the c…	5 Last	AlexLegg May 2010
how do you make hair? i realise that this can be largely dependant on the engine you're using, and how it handles alpha channels and the like. so here's the question: how do you handle hair? how would you go about recre…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2010
Lightmap baking problem_new Hi, I have a scene and just wanted to bake a lightmap for it. So everything for diffuse is on ch 1 in uv and for lightmap everything is unique mapped in ch 2. here is the scene and the baked lightmap…	4 Last	SunSetter May 2010
How to Take Screenshots on an Xbox 360 has anybody tried taking screenshots on their retail kits? any kind of special hookup/software for it?	1 Last	ZacD May 2010
Acropora release candidate RC1 available [FONT=Arial]Acropora (1.0.0012 RC1) Release candidate is now available for download. Acropora incorporates some of the latest advances in voxel modeling technology. Features include: - A widevarie…	2 Last	tncomp May 2010
character modeling in 3dmax hi guys i am wondering if it exits any tutorials about character modeling for 3dmax would really appreciate if someone could lend me a name on some tutorials :)	6 Last	mackan4766 May 2010
Floating Geometry Are you supposed to scale your mesh to cover the geometry? If yes, then im doing that right. My main question is when pulling out faces or scaling the mesh on an axis you will get weird black stuff w…	6 Last	PredatorGSR May 2010
Environment sounds Hello , I dunno if it can be posted here a non graphic related subject , but I was wondering if anyone knows of any good environment sound loops site , possibly frree or for buying?	4 Last	renderhjs May 2010
Path Deform Help Hey Guys im having some path deform help. Im creating a hockey rink, and the rink is made of several panes of glass with stantions in the middle. I have a spline set for the rink, and 140 stantions w…	2 Last	nick2730 May 2010
reassigning neutral moprh target I have a head with a bunch of morph targets on it in 3dsmax which is fine . The problem is I lost the neutral tweaked pose where the head is a lot better looking/thinner and the eyes are further up …	2 Last	Ruz May 2010
Normal Map Banding So I I have this normal map I baked in xnormal, also tried in modo, and got the same result. It has banding pretty bad, I'm wondering if anyone knows any tips or tricks to remove it. Here is a li…	56 Last	EarthQuake May 2010
n00b mistakes you've made. Thought it might be fun to have a thread showing moments of 3D "blondness", I'll start it off... 1. Spent 2 days trying to fix seams on a normal map, couldn't figure it out. Tried painting, rebaking…	104 Last	mayaterror May 2010
Smoothing group issue? I already posted this on the UDK thread, but got minimal responses, so I'm trying it here. If you look at the pic, you'll probably know what's wrong: [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bPjGuW2mYGY/S_C…	13 Last	3DRyan May 2010
good quality zbrush tutorials hi there, just wondering if anyone knows where i can find good quality zbrush sculpting tutorials to download or stream. I found eat 3d but i really cant afford their stuff :( hopefully you guys know…	5 Last	SpeCter May 2010
Hard Surface Modeling in 3ds Max I am starting out to learn modeling in 3ds Max. I am trying to model a hard surface object that has smooth curved surfaces as well. I am working on a gundam model (from gundam seed series). Here is t…	8 Last	KiLLSWiTCH May 2010
Viewport Refresh Error Max 2011 I've been having an issue with Max where the viewport only refreshes when I do something in the viewport. For example, If I press F4 to turn on Wireframe, I have to move in the viewport for it to tu…	2 Last	renderhjs May 2010
Are Ambient Occlusion Maps outdated? I am confused as to why Ambient Occlusion maps are used in tandem with Normal Maps. A Normal Map is a dynamically shaded texture. Wouldn't an Ambient Occlusion overlay remove some of the dynamic shad…	26 Last	r_fletch_r May 2010
Why the plugins do not appear in the maya plugin manager? Hi,everyone~` Today I found that all the plugins disappeared which should appear under the Other Registered plugins column in maya 2011. I had just downloaded a plugin from highend3d, but when I ope…	2 Last	guangh69 May 2010
anyone here work with hero engine loo0kin for someone crazy experienced with hero engine have a question about how it handles detail and macro maps	1 Last	[iWi] May 2010
Using Left Over UV Space For Decals Hey Everyone, I'm wondering how common it is to use left over UV space for decal textures. It makes sense on the one hand to use this space so it isn't wasted, but if your just using left over spac…	11 Last	3D-209 May 2010
Why such ugly normals? Tried my best to UV map this handle and check for any over lapping uv's and im still getting errors with random color blotches [IMG]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1610/uglyp.png[/IMG]	14 Last	Racer445 May 2010
Making mouths? Or the best way to go about making em? Ok so this has bugged me for a while but what is the standard procedure for making openable mouths? as far as I can tell there would be several different ways: 1 sculpt it in the closed position and…	4 Last	Unleashed May 2010
Maintaining Texel Density Across Multiple Props - How To The recent thread asking how to maintain texel density got me thinking, as many of the answers were needlessly complex or the opposite, i.e. just eyeball it. There is actually a fairly accurate an…	5 Last	mukuluppal May 2010
Texel-pixel ratio Hi fellow artists, I am currently giving a test on a 3d asset creation but I am facing 1 major problem which actually is quite tiny :\| I have been onto a "Texel ratio needs to be consistent (256UU …	21 Last	mukuluppal May 2010
Switch Between Material Opacity 100% and ?% When I'm modeling off of blueprints, I'm constantly finding myself changing the material's opacity back and forth so I can see the blueprints when modeling (?%) and so I can see the form better (at 1…	13 Last	kodde May 2010
Is a twisted mesh acceptable? Hi guys, I'm after some help with a rope model I've made... I've made a hi poly, modular rope, with matching tiling textures, as part of a bridge model. I'm now making the low poly rope, and have…	15 Last	Mark Dygert May 2010
Detach all elements is there any simple way to detach all elements at once in 3ds max?	6 Last	omid3098 May 2010