Technical Talk

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Best way to get this effect What's the best, quickest (yet good quality) way to get this effect, where floor and sky become one: [url]http://www.3drt.com/3dm/characters/bikers-gang/bikes-pack-3d-honda-cbr-harley-davidson-08.jp…	13 Last	Mr. Bean Apr 2010
Ambient Occlusion crashing Maya I'm working with a model in Maya 2008, about 12,000 tris. I'd like to render an AO pass. I've been creating a separate render layer, applying the Occlusion preset. But in the past few weeks it's star…	1 Last	Raymond Arnold Apr 2010
[TUT] A Comprehensive Look at Hard SurfaceTexturing for Video Games [B] [TUT] A Comprehensive Look at Hard SurfaceTexturing for Video Games [/B] [INDENT] Though the final result isnt as f…	2 Last	Racer445 Apr 2010
Isolate Polys - 3DS Max Is there a way in Max, or a script to isolate polygons on their own to work on. Ie. select the polygons and then hide the rest? I know it can be done by detaching the polys to their own object (and i…	7 Last	animax Apr 2010
VGA, DVI, and Cintiqs I've got a Cintiq. I recently got a new videocard, and didn't realize that it had a DVI and a VGA output on the back. My Cintiq and my regular monitor both use DVI connections. I bought a DVI/VGA …	8 Last	Ghostscape Apr 2010
Rendering teaser trailers, cinematics etc Me and a couple of my friends are making a teaser trailer for a class. Our storyboards consisted of a lot of explosions, guns firing, a lot of character animations, some crazy DOF and motion blur thr…	3 Last	r_fletch_r Apr 2010
Max2010:MentalRay 'Out of memory Error' potential fix I know this is more of a rendering topic rather than game art but i had this problem today in max 2010 and thought maybe others could use the same fix. basically MentalRay can sometimes give a 'out …	0 Last	r_fletch_r Apr 2010
Bamboo Wacom is lagging in PS Bamboo Wacom is lagging in PS I got a Bamboo Wacom (CTE-650) not so long ago adn its working mostly fine but one problem im finding is that Photoshop is Lagging sometimes even on what i would imagin…	11 Last	Will Faucher Apr 2010
Different Environmental Buildings Hello All, I have a series of buildings (3d models) that I need to apply a texture too, each one of them with slight variations then the other one, damage in certain areas, rust, etc. Now here is wh…	3 Last	dubcanada Apr 2010
Closed [UDK] Curved platform, how to?	0 Last	pumbaa Apr 2010
What's the best way to texture Eyes? I sort of made up my own little workflow but I have a feeling its not really the best way to texture eyes. So I'll explain how I do it now, and if anyone can chime in and explain a better way, I wou…	4 Last	Ged Apr 2010
What tools you use for Environment building? I'm interning at a small studio right now and atm I'm doing alot of high poly stuff, however, they're going to start building low-poly stuff in the near future. I've done some small game-art assets u…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2010
Maya questions So I've got a good number of questions about certain tools or lack thereof in Maya, and for my first post, it's specifically about something that max can achieve. Looking at a friends workflow as we…	6 Last	crasong Apr 2010
A little workflow treasure in max which not many people are aware of! A great tool that max has.. and not many people use it.. in fact i bet many think it's pointless and useless :) so they never noticed that it is now slightly broken but still very much usable and i…	21 Last	CodeFather Apr 2010
Arg the dreaded Hard Edge in Z Brush problem + Alpha's Hey guys i'm working on this character, and was wondering on how to make the hard edges on the base of her clothes, it seems like whenever I divide the edges seem to get more and more dull. I have pu…	1 Last	cw Apr 2010
zbrush alpha, How do you make it work 0-0 Hey i've been looking at this tutorial and i like the fur effect which he uses, however i can't manage to get it to look right. I was wondering if you guys could tell me how to do it. Thanks! [URL]h…	1 Last	gsokol Apr 2010
"EyeShaderSimple", a CGFX viewport shader Hey gang, Here's my EyeShaderSimple. It includes what I find to be the necessary components for making real time eyes. This shader is created for Maya, but I don't see any reason for it not to work…	28 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2010
Form, Shape, & Structure in 3D Modeling & Texturing Hey All, Bobo recently posted a job listing for vigil: [URL]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72021[/URL] In the post he said [quote]Candidates should have an exceptional understanding…	9 Last	renderhjs Apr 2010
supplies and links questions hey guys any body know some helpful anatomy links preferably loomis. kinda frustrating when my art doesnt look like its in proportion or somethin:poly127:also any body know what a good brand of wood…	1 Last	jocose Apr 2010
Photoshop: dark grey + dark grey = light grey? I'm doing some simple shading tests in Photoshop and am noticing a problem. If I lay down a dark color (close to, but not completley black) and mix it with white strokes, then alt+eyedrop to get the …	16 Last	Ghostscape Apr 2010
[Maya-Python] to import sub directories? Does someone know how to import multi sub directories with .py and .pyw files with python? For exemple to import my mel script lib I am using the following mel script code : // =================…	9 Last	Shawner Apr 2010
Photoshop CS4 questions Getting into it a little more everyday. Esp more because I need to use it for my advanced Flash course [which is seriously the hardest course I've ever taken besides math lol] where we basically desi…	1 Last	pixeldamage Apr 2010
Bones problems! AHH! figured it out	1 Last	Michael Knubben Apr 2010
Wireframe bugs in Mudbox Hi After exporting this mesh to *.obj, from 3ds max 2009 and importing to mudbox 2009, I have wireframe looking like this: [IMG]http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2048/bugi1r.jpg[/IMG] This sculpt…	3 Last	oglu Apr 2010
Closed 3Dsmax to UDK Flipped UVW's Problem	0 Last	tarickTDS Apr 2010
Gray screen on DDS save. Does anyone have a solution for this? When saving a dds from photoshop cs3 the whole screen goes gray. [COLOR=DarkSlateGray]Grey[/COLOR]	3 Last	Frankie Apr 2010
Plants vs Zombies Easy question - how did these guys make the art and animation for this game? What programs, techniques? It is so smooth I don't think it is rendering sprites, it appears their engine is animating vec…	1 Last	renderhjs Apr 2010
3ds max Scene management questions Hi again! I'm creating a scene into max. so I need some suggestions on how to modify my models. I have a wholescene.max which contains my whole scene of cource! and I create other models like trees …	9 Last	omid3098 Apr 2010
I am confused with FBIK, need your help,please``` Hello, everyone! I am just get a touch with FBIK in maya, and I add full body IK to a skeleton for the first time. Then I moved the right hand effector down. But the other body parts does not react …	0 Last	guangh69 Apr 2010
SMOOTHING NORMALS FOR MR hey everyone! first post on polycount! i got a lil problem with mentalray here... to be specific i think i've isolated this problem to the Arch and Design shader only. i discovered reading [URL="ht…	5 Last	Marco Splash Apr 2010
Skin Modifier With Physique you can go down to the Edit Poly level and select which verts you want to work with and hide ones you don't want to touch. Is there a way to do this with the Skin modifier?	6 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2010
Seems lightning error Hi i got this wonderfull seem bug where the light hit the seems it does a big dent in my geo and its driving me crazy... [IMG]http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv339/downarmy/fuckup.jpg[/IMG] r…	23 Last	Anuxinamoon Apr 2010
Setting a hotkey for Bridge (Max 2009) In the editable poly modifier, there is a bridge command that creates a face between 2 edges. If you select 2 edges and click 'bridge', it creates the face between 2 edges. However, if you set a ho…	6 Last	r_fletch_r Apr 2010
Maxscript - Moving sub object selections Hey guys, hoping someone can help me out here. I just took a look at Maxscript today for the first time because I wanted to speed up a certain task I'v ebeen doing. I got what I wanted, but then real…	4 Last	I_R_Hopo Apr 2010
posting error hey guys, i finally got tinypic so i can post art. when i copy and paste the url into the insert image box and upload it, the picture that comes is an x so i right click and say show photo but nothi…	3 Last	renderhjs Apr 2010
Crysis ingame rock model problem Hello I have made a rock , modeled in 3dsmax , uvmapped in 3dsmax and zbrush , relaxed etc .... made texture seamless in mudbox , created the normal map out of the texture itself and not throught scu…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2010
My pc lost 300G today. O.O Im confused. Everything was fine, had 800GB, downloaded about 4 pictures and lost 300GB. Deleted all shadowcopies, system restored to yesterday, defragged and everything else. Im in need, please.	6 Last	Flava-Fly Apr 2010
maya 2009 actor x not working hey guys, my copy of maya 2009 is not liking the x64 version of actor x for it, it claims it was compiled against an updated version of the software. it works fine for 8.5 but vista dislikes 8.5. any…	5 Last	nightshade Apr 2010
Maxscripting different textures Is it possible to render a scene with different textures. The textures are prenamed jpg files, the rendered images should have the same name as the texture files. I have some scene setup with an obje…	18 Last	r_fletch_r Apr 2010
Odd mouse behaviour when starting 3d max for the first time since booting pc Hi, recently I been having some problems with some side-by-side configuration thing with xNormal, which I googled for hours and couldn't find a fix for. [IMG]http://tompoon.com/share/xnormal.png[/IM…	10 Last	Yozora Apr 2010
Tangent Space Confusion I'm really trying to wrap my head around Normal maps. I don't have any background in math so some of this is has been quite a learning experience but would I would like to be able to do is to exp…	19 Last	Parkar Apr 2010
3ds max baking rant thread I am aware about the smoothing issue which as mentioned can be solved with subdivision very easily but what i would like to mention is that in fact almost everyone in our studio complains about norma…	50 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2010
Roadkill, 3DSMax 2009 - 2010 script updated UPDATE: Just found a bug in 2010 where the edges selected in max weren't the edges being cut by Roadkill. I've updated the script on the site so if you were having weird edge selection issues under m…	26 Last	renderhjs Apr 2010
Manual triangle stripping Was curious if people did much tri-stripping manually for game models, or if there is an automatic triangulation in one of the larger suites that applies optimal flow. Are triangle strips always mean…	13 Last	sama.van Apr 2010
Insane Photoshop memory usage? I'm using CS1 on XP SP3. Loading PS (fast enough) uses 185mb of memory. Opening a 6mb file with about 20-30 layers takes nearly half a minute (!!) and jumps the mem-usage to 500mb. Ok, wtf? I have: …	1 Last	PredatorGSR Apr 2010
Max 2010 backwards compatibility? Hello, I use 3ds Max 2010 on my home computer but will often work on computers that have both 2009 and 2010. I recently tried opening a file on my home computer (2010) but it couldn't open the file…	8 Last	yiannisk Apr 2010
3D Max - Transmographier help Hey, For any one that uses this modifier in Max. Ive been trying to get this to work but....it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I've tried the following workflow. * Copying a symmetrical mesh. *…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2010
HTML messing up between browsers Ok... so my website's structure is such: root dir > subfolders. All of the html files are in the root directory. However I am adding another element to my site and this has been added as root > newfo…	9 Last	Progg Apr 2010
Normal maps, make me wanna jump off a bridge (solved x'P ) x's wtb delete	11 Last	{scumworks} Apr 2010
why does my uwv looks like that? [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3979/wtfly.jpg[/IMG] sometimes it looks like that and i donno why i see only the outline :(	7 Last	Tumerboy Apr 2010