Technical Talk

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How would you texture a building like this? With a building like this, assuming each color represent its own material, it would seem the most appropriate solution is to texture them using uv island stacking and tiling textures?Even with rather…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
Dorm scene lightning Hello, I get sort of strange lightning in my scene. I ve added few things to afftect my lightning, such as BoxReflectionCapture, Directional LightLightmassimportanceVolume and LightmassPotralNow this…	0 Last	Filip5 May 2020
3D Mesh Formats - Face-Centric or Point-Centric - Pro and Contra So I'm wondering this now for nearly my whole (3d)-liveWhat is better and why should you use the one or the other?The obvious difference is that Face-Centric doesn't need to split edges on UV borders…	16 Last	rollin May 2020
Question for character artists How did you learn how to model characters? (As in edge/box modelling, not sculpting)Any resources you can recommend if i want to learn how to model humans, animals etc? Is it better to use Max or May…	2 Last	kanga May 2020
BLENDER - How do you sculpt a texture into a 3D Model (i.e. stencil overlay) Hey everyone,How do you sculpt a texture into a 3D Model? Such as using a stencil in 3dCoat as shown below	2 Last	Method14253 May 2020
Looking for Motion-Capture Libraries Hey everyone, I'm new around here, so I hope this is the correct thread for a question like this, even though it's not that technical ^^,I was wondering if anyone around here can recommend a good l…	2 Last	MMARZT May 2020
3ds max Rig and skin for posing Hi, I am having trouble with a 3ds max feature. Whenever I build some rig of any sort, I always break it by moving it in some pose to test the skinning. I know I am supposed to freeze transform…	9 Last	DavidCruz May 2020
Metal surfacing technical name anyone know the name of surface on the left, there is a term for it I forgot. Applies to metal fabrication, basically that three point convergence area in mid cause fatigue. surface on right is the s…	8 Last	FrankPolygon May 2020
How to get rid of Zbrush Model;s black "wet" Marks Hey everyone, I'm new to Polycount but I heard this is a great community to be involved in and I hope to be involved here more. To preface, I'm beginning to learn Zbrush and I've encountered an …	2 Last	wilarts May 2020
Vertex will not expand when I extrusion Cage in 3D VIewer - XNormal, As the picture in the following , u can see that Its feels there is a vertex sticky on the high poly, It's not related the polygon files, and one of my friends also suffer the problem.The versio…	1 Last	yanlongyituo May 2020
3d max decimated mesh unwrap I have these meshesWhen I unwrap the uvs get destroyed constantly when I try to relax	1 Last	oglu May 2020
The New Workflow Age for Unreal V no polycount no baked lights? How will change our workflow for this new tech revolution? I am amazed by the new Unreal V tech demo , but especially by the announce of Lumen the new global light dynamic system that promises the sa…	1 Last	oglu May 2020
[3DS Max] Rig flips upside down when transforming to zero. File updated Man I cannot figure this out. When I go to start a new animatiob on frame 80 and freeze my transform my rig flips upsidedown and when I flip it right side up it inverts all of my previous key frames.…	3 Last	monster May 2020
Good offline renderer for visual novel? What's your guys opinions on offline renderers? In my case I want something that is as simple to use as possible but gives nicer results than toolbag or a game engine. Quick research points me toward…	12 Last	oglu May 2020
[3DS MAX] Is it possible to skin a separate object under one object? To elaborate, I have a character with a skin modifier. He wears a handkerchief which is a separate object. When he runs, the handkerchief droops below him and dangles everywhere which doesn't look co…	5 Last	99499 May 2020
Baking and uv / prop construction advice Hello All,I'm currently doing a machine part design with lots of cylinder shapes.Instead of having Cylinder and extruding with /bevels/chamfers. I'm usingseperate cylinders for each section of the ca…	8 Last	decorix May 2020
Is there a tool to copy the vertex normal direction from one vertex to another in Maya? Hi. I'm often in situations where I need to manually alter the normal direction on individual verts to fix shading issues on my models. Is there a tool in Maya to copy the normal direction from one v…	8 Last	gnoop May 2020
Color temperature and screen brightness. I got 2 new screen some time ago, and i have been using both of them with the color temperature set to ''cool'', just because i liked how things looked, but i made some tests today and i discovered t…	2 Last	gnoop May 2020
Thrust Vectoring Nozzle Rig Hi everyone, looking to learn some 3ds max mechanical rigging particularly thrust vectoring nozzle of jet engines and I must be doing a wrong search all I see are hydraulic crane tutorials and piston…	11 Last	HAWK12HT May 2020
Advice* VFX - Substance - Colorspace - Workflow Hey so I have some questions and I'm interested in a general question on the topic.So I've been working for a VFX house now for about 2 months and we are integrating the Substance suite into our pipe…	22 Last	gnoop May 2020
Camera tracking export from nuke (after effects) to maya and scaling scene to real measure As title. I have heard that camera tracking from nuke or after effects usually result very small and no accurate measurement. And in realistic rendering scene measurement should be identic…	0 Last	mariochen May 2020
Zbrush - Dynamesh subtraction - keeping the subtracted part as a seperate subtool Is this possible?I’m using the dyanmesh / merge down with another subtool selected as “subtract” to remove parts from my main subtool, which works great.I’m wondering if I could keep the subtracted p…	2 Last	alieser May 2020
Maya - Hair Cards - dissapearing (Video showing) So i forgot to mention this is designated for substance/marmoset which normal i use a PBR workflow but Zbrush exported maps i could not seem to use with PBSStingray like the alpha channel, along with…	7 Last	thomasp May 2020
Questions about UV best practices in game development. (Looking for someone I can send a quick message here and there on Discord or another app to get answers when I get hung up on minor issues. Google works sometimes, but it can be hard to find a specif…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
UV stretching issues when importing texture in to Blender Hello everyone. Been trying to wrap my head around this one for a while and seem to be getting nowhere so I figured I'd ask here.So I've exported a model from Blender in to 3D Coat where I've texture…	2 Last	anonymepelle May 2020
3ds Max Chamfer Issue Hey all, I'm having an issue when chamfering edges in Max. It's not even. This is what it looks like on a simple box. One side slides further then the other side, making it uneven. I've tried me…	2 Last	Skeepy May 2020
Soft-Edged Low Poly Objects in Z-Brush? (Non-Quad Appearance) Hi, still getting used to Zbrush, but I was wondering if anybody has any idea how to apply smoothed normals for low poly objects in Zbrush that aren't intended for Catmull-Clark sudivision surf…	4 Last	ChristheLancer97 May 2020
Arnold Render Region Question Is there a setting (for Arnold Renderer) which allows you to Render Region while still keeping the resolution of the full render, in other words to make it so that Maya doesn’t crop the render to the…	0 Last	rippyJDH May 2020
[3DS max] Animation wigs out when transforming to zero. Might be a bit confusing I will try to explain it the best I can. I'm trying to compile all of my animations on one timeline to import them into Unity.I created my running animation first but re…	1 Last	99499 May 2020
Houdini Learning Resource Thread Houdini Learning Resource ThreadTo start with this one is good for the very basics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsv8UGqDibcBelow is a SideFX Digital Learning document and its a fantastic resource.…	9 Last	littleclaude May 2020
3DS Max : Skin slides off Rig when entire rig moves Hey everyone,Hope someone has seen this before. Here is the situation1) Have a character skinned to a CAT rig2) Added an Absolute animation layer and then select the "layer transform gizmo" (4 …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
Renderfarm Issues Hi, So I have a scene that i'm trying to use a render farm to render. I'm getting some differences between my local render and the same frame done using a render farm. I'm struggling to pinp…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
Maya - Curve dynamic's start at rest position? Hi! I want to rig a belly with a dynamic curve but I don't want that the to get deformed right away when I start the playhead, I want the curve to start with the rest position on. I've tried the opti…	1 Last	throttlekitty May 2020
Maya - How to evenly distribute edges/vertices?? Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find it on google. I have a mesh and just need to evenly distribute its edge loops. I'm aware of some tools like insert edge loop set to multiple …	7 Last	oglu May 2020
3D scanning people with smartphone Hi Polycount,We have created an app to 3D scan people with just a smartphone. Here is the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/in3d-io/id1467153183 . So far it only works on iPhones X and later but we…	3 Last	gnoop May 2020
Low poly fit Highpoly? Hey, guys!The lowpoly is going through each other, and when i have my Highpoly it is not. Can someone explain to me if this is ok? Or when i bake, the lowpoly will not be showing through?LowHigh	5 Last	gnoop May 2020
Re-baking textures to new uv pack/atlas? Is there any new and cool preferably semi-automatic way to do so ? with normal maps self correcting for rotating factor, combining separate things in one single texture atlas? …	9 Last	poopipe May 2020
Blender -3d sketch technique?? - video included Hello good people of polycount,I'm searching for a way to replicate what is in this video(the artist is using 3d-coat) but i was trying to see how to do so in blender since i only have that.&nbs…	9 Last	BrandonFCreative May 2020
Does a program exist that can covert human video movement into a 3d model movement w/o mocap? Does anyone know of a program that can convert video of people into 3d animated objects. ie… If i have a video of a human walking, it will convert that video into a dog walking like how adobe charact…	2 Last	KaraZee May 2020
Intuos tablet touch functions, do you use it? I recently reinstalled my tablet driver, and when I fist touch it, everything on my screen goes full anarchy.I can't remember the last time I tried to use the touch function or the buttons on the sid…	5 Last	kanga May 2020
Trying to figure out how this large asset was textured... The crashed helicopter here:https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/020/168/423/large/josh-wilkinson-wilkinson-mudtooth-ext.jpg?1566667166Trying to figure out how this was textured. It has…	6 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
I don't understand how to face weight normals. Can someone help? So I've tried this in different software and I end up getting the same results more or less, so it has to be that I'm doing something wrong and I don't understand how face weighting works.This is my …	14 Last	CodeferBlue May 2020
Average polycount for buildings in current gen? To all environmental artist, what's the average polycount/tris you use for your buildings? including doors, windows et.c. as one mesh? I am aware of using modular parts but if u were to create one bu…	4 Last	melviso May 2020
Help with clay rendering a character Hello, i've been working on a personal project of mine and was wondering how to create a clay render like this one : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8Aly6 , which was made in ToolBag. I'm hesit…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2020
Lite version of 3D softwares Substance painter gots major upgrades and it is more awesome than before but what does it cost, well just buy the latest graphics card and you would be good to go (I know I exaggerate a little bit bu…	14 Last	cracked_polygon May 2020
How do you preserve hard edges while smoothing in Maya? I simply want to smooth a model while maintaining hard edges where I choose. I can jimmy rig this by adding extra edge loops near edges, but that tends to mess up my topology and doesn't achieve clea…	2 Last	GlowingPotato May 2020
3DS Max cpu Rendering; AMD Ryzen 3900X - Rendering Help Hi guys,I'm a student currently studying 3D Modelling and Animation. However, I feel as though I am bottle-necking on my renders for some reason. I am in the middle of my Graded Unit, at renderi…	2 Last	.Wiki May 2020
baking volumetric HiHow can I bake volumetric? I tried do bake it as albedo using combine baking but the result is really flat. Just a fast showcase how it looks without baking	11 Last	RN May 2020
Autodesk Maya opinions - Environment Art Hi there!I wanted to know what are Your opinions on Maya? Mainly if you are having such problems with this software as I have.For starters I need to say that I really love maya's modeling workflow, t…	19 Last	Fletcher May 2020
Download 3D models for free at CGI Haven We have created CGI Haven, a online platform for free 3D ModelsOur goal for CGI Haven is to create a constantly growing community-funded resource of open content, for complete freedom and usability b…	0 Last	CGIHaven May 2020