Technical Talk

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mudbox 2009 hangs on opening specific file I've done a fair bit of sculpting on this one model and all of a sudden it started slowing down a shit-ton. I restarted mudbox only to find the program hung when trying to open that particular model …	3 Last	Harry Feb 2010
Must have Software/Plugin recommendations. Hey guys, I thought it might be a neat idea for a thread to have people recommend software that helps them work faster, smarter, and better. There are a lot of neat little programs out there that I h…	4 Last	renderhjs Feb 2010
MaxScript - Projections? So I was trying to see if I can distort some geometry using some sort of equation using max script. Spherical projections would work for nearly every type of geometry so I tried using [URL="http://en…	8 Last	SyncViewS Feb 2010
super annoying nvidia/wacom issue - fixed, sharing the news! Hey there, something had been annoying me since forever and I somehow gave up on it until I stumbled upon this seemingly unrelated post : [URL]http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/archive/index.php?t-276…	2 Last	pior Feb 2010
New CrazyBump Beta Dear Polycount, I've just posted a new CrazyBump beta test. I would appreciate your feedback! [url]www.crazybump.com/release/CrazyBump_Beta_Feb4.exe[/url] changes: -New "extra fine detail" slid…	24 Last	Ryan Clark Feb 2010
3D modelling help. Hi all, Newbie here. I'm a lowly first year Games Art & Design student currenly doing a project on 3D modelling and I was wondering in some kind person out there would be able to give me some informa…	16 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2010
animating cloth with bones I have to animate a jacket flapping as my character runs about. At the simplest level I could just create a dummy as a bone and skin the jacket flaps to it, then animate the dummy roughly , but I wo…	5 Last	Ruz Feb 2010
maya 2010 convert edges to curve menu item missing? I'm looking under the modify menu and the convert polygon edges to curve is not listed. Anyone know how to get it back or where it went. I've tried deleting my prefs with no luck.	5 Last	malcolm Feb 2010
MAYA to MODO edge smoothing Hi Guys, Im looking for a way to export the hard and soft edge information from maya into modo. The obj and fbx plugins have their limits. Im usind maya 2008 and the latest modo. If anyone could…	2 Last	fantasymaster Feb 2010
3ds Max user learning Blender Hey guys, I managed to land myself a little internship testing exporters for the Wild Pockets engine. I need to create assets in Blender to export to Wild Pockets and report any bugs or problems I fi…	7 Last	ralusek Feb 2010
ZB 3.5r3 > Max 2008 - Normal map The same problem I read out there... I made a test: low res model in Max 2008 export to ZB (unwrap the map in max... as you can see its very simple, no overlaping vertex...) export .obj... hi-res in …	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2010
Closed UDK unrealEd: perspective view empty	0 Last	les_tenebres Feb 2010
State of the: HLSL and CGFX in Maya If anyone has some concrete information on performace differences between HLSL and CGFX in Maya I would really apreciate it. Currently I have been developing shaders hand coded in HLSL for Maya beca…	10 Last	Brice Vandemoortele Feb 2010
Alpha Grass Hello Can you tell me any tips to make a alpha grass texture to apply on planes to make grass patches for crysis ? I can't get how to work on real images in order to make a simple bush of alpha textu…	10 Last	michi.be Feb 2010
Lightmap 2nd UV Channel(UT3) Hey guys. Im just finding out about how to crete a 2nd set of uvs where there is no overlap for use for lightmapping a static mesh. My question is what rules apply to laying that 2nd set out? I poste…	2 Last	ajr2764 Feb 2010
Concrete wall into Rock I've come to a little stumbling block in modelling/texturing, where I have a concrete bunker that meets a rock face, as if the underground bunker was created inside the rock, and is not quite complet…	3 Last	MoP Feb 2010
Normal Creation Problems Ok, been trying to work on some stuff at home and add higher poly to normal poly workflow into my work.. anyhow.. creating a garbage can lid I'm continuing to have issues. Can anyone show me wtf I'…	5 Last	[HP] Feb 2010
Maya hardware transparency problem Hi I am facing a wired problem of hardware display (high quality) for transparency maps. However I keep the map as a alpha channel or as a separate tga file they give the same result like this: [IMG]…	29 Last	chronic Feb 2010
Diffuse textures extremely faint in Max 2010 viewport For some reason, my diffuse textures look really faint in the viewport in Max 2010 (if it's set to Hardware Display with Maps). They look fine when rendered. If I set it to Standard Display with Maps…	4 Last	Kitteh Feb 2010
Soft vs Hard Hello all, I attached some SSs to illustrate my problem. Now the first one seems really bulky and has somewhat of a rough feeling and the other has a uniform look, now my question to what should i b…	6 Last	ralusek Feb 2010
Maya is killing me Hey guys, been off of the forums for a while to try and figure what was going on with all of my models. It all began when I was creating the props from the Big sandwich art test, you can see some of …	12 Last	pior Feb 2010
Major PC issues, possibly XNormal related? Hey everyone, I'm experiencing a serious problem with my computer and wondering if it's related to XNormal, and also curious as to whether anyone else has had similar? Firstly, I'm running Win7 64 …	20 Last	jogshy Feb 2010
How To Tackle Inset Geometry In BSP? Hello all, a fine day to get some work done isn't it? I'm working on a scene which involves large, flat surfaces that are perfect for BSP. The problem is that I'd like to be able to 'puncture' these…	15 Last	sprunghunt Feb 2010
Path Deform (WSM) problem. Hey guys, Ive been having a problem with Path Deform in 3D max. Each time I try to use the "Move to Path" feature, it enlarges the model considerably. Ive tried resetting the xform for both the spl…	6 Last	DarthNater Feb 2010
Tips for tree limb textures I want to paint vegetation so badly! i can model it good enough, but when it comes to texturing them, i'm totally lost. So about a year ago, i bought a fairly nice digicam for help on this. I tried t…	8 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2010
paint on model with normal map shader Do any of the tools for painting on 3d models (Zbrush, 3DCoat etc) allow you to paint on a model that has a normal map shader on it, so you can visualize the final look more easily and paint a diffus…	7 Last	onionhead_o Feb 2010
View 2 renders Hey guys, i feel dumb asking but i cannot remember. How do you view an old render and the most current one together using the slider to see the difference in max	1 Last	nick2730 Feb 2010
Photoshop 3d Paint Tutorial This one has been a long time coming, I've had a few requests over the last year or so, and finally got the right combination of screen capture software and a good model to display. :) (Mop's Goblin)…	9 Last	achmedthesnake Feb 2010
How to make realistic flowing water in max Hey, I've been looking around for tutorials as to how I would go about making a realistic flowing river in Max. Don't mention Realflow, not an option for me. There must be some way to get it animat…	4 Last	Will Faucher Feb 2010
Looking for some inspiration I have some college work to do and i'm looking for some inspiration. Paintings, books, levels, portfolios, any thing, of some sort clean sci-fi, something like Portal maybe.	16 Last	renderhjs Feb 2010
Dumb Morning Max question *EDIT: Magically works now... may have been a bug.	1 Last	achmedthesnake Feb 2010
having modeling troubles [B][FONT=Lucida Console] So, I've been looking online to try and find some advanced/complex modeling for 3ds Max & I'm not having much luck. can someone point me in the right direction for a beginne…	7 Last	Sage Feb 2010
rendering or lofting curves in maya I've been trying to learn some max recently but i'm so damn slow in it compared to maya. One thing I like about it though is the fact that I can make a spline and render it into geometry, whereas in …	0 Last	beartraps Feb 2010
modeling templates/blueprints So I use 3ds max but haven't gotten photoshop yet. I was wondering what people use for background templates such as a human front/side to model off of or was wondering if there is a good place to obt…	7 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2010
Ultimate tool - a call for UI coders Hi there! I think I quickly mentioned this some time ago but I have been thinking about it more over the last few days. There is a possibility that such tool already exists somewhere, but I thought …	56 Last	Funky Bunnies Feb 2010
Texture Problem (Maya) Hi, i've been modelling and texturing this house over the past few days. Upon opening the file from saving last night the roof of the individual sections has turned black, and I have no idea why...If…	5 Last	Tumerboy Feb 2010
Texture Sheet Efficiency feature I was wondering are there any standalone programs that can calculate how efficient a texture or uv sheet is in terms of pixel space?. So for example you could make your uv sheet and click a button a…	19 Last	r_fletch_r Feb 2010
A fan favourite: Vista 64bit and Photoshop CS3 performance issues Hey :) We've talked about it in the past, but I'd like to bring it up again as I'm now using 64bit Vista and CS3 @ work, and am getting performance issues. Specifically, my brushes stutter when I'm…	11 Last	ZacD Feb 2010
normal map artifacts For some reason maya's transfer maps has gone retarded on me today and everything is broken. So here's the first issue i'm dealing with, i'm doing a simple high to low transfer and i'm getting these …	20 Last	ZacD Feb 2010
Scaling edges locally in maya [IMG]http://i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr181/easterislandnick/scale_issue.jpg[/IMG] Hi, I wonder if any Maya gods can help! I have long sections of extruded cubes running around a level as shown in…	5 Last	Anuxinamoon Feb 2010
Closed export from maya to unreal missing polygons	0 Last	seven Feb 2010
dae import problem After reset my prefs in maya 2009 and replaced some of the mel,shelves etc Maya started to acting wierd. I tried to drag .dae file into Maya and I get this pop up window. [IMG]http://i698.photobucket…	0 Last	vofff Feb 2010
Landscape Design Tutorials Now this is something I'm already halfway sortakinda decent at, but could use some nice tricks and tips to make things that much nicer. Basically, I want to make landscapes about as good as [url=http…	7 Last	Renzatic Feb 2010
Texturing Help I am a current student at the Art institute of Atlanta, and I have had a Texturing class, But I am not able to create anything as amazing as what I have seen on here. And I was wondering if anybody c…	14 Last	renderhjs Feb 2010
A Flame that doesn't cast a shadow? MR Max So I'm using the Mental Ray Archi texture tools within mental ray based of a tutorial I was reading earlier, but have now lost due to a browser crash. So it looks okay, it's not showing as transpare…	3 Last	JohnnySix Feb 2010
MR Shader question How would you go about connecting a shader to an array of textures/color selections/other shaders, so each object with the overall shader woudl get a different look. (Which I would then bake to an LP…	1 Last	commander_keen Feb 2010
MaxScript questions Similar to my [URL="http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=64438"]MEL Questions[/URL] thread from a while ago (thanks everyone for helping me on that btw :) ), Im spending some time learning Ma…	8 Last	SyncViewS Feb 2010
Rendering for the portfolio I have a question regarding rendered models for a portfolio. Should models be rendered in Unreal (or any other engine) or directly out of Max or Maya with Mental Ray or scanline? I'm not that familia…	4 Last	porkovich Feb 2010
Rays missed during normal bake Hey guys, I'm finally buckling down and going a little more in depth with baking a high polys normal map onto a low, and although i've learned quite a bit, I still have miles to go. One problem that…	12 Last	DarthNater Feb 2010
Even quad flow before export to sculpting app Something I always find myself doing tediously before exporting something to mudbox is trying to get as even a quad flow as I can, so I don't have really streched polygons that won't sculpt properly.…	30 Last	AreDub3D Feb 2010