Technical Talk

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3DSMax 2010 Help Please. Hey Guys, I just started using 2010, and one thing that I'm having troubles with is my materials. For some reason, when I make a change to my texture in photoshop, its not automatically updating in …	13 Last	apocalypse Jan 2010
Closed UDK: Creating custom weapon	0 Last	Stitch Jan 2010
Battle of the monitors! Short and sweet. My old monitor was giving me these really wierd faint horizontal lines in games. Only in games. So I figured it was a videocard problem. Tried out my TV my screen and it's fine. My…	6 Last	AlecMoody Jan 2010
MoP's Transpose Master Tutorial Hey MoP, I had a question about that tutorial you posted up in WAYWO about using Transpose Master to pose a high res sculpt in ZB. I can get to step 5 just fine, but when I use TPose > SubT, the hi…	5 Last	Ruz Jan 2010
Software choices + workflow advice (Maya user) I am a Maya user and not new to 3d industry as such. I mainly do hard surface modeling , concept design and rendering as a freelancer. I am my own boss and buy my own software. Unfortunately I have…	18 Last	oglu Jan 2010
Wonky Surface Master results in ZB3.5 R3 Sorry I don't have a picture atm, I was just wondering if others are experiencing strange results with the Surface Master noise thing in R3? I found a reason to use it and now it just does weird str…	1 Last	ImSlightlyBored Jan 2010
Cube map shader maya viewport. Anyone know a good cupemap shader for the maya viewport that works in 2010 64bit? It needs to load .dds format cubes.	2 Last	kodde Jan 2010
Closed Need Help in UDK: Dynamic Physics Volumes + Kismet	0 Last	Stitch Jan 2010
My snow textures, need opinions Do these look ok ? do they look usable any critacisms of them ? I Can't put them in a game engine to view them on the ground or on parts of models, (not on a decent pc atm) so I was wondering if one…	2 Last	psychoticprankster Jan 2010
Engravings in Mudbox Hey everyone, I'm trying to sculpt some engravings on a plane in mudbox, I am new to the software and was wondering how exactly i would get around to do this. I'm aiming for something similar to t…	9 Last	BradMyers82 Jan 2010
Houdini anybody? I didnt know where to post this but it seemed the best place. Does anybody here use Houdini? if you do is it easy to use? or personnel experience would be helpful	4 Last	oXYnary Jan 2010
How Does it Work? (Real time FX)? Hey guys! Someone know how to make this shining effects? How to make and animate this textures or what this? How does it work? Thanks for advice! [IMG]http://images.mmosite.com/photo/2009/02/27/wo…	4 Last	Pavel Petrenko Jan 2010
Maxscript: Key Up (Release) Event Hi Friends, i would like to create a hotbar like in Maya: If you hold Space pressed it appears and disappears immediately if you release the key. To start the script by pressing a key is easy: just …	2 Last	SimonT Jan 2010
Illustrator - Animation Visualisation Question Hello, Just started using Illustrator to create clean artwork for iPhone use, icons, characters, text, backdrops, etc. With characters ( or anything else needing to be 'animated' ), I will create …	3 Last	BLOODCURVE Jan 2010
Inflate a mesh in MAYA for use as cage? What the best (or easy) way to inflate a copy of a lowpoly mesh for use as a cage when baking normal maps? Kinda like how extrude pushes away from each face...like a ballooning affect	15 Last	mLink Jan 2010
Photoshop CS4 Extended ---> 3d pdf's I've been searching around to see if PS CS4 Extended has the ability to create 3d pdf's like in the example below. When I save out a pdf from PS, it basically just embeds the 3d object and has no abi…	6 Last	NyneDown Jan 2010
Animating a breaking wave (rig) I am needing to animate a breaking ocean wave and am wondering if anyone has any experience or ideas to best setup a rig to do this. I have successfully generated a wave animated with morph animatio…	4 Last	commander_keen Jan 2010
More Tablet Talk, YAY! Greetings, I know there are alot of threads on Tablets already, so I apologise for starting a new one, but I didn't want to dig up an old one either. I'm currently looking at an [URL="http://www.fu…	27 Last	NoisyMonk Jan 2010
Massive noob question Hi there, First off, sorry if I posted this in the wrong place but I wasn't really sure where else it would go! I've been trying to model a vaulted ceiling section for part of an environment I've b…	5 Last	Rhinokey Jan 2010
No face selected after flatten mapping - Max 2010 [SIZE="5"]Good old times - Max 8[/SIZE] Select faces + Flatten Mapping = All the selected faces are mapped AND [B][COLOR="DarkOrange"]still selected[/COLOR][/B] so you can move them around instantly…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2010
Modeling male African American Hi, Im trying to model a african american male and im having alot of trouble. Whatever I do i just end up with something that looks like a bignosed white guy with big lips... Soo what other things …	18 Last	[Deleted User] Jan 2010
Normal Map Artifacts (Xnormal) Hey everyone, I just baked a model in Xnormal and I am getting some subtle artificats on some parts of my model. Does anyone know what's causing this? [URL="http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8254…	7 Last	throttlekitty Jan 2010
Blender Equivlants of 3D studio max functions Hello, my question is what are the Blenders equivlants to these 3D studio max functions: Sweep Path deform	0 Last	psychoticprankster Jan 2010
Anybody doing tool stuff with Blender? If so, how the fuck do you keep from tearing your hair out? About a year or so ago, I started work on a BAppLink of sorts, making sure the manual steps worked, figuring out what dialog boxes, variab…	8 Last	LoTekK Jan 2010
Smoothing groups or beveled edges? In order to prevent artifacts and distortion in normal mapping sharp angled edges, should I bevel the edges, or use smoothing groups? Which is a better method in considering the model will be used fo…	4 Last	ENODMI Jan 2010
Max Isolate face / Cut tool alternative Is there a function or plugin to allow the isolation of specific polygonal faces? The contextual right-click menu doesn't allow 'isolate selection' or 'hide unselected' when selecting individual fac…	4 Last	danshewan Jan 2010
Why the UV does not move in the UV texture editor in maya? Hi eveyone! When I had transfered All UV set from a primitive ball to a second promitive ball in maya. Each of them just has one UV set. Then I opened the UV texture editor and moved the UVs of the s…	4 Last	guangh69 Jan 2010
Max: Creating reset xform toolbar/shortcut Reset xform is a utility I use frequently in max but I can't for the life of me find it's command in the customize toolbar/shortcut menu. There is a 'reset selected' command but when I place this on …	8 Last	Rick_D Jan 2010
pyMEL for maya RC1 for pyMEL is available... think this could be getting really cool in the future... [url]http://www.luma-pictures.com/tools/[/url]	0 Last	oglu Jan 2010
Having trouble with normal map (highPoly > lowPoly // Maya) Hey Guys, I'm working on a weapon for Casus belli (Crysis Mod), and I have some problems with the baking normal process. I'm persuaded that its from the topology of my low res comes. I would like to…	3 Last	MrFrags Jan 2010
ATI RADEON HD 5870 vew video card slow as shit? Okay what the hell, I just got this card in my new dell and it can barely run crysis warhead with medium settings? This card is supposed be awesome anyone have experience with this card or what drive…	25 Last	oXYnary Jan 2010
Wireframe Render Problem I'm trying to get the wireframe/shaded effect for my port. I got a few renders off successfully, but now all my wireframe objects are turning into black shapely blobs in the render. This isn't the fi…	2 Last	Scicero Jan 2010
Zbrush retopology problem Currently trying to retopologise a model I created, the problem is that when I go into z spheres this is what happens [IMG]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r271/04chiak/Flyingman.jpg[/IMG] What sho…	10 Last	Binxx Jan 2010
Having trouble with displacement maps. Please Help. Hi guys. This isn't related that much to game art, but I've asked in a few different forums and no one answers. I've always got great comments here, so I here I am. I'm working on this sci fi interi…	8 Last	Hayden Zammit Jan 2010
Photosourcing vs Digital Painting As someone who is trying to build a portfolio of environmental art, what is the recommendation of how much to rely on photosourced material? I know that good textures usually need you to heavily modi…	4 Last	renderhjs Jan 2010
a newbish question >< For some odd reason I can't seem to export my obj file into z brush, or it does but says that i don't have all quads... i was wondering if there was anything in Maya which could check for 5 sided pol…	5 Last	oXYnary Jan 2010
Maya 32/64 Bit? Hey, probably the last tech question in my long line of new pc/windows 7 threads. Just a quick question. I have the Maya 32 bit to install but I run 64 bit windows 7. I just got 32 Bit and I can't an…	23 Last	Taylor Hood Jan 2010
Even more Rapid prototyping questions My struggle to get a bunch of miniatures printed continues : The main problem is that by necessity the meshes are made of multiple intersecting (watertight) pieces. The printers use Magics software …	2 Last	CheeseOnToast Jan 2010
Learn how to increase speed of CS4!!! so, CS4 is clunky... we all know it. especially flash. a guy in my class figured out how to speed it up, so anyone that doesnt know this trick, enjoy... -open the program of your choice that you f…	15 Last	9skulls Jan 2010
Couple of workflow questions Hey there, I got a couple questions. I am creating models for an iPhone game so I have limited my self to 256x256 textures. So my first question is whether it is a good idea or not to create a higher…	4 Last	Celes Jan 2010
Looking for Texture Tutorials Hello!. I need help to find some of the good Tutorials for making Textures for my 3D art (lowpoly models)..I have Photoshop CS4,Photoshop 7 & TheGimp..Anyone which could help me so i can start mak…	11 Last	kaze369 Jan 2010
Animating a spring I have animated a spring contracting and expanding by creating a set of expressions/controllers. The pictures show my current progress. What I need to do now is set the spring up so that the first tw…	2 Last	Koden Jan 2010
Normal Map Pixelation?? So I have no idea whats going on with this. Starting baking out test normal maps for this puppy and am running into a problem. Viewing the model from one angle displays the normal map as nice and c…	3 Last	Colemerson Jan 2010
Head Modeling... not progressing... any tips? Hey there, I'm currently on my 15004th attempt at box modelling a head and the realization that I cannot 'get it' is starting to hit. I'm ok with the 'edge-extrude' point to point method of head mo…	22 Last	CheeseOnToast Jan 2010
Multi-Material in 2 texture maps Hey there Everyone. I've got a little problem here I think you might be able to help me with. I have a group of characters I'm doing, and I've been asked that they have one texture for the body (ful…	2 Last	heribertovalle Jan 2010
Foliage resources to model a tropical plant Hello , I was thinking to also try to make a new plant for Crysis , in specific a new type of Palm , I do not want to use at all the textures from crysis but can I have any clue on where I could find…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2010
real time animation input? So I was wondering the other day if theres any way you can record motion you input into the computer, via mouse, joypad, whatever, and say 'this is the x/y motion of this object' digital animatronic…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2010
I need good texture making tutourials I need tutourials on the following and I'm having trouble finding any decent ones. Science ficiton textrues (for example how to make steel corridor textures) and the hull textures for space ships. …	2 Last	psychoticprankster Jan 2010
Ati cards windows 7 saturation control? Is there a way to adjust the desktop saturation with ati cards. I can do this at work with my nvidia card but I can't find a way to do this with ati.	0 Last	malcolm Jan 2010
Relax like XSI for Max? in Xsi the relax tool keeps the form/volume of your geo which is awesome, just wondering if theres any scripts out there for Max that can do this? so far the only work around i have is to copy the ge…	2 Last	CompanionCube Jan 2010