Technical Talk

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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
3dsmax: Viewport Statistics This might sound stupid, but is there any way to save the Viewport Statistics Settings? I looked everywhere i thought it might be what i want, but couldn´t find this option:poly122: I hate to change…	9 Last	SpeCter Jan 2010
T Intersection placement on Face mesh. Hey Dudes, over the years ive built up various head base meshes, and i did a bit of an experiment by breaking them all down and working out various loop / flow techniques that ive ended up with and m…	10 Last	Piflik Jan 2010
Firefox questions. 1. Is there any way to turn off that little marquee highlight that happens when you click on a link? 2. Is there any way to hold a key down and click on a link to open it in another window rather th…	5 Last	metalliandy Jan 2010
Unreal Interior Question I am working in arch vis, so I wanted to translate some of what I've learned to make some interiors in Unreal. I have a simple question though, should I do my lighting in Unreal with lightmass etc o…	3 Last	DarthNater Jan 2010
rock gen I wanna make a shit tone of boulders and rocks in a short amount of time. Is there a script out there that does this?	4 Last	hijak Jan 2010
Rock Landmarks tutorials I know that probably there is no specific tutorial on this but I would like some suggestions on how to approach the making in 3d of a structure rock like this , its not a simple rock boulder , but no…	2 Last	NAIMA Jan 2010
Zbrushing deco onto flat planes Was trying something out today because soon I'll need to be making wood carvings for a box. I tried out this method... 1) Sculpt carving on a zbrush plane 2) Export to Max 3) Overlay plane on top an…	9 Last	DarthNater Jan 2010
3ds Max 2010 Is Here... [url]http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?id=10083915&siteID=123112[/url] I just saw that the trial for 3ds max 2010 has been released today. I have been checking the site daily for about a w…	72 Last	IxenonI Jan 2010
[Flying mouse] Window 7 - VS - Firefox This morning my mouse did a 5 meters jump (and I helped for it) because explorer.exe crashed for the 15th time since 2h... Then I did　some research on Google and I found that : [url]http://…	4 Last	sama.van Jan 2010
Closed SpeedTree LOD & Optimization for UDK	0 Last	TychoVII Jan 2010
Maya 2009: eyedropper hotkey? I'm having trouble hotkeying the eyedropper / colorpicker in Maya's 3D Paint Tools. I've pulled "art3dPaintCtx -e -pickValue `currentCtx`;" from the script editor, but it doesn't seem to work proper…	1 Last	throttlekitty Jan 2010
Help with a research project - Concept art for a game character Hi all im new here and im currently in my final year doing a Games design Course at University. As such i have a research dissertation to complete and a part of this covers research into how a charac…	7 Last	Yozora Jan 2010
max 2009 64bit refuses to save driver config. You know how by default when you install, max has some retardedly low mipmap lookup for all textures? (in customise>preferences>viewport>configure driver, match bitmap size as close as possible, and…	2 Last	Harry Jan 2010
Planet creation in EVE Online I've been messing with different ways of doing this over the last few days and got great results (thanks for input from EQ as well), but I never went as far as the guys from EVE Online went. They cre…	12 Last	Brice Vandemoortele Jan 2010
Dark edge problem in Maya? Ok, today I stumbled on a new problem in Maya when polymodeling. When I extruded an face the edges of the face got dark. (see pic) Tested to harden/soften the edges but it didnt do any difference. An…	2 Last	bloodmoon Jan 2010
Blender question How do I turn off Multries or delete them ?	4 Last	psychoticprankster Jan 2010
maya 2010 uv editor colours how to? Is there any way to change the colour of the edges after toggle isolate selected has been used. Mine are the exact same colour of grey as the background. Turning on the dim image also matches the edg…	3 Last	malcolm Jan 2010
Proper modeling for 3D Printing question Hey guys, I have a question about a freelance gig I may be picking up soon. A high profile client may want me to model something SIMILAR to this (this is ripped from my portfolio) with the intention…	11 Last	Cadspan Jan 2010
UV map size. Hey guys, Im looking for some insight on how to change my UV map from 1:1 to 2:1.. basically 512x256. I know I've seen a tutorial around here for that but no idea where to even start looking. Tha…	9 Last	brandoom Jan 2010
bad normal maps [URL="http://img251.imageshack.us/i/errortrial.jpg/"][IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7871/errortrial.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I create 2 basic box´s and 2 basic "balls" and combined them. Then creat…	8 Last	serialkiler Jan 2010
Anyone got a fancy tool for placing objects along a spline in maya? I know about the motion path thing in, anyone got a better easier to use after market script?	6 Last	malcolm Jan 2010
female zombie game character Hi! My name is Attila. I want to create a female zombie character for HL2 source. It may has 4000 triangles, becouse there will be a lot of them on screen. #1 - First I thought to crearte the basic …	4 Last	cryrid Jan 2010
colour managed web brosers? I'm using safari on windows 7, apparently they have added colour profile management to it. Specifically my web page now looks like shit, do I need to go back and some how resave all the jpegs on ther…	5 Last	poopinmymouth Jan 2010
Callback problem with visual interface [B][COLOR="lime"][SIZE="5"]THIS WORKS FINE[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B]Every time i create a new object "hello world" is printed out.[/B] [CODE]callbacks.removeScripts id:#myscript; fn myScript = ( pr…	2 Last	SimonT Jan 2010
What does these words mean? WHen I was reading something it says:"Multiplies the inverse of the paint and base colors." I was confused. Does it means reverse the paint colour first,then mutiply it with the base colour? Or reve…	3 Last	guangh69 Jan 2010
Zbrush symmetry problems and another quesiton So i was working on my model with activate symmetry on and everything was fine, until i masked an area and moved my center line. I was wondering if there was any way to get symmetry back from this. …	0 Last	Binxx Jan 2010
Transferring UV Maps/Animation Data from Maya to C4d Hey guys and gals I've got a predicament I need to export both animation data and UV set data from Maya to C4D. If I use OBJ it transfers the UV Map data, but not the animation data and using fbx it…	0 Last	Cyrael Jan 2010
Dell Monitor Driver Problems I feel like a fool for downloading drivers for my Dell Ultrasharp 2209WA. Everything was working fine before I downloaded and installed them from Dell's site, but I thought maybe I could get access …	2 Last	cycloverid Jan 2010
Transpose Master Zbrush Crash After spending 2 hours transposing a model with a bunch of subtools, saving the transposed tool, and then clicking on Tpose>subtools Zbrush crashed as soon as it completed the operation. I opened up …	1 Last	Frump Jan 2010
3Dmax8 lost feature : Remember the Poly selection from editable poly to Unwrap Uvw ? [FONT=Verdana][FONT=MS Sans Serif][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Hello,[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]I passed…	11 Last	PhattyEwok Jan 2010
MEL Scripting help When character modeling I tend to use mostly Silo/Zbrush/UVlayout and avoid Maya until the very last cleanup and export stages of a model. Recently I'm doing a lot more environment work where I prett…	4 Last	MoP Jan 2010
Problem when baking a Normal map in Zbrush Yesterday I started to make a new prop for some school project and got some issues when I tried to bake the Normal Map from Zbrush. This is the object I'm trying to create (with a Concept Sketch [URL…	2 Last	Mik2121 Jan 2010
Maya Drag and Drop not working I'm running Maya 2009 on Windows 7. I used to be able to drag and drop scenes and files from explorer into the maya window without problem, particularly multiple .obj files. Since installing win7 I…	4 Last	throttlekitty Jan 2010
Help me create this "simple" Maya shader please :-( Hello Poly people, I am struggling to create what I think would be a simple Maya shader. I would [U][B]greatly[/B][/U] appreciate if you could give me some pointers or better still create the shader…	8 Last	chronic Jan 2010
realtime rendering in maya hi to all i am working on my show reel and just want to know that can this type of view port result( [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IU-iZ7m2f8[/ame] ) be achieved in Maya. I would really be tha…	11 Last	chronic Jan 2010
Maya 2009: Snapping UV elements to vert I'd like to know how I can neatly stack mirrored or similar UV islands using Maya 2009. How do you Maya guys achieve this so you don't have to snap 1 vert at a time to another? Snapping a element wi…	9 Last	JackyBoy Jan 2010
no viewport aa in 3dsMax with direct3d but with opengl.. why?! I can't enable anti-aliasing in 3ds max when I'm using the direct3d mode. It does work in opengl but not under direct3d I have a geforce 9600m gt Had someone similar experiences?	1 Last	rollin Jan 2010
Maya UV Widget problem... o.O Well, i dnt really know how to describe this, but the widgets are not working as they should in the UV editor, especially the scale tool its jsut grey'd out, and i cant scale uniformly, only in 1 dir…	8 Last	ivars Jan 2010
Cutting a model in 3DS Max to import into UEd 3 .	6 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2010
Silo 2.1 beta up! [url]http://www.silo3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14982[/url] hell yes.	16 Last	renderhjs Jan 2010
Vista HB 32 to Windows 7 64bit? No? Hey... ran into quite a problem. I think I know the answer to it but I'm looking for different opinions. Simple question, can I upgrade from vista HB 32 to windows 7 64 bit? I guess the answer is "no…	10 Last	Chaosv49 Jan 2010
Max 2010 shrinking verts Hey all, I've encountered this problem in other versions of max but I seem to get it all the time in 2010. The verts either become huge or shrink down to a pixel. It's annoying the hell out of me. R…	3 Last	apocalypse Jan 2010
3ds Max - Texture issue. Ok, hi guys I hope someone can help / point out where im being a complete moron. I've made a model from a friends concept art, got it all textured up and rigged. However when the model moves the tex…	4 Last	Wyldcard Jan 2010
maya. translating and scaling relative to the camera / viewport you guys know of any tools ( scripts or plugs ) that will allow a selection to be : 1/ translated along the camera view ( near. far. like sesame street taught us ) 2/ scaled relative to the camera …	6 Last	tacit math Jan 2010
Help detailing bricks on a pillar Hey, so I have started to model my first ever object but I am having some problems detailing the bricks on it. :(. I have not really done much to it yet tbh, just looking to try and get the bricks l…	6 Last	John Mason Jan 2010
Craziest Max Problem Hey, I'm back to asking weird Max questions and I have a really crazy one. I have a file that contains models/materials/textures; the problem is the material it is using was a proprietary game shad…	7 Last	Murdoc Jan 2010
Maya and smoothing Okay, so I had to use Maya for a bit. I've been setting edges, hard/soft. The problem is, there's no updates in the viewport so I can't see what the smoothing on the mesh will look like. When I do …	7 Last	MoP Jan 2010
another normal map problem :( Hey there. I wil try to be short. I read a lot of stuff about normal maps - here and in other forums but there is still a lot more left. Currently I am trying to bake normal map for my character and …	16 Last	disanski Jan 2010
Looking to build a desktop but.... Hello, first time poster, long time lurker, etc, etc. I've been wanting to start getting into modeling and painting with Maya and Photoshop, but my old laptop just doesn't cut it. I can run Photosh…	8 Last	Richard Kain Jan 2010