Technical Talk

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Disable lighting in viewports (Max 2009) Hey all! I tried searching for an answer to this on google, but nothing relevant seems to come up. Basically I'm working with a scene that has quite a few different lighting sources in it which loo…	6 Last	helldiver Oct 2009
Need help with Unity 3D interior. Hey guys, I'm trying to tackle making a level in unity 3D. The engine is great and very simple, but i've never made an interior before that didn't use BSP. I think i'm modeling it correctly so far,…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2009
Help: How to remove polygon left by Extrude? hello, once again i found myself facing a silly issue, yet constant and annoying. what happened, and it's not the first time, is that [B]i extruded a polygon to the element's inside[/B]. by doing th…	7 Last	crozer Oct 2009
3DS Max, normal map problem I make my normal maps using 3D studio max 8's Render to Texture function. So far the normals maps come out good. Any anomalies I fix up in Photoshop. So far everything's been ok. I've been steadily…	6 Last	helldiver Oct 2009
UV edges showing thru in Height Map? Just curious if anyone has come across this problem? Adjusted levels so the lines can be more seen... Happens with both scanline and MR. I've tried applying a 0% opacity to my low poly mesh, tried…	8 Last	Junkie_XL Oct 2009
Mental Ray Error I've been getting this error mental ray error while i'm modeling and not when im rendering, any ideas to the solution to fix this ? [IMG]http://www.hitenmistry.com/DTC/Error.jpg[/IMG]	3 Last	Mistry10 Oct 2009
Stone Tutorial - Video Tutorial Ok, so I decided to make a little rock model and recorded the whole process on video. The picture below is the finished model. It's 1000 tris and uses one 2048^2 difuse and normal map. I started by m…	29 Last	SimonT Oct 2009
Anything like Modo's action centre to Element, for Max? I'm primary a 3dmax user, but I've been using Modo recently and found the Action centre, Element to be invaluable when creating complex hardsurfaces. Is there any script or method I'm missing , for 3…	20 Last	Mr GetDown Oct 2009
2d Sprite Making - help Hey polycounters, i know there's no polycounting per-say in this issue, but, what the heck, thought I'd give the question a try here. So I'm gonna be making a 2d sidescroller in XNA with some friend…	7 Last	praxedes Oct 2009
Tutorial: Creating a tileable stone floor (3DS Max, Zbrush, Photoshop) Hi guys, i made a tutorial for everyone (you might learn something, then again you might not). It's not heavily edited and i'm no pro, but you might be interested to watch it. Final effect (on a fla…	11 Last	german01 Oct 2009
Sand crap over my 3dsmax AO bake max 2010 win 7 rc Hi First AO bakes with mentalray. I am very impressed with the quality. Only I have grain stripes and splotches over the bake. I thought this was the element settings so I put them…	28 Last	kanga Oct 2009
MAYA 2010-color textures not showing up in high quality Hey I just picked up maya 2010, and I cannot get the color/diffuse textures to show up in high quality mode. Has something changed since the 2009 version, or is there some setting I need to change? (…	3 Last	A_GAME Oct 2009
Blur Studio releases Py3dsMax beta Amazing news for those of you looking to make the switch to Python. "We have developed a way to run Python as a complete replacement of Maxscript in 3dsMax, utilizing Python and PyQt to develop too…	5 Last	ArYeS Oct 2009
Strong emitting light within simple ambient occlusion bake ? alright, i have another question. since i can't texture and won't learn it in 1000 years i use the ambient occlusion rendering method within 3dsmax (scanline render with light tracer) as a base for a…	10 Last	Acumen Oct 2009
high quality rendering in 3dsmax viewport I'm making the transition from maya to max. I dunno what it is called in max but what is the equivalent of maya's high quality rendering(viewport) in max and how am I going to set it up. I want to tr…	2 Last	boyluya Oct 2009
Marmoset Mod tools Beta release For everyone who has asked for it, here it is! [quote]Allright everybody: [URL]http://www.8monkeylabs.com/dodtools_100.exe[/URL] Included you will find: [COLOR=DarkOrange]Habitat[/COLOR] The leve…	14 Last	osman Oct 2009
Patch and Spline modeling - Survey (sorta) Just curious if anyone uses spline and or patch modeling on any sort of regular basis here. I'm making some non-real time assets using them in max and have fallen in love all over again. Spline patc…	14 Last	oXYnary Oct 2009
Orienting objects to a live object in Maya Hey gents. I'm adding individual feather planes (lots and lots of planes) to a bird and am trying to work out the most efficient way to do so. I've made the body live which makes placing the feather…	4 Last	Frump Oct 2009
Issue with UVs resetting in 3dsmax Excuse me - I simply laugh to avoid exploding because I'm fed up with technical issues. There's always SOMETHING is'nt there? Nothing ever runs SMOOTH does it!!! Anyways - NOW it's about a workflow …	7 Last	Bokaja Oct 2009
UT3 Tri Count Console Command Does anybody know of a command for ut3 to tell how many polys or tris my whole map is from inside the UT editor or away for me to find out. Thanks.	4 Last	Xoliul Oct 2009
Create Zbrush Tiling Sculpt Now this seems like a funny question to me as I cant believe I dont know the answer nor have I see it asked or really any tutorials on it. Maybe I just missed them because im blind. Lets say I scul…	4 Last	Autocon Oct 2009
make blender behave like maya (ish) I'm starting a new thread for this because I'm not going to be asking any qs, this is really just to share where I get up to with making blender more comfortable coming from maya. If anyone has more …	11 Last	rooster Oct 2009
Misaligned IK pivots on biped foot Ive been given a biped rig to fix with a problem with the alignment of the IK pivots on its feet (see attached image). The pivots are offset from the foot itself, the toes…	4 Last	Badgerman Oct 2009
Max equivalent of modo's Geometry To Brush? Just wondering what Max's equivalent of modo's Geometry to Brush command is. I've been using it to create Alphas for use in Zbrush. Instead of sculpting small mechanical details, I've been modeling t…	15 Last	danr Oct 2009
3DS Max point-to-point seam issue Hey guys, I'm working with an optimized model imported from Meshlab. I've reduced the face count in Meshlab with no apparent problems, and have imported the mesh as an .obj into 3DS Max 2009. Whil…	3 Last	Ro-Sham-Bo Oct 2009
Zbrush HD Render Issues [IMG]http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/8568/hdexampleofshit.jpg[/IMG] what is that strange noise i've been getting when i HD render? it is just happening now, but it's driving me crazy, has anyone …	0 Last	ralusek Oct 2009
3dsmax mental ray image sampling on normal maps Im not a mental ray user (vray and brazil). The scanline renderer is too slow for me to use (2.5 star super sampling with about a half million polygons at 4096 resolution). I tried mental ray but th…	2 Last	AlecMoody Oct 2009
MR AO bake vs scanline AO bake in Max? Okay, I HAVE been baking AO maps in the scanline renderer - add in a skylight set to pure white, turn on Light Tracer, and bake a "Complete" map, with the under figure set to a white, 2-sided default…	6 Last	Bokaja Oct 2009
Zbrush: Retopo With HD Geometry? Does anyone know if you can retopo something with HD geometry. As in, when I project the old tool, will the HD geometry be included? If not, am I at least able to project the highest regular subdivis…	0 Last	ralusek Oct 2009
3ds Max >> export to OGRE problem Hi everybody!! I have this MAJOR important problem to tell you all: I always worked with Maya, but after some serious problems expprting to OGRE platform, I realized maybe it was better to change t…	15 Last	Anushka Oct 2009
Max- extruded polygons have no smoothing group when I make a cylinder for example and I extrude a cap face, the polygons have no assigned smoothing polygons where as the original polygons are assigned to 4. It's not that much of a problem, just a…	8 Last	pior Oct 2009
your best resources for lowpoly vertex weighting i could use them. mainly where the leg meets the rest of the body/butt area. i've been trying at this off and on for a few years and looking at books but nobody ever tackles this issue or acknowleg…	1 Last	Junkie_XL Oct 2009
Zbrush: How To HD Turntable (Turntable Plus is Doing Incomplete) I downloaded turntable plus, and selected for it to render the turntable with HD geometry. For whatever reason, it just renders a tiny piece of my model in hd, then does a turntable around it. it's v…	1 Last	ralusek Oct 2009
3dsmax 2008: start up fails. process is running. I think title tells almost all of it. I havn't done anything.. I tried with different user but splash screen doesnt appear. while task manager shows process running and it doesnt show max in running …	1 Last	ctrlZ Oct 2009
Settings for GTX 260 & Maya 7 or 2009? Hi, Since GTX 260 is not professional graphics card, which is recomended settings to use it with Maya? By settings i mean in Rivatuner, nvidia control panel or some other software. thanks	2 Last	daada Oct 2009
Extracting Mudbox Normal Map Are there any good tutorials on this? No matter what settings I use it just comes out incorrect.	0 Last	Super Oct 2009
Maya .ase export Hi, I am using actorX plugin for maya to export a scene file. My question is how do I setup materials so that the ase file will have reference/path for lightmaps as 2nd UV channels. Should I use mul…	0 Last	salman_fas Oct 2009
Painting Transparency in Zbrush? Hey guys, Does anyone know if theres a way to paint transparency onto a mesh in zbrush, for something like fringed cloth or fur? I've always painted the 3d cards and alpha'd the parts i dont want …	0 Last	ChaosEidolon Oct 2009
Modo Uv channel Is there anyway to create another uv channel in Modo to hold my lightmaps?	4 Last	EarthQuake Oct 2009
Newbie Question: Is there a better way of joining 2 cylinders Hi Everyone, I am attempting to model an oil barrel and making slow progress. I'm trying to make the hexagon shaped thing on the top, I've had a go at it and it looks kind of ok , but the geometry …	5 Last	Japhir Oct 2009
UnrealEd Fire effects? Hi hi! I need to make some fire for my UC entry. I'd like to use a sequence of images to have the flames animate more realistically. I was playing with Flipbook textures, but I don't know if I need …	4 Last	erik! Oct 2009
How to create a column out of edges? hello, i use 3ds max. so, to what i need help with.. i had an extruded wall [a box] and wanted to make windows on 3 sides [the front, the left and the right]. to achieve this, i extruded the window-a…	12 Last	crozer Oct 2009
Thick wireframe I'm having an issue in max 9 where when editing a mesh in the wireframe view the edges are much thicker than they should be. After trying to fix it, and failing, I figured it wasn't worth the time i…	0 Last	Scicero Oct 2009
Animating in maya to a sound clip Hi folks. it's me again. I'm making an animation in Maya that needs to be synced up with a sound file i have. i'm making the animation for a game engine that plays the animations back at 30 fps. …	0 Last	John Warner Oct 2009
subsurface scatter tutorial maya mentalray? Anyone have a good subsurface scatter tutorial for maya mentalray. I'm thinking of buying the digital tutors guide as I couldn't find anything good online for free. I'm looking to apply a shader and …	1 Last	Mongrelman Oct 2009
Maya shader question Hey guys, I'm trying to set up a shader in Maya that will let me choose between two different texture files depending on which side of the surface is facing the render camera. The catch is that I wo…	20 Last	Brice Vandemoortele Oct 2009
Blizzard art style questions Hi there, I'm moving on to my next portfolio project after spending far longer than I would have liked on my workshop scene. I want to do a WoW style weapon, an axe or sword or similar. Hardly an o…	3 Last	Tom Ellis Oct 2009
When you can say that you are good? Hi what task has to be completed at perfection to be able to say you are a good Game developer ? I mean 3d and texturing ...	17 Last	Sandro Oct 2009
multiple hotkey sets in maya? Anyone got a script that allows you to switch between multiple hotkey sets and save to different hotkeys to each. I tried this hotkeyman from highend 3d and it doesn't fucking work. Unless I'm missin…	0 Last	malcolm Oct 2009
DS Texture Memory With regards to the 512kb per screen limit on the DS, how exactly can you work out how many textures fit under this cap? Is there some sort of standard that can be used that gives a rough estimate of…	4 Last	mickyg Oct 2009