Technical Talk

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UV Tips and tricks? So ive been laying out my UVs for a pretty big scene for the past day and a half or so and i realized that i'm not so hot at it.. Does anyone have any nifty UV tips? Thats a little vague, i know, b…	19 Last	AtlusZMH Sep 2009
dumpmovie thing for unreal hey guys i was wondering if you guys could give he some help i've been trying to use the frontend dumpmovie thing, but it doesn't seem to work. i was just wondering if there was anything that i'm mis…	0 Last	Thefirston Sep 2009
Looking for a tire tutorial I hope i'm posting this in the right section. I'm looking for a tutorial on modeling a tractor tire in 3D but in a way that could be used for gaming. There's some awesome tire tutorials out there…	7 Last	malcolm Sep 2009
Slimy Shader problem Ive been trying to use different methods to recreate a shader that looks like the murky web stuff in this pic but was unsuccessful. [img]http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/screen_e3/919554_20…	8 Last	CheeseOnToast Sep 2009
How to render- noob questions Okay, this is really dumb I know, but... I have Maya 2009. I have been told that Maya can't render normal maps, so to use mental ray instead. So far so cool. But, here's the thing- I take my low pol…	7 Last	praxedes Sep 2009
Save/Load UV, really, really not working. Ever. Right, so I've just got a model in max right out of Roadkill, for some reason the model is scalled down (this happens everynow and then in Roadkill, not the issue in this case). So, instead of trying…	4 Last	t4paN Sep 2009
Z brush, any good tutorials on it Hay everyone, first off I want to say thanks for any help I may get for my question and hope to return the favor someday Basically I have been messing around with Z brush recently and was wondering…	7 Last	Mark.N Sep 2009
Multiple working pivots? Hey, I just thought of this at work the other day. Does anyone know if there is a script that allows you to (in max) have multiple working pivots? It would be awesome to have a little setup that…	1 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2009
IK manipulation within source Just out of curiosity. Has anyone here used IK animation in the source engine? I'm starting a mod which is going to rely heavily on object interaction within the engine and was wondering how people h…	2 Last	Draffin Sep 2009
Imported mesh inverting in zbrush Quite a noob user here so it may be something simple but I'm exporting a door from my 3D App to Zbrush and the geometry appears to be inverted. Nothing to do with normals, the actual geometry. So in…	14 Last	praxedes Sep 2009
Anybody with first hand review Nvidia 285 GTX? Issues with the usual Autodesk apps? Do I need a water cooled rig?	6 Last	Lamont Sep 2009
Brand spanking new PC Hello, I've been looking around for a new machine as my current PC has grown very old. Was just after peoples thoughts and opinions on these machines? (with 3D art creation in mind, and gaming!) …	11 Last	pixelmitherer Sep 2009
Borkiness of 3ds Max's Gridsnap Is there any way to fix this? i've tried using dx and gl hardware, both end up messing with the grid in their own little ways. Items keeps disappearing, some menu items don't show up (if any), and pa…	2 Last	keres Sep 2009
Cutting your Mesh / Texturing Heya! I've been trawling around this forum for a few days now, lots of interesting posts around! I was wondering about the following subject. Say i would want to model something like the image below.…	0 Last	TheBat Sep 2009
morph targets and skinning My character model is skinned and the head animates with morph targets in 3ds Max. My stack is as follows - from bottom to top: [LIST] []editable poly []morpher (for face morph targets) [*]edit p…	5 Last	MoP Sep 2009
Reusing exisiting Rigs? Does anyone know how and if I can re-use an existing bones rig from another character in 3ds max? I'm in the process of building one (my first one with bones, until now just biped) and it's working…	3 Last	Muzzoid Sep 2009
3ds Max to Premiere So i rendered out of max a 350 frame animation as Targa images. Now when i try to bring them into adobe Premiere every frame is getting 5secs of time before moving on to the next frame( i just used t…	2 Last	Ro-Sham-Bo Sep 2009
max 2008 unwrap uvw for some reason everytime i use unwrap uvw, it shows a checkerboard in the window instead of the texture that is applied to the model. so now i must go to the texture pulldown and choose the texture…	12 Last	Haider of Sweden Sep 2009
Help wih UEd In Editor Game Hi there, I've been working in 3D (in the Arch-Viz business) for some years now but have recently become interested in creating content for games. I purchased UT3, the collectors edition that come…	3 Last	osman Sep 2009
Maya extrude/animation snapshot paths Question Hi all- my current project involves quite a bit of wiring and pipe, for which I am using a fair amount of extrude along curve and animation snapshot off motion paths to create the shapes I need. How…	4 Last	praxedes Sep 2009
Steam bought Crysis Editor, paths issues Edit Think I solved it. Very strange and picky, not sure if it's because I'm using the steam download of the editor. The official documentation does not go at all where to put your objects, but the…	1 Last	Ben Apuna Sep 2009
Making 3D plants, bushes, grass Well HI! I looked and couldn't find a thread on this, but please link me to it if there is one. I've been struggling with trying to make nice looking plants and bushes. Cheap ones that are 20 or …	2 Last	Celes Sep 2009
Is there a way to display textures in a higher rez in the viewport? XSI, I got some big images I'm modeling off of.	4 Last	ZacD Sep 2009
First FPS level - what engine? (Is this the best place to post this?) 'Afternoon folks. After being lazy design-wise most of the summer, I've been inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (the game and the original movie) to begin work on my f…	21 Last	Justin Meisse Sep 2009
AA within Unreal 3 editor Heya, Is there at all a way to force AA when viewing the Unreal 3 editor? I've tried forcing it on ut3.exe via the nVidia control panel, but that's not working. I've been resizing my images to [URL…	18 Last	Jonathan Sep 2009
Hardware purchase query Hey guys, I need a little help in making a very expensive decision. Thought i'd ask here before making it. I'm getting into university, and as of 2nd year [next year] i'll be needing a macintosh la…	15 Last	indian_boy Sep 2009
3D max Textures auto-tileing Hey everyone, I'm using max 9 and lately whenever I apply a texture, it always tiles to seemingly 100x100. This happens if I load the texture from the material editor, and drag + drop. I tried to r…	3 Last	Scicero Sep 2009
Crazybump 3ds max shader Does anyone happen to know how to directly transfer the shader values from crazybump into 3ds max so you can basically replicate the crazybump previewer. I dont know if a shader exists to do such a …	5 Last	frubes Sep 2009
Max to Mudbox export steps? I know this has been asked most likely a million times but can anyone explain to me all the steps you have to go through to prepare a model in 3Ds Max (2010) to Mudbox (2009)? Whatever I'm doing fro…	13 Last	renderhjs Sep 2009
maya rotation gizmo problem i dont know what i did but i cant fix it... my rotation is locked to the y axis, no matter what axis i click or choose in the channel box it will only rotate on the y axis... anyone know why this is…	17 Last	telefunken11 Sep 2009
new rig since my old computer died when i was too dumb to change the chipset cooler i simply ordered a new one and waiting till the gfx card prices drop (about this month) i bought a new one with onboard gra…	3 Last	arrangemonk Sep 2009
Photoshop Layer Style Recipes Hey does anyone have any cool tricks or tips for creating certain types of effects using layer styles in photoshop. One thing I always do for rust is: [LIST=1] [*]Set up a layer with a stroke effe…	0 Last	jocose Sep 2009
marxio timer. Been using this little prog for a while now, definatley the most useful timer you will ever come across. [URL]http://www.marxio-tools.net/en/marxio-timer.php[/URL] lets you do stuff like open or cl…	1 Last	renderhjs Sep 2009
Looking for a Low Poly Character Tutorial Ive been looking to brush up on my XSI character modeling skills and have found tones of stuff for next gen modeling but no tuts for simple low poly character. If any of y'all could point me in the …	3 Last	Canadian Ink Sep 2009
Please Help with Photoshop: Editing Bakes Hey there, I was just wondering if there is a good way to solve this issue... I baked a Normal Map and AO Map as usual. For the most part the bake is great, but there are a few wavy lines, and stret…	19 Last	Muzzoid Sep 2009
Direct X-Hair Shader For Max2010 Hi Guys i am fresher to this forum, i have been researching alot from past couple of days to make a nice DIRECT X based hair shader in max 2010 but couldnt able to get great results if some body know…	4 Last	CrazyButcher Sep 2009
Workstation HELL! Hi guys, I'm writing this using windows in safe mode + networking, lately been having some problems with rendering using advanced lighting in scanline and some with mental ray. Scenes are around 500k…	8 Last	System Sep 2009
When I render it's all White? I'm trying to render some scenes and I use mental ray in Maya 2009 Unlimited but the result is bright white like it disregards my lights and just comes out white without any detail or shadows or anyt…	6 Last	Draffin Sep 2009
Crysis editor, need some clarification I want to use the Crysis Editor and I'm trying to figure out what I need in order to use it and I'm getting confused. Do I need Crysis as well as the Warhead and Wars expasion? I know I need to downl…	3 Last	alexk Sep 2009
Bake only hard edges in a UV texture. I usually clean up my UV bake and use it to highlight all the hard edges on my model. Is there some app or way that will only bake the edges that have split vertex normals? I'm working in Maya at t…	14 Last	renderhjs Sep 2009
Selecting MaterialIDs MaxScript Hello, I'm quite new to Maxscript and I've been trying to write a simple function that will return true or false if any faces have a specified MaterialID applied to them. I got it working but only b…	7 Last	[PB]Snoelk Sep 2009
sharpening mip-map levels sharpening up the mips in a DDS manually in photoshop to counter terrain shading blurriness personnally i disagree with this, i find it makes any tiling issues much worse and really just ups the con…	10 Last	Michael Knubben Sep 2009
UV Packing with 3dMax Hi there i made a script for automaticly assign a texture size based on the texel per unit settings. this is used for a lowpolymesh to bake with a highpoly. since the bake functions in max are a lit…	2 Last	[PB]Snoelk Sep 2009
baking bounced light in max (vertex) been doing a bit of experimenting in max, baking vertex lighting into objects, now simple radiosity gives nice results but im not getting enough light bleed, so i would like to add a bounce or two so…	1 Last	Rick Stirling Sep 2009
Workflow Poll: Tools vs. Actions A number of threads have come up recently regarding the various programs we use and I've been wondering just how happy most people are with their major packages. So I put it to you: Tool-based workf…	12 Last	Farfarer Sep 2009
OT - XP can't see drive anymore .. but Mac does Not graphics related but I hope some tech monkeys here might help: My external USB drive [[url=http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11062]link[/url]] is no longer readable on my XP and a…	3 Last	shotgun Sep 2009
3DS Max Hotkeys don't work I assigned "Quick Planar Map" in the Unwrap UVW category to S but when I press S it just Snaps Toggle in the main bar so I went into the main menu and turned the hotkey off for that button but the QP…	3 Last	prasoc Aug 2009
Assign random material colour to sub-object? (3dsmax) Hi does anyone know of a way to randomly assign a colour material to sub-objects or objects in a scene? e.g you have a lot of bricks and then each one gets a random colour (that way when it comes to…	4 Last	sampson Aug 2009
moving from Maya to Max. Hey all. So i started my 3d career in Maya, and now im trying to learn Max. from what i hear, its a much better modelling program, and seems to be the more common of the two. But anyone thats used bo…	25 Last	pior Aug 2009
Texturing Folder Setup (Photoshop Action) Hey guys I was using this action that i made in Photoshop to help setup my folders for when i'm starting to texture something. So i thought i would share it with you guys. It'll create a Diffuse,Spec…	18 Last	metalliandy Aug 2009