Technical Talk

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Hollowness with planes in Zbrush architectual elements Hey all, I've got this image up in my sketch book but here it is again: Find out the meaning of the note to self in my sketchbook [IMG]http://i29.tinypic.com/24f9xec.png[/IMG] I created that wh…	2 Last	Taylor Hood Jul 2009
Texturing Lines on a Large Paved Area I have a large paved area that consists of a single polygon with a tiling texture. I need to apply some pretty dynamic lines like the kind you would find on an airport runway. These lines will over…	11 Last	ImSlightlyBored Jul 2009
Marmoset rendering Hey all. I am new here, but with that said I have a few questions/problems with marmoset. So since I can't figure them out, I thought I'd come here :). I'm using 3ds Max .7 To start off, marmose…	2 Last	Sir Apple Jul 2009
Weird UV bug when moving in absolute So I've had this issue with max 2009 and also happening in 2010. When I move my UV island in an absolute value, like -1 in the U. It moves fine but immediately after I press enter, or click out of th…	1 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2009
Maya or Max? Hello. I've been using/learning Maya 8.5 for about 7-8 months now in my sparetime and getting in a better workflow now. Also been using Zbrush as a complement. I know there are alot of users for b…	13 Last	Frump Jul 2009
Next gen texturing techniques Hey guys, I'm looking for a tutorial or some sort of rough guide to get me up and running with todays tech's for texturing. As far as I know you have your diffuse, spec, normal map and sub dermal and…	26 Last	sebas Jul 2009
trying to set up a batch I know you can batch 1 directory at a time... but I want to batch 1 source directory with 2 different sets of files in it in separate folders... I need to resize everything and maintain the directory…	0 Last	sir-knight Jul 2009
Maya Mental Ray Normal Map Problems Maya is giving me a hard time when i try to render my normal mapped meshes in mental ray. Here are my render settings and a picture of the problem. I have my map as tangent space and it looks fine in…	3 Last	beartraps Jul 2009
learning maya for max users Hello, I recently pick up a new position which requires me to learn maya. Is there any good guides for max users on learning maya? Thanks guys.	10 Last	onionhead_o Jul 2009
3DSM curve editor slowing shit down Whenever I'm editing my animations in 3dsm 7 using the curve editor, cpu usage spikes up which results in displaying jumpy animations. When I minimize the editor it'll display the anims smoothly agai…	5 Last	monster Jul 2009
Max started freezing while rendering Am using Max 2008, just rendering a 400 frame scene to AVI @ 640*360 from a scene with sub 2k polys , and no advanced lighting, using just scanline renderer. I turned on the 'conserve memory' check…	4 Last	JohnnySix Jul 2009
Quick Question I was wondering if anyone could help me out with telling me how to create the bumps on the front nozzle of this Beretta [url]http://www.modelguns-worldwide.com/images/m12s3.JPG[/url] for a high poly …	2 Last	itsover3 Jul 2009
Mouse buttons 4 and 5 in Maya? Hey folks. So today I was sitting here wondering why the hell I have a 5-button mouse if Maya will only recognise 3 of them. Same applies to Max really, but I'm wondering about Maya specifically rig…	4 Last	Illusions Jul 2009
Zbrush crash when using/masking with transpose master so i was trying to pose a character's arms with transpose master, but the second i mask an area holding down CTRL, zbrush just crashes everytime. i tried this with the default zbrush soldier model …	5 Last	D4V1DC Jul 2009
Refining rotation in photoshop Is there a way to set the value of rotations in photoshop CS4 (using gradient tool/transform etc) other than 45 degrees? Ideally 5 or 10 degree increments would be ideal.	3 Last	scourgewarper Jul 2009
Some Mesh Questions... Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a method of automatically making a mesh's faces be of perfectly equal height and length. I'm using Maya for this. [IMG]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc173/Emi…	2 Last	CrazyButcher Jul 2009
Normal mapping troubles Hey guys i have recently been having trouble normal mapping :( I have been trying for months now and just cannot get it to work. Ive made both my low poly and high poly models, and applied poly smoot…	3 Last	biggest_kid Jul 2009
3DCoat - Can't live with out it? I just got the trial for 3DCoat 3 and I'm loving it so much to the point I feel that I can't live with out it. I haven't even completed a full topology. The tools were hard to utilize at first but y…	3 Last	James Edwards Jul 2009
Topogun has anyone seen this? [url="http://www.topogun.com/"]http://www.topogun.com/[/url] Its like ultra cool.	62 Last	Taylor Hood Jul 2009
Snapping points to mesh with polyboost? I'm trying to retopo a mesh using the polyboost tools. When I create points on the mesh they snap just fine, but if I want to go in and manually adjust points using the default gizmos, they no longer…	1 Last	Muzzoid Jul 2009
Polyboost Installation Error I'm wondering if anyone has had this error before. It says to run in admin mode, but even when I do, I get the same error. A quick google search found someone with a similar issue which was solved by…	0 Last	chademond Jul 2009
Stupid Max Upgrade question. Hey dudes, it is I, LoM Chaos! I come to you with a pretty retarded question that I just haven't bothered until now. Okay, so here is the deal, I have Max 8 -.- Had it for 3 years or so. Now there…	11 Last	Ryno Jul 2009
Using light to blend materials/textures This is my first post on the polycount boards though I have admired many of polycounts artists from a distance for some time and I'm hoping to share some of my work soon as well. I was wondering if…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2009
knotted fabric What would be the best way to go about modeling a high poly base of something like this to bring into mudbox? [url]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/360726039_3bd9573b13.jpg?v=0[/url] Rite now i'v…	1 Last	Neox Jul 2009
alpha maps in maya hey dudes, was just reading through a thread from here and didn't wanna necropost it. I've got my regular diff, nrml and spec maps setup and i just added an alpha channel for a little bit of hair on…	3 Last	MikeF Jul 2009
Help: Werid coloured polys on export from Modo-Max Ye, I exported a model from max to modo then back and now the model has some random colored polygons. What's going on? It doesn't seem to be vertex shading or a texture so what else is there? [URL=h…	3 Last	Pedro Amorim Jul 2009
Mimicing Art style (Team fortress 2 based) hello all, Im currently working on a project in pimping and previews thats taking alot of my time I want to spend maybe a break after that and work on a quick character in which I want to create a …	9 Last	cman2k Jul 2009
3dsm uvw'ing Hey guys, Quick question that will probably be an easy answer for someone. I'm looking to combine a few separate pieces of geometry so they all share the same uvw map but without destroying the alr…	5 Last	renderhjs Jul 2009
Rigging Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew where I could learn about rigging for example how orientations work. If anyone knows, let me know.	5 Last	theStoff Jul 2009
weird rotation keying problem in Max Long story short, I'm trying to key the rotation of a point helper. I am trying to have it spin around it's local z axis while it's tilted with an angle in x and/or y axis. Everything looks fine when…	2 Last	Krisonrik Jul 2009
1 Large Texture or Few Small Textures? Hey all, I just need to ask quick, I'm working on an iPhone game using most likely 'Shiva' or 'Unity' and I'm making some railings for snowboards ect to grind on and whatnot. I've modelled the rail…	13 Last	Daaark Jul 2009
3DS Max 9 Red Wireframe Bug Crash Imminent So I am working with Max 9 and randomly when working the shading of my object turns off and all that is left is a Red Wireframe of my object. Generally Max will crash with a corrupted file error and…	4 Last	Autocon Jul 2009
3ds Max Preview Selection questions Hey guys, It's probably quite clear now that I'm trying to customise Max to my liking as much as I can, and lots of questions prop up in the process. Right now I'm struggling with Preview Selection …	0 Last	Michael Knubben Jul 2009
UVW Problem exporting to Source Engine Hey guys! Was wondering if any of you might have an idea as to what's happening with my export here... I've exported models to Source a dozen times before (though it has been a few months) and I've…	10 Last	TorQue[MoD] Jul 2009
3dSMax is being a dickhead 3DSMax 2009 64bit edition. So, I am working on a new highpoly model inside of Max when all of a sudden, out of now where, this god damn mother fucker of a white dot shows up. It's on every part o…	32 Last	Shogun3d Jul 2009
Creating Ground Shadows on a PNG animation... So we are animating a character out using png files. curious how we could achieve the effect of light casting the characters shadow onto the ground which would also render out into the png, but still…	2 Last	Enlighter Jul 2009
Tree Creation - Part 2 (leaves) So Ive been asked by a few people now to continue my tutorials for creating trees. (Mainly creating leaves)There is a ton of ways to do this and for the most part its up to whatever way the studio …	7 Last	Vadien Jul 2009
Incredible performance hit in 3dsmax 2009 when object selected. I've tried everything I can think of, so I'm hoping someone else has run into this: In a scene with anywhere from 50k to 500k tris (spread over many objects, like 200-400), when an object is selected…	1 Last	renderhjs Jul 2009
3ds Max constraint questions I'm trying to animate a rotor of a helicoptor. What I want to achieve is a more close to realistic mechanics of how the rotor works. The blades need to be able to tilt individually effected by a cont…	19 Last	cw Jul 2009
How do you do this? I'm going through this tutorial: [URL]http://www.3dtotal.com//team/Tutorials_3/joy_tree/joy_tree_02.php[/URL] and I'm not sure how to make this interesting pattern here. I'm guessing some sort of arr…	7 Last	Vitor Jul 2009
looking for character texturing tutorials Seems that there are only UV mapping tutorials, but what about creating textures in photoshop? I haven't found any that just start out from scratch and I'd be very appreciative of a few since my char…	3 Last	Showster Jul 2009
Base metals What is a good way to create a generic base metal texture that can work with just about any color? I've seen them in racer's tutorial but there was never really an explication to how he made them.	13 Last	Ghostscape Jul 2009
3D Coat - have we done this yet? [url]http://www.3d-coat.com/[/url] Rick and I are just playing with this in work - seems to have a cool featureset and for the price certainly could do a few things very very well - enough to justif…	136 Last	pixelmitherer Jul 2009
If these maya tools existed would you pay for them? A friend of mine is thinking about releasing some world building/environment art tools for maya and charging a license fee per work station. He's wondering if anyone would pay for the bundle and how …	8 Last	malcolm Jul 2009
Merging Cylinders What would be the best way to merge all 3 pieces here so the two top angled cylinders (1 & 2) join at the middle and converge into the base (3) [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/Lexen/Cyl…	6 Last	Tactical Bagpipe Jul 2009
3dsmax scripts - progress capture Hey peeps, I'm kind of new here so go easy on me ;) Over the past couple of months as I've been developing my portfolio, both art and code, I started playing around with max script to make some sim…	11 Last	Renalicious Jul 2009
Help with big tree roots Hey everybody, I've got to model two huge trees for a map, but I ran into troubles getting the shapes right. Here 's the roots I want to model : [IMG]http://tof.canardpc.com/view/941d66b0-0c90-4666…	12 Last	onionhead_o Jul 2009
Noob question about large textures on small objetcs. Lets say i make this really large texture for a tree and think it would look great on an arrow... Will putting this large texture that's already being used in the engine and taking up ram onto the s…	5 Last	crazyfingers Jul 2009
Going from max64 to max32 with animation. I need to transfer some 3ds max files between co-workers but they're running 32-bit versions of max, and i have 64-bit. .obj format works ok for the most part, but for larger scenes it gets problemat…	9 Last	Mark Dygert Jul 2009
Makeing Game Assets From .... Hi i'm Self learner Newcomer in 3d World & i joined this forum because it have a great & professional & active community . So i'm asking for advice & tips & what things that i have to look after it…	3 Last	renderhjs Jul 2009