Technical Talk

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Making objects follow Im making a scene where a character is shooting a practice dummy. The dummies hat flies off then his head. The dummy then is retracted back into the floor accept; I need the hat and head to follow at…	7 Last	Canden Picard Jul 2009
I lost maximum resolution in my second monitor whats up guys. I recently moved and after I set up my computer I realized that I can't set my second monitor to the maximum resolution It can go to. My display properties only allow it to go to 10…	0 Last	breakneck Jul 2009
Maya mental gay turn down the amount of bounce from a particular material? I'm pretty sure there is a way too do this. We have a purple carpet which is illuminating the ceiling with bright purple bounce. Any way to dampen the purple colour it's bouncing?	6 Last	Toast Jul 2009
Baking A Light Map? This is probably one of the most basic things in the book, but I would like to create a Light Map for a character. My ultimate goal is to pull that map into Photoshop and use it as reference for my …	3 Last	Metta Jul 2009
Max weirdness (extrude and undo) I've been getting this bug somewhat regularly lately and I'm not sure what causes it. Quitting and restarting Max does fix it, so it's just an inconvenience, but I'm wondering if there's something th…	4 Last	mLichy Jul 2009
ASCII 3D file formats [I apologize if this message gets posted twice. I thought I posted the first one but can't find it on the forum, so maybe I didn't post correctly.] My game will just use small, static textured mode…	14 Last	sama.van Jul 2009
question about photoshop brushes is it possible to open and edit the contents of an abr file?	7 Last	BeatKitano Jul 2009
fbx problems There is one thing really bugging me and its the conversion of the key frames from one package to another. I want to keep the keyframes in exactly the same place/exactly the same amount when convert…	7 Last	sama.van Jul 2009
Chuggnuts UV Tools Hey I love these tools but does anyone know if you can set up hot keys for some of the functions. Mainly the vert alignment functions. It would speed things up greatly.	7 Last	vik Jul 2009
recommended, intuitive compositing app? Hi all! So I have been playing a bit with matte/camera projection techniques, basically having fun merging 2D and 3D together (and that's A LOT of fun) I can output uncompressed videos from 3DSMax …	28 Last	howmanyarms Jul 2009
Creature - modelling problems Long time no see guys. I'm doing this creature called an Amphidiam for my game. This is it so far. It's not much but I'm kind of having trouble taking it further. It has alot to go but I don't know …	5 Last	NoisyMonk Jul 2009
Some basic modeling tips for a Tram game model??? Sorry if this seems like a stupid thing, but I've got a few questions about poly modeling that I was hoping one of you more experienced guys could answer. I'm working on a low poly tram game model. I…	3 Last	Zwebbie Jul 2009
Silo development update (bad news for fans, I'm afraid) Bit of a sensationalist headline, but not as bad as cgdig's 'Silo almost dead'. Here's what the developers posted: [QUOTE]Hey guys, Hmm, looks like some communication from me is in order again, sor…	26 Last	BeatKitano Jul 2009
max 2010 material editor bug is it a bug? drag and drop a directx material to a new slot, the shader goes over but all the textures do not! damn it all! maybe this is not crucial, but a tad annoying as i keep habitually doing…	2 Last	cw Jul 2009
Unreal 3 Lighting help Hey guys, I'm trying to set up my latest model in Unreal3 via the Gears1 editor. Problem is I never touched lighting in Unreal, being a modeler. At first i was having the problem that the fake subsur…	5 Last	Art-Machine Jul 2009
Undo hell in MAX When I am animating in Max it is not smart to press on Ctrl + Z to undo my action because it probably will not undo or it will ruin my whole animation. The undo works when I am just modelling so it i…	5 Last	Nysuatro Jul 2009
Artweaver paint app Anyone playing with this? i started a hunt recently for some new and interesting paint progs, came across a few that I like, but I think this one seems to be the most promising, and free! [url]http…	10 Last	rooster Jul 2009
Ambient occlusion for entire scene I want to show the ambient occlusion pass for a breakdown of my scenes in my demo reel. I was wondering what is the work flow for doing ambient occlusion for an entire 3d scene. I have done it on sin…	4 Last	glib Jul 2009
ok first the heats now mudbox1 is busted as the title said i have win xp 64 bit , everything runs fast etc except mudbox 1 wich clogs at 200 000 polys and gets impossible to work on , has anyone have trouble with mud1 in 64 bits ? i also tr…	9 Last	Joao Sapiro Jul 2009
What do you guys call the little light glow around a light bulb in a game? I refer to these glows around lights as halos. Usually done with a forward facing quad set to additive in front of the street light model or whatever. Just wondering if there is a more common name ev…	15 Last	SHEPEIRO Jun 2009
Engine Turntables and Tools? hi there first post!, I have a few questions about presenting game res characters and tools. I have been working as a professional character artist in the film industry for about 7 years now. my mai…	5 Last	howmanyarms Jun 2009
Camera Mapping or cammap Hello, I did some research on the forum but I didn't find any pages on the camera mapping... On google on found that : [url]http://www.3dfluff.com/cameramapping/cameramappingtut.htm[/url] But it'…	10 Last	kodde Jun 2009
Easy 3d platformer/puzzle Engine? Hey guys I have to create a demo of a game I am designing. It is a platformer/puzzle game where the player switches to a "design mode" to create gadjets like The Spore creature creator orbanjo kazooi…	7 Last	Richard Kain Jun 2009
[3dsmax] Picking an specific RGB color for transparency? Hello guys I'm working on a low end game (DS) and we use indexed bitmaps for textures, where the first color slot is used by the engine as 100% transparent. Is there any way to configure the opacit…	16 Last	kio Jun 2009
Expand boarder pixel on a lightmap without overlap in mental gay? So I'm wondering if anyone knows of an external tool to expand the boarder pixel of a texture, basically we have found that mental gay expands it boarder pixels on shells rather than expanding them o…	19 Last	CrazyButcher Jun 2009
Maya smooth mesh problem I'm having a problem in maya 2k9 where when using the smooth mesh preview (3) random edges are becoming pinched. They have nothing to do with hard/soft edges or creases, and after many hours of tryin…	5 Last	ivars Jun 2009
Proportional Plane Error popups in Max 2010 :/ hello i need help solving a problem.I downloaded Proper plane over at scriptspot [url]http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/proportiona[/url] l-plane Not sure if it has to do with 64bits Max or Vista …	2 Last	Thewiruz Jun 2009
Global 'Ignore Backfacing'-toggle in max? I'm looking for a global toggle for Ignore Backfacing, meaning that I want one shortcut/ui button to toggle it on and off on all objects in the scene. Does anyone know of a script that does this? It …	5 Last	Michael Knubben Jun 2009
share: maxscript > store camera resolution per camera what: simple maxscript that stores and reads per camera stored rendering resolution settings (width and height). You simply click on a camera of that list (list of your cameras in the scene) and it w…	0 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
Lost Spec in DX preview in Max 9 I don't know what I did, or if its related to my driver update. the dx material preview is not showing my specular map in the viewport. Previous creations have. Anyone know of a button or somethin…	2 Last	killingpeople Jun 2009
Photoshop CS3... Obj importer and 3D viewer I was messing around with CS3 today at work and I was trying to import one of my 3D meshes into it so i could come up with a cool new background. BUT... when i tried to open the obj & 3ds i got an …	1 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
vector data from google maps? shot in the dark here, but, i was wondering how one might go about exporting vector data from google maps? they use vectors, right? would that even be legal? or, maybe there is a resource that offer…	4 Last	frubes Jun 2009
Zbrush help I tried exporting a head model from maya 8.5 to zbrush but when I did I found that the ears of the model would not transfer. For some reason they are only visible from the back. would anyone happen t…	2 Last	theStoff Jun 2009
3ds Max Working Pivot to Local Pivot? Is there some way to make the working pivot become the object's actual pivot? Alternatively is there a way to align an object's pivot to the view or the surface (like you can with the working pivot)…	2 Last	Ghostscape Jun 2009
Maya - Custom marking menu I've searched around on this now and again, and I can't find a way so far. I've a custom marking menu set up for UV tasks, and have it assigned to a hotkey. However, this combination isn't valid wi…	0 Last	throttlekitty Jun 2009
arshlevon's custom Zbrush interfaces made some barebones zbrush interfaces, one for sculpting and one for painting. the only thing i would really like to add are the subtools and layer panels from the tool rollout. right now there is a …	12 Last	Mark Dygert Jun 2009
Dynamic Snow? Hey all I'm working on this scene: [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m85/drm111/JibLife/Scene1_1-1.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m85/drm111/JibLife/Scene1_2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]…	13 Last	Enlighter Jun 2009
incremental saving PS ? I am looking for a script or tutorial on macro recording incremental saving for photoshop cs 2. Anyone has a script or macro thats he wants to sahre?	2 Last	Vredesbyrd Jun 2009
iPhone Engines - Cocos2D I don't know if anyone else around polycount is working on an iPhone app, or is interested in working on one. I started working on a very simple iPhone app a week ago. At first it was a pretty rough …	2 Last	Richard Kain Jun 2009
Zbrush Artist UI I remember a while back seeing a few Zbrush artist UI's. Anyone know where that was? I'm trying to show the guys here at work, how useful Zbrush is but the UI is confusing them... :) thanks,.	4 Last	PolyHertz Jun 2009
Low poly clothing? I'm interested in learning how clothing is done in gaming. Can anyone recommend a good method of creating low poly clothing? Also what are the best tools to use? Are Zbrush or Mudbox recommended? …	5 Last	Richard Kain Jun 2009
Slow PS CS3 oddness on vista This is a strange problem that varies on each computer. I thought it may have had something to do with Vista Aero but I can't recreate it properly. Basically some computers take FOREVER to open or …	4 Last	kodde Jun 2009
Normal problem in Unread ed 3 First let me say I am no expert in unread ed, actually at this point I hate it actually but I have to use it so I am stuck Anyway I am having a normal problem that when I fix it it causes another pr…	6 Last	Lamont Jun 2009
maya cgfx shader does not show in uv texture editor? We're using a cgfx shader at work and in the uv editor it comes up as bright green instead of displaying the diffuse texture applied, any ideas?	3 Last	malcolm Jun 2009
3d apps in the games industry Hi, I'm Alec, I'm a "youngen" (14) and I'd like to delve into game development art careers, currently I'm using Blender, I did use maya for a while but with my new computer a whole bunch of crap cam…	38 Last	ironbearxl Jun 2009
.irx > elf > ? So, eventually I'm trying to get over to doing [URL="http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showtopic=26604"]this tutorial[/URL] on transferring rigging from a game sprite to a blender model, but I'm not…	0 Last	sand3 Jun 2009
material editor not showing up....max8 ok folks. so sorry for this. i have been having some monitor weirdness going on. posted thread earlier bout diag boxes not showing up in pshop. solved that(had to ctrl shift alt while starting to…	5 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
Crysis Sandbox2 - MEGA THREAD Well seeing as alot more people are starting to use this tool, i would like to start this thread. Post tutorial links in this thread as i know there's not a lot of documentation for sandbox and is …	2 Last	[HP] Jun 2009
Maya tweak & connect tools Can someone point me toward a good tweak tool script/plugin for maya that has quick smooth access (like the move tool in zbrush)? Also, anything similar to maxs connect function (w/ pinch and slide…	6 Last	PolyHertz Jun 2009
Baby's first maxscript Okay, so when I worked in maya I would make myself little macro type mel scripts all the time for operations I found I needed to repeat often (ie. scale -1 on one axis, freeze transforms, invert norm…	6 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009