Technical Talk

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weird pshop 7 issue........hmmmmmmm i'm using anciet ass pshop 7. all of the sudden, whenever i try to access the color wheel the eyedropper is immediately activated. what the hell???? anybody have this prob?	9 Last	keizza Jun 2009
File browsing application? tags and descriptions Hello everyone. I've been looking for a specific application for a while but I haven't been able to find what I want. Basically I want an application that can do the following: - Browse files normal…	13 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
Platform topology? Hey again. I have a question regarding topology for different platforms. Are there any strict guidelines for creating content for Xbox 360 and PS3 compared to PC platform? Like if you have a compl…	6 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
Some nagging Normal Map questions [edit] sorry, delete this. Didn't notice the normal mapping thread.	0 Last	ArcticNova83 Jun 2009
Mudbox Painting So basically I'm making a barricade for crysis and I want to try painting on the UVs using mudbox, I've made the lowpoly model, aswell as a normal map from a high poly sculpt, then I've uved the lowp…	3 Last	DEElekgolo Jun 2009
Spline modeling? So a friend of mine has been singing the praises of spline modeling for sometime now. I usually just brush him off and tell him to go sub-d. Last night he was over and going on and on about how splin…	23 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
New to 3D Animation -- Good Maya Tutorials? Good Midnight Poly Counters. I just recently joined your forum due to perseverance from someone who is a frequenter of the polycount forums. He had nothing but great things to say about you folks an…	0 Last	TheTerribleSilence Jun 2009
inset letters Thought I would make a new thread for this because I didnt want to clog up MOP's game art ws thread. Well I was trying to create some inset lettering on this object [IMG]http://www.projectphidev.com…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Jun 2009
Textures / Detail map, sites [COLOR="green"][B]As the thread says post the texture sites you enjoy grabbing images from to use in your work.[/B][/COLOR] :) [COLOR="Teal"]Pretty damn good texture sets:[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.f…	2 Last	[HP] Jun 2009
Best modeling-tech for enterable buildings? I have the feeling that I'm modelling interior rooms not the best possible way. Most times I have problems selecting all the faces to assign my mat-ids through the walls. Modelling proper floors and…	5 Last	Minos Jun 2009
dof in maya How can I link the dof to the camera distance from a given object. obviously if my camera is moving/ panning around I wnat to keep the DOF consistent. cheers for any help offered I am sure there is…	6 Last	Ruz Jun 2009
trying to think around modular environments I'm not really concerned about modeling the outside of buildings and such, those are straight forward, modular, similar enough geometry, variation, tileable mesh to form scenery and buildings. Here'…	13 Last	sir-knight Jun 2009
retrieving 2nd uvw channel in max Hey guys, using max 2009, I have a model with a 2nd channel in the uvs, but i collapsed the uvw unwrap modifier, now everytime i make a new modifier it will override channel 2 by channel one as i us…	4 Last	Neox Jun 2009
Best UV relaxing tools? Any have experience with a great tool for relaxing UV maps? I've heard of Deep UV and maybe there's some great freeware I'm missing out on? I use the relax tool in the 3dsMax unwrap modifier so far.…	10 Last	Bokaja Jun 2009
tiling texture preview tool anyone know of a free tiling texture preview tool....was using texturedesk but the machine i'm on for some reason won't isnt working with it. when i open a psd in it it shows up saying the psd isnt s…	2 Last	airbrush Jun 2009
shader question: staggering normals i want to take the normal vector and offset it a bit by a random amount, probably by a noise texture. actually i want to do it a few times and composite the result, the result should look blurred.. a…	5 Last	arshlevon Jun 2009
Maya 2009 Marking menus Hi guys, in previous versions of Maya if you held down "w" and LMB, you'd get a marking menu with various move options. In 2009 the "normal" option has been replaced by "normal average" which sucks i…	2 Last	Polyjunky Jun 2009
Rope lashing Hey I was wondering if anyone had an idea for the best approach to moedeling rope lashings tieing two wooden poles together say for like a bridge? I am using Max 2009 and plan on taking it into Zbrus…	20 Last	Valandar Jun 2009
SoftImage questions from a max user I've been playing around with SoftImage 7.5 for a few days and googling alot about the tools and watching tutorials etc but still have some questions about alternative methods of doing things; 1) Fi…	8 Last	Murdoc Jun 2009
UE3 question Does anyone know how to transfer packages form UE3? In that I mean I am rebuilding my comp and need to wipe my harddrive but I want to transfer mypackages when I reinstall, any suggestions? Thanks.	3 Last	Jesse Moody Jun 2009
Max 2010 shortcut key bugs Maybe this just happens with Dot Loop/Ring, but when I set them to alt+L/G respectively they don't work like they're supposed too. However, they're working fine from the bloated ribbon menu....	7 Last	ironbearxl Jun 2009
Need help with tire tread Hi, i am trying to model an artillery and i can't seem to get going with the tire treads. They are harder to model than i thought they were going to. Can anyone get me started or link me to a good …	5 Last	CrazyButcher Jun 2009
Question About next gen Vechiles So i was about to start a new project by modeling a p-40 warhawk.(which is an aircraft) Now with the current trends in games what do you guys feel would be a good tri or poly limit for a vehicle that…	7 Last	Ryno Jun 2009
Building myself a rig Ok, so in the last year I have gathered as much money as I can (being a student sucks) and i got like 600$ and I wants to build me a solid computer which i can later upgrade. I was thinking of someth…	10 Last	sir-knight Jun 2009
intuos stuttering This is driving me mad. I am not sure if its the intuos drivers or zbrush but I am getting variable performance from my intuos and at time its like painting with a brick ie lumpy stokes, lack of pres…	14 Last	[Deleted User] Jun 2009
Alternate industry entry points Hello Polycount community, I am an aspiring environment artist (working on reel) however its becoming evident that finding a job as a modeler in the industry without any previous experience is becom…	10 Last	lefix Jun 2009
Photographing people for textures Hi all, I'm looking to take some photos of people for use in character textures. I was wondering if anyone has any tips for taking good ambient lit photos for texture reference, for things like face…	8 Last	Gilgamesh Jun 2009
Copy paste UVs? What is a good free UV mapping tool that allows me to copy and paste UV maps from objects that are similar? The one that 3ds max has built in always heavily distorts the uvs for me when I copy and pa…	6 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
painting on desktop is there a tool where you can paint on the screen, just to mark some things? when modeling i often ahve to remember where to put what, so putting a marker on an overlay on the desptop would be cool	9 Last	Kawe Jun 2009
3ds Max Start Up Issue: What the F-Prompt ??? [img]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c348/pliang/Prompt.jpg[/img] I started up max early yesterday and got this really bizzare startup message...has anyone encountered this issue before and know …	6 Last	us marriage Jun 2009
photoshop pad selection action? hey guys, i remember having a photoshop action that takes a selection, grabs the pixels around it's edge, and duplicates them out around the selection, giving each selection island a pixel width of p…	12 Last	Michael Knubben Jun 2009
quick zbrush topology question I can tell the normals on my topology are flipped when I preview the projection. How can I flip this back? The "flip" button under display properties is grayed out when working with the retopo cage…	6 Last	Junkie_XL Jun 2009
UVW Map question Hi guys, I've been trying to find a thread where someone put an example of optimization for a lowpoly tank for DS specs. He did with the tank UVWmap something like this: [b]Changed this:[/b] [img]htt…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2009
Softimage polygon selection problem Hi, I downloaded a trial version of autodesk softimage 64bit and after I set up all my hotkeys, I tried playing around with it and every time I try to select a polygon/edge/vertex, I end up selecting…	7 Last	Yozora Jun 2009
New Zbrush features looks like zbrush just got a massive shot of awesomeness. [url]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=071829[/url] seroiusly though looking sweet! click. watch. now. EDIT. there is ano…	1 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
monitor goes poof... probably faulty capacitor? Ok, so my secondary monitor (19 inch samsung 940N) stopped working. The screen flickers a bit after the monitor is on for more than a couple of minutes, and then goes black with the light staying blu…	11 Last	t4paN Jun 2009
Help with Tread animation I'm trying to model a sort of siege tank for a project. The model needs to have at least two moving parts. The first moving part is the main cannon which swivels from side to side. I wanted to make t…	8 Last	cman2k Jun 2009
How to do car procedural destruction? I have a small offline rendering job, static image. I need to create a car that has been crunched like a soda can. I remember using the demo from PhysX where you could crunch metal barrels that looke…	10 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
Smoothing Groups in Unreal? Using Maya, I know that Smoothing Groups in 3dsMax, to the best of my knowledge, function in a similar manner to Soften/Harden Edges, but for UnrealEd 3 I can't seem to find a real difference between…	6 Last	warby Jun 2009
Creating Low Poly From High Poly in Max Ok so I wondering after completing a high poly model in max, what is your work flow for creating the low poly around it. If their are any plugins or tools to help in this process I'm all ears because…	19 Last	Empty Jun 2009
Hard Drive Recovery Companies Gotta drive that kicked the bucket today. There was TONS of shite on this thing. It fires up, and then goes click only to stab my heart every time the arm tries to kick over to read. :( I know th…	7 Last	sir-knight Jun 2009
Getting an AO map out of Floating geometry So I was working on a normal map base for a texture this morning, and I want to get an AO map out of it - but I have no idea if its possible with floating geometry (see below!). So whats the best w…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2009
Max hotkeys Hey I have been having a few problems getting some of my hotkeys set within max. My main one is Bridge, it is a tool that I would love to utilize more in my workflow, but only have succesfully got a…	6 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
3ds max edged faces performance issue hey ho.. i´m wondering if there's some kind of a fix for the problem, that max starts to get very slow with "edged faces" enabled or some way to increase the speed at least a little bit it seems t…	3 Last	rollin Jun 2009
3DSM 7 - Duplicating UV channels? I want to duplicate the uvs from channel one to channel two, setting the channel to two resets my uvs. Saving/loading uvw files does not work. Halp?	4 Last	LEViATHAN Jun 2009
Blender's Interpolation Woes Uh, instead of a text wall I was going to write... I'm making low-poly models in Blender, and I'm relatively new to the whole 3D art form at all. I'm a long-time pixel artist, and as such I want to …	3 Last	Richard Kain Jun 2009
Help with baking and normal map ? Hello , first of all I am not a pro , just an amateurish modder that wants to learn , that said here is my problem , I hope I am allowed to post here even if its a pro maker forum here ..... the pro…	8 Last	jogshy Jun 2009
Help to make a model low poly-Highpoly Hello , Sorry if I posted this already in the wip thread , but I feel that I need more technical advices and guidance than showing it off in the Wip section ,.... So I hope you won't mind if I post i…	4 Last	shadows Jun 2009
mesh to nurbs Is it possible to convert a mesh object into a nurbs object? Thanks! :)	7 Last	00Zero Jun 2009
Workflow UV Issue Hey all, Just got directed to this thread by a friend and found tons of really useful environmental art related information. Anyways I've been doing the whole learning Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop thing …	3 Last	Emiraly Jun 2009