Technical Talk

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Crit My Painting Workflow Please! Hey guys, this is sort of an unusual thread I guess; but I think I could get some good information here that could really help me if I post this. Anyways, I have some freelance work lined up, where …	9 Last	BradMyers82 Jun 2009
MaxScript Issues (arrays?) I'm trying to write some simple UV tools, but I'm running up against some oddities with arrays. I'm no MaxScript expert, so I'm probably doing something wrong somewhere. I'd started off with trying …	8 Last	renderhjs Jun 2009
4k texture maps? Hey everyone, I was sent an art test for a Freespace Mod, and I was asked to use a 4k map for a fighter craft. This seems a bit too huge for something that takes up maybe 20% of the screen. What do y…	9 Last	Gannon Jun 2009
Extrusion problem I am sorry to impose again but now I am having tool trouble that frankly I don't even know what to call it, my extrusion tool is casing an odd pie effect. The most noticeable example is when I extru…	2 Last	Harryscary276 Jun 2009
Desaturate bounce transfer maya mentalgay? Is it possible to desaturate the colour of a photon that bounces of a surface. I'd like a global control we have a lot of saturated textures in our scene and these are bouncing quite saturated light …	15 Last	nezach Jun 2009
quick question on joint topology for a toad I am not sure which type of topology would be best for my toad's joints. In circle 1, I extruded the lower leg from the bottom of the upper leg and in circle 2, I just bent the leg around in the new …	8 Last	Frankie V Jun 2009
Poly Types and Animations in TGEA... So I am new to the community here. I am a complete newb when it comes to the 3D side of things and game engines. I have a few questions that hopefully some of you more experienced 3D'rs can help wit…	6 Last	Daaark Jun 2009
2 custom applications. Hey guys, a friend of mine ,Rikard,made this program that I asked him to do, it makes screenshots of your selection and you add comments to it, very easy and quick. Good for making tutorials: [URL=…	23 Last	Funky Bunnies Jun 2009
PS CS2 + Cintiq + Vista64 = madness? So, there appear to be some big issues with running certain versions of Photoshop on Vista (moreso on 64bit). Add in the fact I'm using a Cintiq, and there's fun stuff going on all the time. Random …	8 Last	Xenobond May 2009
avi/mpeg codec for 3d render? OK this may be a retarded question, but if you are rendering something out in max as a video which codec are people using nowadays? i noticed divx has gone totally commercial, i used to use that all…	10 Last	renderhjs May 2009
tri hunter anyone got a link to a script that finds tris in a quad mesh thnks	6 Last	Ruz May 2009
Weird problem with imported buildins in UT3 editor This is an odd problem I am having in UT3Ed I import a building I built in Maya 2008 into the map I am working on and for some odd reason the walls of the back side of the building are transparent,…	9 Last	Harryscary276 May 2009
" Puppetshop" problem in Max Hey, After i've created a Puppetshop rig in Max and try to attach it to the model via physique (attach to node), i've found that it creates an envelope for everything including all the attached cont…	4 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009
Warcraft III Engine help I'm just wondering if there is a way to import your own models into the Warcraft III engine from Maya. Does anyone know of any workflow? Or even a link that would guide me best? Thanks much! :)	2 Last	e-freak May 2009
Very odd Problem with displacement map I am running into some very strange displacement map issue. Here are 2 different renders using Maya 2008 and Maya 2009. Both of these renders were based on exact same file. I couldn't find an answer …	4 Last	Krisonrik May 2009
simple z brush question : hey guys i have something i need to export out of zbrush ( a sculpt ) but i hit export, and it doesnt export nothing, the model has various pieces, is it possible to simply select all and export ? Zb…	4 Last	Vitor May 2009
lightmap on different UV-set (maya 7) Hi guys, I have this model, which has two uv-sets. One for some tiled texture, and the other one for a lightmap. I'm using maya 7.0 and made a layered texture for this to work. After connecting tile…	2 Last	bugo May 2009
Player bounding boxes and first person view weapons Hi guys! We're trying to make an FPS game(not the nextest-gen though :) ). We're having some problems with the first person view weapons going through walls. We have yet to find a proper solution. We…	8 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009
Maya transparency rendering issues hey guys, i've got some decals that i'm trying to render in a scene in maya. basically i've got cards that have transparent alpha setups going on. everything looks fine in the viewport, but when i d…	8 Last	Toast May 2009
inverse cubemap? Hiho guys i'm currently playing around alot with shaders and for a pretty specific effect i was searching for something that acts like an inverted cubemap. To make it clear, a cubemap acts like a ref…	6 Last	Xoliul May 2009
3D Studio Max on grid... I never found that out and it is quite annoying. Is it possible to move your stuff in the preview window on the z-axis when you are working snapped on grid? I'm working with 2.5 snap, but it doesnt …	7 Last	slave_one May 2009
MD5 format explained. I hope someone can help me out. Im looking for any information in regards to the animation requirements for the MD5 format in general and setting up a model to be included in the game. Also I noti…	23 Last	odium May 2009
monitor spyder...... anyone here ever use one of these things? i am trying to get my monitors to match as best as possible with the ones i have at work. they are even of the same company. but when i take something to …	3 Last	Snowfly May 2009
Toony Style Next gen This is often something ive been working on lately....but I cant figure out the right approaches or ideas to this... ok what I mean by toony style next gen is game models that have a more painterly…	20 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009
how to go about modelling buildings for games? So I need to whip up some buildings for a game and im drawing a blank on how i should go about doing it. i.e, for a building like this: [img]http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/jpgs/high_street_ap…	7 Last	Jet_Pilot May 2009
Propeller help Any body know how to make a propeller correctly, for a plane	6 Last	nezach May 2009
MD3 exporter for latest versions of 3ds Max? Does anyone pleasssee know if there is an md3 exporter available for the latest version of 3ds max? If not I seem to recall that Pop ‘N’ Fresh made the source code for his exporter avail…	11 Last	arshlevon May 2009
motionbuilder help hi, i'm having trouble getting mocap animations out of mb into max character studio. this is what i tried: open mocap, add a 3ds max biped template, assigned the required bones in the character defi…	1 Last	SharkByte May 2009
Mudbox difficulties from a MB n00bie I played with Mudbox trying to get the feel of it and had quite a few problems that seemed like they should be simple to fix and thought I'd ask here. Hope it's not against any rules, but I have th…	5 Last	Ben Apuna May 2009
The fundamentals of 3D that can applied to learning any program? Hi everyone. The main app i'm using right now is softimage, but from what I've experienced every 3d app can basically do the same thing as the next but each app has it's own workflow, advantages, and…	2 Last	Xoliul May 2009
xsi to uvlayout to xsi to smashface i finished uv mapping my dw4 char today in uvlayout i update and go to import the saved obj into xsi and crash, i can import as clusters but this is no good as i want the objects seperated for when i…	7 Last	renderhjs May 2009
Smoothing Groups LODs Chamfer Normals Maps I couldnt figure which thread to put this in since its talking about a cross section of all.. Ok here is something. Chamfer when you can versus using smoothing groups is what I take away from much …	4 Last	oXYnary May 2009
Loops for the nasolabial folds These are a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but since I see so many that are wrong in my eyes, I'm not actually sure whether I'm wrong or right anymore. Enter you! From what I can tell from looking at m…	1 Last	Slum May 2009
Massive black downloads. Hey guys. I was just wondering how many of you had seen the massive black tutorial downloads. I know most of you guys are 3d but I'm sure there are some interested people round here :). They are pr…	14 Last	Kawe May 2009
3dsmax 2010, graphite modling tools gone what the image says: [IMG]http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4553/max2010graphitegone.gif[/IMG] anyone knows which switch to flip in order to get it back? I heard that the panel is based on XML file…	5 Last	kite212 May 2009
newb looking for info Hi everyone Im new. I have been tasked with creating the armoured shuttle buses from "Dawn of the Dead" for a Left4Dead mod. I was wondering if you guys could tell me a rough polycount that I shoul…	5 Last	pior May 2009
Epic Games Highpoly rendering setup? Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows how epic setup their render settings to get those nice looking clay type renders on their highpoly models? I really like how they look, and how they bring out t…	10 Last	mLichy May 2009
RAGE lighting and shadows? This question spawned from a discussion about baked radiosity and texture shadows (Mirrors Edge style) VS shadow mapping and indirect lightmaps (COD4 Style) and their respective aesthetic and perfor…	14 Last	cptincognito May 2009
maya md3? wanted to do some old school stuff, i was wondering if anyone knew of a md3 import export plugin for maya. having a hardtime finding anything on the web. there is supposed to be one here, [url]http:/…	7 Last	arshlevon May 2009
Photoshop - No Anti-Alias on Free Transform I'm doing some pixel art and it'd save me a lot of time if I could use rotate, resize, distort and whatnot without having the pixels automatically antialias. Is there a way to do this?	2 Last	Steve Schulze May 2009
Targas with alpha 1 bit, is there a way? Is there a way to setup targa images with only 1 bit in alpha?	14 Last	bugo May 2009
Please help a newb get his feet wet Hello everyone, I'm very new to game design, and taken an interest in the modeling aspect, which brings me here. Ive been playing around with what i can get my hands including: blender, Maya, s3d. t…	4 Last	newbreed May 2009
3ds max - spline import i'm looking for a way to import vector graphics as splines into 3ds max that does not involve adobe illustrator at all. are there any alternatives? i usually use inkscape for the (rather small and si…	6 Last	Sage May 2009
Instance for frees? Hello there, I have little experience with game engines so I have to ask, does this rule of "free instanced geometry" once a piece is loaded - work in every game engine?	5 Last	Daaark May 2009
snapshotasmesh into new mesh how do i paste a snapshotted mesh into a new object?	9 Last	dejawolf May 2009
Gray-boxing? I'm reading the latest issue of Game Developer and there's an article about Deadly Creatures. [url]http://gamedeveloper.texterity.com/gamedeveloper/200905/?sub_id=CaWERAuv3UCqI[/url] A whole chapte…	14 Last	John Warner May 2009
Paint Skin Weight Tool Maya Anyone know how to take away the white so there is less influence? I can only add white. Thanks! :)	3 Last	joe gracey May 2009
no T strange problem with maxscript createfile. for some reason, i can't use the letter T in the file name, because it throws an exception...	4 Last	dejawolf May 2009
3ds Max 2009 UVW Mapping/Texturing Help! Hey all! Obviously I'm new here, and I stumbled on the site trying to find a reference image for a project im working on, and it seems to be right up my ally! Anyways, my question would be, does an…	3 Last	Mental_Hernia May 2009
Tweak the Weight Tool? hi you know if it's possible to tweak this popup with maxscript? [img]http://uppix.3dvf.com/images/skinningtw.gif[/img] i don't find the file of this tool :poly141:	6 Last	zOffTy May 2009