Technical Talk

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Wacom, wacom, WACOM!!!! i was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them before. sometimes my wacom acts strange, the cursor just starts shaking randomly, and it doesn't behave like it normally does. It makes pain…	9 Last	Sage May 2009
Move/Scale/Rotate Tool Broken! Hey Polycounters, first time poster here :) Anyway I have a problem, as the title says, my move/scale/rotate tools are broken for some reason I'm un-able to use them in certain views but am still ab…	6 Last	ivars May 2009
png alpha.... again okay... has anyone run into this? I have an indexed palette of 256 colors on a png file... this is normal. this png file has a 4 bit transparency channel. This is not normal. This is SO not normal…	5 Last	sir-knight May 2009
Video captureing - interlaced (tv/xbox360) So i got myself a 3rd capture device, an older pinnacle dazzle, I connected my 360 to it and for the first time i got some color in my video. i believe the 360 signal is PAL 60, and is interlaced. …	2 Last	Wheel May 2009
ZBrush: Panning in projection master In ZBrush when you place your model in projection mode it is temporarily dropped to canvas and effectively becomes 2.5d until you pick it up. Is it possible to pan the canvas or is this impossible on…	11 Last	Firebert May 2009
3ds Export problem Heya, I'm wondering if any of you could help with this problem. When exporting in 3ds format, if you export with texture coordinate protection, it breaks all the verts on texture seams (so in some pl…	2 Last	Xoliul May 2009
Max Rendering Help - Fit mesh to view Hey all! I'm trying to render out a scene in max to a specific frame size 1600 x 45 pixels. My problem is getting the mesh in max to fit to the specified render area. I tried using the zoom extents …	13 Last	SyncViewS May 2009
Paint Vertex Color in Maya 2009 Hello everyone, great forum! I'm wondering how i can increase the performance of Paint vertex colors. If a mesh gets more than about 4k polys, Maya bogs so slow as to render this interface useless.…	1 Last	MoP May 2009
tweaking model distorts existing UVs Hello polycounters this is my first post here, I intend to be hanging around these forums a lot trying to absorb all of this information. Looking forward to it! I have a quick question, working in …	3 Last	omegalith May 2009
Normal Map Craziness!!! 3ds max 2009 hello Polycounters! I recently attempted a simple tutorial on generating normal maps in max... I followed the tut step by step but my final render is this... [IMG]http://i728.photobucket.com/alb…	6 Last	jaball May 2009
Lightmaps seem sucky. I'm workin on some environments in the unity engine. we're using lightmaps rendered from maya to light the scenes. My beef with the lightmap thang is that it's impossible to get the surface brighter…	5 Last	John Warner May 2009
3dmax - What is ''Show Hardware map in viewport' ? What is the difference between 'Standard map in Viewport'?	1 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009
shaderFX shadows not working Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure this out. I'm using ShaderFX 3 (the free version) to render my DW entry. I'm trying to get the realtime shadows working, but I must be missing a s…	5 Last	funshark May 2009
Maya UV Gizmo Hello im using maya 8.5 Everything im making has to have 3 UV sets and I seem to have figured this out generally. but do you typically line up textures to UV sets using the relationship editor? my …	13 Last	Microneezia May 2009
3d max - Unwrap UVW, lightmaps. I have lots of objects in my scene, and I would like to unwrap UVs for them to bake lightmaps. I decided that 4 lightmpas (2k x 2k) was enough. But the problem is with unwrap UVs for the objects. I c…	1 Last	renderhjs May 2009
Preserving edges (Zbrush) Hello all. I need to know how people acheive that hard mechanical look on there edges when smoothed out for a personal project I'm working on. I know this is a noob question but I just haven't really…	3 Last	Chaosv49 May 2009
Questions about Cubemap From some ppls work i have seen them use a cubemap for reflection. And I have been wondering how to create one? Also does it only work with stationary objects? and where to plug it in in max for it t…	15 Last	Andreas May 2009
Maya Shelf Creation Hello, Im having to use Maya 8.5 for a month or so - Ive been able to transfer from max fairly painlessly - except for the first hour when I realized that it wasnt going to be a simple swap of shor…	7 Last	rooster May 2009
Shader/ParticleFX pipelines...? I've really wanted to move into creating shaders and particle fx for our game, but not really sure where to start.. Our current pipeline doesn't allow much for the artist in regards to create shade…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2009
Human Front And Side References Ive been searching all day for some Human references for the [B]front and side[/B] but couldnt find anything but some crappy off proportion ones. :poly118: Also ive searched the reference thread and…	2 Last	Luke_Starkie May 2009
Maya - undo twice In maya I have to hit undo at least twice to undo. I've probably got a special setting enabled somewhere, anyone know what it might be?	3 Last	solar May 2009
where do you FX dudes get smoke textures from? Hey guys, So i've been getting into fx lately in unreal and have a good understanding of the particle editor. What I was wondering is where do most fx artists start for their smoke and fire sources? …	6 Last	PixelMasher May 2009
Web page help Hello to everyone! This is my first post here at polycount. Just a simple question for anyone who has time to answer. I'm fairly new in the game art and design program here at the Art Institute o…	21 Last	Richard Kain May 2009
Handling high poly objects in max I have a few meshes in max 2009 imported from zbrush and the scene is knocking 8 million polys. How do you guys manage the scene with such high poly counts? I have active degradation on but that doe…	10 Last	RickFX May 2009
So I got my new pc and I hate it. Hey so I got my new pc and the case fan is super loud, the hard drive is loud but most annoying when I move the mouse or certain graphical elements appear on the screen there is an electrical hissing…	30 Last	EarthQuake May 2009
Bake deformer to vertice animation (maya 2009) I need some help on how to bake a deformer that's affecting geometry to the vertices of that geometry. I want to be able to delete the deformer and keep the animation intact. Specifically my setup is…	5 Last	BuCC May 2009
Help with UE3 - Play testing issues! Hey guys, after downloading the unreal patch 4, every time I save out a map as a DM or CTF and then try to play test, it just drops me into the level with my weapon, hud, etc. I can't move around or …	2 Last	Mcejn May 2009
[Papekura Designer] Multi texture problem!! I know Pior is using it... maybe another UFO arround know about it : [url]http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/[/url] Anyway, I actually create a body with one texture, but when I import another b…	3 Last	sama.van May 2009
Some Maya Questions Hi, Im coming back to Maya after 5 years of Max and I have a few questions if any one has the time... 1. When creating new uvs for a model they are created in a new uv slot, not over the existing uv…	6 Last	easterislandnick May 2009
Flipped Normals in zbrush problem Im currently using 3dsmax 2009 64bit. I exported some floor tiles into zbrush with zbrush preset in the export dialog in max. The problem is that not only does it flip the normals, it also flips th…	1 Last	MoP May 2009
i want a norm for normalmaps why.. why is everyone implementing or creating normalmaps a bit different?! object space, tangent space flipped green, flipped red, red as green or the other way around, flipped green and swapped w…	4 Last	Brice Vandemoortele May 2009
getting maxes working pivot to work like mayas I use this so much in maya, and its so quick and intuitive, but im struggling with maxes, i can use it and it seams pretty powerfull, but really slow, needing to change menus etc just to place or rot…	7 Last	SHEPEIRO May 2009
Rendering in Pieces Hey guys, I'm in the process of modelling a high poly tank. At the moment, my treads are increasing the polycount by quite a large number, and mental ray refuses to render the scene. I figure I have…	7 Last	tanka May 2009
[maya] repeat last translation with duplicate not working anymore. Hey guys for some reason shift+d to repeat last translation, scale and rotation is not working anymore, could you guys help me?	1 Last	claydough May 2009
Topgun Tutorial/quickstart There are a couple of beginners tutorials for Topogun created by Wayne Robson: "Topgun a Quickstart Guide" ebook and "Introduction to Topogun" video. Both are usually available as links from the Top…	4 Last	pior May 2009
Speed up Photoshop using RAMShop if you have more than 2G RAM and use XP. Saw this great article about using the RAM that windows XP can't. By nature, the 32 bit OS is limited to ~2.5GB of RAM, so if you have 4GB (or more than 2.5) installed, it's not being used. RAMShop …	9 Last	elte May 2009
MAX Verts to face creation script? Is there a max polyop macroscript for the action of subobj level selecting x verts and creating a face in the order the selection array is in? As in: Select verts: 1, 2, 3, 4 Create face from v1 > v…	5 Last	renderhjs May 2009
is silo dead? just wondering, there hasn't been updates for months.	8 Last	3devo May 2009
Maya woes, files getting huge i have this maya file with a highpoly and a lowpoly , all of them i deleted non deforming and regular history, freezed all transforms , but for some reason the file keeps getting bigger and slower an…	8 Last	MoP May 2009
3d max - What are your ideas to unwrap this? This is a simply object from spline-line (5-sides). Have you got some good ideas to unwrap it correctly for texture? I would like to have some nice script that allow me to unwrap it by one or two cli…	5 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009
Room Modeling advice This may be an odd question but I can't make up my mind on what to do since both options seem to have presented their share or perks and problems I am trying to model a hospital room. I have the sc…	6 Last	Tumerboy May 2009
Just a question about the legality of a software My question is this, and please moderators don't ban me, this is my first post and I'd appreciate a warning if I'm breaching any rules, the software 3D Ripper DX, it's available free for download, It…	16 Last	J. Nicoll May 2009
Topology help Hey all. I need som pointer´s on my character. It´s a character made for an iphone game so i really need some nice topo pointer´s so the animations won´t look like crap. :) Thanks [IMG]http://pici…	2 Last	Ayun May 2009
UT3 wireframe shaded rendering ? Im trying to figure out if there is away to either make a material for ut3 that displays shaded wireframe mode on my levels and models (like in MAX) or a rendering method inside the engine to get thi…	3 Last	ImSlightlyBored May 2009
bollox! maya mesh recovery from buggered .mb anyone know of how to recover meshes from fecked .mbs, been working in one for a while just blocking out a complex level, and i just tried reloading it, it crashes on loading as does the two file pre…	6 Last	SHEPEIRO May 2009
3DS Max Rendering problem (With texture) Ive never came across this problem before, Just now as i decided to texture this model. :( The problem only happens when i put the texture on the model and render. [IMG]http://img407.imageshack.us/im…	8 Last	kite212 May 2009
Modeling/Rigging Hands Hey guys, I started a thread over at cgtalk on this topic, but I'd like to hear what the folks here have to say on the subject also. Thanks for looking! [url]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.p…	5 Last	Neox May 2009
Rendered Normal map has artifacts The problem starts in 3Dmax, I have rendered to texture the highpoly model to my lowpoly model, and I get these weird artifacts (Look at the metal, top right) I've been told that they are bugs of usi…	3 Last	ParoXum May 2009
3d max - how can I see a lightmap with diffuse map? I have some simply object and I have unwrapped UV for diffuse on channel 1. I put diifuse map on it and everything is ok. After that, I have rendered a lightmap for the object with UV on channel 2. T…	2 Last	Xoliul May 2009
3d max works very slowly with many objects When I have a lot of objects (not attached) on the scene, Max works very slowly :/ After attach all together to one object - is pretty good. Why :/? Is it possible to do sthg that Max would work a li…	4 Last	Mark Dygert May 2009