Technical Talk

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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
pico for Maya Hi, I wanted to present our plugin for Maya called pico. It's basically a graphics engine and also a fast GPU based renderer. The basic rule is - "You have 100% preview of what you'll see in your ga…	103 Last	bugo May 2009
Importing From Max to UnrealEd Okay so I have a mesh that I have created in Max to import into UT2004 editor I have kept it in the grid It is at the origin I have reset the xform So I import the model as a static mesh in Unrea…	5 Last	ae. May 2009
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