Technical Talk

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helpneeded.. maxscript question (uv) hi i eventually started to lern maxscript .. a model file import/export script for a very old microprose fligtsimulator sooo .. i mainly have trouble to understand the way maxscript calls "things"…	16 Last	rollin Apr 2009
How do I use the other texture maps to make my model look better Well All I know how to use is the diffuse map, and I don't know what the other maps do, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me or show me examples of how to use them, and what there used for...	2 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2009
Zbrush sculpting I have a square plane and want to know how I can sculpt on its surface so that I only ever go a certain depth into the plane no matter how many strokes I apply. Basically I want to create a relief on…	9 Last	[Deleted User] Apr 2009
bind modifier for C4d working on child meshes? I have the following hierarchy in C4d, seems fairly logical and I can get single meshes deforming just fine; [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/pu9n6.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/10f2hs9.png[/IMG…	2 Last	hawken Apr 2009
Poly Normal Problems. I am currently running Max 2008. Today I made a box, with the default light setup and did a 'Normals > Flip Normals'. I usually do this to start a room and begin pushing out hallways and whatnot. Tod…	0 Last	Incomitatum Apr 2009
Pixel Boogie Tutorial? I found a cool little tutorial the other day and can't for the life of me find it now.. :D It was something to make your textures pop, by making copies of your layer, and moving them 1 pixel, up do…	5 Last	[HP] Apr 2009
System crash Waddup yalls, This isn't necessarily graphics related, but might have to do w/ my video card, not sure. I've been getting random crashes after bootup where everything on screen freezes with a brief…	8 Last	demoncage Apr 2009
Tutorial: Speed modeling tips for 3dsmax This tutorial was originally on The Area. Its really hard to search through the area, and I had a few requests to see it again, so here is the youtube (aka crappy compression) version. Part 1 [ame=…	28 Last	GoSsS Apr 2009
Extracting Normals - High Poly Hard surface [COLOR=#77828C]Hi, Im currently trying to figure out the workflow for creating game normal maps for hard surface objects. Ive build a low poly mesh and a high poly mesh. The high poly mesh is bu…	5 Last	cbellimer Apr 2009
File Conversion? or straight import (.ma into max) well, im working on a project with aa guy in my 3d class, and he uses maya, and i use max.. he made a model of himself in .ma format, and im putting it into one of my scenes in max.. i was going to …	5 Last	Dante1217 Apr 2009
Terrain Texturing Tips I'm currently throwing together a little scene (3D Max) for fun, just roughing it out at the moment and feeling my way forward, learning as I go, but i've hit a bit of a roadblock, what is the best w…	7 Last	Joshua Stubbles Apr 2009
need engine advice Greetings minasan, I have been lurking for a short time, ill have some arts up soon for peeps to get a feel of what im about. but for now, I need help from those of you who are more experienced. I a…	5 Last	morrisgunn Apr 2009
Autodesk smarts Ctrl+S Save File Ctrl+S Toggle Shrink Ctrl+S Add Scene Event Ctrl+S Soft Selection Ctrl+S Snap Those are Max shortcuts. Only some of those are limited to working in a specific window. Soft Sele…	107 Last	Cubik Apr 2009
Evenly subdividing planar circle I am making an ornate door and in its centre is a circular piece. I have a 24 sided planar circle and can't think of a way to subdivide it into even or near even quads to take into zbrush and sculpt.…	8 Last	scourgewarper Apr 2009
Horizons Hey there, I've got a quick question about horizons, how do you work out where they are in an image? I really need to know this as it makes creating environments a whole lot easier and from the look…	9 Last	XenBear Apr 2009
Painting a "flow" normalmap? We're adding a new feature in our game to help us control the river-current in some of our game levels, so the physics solver can send floating things down-stream, into eddies and out, slowing, speed…	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2009
animating on a spline help please..... i am having some problems with a shaking camera animating along a spline via WSM path deform. the problem is that the camera starts to shake(tiny little shakes) just after hitting an incline or a tu…	2 Last	fritz Apr 2009
Texture/unwrap advice Ok so I'm still learning, facing a situation I can't wrap my head around. sidenote: I'm showing one of sinistergfx textures from WAR (I hope he doesn't mind) as an example of what I'm GOING to creat…	7 Last	swytch Apr 2009
Looking to buy a new prebuilt pc suggestions? Hi, I'm looking to get a new pc I'd like it to be winxp 32bit, I'd rather pay the extra to have it preassembled should I just go with dell? I want it to be dead guiet if possible. I'm looking to spen…	19 Last	Ryno Apr 2009
Texture work troubles. I am trying to texture this machine thing, and I am having some problems around the corners. I cannot get them to match up, or at least look like they flow together ind of well. I am going to post th…	12 Last	Ryno Apr 2009
Quick Tutorial: Flip LOD testing Heres the first in a series of short tutorial vids I am doing to populate my empty tutorial section on my site :) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJKIxc9bhM[/ame] Tis very simple indeed for n…	2 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2009
Hair; Female Hair. I am using Joan of Arch tutorial but keeping polycount in consideration. I want to give my first female head a kind of peekaboo haircut: [url]http://www.hair2009.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/68.j…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Apr 2009
kHED 1.0.1 Beta Released Thanks to everyone who send me bug reports and suggestions we can see the new version of kHED. It includes the most significant fixes and some new features. Here's a list of changes: - Added suppor…	1 Last	JohnnyRaptor Apr 2009
Zbrush Question Is there any way to make your subtools the same lighting as your selected tool? They always go dark, and it's difficult to see how parts would look together. I don't want to merge the parts into one…	2 Last	Snowfly Apr 2009
Viewport differs from Render Hey guys I can't seem to figure out this problem, and I'm assuming it is a pretty amateur question, so I apologize in advance. So my specular map is being rendered different from what my viewport is …	2 Last	[HP] Apr 2009
Normal Mental Ray Errors Hey guys, when i render w/ maya software my normals and spec show up, however when i use mental ray, only the diffuse shows through. all maps are targas w/ solid alphas. Any suggestions?	0 Last	VikingJim Apr 2009
maya 8.5 help This is a random request but i've somehow managed to mess up my settings in maya and was wondering if their was a way to restore everything to default?? i've looked through the menu's but cant seem…	5 Last	rooster Apr 2009
Screwy normals in Max? I have screwed up Normals from importing a mesh. I seem to recall a modifier or tool that rest all the normals to their correct alignment, but cant for the life of me remember what it is called. Poop…	5 Last	JohnnyRaptor Apr 2009
HTC Dream 100 (G1 android handheld) modelling Hi mates. I am modelling for this handheld device with a Qualcomm 528Mhz CPU and ARM9 core. The models will be in a OpenGL ES envirenment. I have experience on modelling for Nintendo DS, but not for …	3 Last	renderhjs Apr 2009
Scaling Bones in Valves Source Engine I am trying to see if the source engine allows you to scale bones. I did a couple of tests and was unable to get it to export anything but rotation. Is anyone aware of this as an actual limitation …	3 Last	Farfarer Apr 2009
Please help on Flash T_T Hi! I'm actually working on a 3D game for flash platform. I need to create some Ui button but the programer I'm working with wants that in a SWC file from Flash CS3... (I remember I'm 3D artist wo…	6 Last	sama.van Apr 2009
Closed Marmoset & alpha maps I want to first say I did a search on this issue and found one thread. [URL]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61548&highlight=marmoset+alpha[/URL] It was mentioned that I need to have sep…	0 Last	Quillisia Apr 2009
Max array tool In max 2009 is it possible to move around the scene with the array dialogue box open, it seems to freeze the viewport when you open the dialogue box which is tad irritating, dunno if this has been ch…	2 Last	scourgewarper Apr 2009
Max 2010 at GDC found a link im sure peeps are prob aware of but just wanted to post it here also. some interesting videos here for sure. [url]http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/events/gdc_2009_videos[/url]	0 Last	DInusty Apr 2009
Needs advices about portfolio and career Hi all, I'm following this forum from a while and after some "little" game experiences with a local company, I took the decision to be a professional and mature game artist. So I've planned to create…	7 Last	sicsided Apr 2009
SNAP! Cooliris your hard drive!! Update that firefox bad boy now!!! You can finally browse local pictures with it!!!	3 Last	Rick Stirling Apr 2009
ModTool 7.5 is out [url]http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/[/url] That is all. :)	11 Last	pior Apr 2009
Real Time Plant Growing Hey everyone, I have been working on getting a plant growing in a 3D engine for awhile now I originally started with unreal and have since tried out the idea in several other engines. The plant nee…	11 Last	jocose Apr 2009
Using machinima to make a gameplay mockup. I'm looking into creating some Machinima and have a few questions about what engine I should use. I have access to both the Source engine and the UT3 and UT2k4 engines. I am planning on making a fa…	15 Last	dejawolf Apr 2009
Maya hypershade question I've not had icon previews for a couple versions now. Any ideas? Using Bitmaps. [img]http://www.tylersart.com/misc/nopreviews.jpg[/img]	4 Last	TWilson Apr 2009
crippling problem in vista 64 I'd recently upgraded my computer to vista 64, 8 gigs of ram, and a Geforce GTX280 thinking it would finally give me the freedom to sculpt higher res characters. Instead, I've run into a nightmare p…	24 Last	Jesse Moody Apr 2009
Maya Component Selections Remain and other things. This is just a question to make sure I'm not losing my mind. I noticed this in Maya2008, and it still happens in 2009, only worse. Sometimes I'll be working on a component of a model, and when I sw…	7 Last	Firebert Apr 2009
Learning XSI? I haven't used it since school, but I'd like to increase my familiarity with this package and hopefully do a portfolio project or two in it. The biggest help to me when I was switching from maya to m…	9 Last	DarkStryder Apr 2009
maya mentalray final gather 3+ bounces possible? So I'm really trying to avoid using photons on our current project due baking time constraints has anyone figured out how to get more than 2 bounces of indirect light out of maya final gather? There …	16 Last	malcolm Apr 2009
split'n edges [CENTER][URL="http://rogerklado.web.officelive.com/cly_edgeSplitBevel.aspx"][COLOR=#800080]download[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://rogerklado.web.officelive.com/cly_edgeSplitBevel.aspx"][IMG]http://farm4…	1 Last	jocose Apr 2009
weird performance issues to start off, yes, i have the latest nvidia drivers. i have a nvidia geforce 9800 GT card, but with some odd issues. it runs crysis on high and stuff, and can show millions of textured polygons (clo…	0 Last	dejawolf Apr 2009
Cintiq has pop-up windows for modifier keys [img]http://www.jeremygritton.com/wip/annoying.jpg[/img] This is my first time using a cintiq 21ux, and for some reason everytime I hold down a modifier key (shift, ctrl, alt) I get a pop-up window …	6 Last	foreverendering Apr 2009
Decals in Max Ok this is a silly question but what is the equivalent of decals in non-realtime rendering? Like if I was going to do blood splatter or a stain on a stairway in UE3 I would just create a decal actor…	11 Last	Michael Knubben Apr 2009
Best way to blend textures together, like in a world editor, in Maya's viewport? Is it possible to blend textures together as you would in a world editor or game engine, in Maya's viewport? I was only able to find tutorials doing this at render time, but I want to be able to have…	3 Last	malcolm Apr 2009
max: UVW-unwrap set channel/ open UV channel BROKEN? [b]in short:[/b] how exactly does the irritating uvChannel work in 3dsmax,- cause I got lost in its logic cant automaticly store/ recieve data. [b]the long run:[/b] been working on my [url=http://b…	11 Last	Michael Knubben Apr 2009