Technical Talk

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changing gow1 playermodel ? is it possible to change the playermodel in gears of war 1 ? i´m asking bc i´ve changed the model with some test dummy and it worked in the editor but when i start the game itself it crashes and tell…	2 Last	rollin Feb 2009
Getting the most out of the pandora. Hey guys. First post on the forums. And just to keep up the tradition that newbies tend to do and that is to ask a question on something... But hopefully this isn't as trivial as most :poly121:. I …	0 Last	Muzzoid Feb 2009
Coincident faces mess up normal map? I am currently working through 3d palaces awesome ED209 tutorial (hope its ok to say that) however i'm at the normal mapping stage and am getting a lot of normal map errors. To brush up I've been re…	5 Last	MoP Feb 2009
Low Poly Shoulder Joint Deform Issues Pls Help I've been struggling with trying to get my shoulders to look good when I move the arm foward from the T-Position and then try to rotate the arm as to turn the palms out and same with moving the arm b…	4 Last	Sidikian Feb 2009
Zbrush rough concrete modeling Can anyone give me an easy guide on how to make surface have a rough and somewhat worn down feel to them? I don't want too much deformation. A little less deformation than this: [IMG]http://www.ke…	1 Last	commander_keen Feb 2009
DW4 Help: Baking Zbrush normals to the original mesh Hey guys, Im been speed learning Zbrush for Dominance War, but I've run into a mental block here. I've got my model all sculpted in Zbrush, and I want to back the normal maps to the low poly mesh, h…	9 Last	PixelGoat Feb 2009
Pelvis and bum! Hey, I am having trouble making the pelvis/butt area on a model I am working on. I have always had trouble with this but never posted. This is a base mesh so an all-quad solution is really what I a…	4 Last	fearian Feb 2009
[Maya] Questions about animation! I continu my noobs question list about animation on Maya! 1 - Do you know how to copy a full animation from a full skeleton... to the same skeleton in another scene? (bones aresame names&properties…	1 Last	ivars Feb 2009
mudbox2009 frustations 1)when i import a low poly model to fix texture seams when i apply texture it messes with the geometry for some reason. like some vertices are welded on its own. but when i take the texture off its n…	3 Last	fr0gg1e Feb 2009
Maya-Max vertex number issue Hey all. I want to export a mesh from Maya 2008 into Max 2009 and start unwrapping. I prefer the 3dsMax unwrap tools :) I export the mesh as OBJ file and import into Max. However, when I export th…	4 Last	Bokaja Feb 2009
Zbrush move tool is skewing instead of moving my object (brick tutorial) I'm going over a tutorial on how to make tiling bricks with Zbrush found at [url]http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/movies/zclassroom/tileable_texturing.mov.zip[/url] and I'm stuck at the part where the g…	2 Last	alexk Feb 2009
Maxscript help hey guys i'm currently working on a simple max script tool for my scripting class, and i 've ran into a problem. i'm trying to run this command: "render outputSize: [xWidth,xHeight]" as you can …	1 Last	Rob Galanakis Feb 2009
Intuos 3 problems Hey all, last few days my intuos3 wacom has been giving me a lot of grief. Sense the time I switched from using a graphire I've had a problem where at random the tablet will tell whatever program I'm…	4 Last	Kamui Feb 2009
Sculpting tools, mudbox VS Zbrush I know this is apples to oranges, but I'd still like to read a little discussion on the subject. I played with zbrush2 briefly when I was in school, but then it was still a 'character tool' and I kne…	13 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
CS4 Backwards Compatible Hey guys, i was wondering if the CS4 files (projects) for such programs as After Effects and Premiere are backwards compatible with CS3 ?	2 Last	Mistry10 Feb 2009
Sprite Rendering tool Hey guys, anyone know of a app or a plug in that will render my 3d assets to a sprite, like spriteforge...but better? cheers!	10 Last	sir-knight Feb 2009
Mudbox and my graphics card hi all, I'm currently trying to get mudbox 2009 to work on my Dell XPS laptop. I have a GeForce 8600M GT with 256 megs of ram. I have the latest driver for my card, and the service pack 1 for mud…	3 Last	dolemite Feb 2009
3dsmax Viewport Lighting Error Basically I work on a scene for a while. Open it up one day and the lighting is twice as bright. It blows out a character so much I can't see the wireframe. One solution offered is to create a new s…	4 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
Terrain Texturing - Need some help Hello, I'm creating a small level (instead of just creating the assets) and I need some help with the terrain. The level is a middle east urban map so the ground is mostly flat. The entire level is …	5 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
Zwebbie's Big Maya Questions Thread I've been a Blender user for years now, and it's pretty much my only experience with 3D packages. Now, I've got a real Maya 8.5 license, so I'd like to learn the software, which should make finding a…	6 Last	Zwebbie Feb 2009
How do you render your textures? Hey everyone! As some of you know I've been working on a door model for some time now. Please don't make fun of how long it is taking because it's my first asset and I've been learning a lot. But …	3 Last	Ryno Feb 2009
Quick Question about modular environment modelling and unreal Hi, just a quick question here i've been wondering about and that is when you create an environment in modular pieces, should these be welded together again in max and then imported into unreal as a …	6 Last	jmchar Feb 2009
You're doing it wrong. So, i thought i would try something here, and if people think this is a terrible idea, just ignore it and do not post(or post to tell me how i'm an idiot, in the true spirit of the thread). So its a…	161 Last	Andreas Feb 2009
Low-Poly Programs I've been a member of Polycount for a while, but I was encouraged to sign up by the fantastic work in the Low Poly thread. I really love the style, and would love to make my own models. However, ther…	3 Last	renderhjs Feb 2009
Max 2008 Rigging question: Joint angle deformers copy/paste Hello. I'm having a tiny issue. I'm trying to rig up a character for a few simple subtle poses. I'm using a standard biped and the Skin modifier. I've applied a few Joint angle deformers to the sho…	4 Last	Kamui Feb 2009
XNA Game Studio 3.0 does anyone here use this application? i read that with a preimum accoutn that you can create games for the xbox 360 and i just want to get some thoughts on what yall thought or if u have screen shoo…	8 Last	Snowfly Feb 2009
C++ talk I'm taking intro to c++ and i am not very fond of the programming aspect of video game making ... doing to assignment which is kicking my ass ... i was wondering if anyone would be nice enough to hel…	13 Last	Keg Feb 2009
Organizing Project Files So for a long time now I've been trying to understand the project files of the programs I use. The two programs that I need help understanding the file structure of are the UT3 editor and 3ds Max 20…	0 Last	Talbot Feb 2009
max script to give me maya-style edge hardening and softening? So I'm getting really tired of messing around with smoothing groups in max for environment stuff. I never knew I would miss just 'harden all' then selecting the couple that need to be soft and select…	2 Last	glib Feb 2009
Maya animation rig script? Hey guys, I'm looking to pose a character in Maya (it's my first attempt at doing stuff in Maya) and maybe do some simple animations. To be honest, I don't want to spend any time creating a custom ri…	2 Last	t4paN Feb 2009
Camtasia or similar... I'm starting to record some videos with intentions of doing a voiceover and talking about workflow in them. For that reason, I do not want real time sculpting. For all of you crazies out there who ha…	0 Last	stoofoo Feb 2009
How do you Unwrap a Cone for Squar Tile Texture Hello Polycounts I am a little stuck on an unwrapping problem. I am making a building that has 2 different types of roofs on it. One is a regular slanted part of a roof you would see on lots of hou…	14 Last	wailingmonkey Feb 2009
Unreal Ed Model Stretching. I did post this in the Unreal Engine 3 thread but I'm not sure if that is the best place. So I'm going to start a new thread. Here is my problem. When I decided to import a door I made in 3ds max i…	22 Last	Talbot Feb 2009
UV replication? I'm looking for a program that will set the UVs of every single tri in a mesh to the same value. So, vertex 1 from all tris are in the same UV coord and so on. Anyone nkow of such a program, script, …	3 Last	renderhjs Feb 2009
Can someone help me with Chuggnutt's UV tools? I want to make a 1024 wide x 2048 tall image and I realized I've never made that before. Do I just let Chuggnutt do a 0 to 1 fit and NOT maintain aspect ratio (stretches it across), then render to t…	2 Last	Junkie_XL Feb 2009
DeepPaint3d----tuts, or general advice? Good/bad? So i just nabbed a version of deep paint3d. A friend recommended it for projecting photo-reference's onto your mesh for good texturing references. He says it's projection tool is way better than tryi…	3 Last	mikezoo Feb 2009
vista locking files this is driving me nuts. I have a little unlocker program , but even that is a pain. Is there any way just to stop vista lokcing files. for example I make a head texture in pshop, save it, it get…	19 Last	Ruz Feb 2009
Modeling folds in leather couch cushions I've tried searching but didn't come up with anything so forgive me if this has been covered before. I'm modeling a sofa in 3ds Max2009 and am planning to model in the folds and such in a high poly…	23 Last	Minos Feb 2009
GoW Ed Crashes when resizing Generic Browser So here is my problem, when I start my editor (for the first time, never touched it before), the generic browser is a little bit bigger than my screen. So I naturally go to resize it. As soon as I do…	7 Last	Talbot Feb 2009
Head UV mirror question Hey - I intend to unwrap my lowpoly head this way - but I'm not sure if it will create a normalmap seam along the edge? Can I just flip the mesh and uvs to one side, attach and bake? Or do I need t…	2 Last	Bokaja Feb 2009
copy material in UEd3 & Multi Subs Is there an easy way to create multi-sub materials in UEd3? I made one for a mesh, but it seems too time consuming to create one per mesh. Can you copy the material setup of one static mesh onto anot…	1 Last	Lamont Feb 2009
Max showing wrong normal map hey guys. i tried searching for this problem but didnt find anything. when i have a lot of materials all using normal maps, max starts to confuse them with each other. It will show the correct dif…	2 Last	00Zero Feb 2009
Which approach? Hey guys I'm considering to convert this concept into a Deathmatch level for Crysis. Now im sitting and staring at the pic and wonder how to get started the best way? [img]http://michi.be.hosted.da…	4 Last	michi.be Feb 2009
Starting character modelling So ive been a weapon and enviroment modeller for about 6 months and now since looking round these forums ive been really inspired to do some character modelling but i dont know where to start. can an…	5 Last	t4paN Feb 2009
Multiple object unwrap I have 13 separate pieces (ED209) of a low poly model. I applied an Unwrap UVW modifier whilst they were all selected and then unwrapped them all via normal mapping. I have been unwrapping it piece …	2 Last	scourgewarper Feb 2009
RT CASS Source Just read this [URL="http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Ekovacs/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/RealTimeCreasedACC?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=RealTimeCreasedACC.pdf"]PDF[/URL] [B]Real-Time Creased Approximate Subdivision Su…	14 Last	CrazyButcher Feb 2009
X-normal - high rez base texture. ok, imorting new uv's to a zbrush mesh thoroughly fails, the mesh just explodes everywhere. so i'm left with one option i can think of, and even that doesn't work. i've got a low rez mesh with a uvw…	4 Last	Unleashed Feb 2009
hair shaders lots of direct x shaders floating around these days, but not many hair shaders. Anyone heard of nay for 3dsmax. It seems that anisotropic stuff doesn't wok in max ?	3 Last	shaderfx Feb 2009
How to bake Tangent maps in 3ds max. Hey guys i recently started work on a source project and for my normals they need to be tangent space normal maps as ive never used them or know how to make them, how would i go about baking tangent…	3 Last	ae. Feb 2009
Unreal 3 Shadows not working properly. Hey Guys, I noticed if I have for example a cup on a table, from a certain distance it will not show the object casting shadow unless you are right up in the object's face. Anyone know how to fix th…	15 Last	Mazvix Feb 2009