Technical Talk

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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
Memory Management error I have a fellow 3ds Max user who is having problems with her computer rig. I helped her make it so i feel responsible for machine fucking up sad face. Every time shes using max, the screen locks u…	4 Last	RawRanator Feb 2009
Hard Drives I want to buy a terabyte for my pc. Not a external drive, but just a drive that i can mount inside the pc. which one of these two is best? [url]http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmod…	17 Last	Talbot Feb 2009
uwrapping tapered object help Is there anyway to straighten out this tapered mesh in the UV or im I going about this the wrong way? [IMG]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4281/unwrapsamwo3.jpg[/IMG]	6 Last	MoP Feb 2009
Faogen - baking ao on second UV channel Would like to know if it is possible? Couldnt find any options to select channels.	3 Last	Japhir Feb 2009
DS - Optimization This is my first tutorial i've written in ages. [img]http://www.20threed.com/images/tuts/ds_optimization/Ds_optimization01.gif[/img] I know there are some way to use even less of the UV space for …	25 Last	Andreas Feb 2009
Making a game. :0 Okay, I was just wondering, I know their is millions of other ways I could find this out, but like with making a game where do you start and how do you end. Like obviously you would probably start at…	15 Last	Robert Headley Feb 2009
Expression Editor for Max I have released a Beta. A couple of the features dont totally work yet so their buttons are grayed out. The download comes with a readme which will tell you how to install and use it. You can [URL="…	5 Last	commander_keen Feb 2009
Gothic column workflow help Is there anybody that can give me some professional advice on what would be a efficient work flow in trying to create the deco part of a Gothic column? The project will be a high to low poly modular …	6 Last	OBlastradiusO Feb 2009
Zbrush Maya workflow - how to correct subtool gaps Ok, this may be a newbie question since Zbrush is new for me, but I just finished a model in Maya and exported the obj files of the various body parts. When I import into Zbrush I get gaps between t…	0 Last	Dragos Feb 2009
Optimal texture size? Hi, I'm just curious what (or if) there is an optimal size for environmental textures for a current gen FPS type game. I know it's hard to set an exact limit, as there are a lot of factors that can…	12 Last	carlo_c Feb 2009
Closed Next gen and Current gen techniques Hello everyone I am kinda new around these forums so if this topic has been covered in the past please feel free to close it if need be. At the moment I am aware of next gen and current gen techniq…	8 Last	MoP Feb 2009
ShaderMap = Crazybump competition Just thought I'd link everyone to this. [url]http://shadermap.renderingsystems.com/[/url] MUCH cheaper. $19.95 for a commercial license vs $299 for Crazybump commercial.	20 Last	hyrumark Feb 2009
desperate need help hi every one i have been trying to figure out this one for days now and no succes,heres my problem: i built avery simpe hard surface model then smoothed it just to get high res then topolojyed low …	5 Last	Marine Feb 2009
What is the best way to regenerate a background layer in photoshop? So the only way I've found is flatten the image, anyone have a better way of getting the background layer back once it has been deleted?	19 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 2009
fixing vertex normals quickly between seperate objects in maya. Hey so I have a lot of terrain that is cut up into pieces for light mapping, I need the normals between pieces to be shared to bake out correctly. ie I need to have the border edge normals have the s…	4 Last	SHEPEIRO Feb 2009
help needed CgFx and texture offset-repeat hi, I am using cgFx with maya and bumped into a problem and have no idea how to solve it. I would like to be able to animate/set my repeat and offset values in the shader. I have built up the contro…	1 Last	gyurma Feb 2009
Maximum UV tiles in Mudbox 2009? I wasn't able to find anywhere that states the maximum amount of UV tiles that can be used with Mudbox 2009. Anyone know?	0 Last	etsuja Feb 2009
Character light steup Can anyone reccomend me a cool character lighting tutorial? Doesn't matter what app it's for, as I'm guessing I can replicate it in Maya (just as long as it doesn't involve using Vray or any of it's …	2 Last	InProgress Feb 2009
UE3 Light casting sharp shadows I'm having a problem with UE. I imported a static mesh I've been working on and lit it in unreal 3 and I'm getting this problem right off the bat. [IMG]http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6549/problemay5…	11 Last	\|BILLY$CLINT\| Feb 2009
MAYA: use vertex colors as blendshape weights? wondering if anyone knew how to use vert colors as weight maps? i know you can use a texture, but i was hoping to use the vertex paint tools tools to blend mulitple blendshapes together in realtime.	3 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
Relative path for Maya Shelf Icons? Hey people, Anyone know how to set relative paths for Maya's Shelf Icons? I came up with an idea earlier today. After installing Maya 2009 and starting to tailor a new custom shelf I realized how b…	16 Last	The Dag Node Feb 2009
Vertex colors and UVW coordinates. For a long time now, I've been the only person who has been modding sonic adventure dx - I've cracked alot of formats by hand and there are a few of them that seem rather elementary, but since I'm do…	0 Last	Dude Feb 2009
tileable texture question I haven't done much tileable texture work so this may sound retarded. I'm working on a twisted/ kinda tree that is pretty large. Using only a 1024 texture, I would think that I would be better off…	10 Last	Ryno Feb 2009