Technical Talk

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Downsizing an image. Best sampling method? I have an image (screenie below is just a section of it) it's currently 20482048 but needs to be 10241024. Problem is the bicubic sampling in photoshop blurs/interpolates the lines and it looks shi…	4 Last	okno Feb 2009
Building skeletons for Motionbuilder (3ds max) Any tips on setting up a skeleton that's going into Motionbuilder? I haven't got access to the program see. How the heirarchy is set up, naming conventions, axis orientations, can i use max biped, e…	2 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
Mudbox going crazy This keeps happening to me. I'll be working on this: [IMG]http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1161/quads10oy0.jpg[/IMG] And all of a sudden, I'll get this: [IMG]http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8594…	4 Last	Junkie_XL Feb 2009
Alright, so I converted to Edit Poly before generating my UV's.. ..then saved, closed Max, re-opened it later to realize my mistake and now I am here posting about it. I have a tree trunk, this one infact: [IMG]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/17188/qb_treewip…	5 Last	Vrav Feb 2009
How would one approch this leather face-mask shape? I've been trying at this shape for quite a while now, and I just can't get anything that satisfies me. I'm not quite sure how to approch this and get a good looking, good edgeflow result. I need a …	2 Last	Lord Ned Feb 2009
Breaking up a blueprint Hey guys, whats the best way to break up a blueprint to use as a guide in max, here is the image: [URL]http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php?blueprints/cars/datsun/225/view/datsun_160_j_violet_a_10…	7 Last	Tumerboy Feb 2009
Tiling Textures I know I am going to embarass myself by my sheer noobishness but I have recently started creating an environment and I am unsure how I should tile the texture on the building. I am aware of one tec…	7 Last	amotaf Feb 2009
I/Ogre - Ogre3D/Source/MilkShape3D Import/Export Plugin for Cinema 4D R10.1+ Hi Folks, I just wanted to let you know about my latest plug-in for Cinema 4D (R10.1 or later)... [URL="http://skinprops.com/iogre.php"][IMG]http://skinprops.com/e107_images/newspost_images/IOgre…	0 Last	Spanki Feb 2009
Faces Rendering Lighter than texture maps? Hello! I am using 3DStudio Max and noticed that some of the faces on my model appear lighter when I apply a .TGA and render. If anyone could give me some insight into fixing this issue, please let …	2 Last	Thunder Pimp Feb 2009
Help with the old MD2 Hello there, i'm new here and ever started with a problem =), the real is that I was looking for a solution for a problem and found polycount.com wich have lots of MD2 models, thats a very useful sit…	5 Last	MoP Feb 2009
1:2 uv ratio in 3ds Max Noob question. How do I go about making my UV space a 1:2 ratio without it squeezing my uv mapped object? For example... the first screen is 1:1 ratio, and I placed all my mapped objects onto only h…	12 Last	glib Feb 2009
PSP texturing...having a bit of a brain fart Right guys; When working on PSP spec characters in the past, I was told that the best way of keeping the file sizes down but maximizing colour usage would be to use lots of small texture which can t…	6 Last	Chunkey Feb 2009
Photoshop Refresh - ATI 9.1? I just rebuilt my system with a ATI 3850 agp. Photoshop isnt refreshing the pointer correctly, In that the screen shows gibberish and such when using the brush or erase tools where it interacts with…	8 Last	Tuyir6e7e Feb 2009
Photoshop Scripting Hey guys ! I was wondering if anyone has any photoshop scripting training materials they can recommend.	17 Last	NZA Feb 2009
Photoshop Hangs I'm having a lot of trouble in Windows XP with Photoshop CS2 hanging while I'm working on not-especially-complex textures. I'll be painting and then the brush will stop responding. A few seconds late…	4 Last	Microneezia Feb 2009
mental ray can't render non square .dds textures? Hey we've found a huge limitation of mental gay in our lighting/baking pipeline. It appears mental gay crashes if you try to render or bake any part of a scene that has a non square .dds file applied…	2 Last	malcolm Feb 2009
Z-depth photography Hi I was wondering if someone could help me find a video I saw a while ago. It was about a technique some people at I think a University somewhere in the UK developed to capture depth/height informa…	5 Last	nome_sane Feb 2009
Killer apps for Baking Normal Maps and UV:s etc. Hi! I've been reading lately about all kinds of small applications for making artist's life a little easier. For normal map baking and uv-mapping etc. For me atleast historical pain in the ass are…	13 Last	renderhjs Feb 2009
max world displacement modifier right ive got a nice height map out of Xnormal, when i apply it as a modifier in max i only get the positive normal push, not the negative, am i being stupid, how do you get it to push both ways? I …	3 Last	SHEPEIRO Feb 2009
ORGANIZE A TEAM FOR VIDEO GAMES Hello, Excuse me if my english is not very good because I'm from Spain and my English level is basic. Along with a few friends are developing an internet site that I trying to provide an area web t…	2 Last	CrazyButcher Feb 2009
Maya 7 Extruding Sorry I was looking around and didn't find any answers to my question so I'm going to ask here. I have done a few things in Maya 8.5 the free edition they gave out a long time ago, I finally got a…	6 Last	00Zero Feb 2009
unreal lighting problem hey guys i really need some help, i'm trying to get some nice lighting in my scene and get some cool shadows on my stuff, but it isn't working quite the way i hoped so what's happening is that when t…	7 Last	alexk Feb 2009
Direct X problems with 'Dice' Normal map tutorial. ...I think. I've been following Andrei Ichim's [URL="http://www.game-artist.net/forums/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=16"]normal mapping[/URL] tutorial over at Game Artist, and While I think I …	7 Last	fearian Feb 2009
3DS Max 2009 Weirdness Hey guys, this is my first post so forgive any noobishness. Been using max for a few years but every now and then i'm working away and max likes to throw up new and strange things to baffle me. So …	5 Last	onionhead_o Feb 2009
Unreal 3 editor mesh problem Hello there, I'm new here but I've been lurking for a while. I'm having a bit of a problem, or at least I think so, regarding a mesh I've been working on. It's a character, part of a school project …	7 Last	izu Feb 2009
To Polycount, beginner questions. Hey polycount artists, discovered the site a few weeks ago, recently started my second semester at UNI (1st year) for Games Modeling and Animation. Being a beginner and all, i just have a few quest…	3 Last	Richard Kain Feb 2009
How to delete crease edge in maya? So I have a cube and I have used the crease edge tool on it. I have now deleted the history but the creased edges still show the thick lines. I know there's a way to delete this creasing data but I c…	6 Last	malcolm Feb 2009
Mudbox weirdness Hey guys how goes it, long time lurker and long time ago poster here.... So I been having a problem with Mudbox when I subdivide my mesh, It seems to subdivide into hexagons and not quads so this i…	6 Last	culturedbum Feb 2009
Need some help with K-Actors in the Unreal 3 Ediotr I have a K Actor( rigid body mesh of a fence) I want the fence to block all, but i want it to act like a K Actor only when a vehicle collides with it. i dont want people shooting the fence down. the…	1 Last	sprunghunt Feb 2009
Most compatible graphics card for Maya 2008? Hello, I've recently been having a few technical issues with Maya... [URL]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=57896[/URL] I'm considering buying a new computer setup, therefore... Is there…	24 Last	pixelmitherer Feb 2009
I lost my vertz! I'm working with max2009 and I imported a model of a body I touched up in z brush. I fixed a few things in it and then I brought in the head to attach it to the body. Once I attached it ... my vertz,…	7 Last	LEViATHAN Feb 2009
3DS Max mirror weight problem Apparently my new job use Max (I'm a Maya guy) and I'm running into some weight map mirror issues. Sorry I can't post any pictures, due to workplace rules. So I'll try to describe it as best as I co…	0 Last	Krisonrik Feb 2009
female characters in the ut3 editor? Sorry for this question, but I didn´t use the ut3 editor for a long time. I think it was possible to see the female meshes and the different mesh parts in the ut3 editor generic browser, wasn´t it? B…	2 Last	Waz Feb 2009
Paragalis_Shader_Demo for 3dsmax viewport [IMG]http://fc96.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/028/9/4/Paragalis_Shader_softshadow_by_RTshaders.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/028/f/7/Paragalis_Shader_Demo_by_RTshaders.jpg[/IMG…	18 Last	RTshaders Feb 2009
collision problem Hello i have tried to make a collision mesh for UT3 but i cant find any reference anywhere how i apply that mesh. If i make lets say a wall with a door which i want to walk trow.I make a copy of the…	6 Last	Neox Feb 2009
Use Maya Nodes or Realtime shaders Hi guys, I'm planning to make a FPS environment and will using normal maps...well its an exercise to learn normal maps. Is it best to just use Maya shaders for the materials or is it best to use re…	7 Last	verybad Feb 2009
cinema 4d -> blender -> papervision -> your internet browser. what a bastard to get working. If anyone has some great examples of finished works, please do post here. I'll be updating this thread with my experiments over the next 3 weeks.	19 Last	renderhjs Feb 2009
Copy script suggestion I'll try to explain this correctly, occasionally I have to make copies of a greeble on a surface in one direction so that they all fit within a certain area. The way copy works (in max) is that you h…	4 Last	aniceto Feb 2009
Projecting textures Want to project a texture to a model (multiple textures actually), but I'm not sure which software would work best. I know you can do it in max using cameras and render to texture, but that looks inc…	12 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
popular normalmap compression hi, looking at the paper by id/nvidia on compression [url]http://developer.nvidia.com/object/real-time-normal-map-dxt-compression.html[/url] I wondered which kind of compressions are used in the rea…	9 Last	LEViATHAN Feb 2009
Strange stepped shadows (Ue3) Hi everyone I've been trying to solve this problem for almost a week now with little success, as far as I can tell something must be occurring with the Unreal editor that causes me to have stepped …	0 Last	alexhigh Feb 2009
blend shapes [COLOR=#77828C]i have a character made in single mesh.....................i skinned it and also painted weights....................... now i want to apply blend shapes to its face for facial expre…	2 Last	Mark Dygert Feb 2009
Noob question about connecting the seam on interiors My classes are starting to get more into environments than just props which is good because that's where I want to go. I'll kick off my first question on this forum with a noobish one. When making …	7 Last	Zotter Feb 2009
Corrigated roofing workflow questions corrugated metal - does anyone have suggestions for a good workflow for something like in this ref: [IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/breakneck_rust/3113143134_5b2f8f9334_b.jpg[/IMG] I wo…	3 Last	killingpeople Feb 2009
Mudbox 2009 sp1 at Autodesk [url]http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=11937426[/url] Autodesk Mudbox 2009 Service Pack 1 includes updates across several functional areas of the softw…	5 Last	claydough Feb 2009
Stamp / Stencil / Brush Alpha Thread I don't know how large this thread can get, but i'm hoping to make a large collection of alphas, stencils, and stamps for use in zbrush and mudbox in this thread for people to share and use. if you …	1 Last	Jesse Moody Feb 2009
Peek at the Wolfire/Overgrowth editor [url]http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/01/map-editor-video/[/url] Seems really easy to use, and like a great way to preview stuff (also because it auto-updates textures, like max does) Pre-ordering gives…	0 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 2009
UV3 Map? Hopefully not a dumb question but I can not seem to find a deffinition to this term. Maybe it's a term a specific studio uses, etc that I use a totally different name for. Can anyone elaborate what…	7 Last	Joshua Stubbles Feb 2009
maya low polygon rendering hi i'm new here i am trying to put together a demo reel of my low poly work, i spend a while modelling this tractor. looks nice when i turn on highquality rendering "1st file called HQ" but when i …	8 Last	tadpole3159 Jan 2009
How to get the most out of your image? Hey there Polycount, I was wondering what was the best way to get the most of your image. The reason I ask this is because what I tend to view on my computer is often different then when i say... loo…	5 Last	moiremusic Jan 2009