Technical Talk

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Isolate selection box position EVERY time I use Isolate selection in 3ds max, the exit selection mode box appears right bang in the middle of my viewport, thus requiring me to expend 1 vital second of my short life to shift it to …	7 Last	scourgewarper Jan 2009
Can You Tile A PORTION Of A Texture? Hey all. Wondering if you guys could help answer a question about UV mapping / Texture tiling in maya. Is it possible to tile a portion of a texture onto a UV map? Say I use an image that is 64x…	13 Last	CrazyButcher Jan 2009
Ambient Occlusion baking in Maya Hey guys, I'm a bit of a texturing noob, and I am trying to master the art of baking hi res meshes to low res meshes. I've followed a few tutorials online and read up on alot of information but my AO…	12 Last	ivars Jan 2009
undo Is there a reason my ctrl-z isn't working ...?	10 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2009
How would you tackle separating these UVs? Hey guys, I was curious how you would tackle this dilemma? This is not my final UV layout but rather a WIP. All elements aren't fully unfolded yet, but it pretty much represents the general shapes. …	8 Last	kodde Jan 2009
3ds max 9 unwrap problems fixed the problem thanks for the help!	1 Last	aniceto Jan 2009
3D World 3dsmax skinning tutorial So issue #114 (March) of 3D World magazine has just come out, and I had a 6-page tutorial in that explaining the basics of skinning a character and exporting it into Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. The…	17 Last	artstream Jan 2009
ShaderFX FREE edition As of today, [B]ShaderFX is FREE for all individuals and companies smaller then 2 employees.[/B] Including free for commercial use. (This version has the exact same features as the commercial editi…	45 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jan 2009
cs4 adjustments panel need help. Hi there, just wondering if anyone has found a way to get the adjustments panel to stay on top of open images. In cs3 I used to make an adjustment layer and double click it to get it's properties and…	0 Last	malcolm Jan 2009
Getting used to Max from Maya I've returned to using 3DS max after having switched, exclusively to Maya for a long time. Last time I used Max was something like version 3.0 and I don't know it anywhere near as well as Maya. I'm t…	14 Last	fr0gg1e Jan 2009
Max: When Affect Pivot Only moves the mesh too ... Uh, just click the button off, click Affect Object Only, then re-click Affect Pivot Only. Did it really just take me ten years to stumble on this workaround?	5 Last	kite212 Jan 2009
3ds max and accuracy hi everyone, just wondering, how do i turn up the accuracy of everything in 3ds max? i'm currently working with unit setting: 1 unit = 1 inches, which is the default, and which sucks, as its inaccu…	11 Last	dejawolf Jan 2009
crop sheets? I was just looking into the [URL="http://www.bizarrecreations.com/jobs/environment_modeller.php"]Bizarre art test[/URL] and noticed a strange suggestion in their directions to avoid "crop sheets". I'…	3 Last	Yozora Jan 2009
Need Help : GM Kai head Hey all, This is my first post in these fourms and I need a little help with starting a part of a model I'm currently working on. Im fairly happy with my RX-78-2 Kai that I modeled, and now I'm tr…	5 Last	Skygrasper Jan 2009
Zbrush 3 sub division history errors? Hey guys, I need your help once again! I have run into problem when I try to subdivide my hand model in zbrush. Here are the facts: I deleted subdivisions 3-5 because I didnt like them and wanted …	9 Last	vik Jan 2009
unreal editor materials hey guys i was wondering about something. i know with linear interpolate and material instance you can make a mesh switch between two different textures. is there a way to do the same thing with more…	0 Last	Thefirston Jan 2009
UT3 - Texture sharing between static mesh Hello! I have a 2048 texture for large object A. I also have a much smaller object B. I will have object A and object B appearing many times in the level. There is room on object A's 2048 textu…	1 Last	Ott Jan 2009
3dsmax: using a non-square texture on an object Say I've got a modeled and textured asset with all the UVs fitting in the top half of 0 to 1 space. Does anyone know a simple way to tell it to use only a section of uv space? If I feed it a 512x1024…	2 Last	SnowGhost Jan 2009
Mudbox Service Pack 1 available [url]http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/21951/[/url] [URL=http://download.autodesk.com/esd/mudbox/2009_update01212009/index.html?url=whatsnew.htm,topicNumber=d0e1395]What's new[/UR…	2 Last	Super Jan 2009
Snap rotation Maya.. Hey guys sorry to post such a simple (i hope) question here but does anyone know of a way to snap an object to another object in maya that also snaps the rotation? Long story short I cant apply a co…	4 Last	Flynny Jan 2009
hard surfaces in zbrush? anyone had a go at sculpting hard surfaces in zbrush? i'm having quite mixed results. some things looking as crisp as i'd like, and others... not. i love working in zbrush, the tool is a godsend for…	8 Last	Unleashed Jan 2009
Cinema 4d tips and tricks thread I've noticed more of us are using this rather friendly software these days. I was wondering if anyone has tips and tricks up their preverbal sleeve? I have a good-un: you can do sums in the number…	2 Last	Spanki Jan 2009
RTT - turning a few materials into one Gday folks, alas another problem i need help with, i have made an asset for a project of mine, and altho its probably not the prefered way i got a bunch of 512 textures, and uv mapped them onto the a…	5 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2009
Rigging a kite I am trying to rig up a kite (kite surfing) in 3dsmax and I am wondering if someone can share some tips on the best way to do this. [img]http://jojunietours.com/st-martin-kite-surfing-pictures05.jpg…	1 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2009
Maya: Hardware in top right panel stopped working? Hey all, I had a weird issue happen to me just now when working in Maya. My top right panel would not show hardware texturing, it's greyed out in the menu. It seems to be scene specific. It is not …	1 Last	kodde Jan 2009
Pixel shaders in Unreal Editor 3 [FONT=Arial]Hi, For uni we are studying advanced game techniques and I have chosen to study pixel shaders. I am using Unreal Editor 3 but I am having to learn from tutorials because non of my tutors…	4 Last	CrazyButcher Jan 2009
Seperate UV Island in 2nd Map channel how? Hello there, I have my object mapped in Channel 1 for diffuse and normal. There are seams everywhere. I want to select the polygons around the seam and re-map ONLY those polygons on Channel 2. This…	4 Last	Microneezia Jan 2009
Chamfers vs Uvs: Max Hey, Have a model, it's unwraped, textures, but could use some chamfered edges. Problem in Max is it screws the UVs; does anyone have a plugin, script, or work around method for this aside from manu…	7 Last	Murdoc Jan 2009
UT3 export to max? Hello there, I understand that Epic doesnt want us to export their statics/textures ect... but I wanted to create terrain in Ued then export to max so that I could model directly onto that terrra…	11 Last	commander_keen Jan 2009
Unreal Editor startup problem hey guys i was hoping someone here could help me out. every time i try to open up the unreal editor, the splash screen comes up for a minute then the whole thing crashes. i turned off all the crap on…	2 Last	Lee3dee Jan 2009
Maya 2009 crashing when trying to "average normals" on high poly mesh... So, I ve got this 1.6mil tri's sculpt in Maya, and while I have no problems in max 9, in maya it crashes when I try to average its normals. I'm running both programs in their 64bit versions, I'm runn…	8 Last	t4paN Jan 2009
Matching Diffuse to Normal maps Hello. This is for Environment modeling... I dont care much for character stuff, but if the technique transfers, great. I was wondering about workflow surrounding this subject. Ive seen diffuse tex…	12 Last	Microneezia Jan 2009
How would you (perfectly) map a tiled texture to a tabletop in maya? Hey all. I'm curious if anybody has any tricks as to how they would go about mapping a tiling texture on an angular u-shaped tabletop (desk) shape. I've been able to get close to my goal with the b…	8 Last	kodde Jan 2009
Any good terrain tutorials? I've searched the forums and found nothing on this topic. Does anyone know of any good terrain tutorials for Maya 2008? Google was no help either. :-\ Thanks!	3 Last	Xenobond Jan 2009
Shader thread In light of there being a free version of ShaderFX now available for us to tinker with, I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread (sticky by chance, mods?) where people can post all of thei…	2 Last	Ged Jan 2009
maya viewport problem hey guys just got maya 2009 on my comp and when i try and move around the viewport it pops around all crazy between two views. the first view is where it was in the very begninning and the second one…	6 Last	DInusty Jan 2009
Art Department vs. IT The user and all related content has been deleted.	13 Last	sir-knight Jan 2009
Modeling Roots/Vines [COLOR=#cccccc][FONT=Verdana]I was wondering how to model vines / roots like the ones in this chap[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#cccccc][FONT=Verdana][URL="http://www.mutantspoon.com/portfolio/vinewallhp.jp…	7 Last	fortheweekend_ Jan 2009
Low res texturing tutorials? Anyone knows a good low res texturing tutorial? Like this: [IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/kba8lc.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://kazuya.gamedev-pt.net/public_img/cars/fordgt40_spinn.gif[/IMG]	6 Last	Slum Jan 2009
3DS Max Triangle count Hi ! Just wondering if people in here had any tips or trick to manage 3DSmax crashes due to heavy ZBrush imports. I was wondering if regarding my computer configuration, a maxscript could calculate…	6 Last	Psyk0 Jan 2009
polypaint stuff so i kind of cracked polypaintiing, make niceely ccoloured models and then baking the colours to a texture which works fine. the problem is the baked normal map doesn't quite match up , so the col…	7 Last	Ruz Jan 2009
Man, I'm stumped...(3dS keyboard issue) So i've run into a bit of a productivity blocker... All keyboard functions seems to have stopped working while in MAX. none of the Shortcut keys work, although I am still able to enter values into …	7 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2009
Anyone got any voodoo for recovering corrupted data in Maya? Well this sucks. I've been working on my Unearthly Challenge entry. Finished the high poly mesh of one of the major components completely, had it looking really nice, and was about to start building…	12 Last	metalbonsai Jan 2009
Trajectories for a biped in cycle mode Anyone know how I can switch on trajectory lines for a biped in cycle mode (In Place Y mode)? I've searched everywhere man and I can't find out how to get around the fact the object properties > traj…	7 Last	pixeldamage Jan 2009
3ds max viewport errors hey guys i have a few issues with 3ds max. its been happening for a month or so now, and i've never really bothered to ask around about it. it finally ticked me off today when i had to reinstall m…	8 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2009
maya 8.5: displaying textures and lightmaps in viewport just a quickie, please tell me if I'm missing something here. Am I right in thinking the best way to show a lightmap is to create a material coloured with a multi layer texture, with a texture on one…	4 Last	nullfed Jan 2009
more mudbox questions, i will just lump my mudbox querys in here from now on, i was trying out the paint tools, like color paint, and it just freezes mudbox the second i touch it to my model, also,, i can't find a colo…	8 Last	ArtsyFartsy Jan 2009
Environment modelling - Initial setup Hey guys, just trying my hand at some proper environment modelling for games ofcourse. I've had a good look through the Polycount environment wiki and although it's got some great tips I couldn't fi…	2 Last	eboy Jan 2009
maya construction history question. Hello boys. a buddy of mine had a interesting question about maya. In max we can stack modifiers up and collapse them. This is what I know about maya. For example Proxy-Sub-D in maya is stored in th…	6 Last	ivars Jan 2009
Hardware: The life of a Athlon XP system I don't want Vista. I want to wait for at least direct x 11 before upgrading. Can I get by in the meantime with upgrading to 2 gigs and a 10.1 512 dx like a 3850 agp card for a total of about $250 t…	5 Last	oXYnary Jan 2009