Technical Talk

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funky_AO glitchs. Why causes the likes of ? Time and again, I run into these weird artifacts when baking out AO. [IMG]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f242/berskyz0r/funkyproblemAO.jpg[/IMG] When looking at the problem it seems like it …	15 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2008
Editable Polys in 3ds Max I saw a tutorial where this guy was making a face, in Maya. This one: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xls25e08sSg[/ame] Now I see that he's connecting faces, dividing polygons with the greatest …	8 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2008
anyone made tiling meshes with mudbox beta testing 2009 ATM, and ive been wandering if/how anyone has made tiling meshes. this is particularly for env.work I have figured out how to make meshes tile using Zbrush using a combination of…	43 Last	Michael Knubben Oct 2008
Unrealed and tablet Is there a way to make tablet useful inside the editor?	4 Last	bugo Oct 2008
how does one make an image like this in photoshop?? [url]http://www.angelabetts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/psychedelic.jpg[/url] [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Psychedelic.PNG[/url] i don't want all the tiny little …	17 Last	pyromania Oct 2008
Game editors, which one to choose Hey guys, i'm in my final year of college now and i have to make a project for my diploma. My ideea was to make something like a plane hangar or a car showroom where you could ineteract with the cars…	15 Last	rhoymand Oct 2008
Some help with my normal mapping I have a basic power switch that I have modeled. Its nothing complex, just a box with some raised text and a few switches. I created a basic four sided box to encompass the high poly one and use as m…	7 Last	Billabong Oct 2008
weird zbrush artifact....any idea? i get these little dots....only when i'm at subd 5-6. any ideas? i imported to max....nothing wrong. i restart computer....nothing wrong...still there. any help would be appreciated. thanks [UR…	4 Last	Funky Bunnies Oct 2008
Dual Monitor and Dual Graphic Card Qs Dual Monitor and Dual Graphic Card Qs Hello, I figured it would make the most sense to ask the polycount community about these questions as my rig is setup primarily for making 3d art and playing 3d…	0 Last	BradMyers82 Oct 2008
how do I do an unlit turnaround render? I want to render a turn around of a low poly model, but unlit and with no anti aliasing or crazy filtering. Can someone please link me to or tell me what would be the easiest way to do this? either i…	6 Last	El Z0rR Oct 2008
Maxscript to select every other face / edge in a ring? Has anyone come across a script like this? I find myself selecting every other face or edge in an edge loop quite often. Looking for something similar to the pattern selection tools in Modo. Thanks!	6 Last	gamedev Oct 2008
batch render problem in maya 8.5 hi all, has anyone here experienced this particular batch rendering problem in maya 8 or 8.5?.... i can make beautiful still renders with mental ray. but i go on to batch render an animated scene...…	2 Last	purple monkey Oct 2008
Is there a maxscript to do this? Hi guys, Just thought of something i have to do quite often, and i was wondering if it wasn't possible to scriptify it :D. whenever i make reference planes in max this is what i do: -create a mater…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
Good MAX features tutorial videos Hey guys, I found this site while searching for some tutorials, he has a good selection of useful things I never knew about in Max. Maybe they will be new to others. :thumbup: [URL]http://www.louis…	0 Last	maltuna Oct 2008
Mental Ray AO is all black. [U]edit I bumped this thread because of similar problems- new post below[/U] Hey guys. When I am baking out my Ao, the final image everything is all black. I'm doing it the right way, I am 99% p…	18 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2008
average the length of a selection of edges ? MEL i'm looking to create a script ( if there isn't one out there already ?? ) that will average the length of a selection of edges. the practical application would be for creating belts and straps etc …	6 Last	Funky Bunnies Oct 2008
3ds Max fixed lights? Hey guys, Recently i've managed to set up my own lighting system, and i think it'd be nice if it would move with the camera, so the lighting on your object changes along with the camera. (just like …	14 Last	Japhir Oct 2008
wd hard drive issues? seems like western digital and i cant get along, ive lost up to 4 of there drives in 2 yrs time, ive had my maxtor for years and no issues as a main drive, i just had my 500gig ata start not showing …	6 Last	chrismaddox3d Oct 2008
Nasty Normal Map Seem on stacked UVs Hola all fellow polycounters! Been messing around trying to figure out how to avoid this nasty seem I got, and judging by other threads it seems as if others might have the same problem. Two heads b…	18 Last	SHEPEIRO Oct 2008
Exporting from 3DS max to Zbrush - mesh explode hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix the problem I'm having when trying to import uvs into zbrush 3.1 from max9: I've exported my model (sub. lv. 1) from zbrush to max to do the uvs in…	4 Last	artstream Oct 2008
3dsmax 2009 dxshader bug I am not sure why and what caused it, but max2009's dx9 shaders only send the "u" coordinate in all .fx shaders for the first texcoord set. VERY weird since I had this max versions working already, b…	1 Last	CrazyButcher Oct 2008
Mudbox,Is it posseble to make bricks.... Hello Yesterday i made a wall.I want to make a brickwall but when i made a stencil in photoshop and imported it to MB it seems like i cant get a brick pattern,I need that so i cant import the mesh i…	3 Last	Ged Oct 2008
GOW: Tutorials and Cover Upon your recommendation I bought UT3 and have been learning UE3. Then I realized I don't care for UT3's game style. I want to build environment that are still functional but tell more narrative and …	10 Last	rhoymand Oct 2008
Ink and Paint question. I've been trying to do something in 3ds Max I'm not entirely sure is possible. I want the Ink and Paint Shader to be active but at the same time have a texture map on an object the shader is applied…	3 Last	cman2k Oct 2008
Non square textures in Unreal 3? Hey guys, I was importing things into the engine today and I come across a problem with non square textures. so I imported some 256 x 512 maps into the engine. in the generic browser it seems like u…	13 Last	EarthQuake Oct 2008
Tiling normals? I have a quick question/ need help. I have an object that is using a tiling texture it is a failry larg piece. Now I want to be able to add normal detail to the trim all around it. The problem is I h…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
Connecting 2 computers to 1 External Hard Drive Possible?	3 Last	Farfarer Oct 2008
How to work with oilpaint? My great uncle does alot of photorealistic painting, and i thought id give it a shot aswell Now i bought some black and white oilpaint today, nice pencil, lost quite some money on it. And now i tri…	11 Last	AXiao Oct 2008
polies vs post-processing I've often heard that videocards nowadays can push almost unlimited amounts of raw tris,post-processing,textures and per-pixel shaders are the expensive stuff.How much truth is there to it in your ex…	4 Last	CrazyButcher Oct 2008
one more: maya, saving marking menu settings? I got some settings for marking menus i like at home, is there an easy way to take them to work tomorrow? I really dont want to have to rebuild all the menus edit: oooh it saves them as mel files aut…	3 Last	rooster Oct 2008
maya 8.5: snap orient? i started messing about with make live, but I want my model to snap to the normal of the live object (rotate to match the normal). by default it just transforms the object without rotation. is there …	7 Last	ghib Oct 2008
Problem with the texture compression in UT3. Hi all! I have a problem when I want to create a material in UT3. The problem is, when I import my materials and create the material, the result in the game or in the editor is not the one I want bec…	5 Last	GoSsS Oct 2008
Simple max question. If i have 12 vertexes on the face of a cube, how do i make a circle out of them (needs to be perfect). Thanks.	6 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2008
Xnormal - AO not matching Normal As you can see here my renderd Ambient Occlusion texture is not entirely matching my normal: [img]http://www.vitamin3d.com/bilder/normalAO.jpg[/img] (The AO is just mutltiplied on the normal to show …	15 Last	jogshy Oct 2008
[Maxscript] Get the selection order of selected vertices? I'm trying to write a few little tools for Max now that I'm having to use it properly, some of the more simple bits from the long list of features I miss from modo. I figured I'd start small and eas…	10 Last	Michael Knubben Oct 2008
Sync to Element hello! do you know how to set a shortcut for "Sync to Element" in unwrap window? I use the chuggnut [URL="http://www.sloft.net/2007/05/16/max-9-unwrap-tools-v150-released/"]tools[/URL] but I think i…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
Auto-reload bitmaps in Max Weird, sometimes reload works, sometimes it doesn't. Max 2009 sp1. Anyone have a clue? "Reload textures on change" is on in the prefs, and sometimes it works really well, I just have to save my PSD …	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
ACDSee displaying .TGA alphas Hi everyone, just a quick question: is anyone using ACDSee? We use it at work, and it displays by default the Alpha channel (this goes for .TGAs, maybe other image formats have that problem as well)…	5 Last	Blaizer Oct 2008
Triangle count for gamea? Okay, this may sound like a pretty stupid question, plus my english isn't all that good. But I need to find a website that contains information about triangles in existing video games/ pc games. I…	11 Last	Psyk0 Oct 2008
Multiple Unwrap UV coords on diff shaped objects Hi all this is my first post. I'm an experienced Max user but need some help. I have a wall (with arches) modelled of stones of different shapes and sizes that started with one normal-mapped/spec/di…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
Facial modeling I feel like a total noob for asking this. Does anyone have any suggestions for modeling a statue face? For some reason it is not clicking with me right now. I am looking to model a buddha type face t…	2 Last	AnimeAngel Oct 2008
scene-states are cool (max) I only found about scene-states recently from Rhinokey, they seem mega awesome and it's weird that I never hear about anyone using them. I've just started using scene states to isolate certain sec…	5 Last	e_x Oct 2008
Export Animationclips with HiCorp Exporter for Maya - Problem Ok, here is my problem: I get managed to export my 3D - Charakter with bones and to show him on screen. I made a short idle cycle and try to export it. I can see my char in pose inside my m3g appli…	0 Last	Art1977 Oct 2008
Tiling and AO Hey I was wondering what the best workflow would be for tiling textures and AO. Say I have a large tiling texture for a building or something that will be covering a building or something that needs …	18 Last	Ryno Oct 2008
Diffrent max versions It seems that there are atleast 2 diffrent max versions, a design one and a normal one, I might be able to get the design one really cheap, from a friend, but first I want to know, what's the diffren…	2 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2008
Max fatal error - help! this is fucking bullshit, i cant even start fucking max. im completely useless now....... look. i get a "fatal error" when i try to open max. this is max 2009~ [IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/2v30kyr.png…	7 Last	Dante1217 Oct 2008
GBuffer [code] int width = 1024; int height = 768; BitmapInfo bi("MyBitmap"); bi.SetType(BMM_TRUE_32); bi.SetWidth(width); bi.SetHeight(height); Bitmap *bm = TheManager->Create(&bi); if (!bm) { …	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2008
unreal editor 3 questions (collision) picked up UT3 editor 2 days ago and its driving me nuts. maybe its just that I'm not used to the workflow/pipeline, but I find a lot of things unintuitive. 2 main questions so far: how do I import …	4 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2008
Low Poly Pixelart Ok so I am using maya right now and am curious how to create a model that look similar to this: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/MANDRAGGANON/paifu.png[/IMG] (this is a piece by madPXL, ho…	8 Last	rhoymand Sep 2008
isometric rendering Hi, I am a programmer, apology if it sounds alien. I want to build a navmesh based on top view of my model in 3ds max Now, with different colors, I mark each cell as being occupied or non-occupied So…	3 Last	CrazyButcher Sep 2008