Technical Talk

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Normal issues I am having some issues with my normals transferring on my model. I planar mapped the side of the sphere where I want my normals to transfer. As you can see my normals are getting pixelated and just …	5 Last	Rob Galanakis Sep 2008
Create Mental Ray Node I wish I knew someone who knew Maya so I didn't have to post small questions like this but... Does anyone know how I can get the Create Mental Ray Node to appear? I'm trying to do an ao bake on my ob…	1 Last	joe gracey Sep 2008
ShaderFX issues. this is a pretty annoying issue, wondering if anyone has a solution. i had set ShaderFX to use 3 lights in my scene, and it niftily realised that those 3 lights were the ones i put in the scene myse…	16 Last	BradMyers82 Sep 2008
.mpng File Format Howdy Polycounters! Has anyone heard of this .mpng file format? Or, better yet, does anyone know of a program I can view this format with? -nutsy	6 Last	nutsy Sep 2008
bit of a modeling pickle hey guys, has anyone modeled a tree using nothing buy triangles and NO texture transparency? Palm trees I can see, how about some convincing conifers and deciduous? I'm being presented with an in…	9 Last	sprunghunt Sep 2008
modeling blindness this is a thread dedicated to modeling quality blindness(for lack of a better word), e.g the problem where you spend hours working on a model, and essentially go blind on which changes are good or ba…	9 Last	Marcan Sep 2008
next-gen environment polycount hello all, i have a quick question: i have modeled a high poly cathedral interior (think chartres cathedral on steroids), and and it ways in at close to a million polys. obviously, game engines won…	2 Last	Neox Sep 2008
nrml map lighting in unreal 3 hey, don't know if anyone's familiar with it but thought i'd ask anyway. I've got an animated mesh into ue3, thats all running fine but the dynamic (and static) lights aren't showing any normal map …	3 Last	Nizza_waaarg Sep 2008
Real-time Subsurface Scattering Hey I was wondering if anyone was using this yet: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwLcaqi7udc[/ame] Really cool stuff! I'm wondering what sort of new maps we will have to be making in the future.	8 Last	Proxzee Sep 2008
How to avoid saving with copy. WTF, I used to be able to save over files in photoshop now in CS2 when I record and action to save over my targa file it save with a copy instead of just letting me save over it like I used to. It's …	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
zbrush customizable shortcuts? Hello, I am mudbox user now but I originally started off with zbrush some time ago. I often see a lot of good work coming from these boards and other places by artists that use zbrush, so I decided …	3 Last	BradMyers82 Sep 2008
exporting to .mov for reel I'm trying to export a turntable movie of a character to a .mov file compressed with Sorenson. From what i have read this is a really common format so I dont understand why its proving so difficult …	5 Last	arrangemonk Sep 2008
3dsmax 9 - Material ID issues. So I've been building a very generic looking sci-fi wall thing - style issues aside, I've run in to a big snag. I've tried all options, but I get the same result- messed up materials. As they say, …	11 Last	JohnnySix Sep 2008
3DS max 2008 - Turning off triangles on Edit Poly Im currently playing around in Max 2008 but theres one thing which is REALLY bugging me. In edit poly mode max insists on displaying all the triangles as if it where an editable mesh. I have tried ev…	3 Last	Rob Galanakis Sep 2008
Max create wtf?! For some reason, every time I create an object in Max, it creates at 0,0,0 no matter where I click, and I cant move the object.. I must have turned something on I didnt know about. Restarting Max and…	1 Last	Joshua Stubbles Sep 2008
tutorial stickys? why no tutorial sticky? i was just looking for a good tutorial on texturing faces etc. and came here as my first port of call, as i know a lot of you guys have written tutorials here or there. but …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
ZSphere probs Fooling around with Zsphere's here and ran into this problem below. How does zbrush decide when to combine things properly like in the shoulders...and when to just make a mess of the polys like in th…	2 Last	TWilson Sep 2008
need cubemap creation technique for maya if it can printscreen from viewport, i love you, if it needs to be rendered i will be happy ;-)	3 Last	SHEPEIRO Sep 2008
2 Questions about Max 2009... Hey, I can't seem to find bridge in the customize user interface menu and I really need it set to a hotkey. I also want to put it in a quad menu. Also, how can I replace the default materials with …	9 Last	Sage Sep 2008
spliting triangles make shading bad in maya/max ok guys, whenever i need to split a edge vertex normals change and i dont know why, so, i know that if i make triangles all over a model client will ask me to change that. So, thing is that between …	10 Last	bugo Sep 2008
Unreal Engine 3 Questions. I am going to try not to ramble. • Do you know of any good tutorials to show you how holographic textures are made? They each have a scanline feel to them (I guess I am talking about Mass Effe…	18 Last	Marcan Sep 2008
Please Help w/ rigging Does anyone know where i can find a tutorial where it teaches you how to insert bones into your character? I watched Poopinmymouth's rigging tutorial I just dont know how to get the bones working for…	3 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2008
3d Worn Down Glass Floor Material Needed Hi everyone, I'm looking for some help on making a material for a worn down glass floor. I would like to make it look like many people have walked over it. I have tried to find pictures of what I'm…	145 Last	Marcan Sep 2008
GIMP confusion For various reasons I picked up GIMP, I know photoshop quite well so I thought GIMP wouldn't be too much different. Basically I've found that I am right, but a few things make NO sense to me. If any…	3 Last	jrs100000 Sep 2008
A hardware or software renderer for low poly in-game characters? OK. i've just been told by someone who knows his stuff pretty good, to go for hardware rendering of in-game low poly characters with a crysis or unreal engine; and to leave maya software rendering al…	9 Last	purple monkey Sep 2008
normal shader connection hey all, does anyone know the answer to this problem. it must be so simple....but i can't figure it out! [U][URL="http://imageshack.us"][IMG]http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7935/shaderproblemit…	1 Last	purple monkey Sep 2008
what's the best normal shader to use in maya? hi there, I'm really struggling with certain aspects of my work, and I'd really appreciate some help here, anyone, please. (And thanks in advance, by the way) Ok. In Zbrush I have made a sculpt of…	20 Last	purple monkey Sep 2008
Tutorial: Quick photoreal Face textures Hi everyone, I was creating a background image for an assignment at work, and a friend of mine showed me a very cool tool in photoshop cs3 for stitching panoramic images. Anyway, although its designe…	6 Last	_Gr9yFox_ Sep 2008
UT3 Terrain and shadows I'm new to the whole terrain thing and I'm testing things out to get used to it, but I can't seem get my deco layer to cast any shadows (static or dynamic). That's not entirely true, actually. I see …	2 Last	erik! Sep 2008
3ds max manipulator Another ridiculously basic problem, for some reason my 3dsmax manipulator where u can drag along the axis to move/scale/rotate has vanished and I can't seem to get it back. [IMG]http://img408.images…	18 Last	Marcan Sep 2008
odd xnormal problem Hallo, Anyone ever have your ray distance stop working completely. They continue to cast out and catch the arms on the sides of the torso. Or the legs on the inside of the opposite leg. Or the feet …	9 Last	bugo Sep 2008
3d max circular selection toggle While working in 3d max I sometimes find that my selection tool turns into circular selection and I don't know why. I have checked the hotkey for circular selection and its blank so its not like im a…	6 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2008
the ultimate zmapper thread Hello boys , I'm here to discuss zmapper. Share your problems and solutions. What settings do you guys use for unreal ed 3 I use 3dsmax tangent space best quality.	0 Last	Vredesbyrd Sep 2008
Instance-like Photoshop metods I just thought about how a lot of the times when painting symmetrical heads I get really annoyed with having to manage mirroring a head before saving them. I've never really seen many people discuss…	4 Last	moose Sep 2008
Adding detail to a curved Sub-D surface So this is probably semi-advanced. I'm working on a sci-fi piece but I can't seem to get the detail I want on a curved surface without distorting the actual surface. Example: I want to cut out a por…	3 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Sep 2008
Superquick Maya key bind question So, looks like I have a chance of actually getting a job, working with Maya. I'm used to XSI even though I've used Maya before, and to soften the blow of switching from one to the other yet again, I …	5 Last	Rox Sep 2008
Problem with HLSL I am trying to make a Fresnel shader, the problem is that if I move the object from the [0,0,0] position , it looks broken. I am using 3d Max 2008. [code] string ParamID = "0x003"; // this string …	3 Last	CrazyButcher Sep 2008
NOrmal issues UMM HELP??! I noticed when i use Hammersley or Max 2.5 it gives me worse jaggies..???? Does anyone know what is going on with my normals?I am using max 2009. i didnt have issues previously and no…	6 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
Mocap Utility in Max ... is the shit. Haven't used this thing in a long time, suddenly using it again for a project and it totally rocks. Anyone else use this? Basically you assign the Motion Capture controller to som…	6 Last	arrangemonk Sep 2008
UE3 and other UE3 made titles. I now own UT3 -and- Mass Effect. In theory, if I wanted to (though I might mess something up), could I open a mass effect level in UE3? What if I had Bioshock? Have others been known to do this? S…	6 Last	EarthQuake Sep 2008
DX shader help I'm trying to view my normal map in the viewport. I enabled all the settings in the "Configure Driver" tab and set up my material correctly. It seems the only thing I'm missing is the "DX display of …	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
simple 3ds max script needs testing! Default wireframe and material colors... I've written a tiny tiny script to aid my OCD when modeling in 3ds max. I prefer black wireframes on a default gray material. The script currently handles everything, just install it and start modell…	8 Last	man_o_mule Sep 2008
Tutorial Question? Hi all, Just wandering does anyone know if there are any video tutorials that match the style of texture painting like in Bill's / pig brains work. [url]http://b1ll.cottages.polycount.com/step_hea…	5 Last	Showster Sep 2008
Getting and Getting with the Program (UE3). I have been looking, and I think I might be out of luck. Let me specify: I am -not- asking where I can find a pirated copy of anything. I don't think my computer would even Run Unreal Tournament 3…	18 Last	Incomitatum Sep 2008
HandWraps I recently posted this and was given a answer that it would be best to use the zbrush built in feature to project out the wraps but it only had gave it the effect of floating cylinders that where gag…	10 Last	Pedro Amorim Sep 2008
modelling shirt collars whats your workflow for doing this?. Its driviing me a bit nuts. I figured sculpting straight from the low poly in zbrush would be pretty easy, but I want a sharp collar, not a kludgey mess:) my o…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
Meshlab polycrunching produces some weirdness Anyone use Meshlab to polycrunch their models? I use the Quadratic Edge Collapse Decimation which works well except that it often produces these nasty overlapping, very difficult to fix placement of …	5 Last	arrangemonk Sep 2008
map generation editing just curious how often anyone gets a normal, AO, height map etc.. that doesn't require any touch ups, and when you do touch up, where do you draw the line between a complete re-render and trying to s…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008
everything flipped! i'm using maya 2008. for some reason all my models where fine a couple days ago, but now all the sudden every file i import or open is flipped on its side by -90 degrees in the x channel this is fix…	2 Last	MikeF Sep 2008
UV Mapping Question Simple Nub question :) [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v350/Stronin/Problem.jpg[/IMG] How can I make sure my text isn't mirrored backwards to the other side? I Mirrored along the center with …	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2008