Technical Talk

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Please, i need help. Hello guys. Here my trouble: couple month ago project where i'm worked was closed. Now i need job. But i dont know rates on the artist-market. For me ineresting middle rates for concept art. (skill g…	4 Last	Mark Dygert May 2008
weapon poly counts [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica][SIZE=2]What is the average number of tris on a typical rifle or machine gun on today's first person shooters such as Call of Duty 4 or Bioshock. Thanks[/SIZE][/FONT]	4 Last	Jesse Moody May 2008
Question about uv's and texel density Just a quick question here. Is it better to us up all the space on a uv map or maintain even texel density? I thinking of an example like a barrel where you have one big piece and two ends that don…	3 Last	IronHawk May 2008
Low Poly Texturing Hello, everyone. I've been lurking here for quite awhile now, and would first like to thank everyone for all the stuff I've learned by doing so. After checking out the low poly art thread in p&p, I d…	9 Last	cdizzle May 2008
Molding Hello, I was wondering if you guys would help me out. I skimmed trough a post by someone the other day concerning molding. I cant seem to find it. It dealt with taking an edge and converting it to …	5 Last	kiril0t May 2008
Wide or Tall? Had some thoughts on what would load faster/overall be a better choice for a 2:1 ratio texture. With a 512x256 texture, saved out with mipmaps (dds format) the resulting image when opened back up wou…	8 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2008
Zbrush alpha question I have some alpha's I've created for use in ZB3 but I've got a problem. The edges of the map are visible on the model when I apply them. Can anyone give me some tips on how to avoid this while creati…	2 Last	seantree May 2008
Game Industry Animation Tools Hey all. I recently went to the Vancouver International Game Summit, where they had folks from EA, BioWare, and Naughty Dog talking about the animation toolkits they've set up at their companies. Tho…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2008
New Silo topology tool coming soon [url]http://www.silo3d.com/users/Feed/files/surfacetoolpreview.mov[/url] Looks like they took the best parts of the NEX plugin/polyboost and Silo-fied it. Currently in beta, looking forward to this …	35 Last	IronHawk May 2008
CrazyBump 1.05 Denizens of Polycount, CrazyBump 1.05 is released! The new stuff: -Faster loadtime. -New "gloss" control on the 3D preview. -Improved SpecMap con…	14 Last	beancube May 2008
A problem exporting in md3 for quake 3 Hello again, im having trouble to exporting to md3, in the tutorials that game me Pior, Thx for the help Pior, says that you must export selected, but in the rollout dont appear the md3 formart to ex…	0 Last	akram May 2008
mental ray render with normalmaps? Does anyone know how to set up a mental ray render with normalmaps. I've setup the shader the standard way...normal bump in the bump slot and turned up the value to 100. The render comes out flat, i…	6 Last	TWilson May 2008
Hand paint normal maps? Sorry for the very noob question. In some threads lately there is mention of hand painting normal maps, what does that mean? Is that painting black and white and then converting it to a normal map? W…	12 Last	pior May 2008
make a 3d model for quake 3 arena in max Hello Im seaching for a good tutorial to make custom players for quake 3 arena using max 9. I have searched in google but almost all the webs are down. I have find some info and some soft to expor…	10 Last	pior May 2008
Assistance with importing in Unreal Engine 3 Dear forum members of Polycount.com We are a group of students currently working on a 3rd person game in the Unreal Engine 3. We are proficient in 3dsMax and Maya and have experience in the 2nd and …	0 Last	Pope Adam May 2008
How do I create multiple textures for 1 model? (pics) I have this robot im about to unwrap, and in game(tf2) hes gonna be huge. As such I was thinking of splitting him up into multiple 2048s. I was thinking one for the legs, one for the arms, shoulders,…	10 Last	Mark Dygert May 2008
Polygon issues Can anyone tell me why these two polys are different colors? I can't get them to be the same color as my model. I'm using Max. [URL=http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weirdbe9.png][IMG]http:…	9 Last	joe gracey May 2008
Blender 2.46 There's a new one: [url]http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/[/url]	36 Last	Richard Kain May 2008
.md5mesh smoothing problems Hey guys; We are currently trying to convert our models into .md5mesh models and we seem to of run into a snag. See, we already made our local maps, so those are done now, and they work, it all look…	1 Last	MoP May 2008
normal map to highpoly? Hey guys, is there a way to make a highpoly object out of a normal map? why i would want that: -make a nice picture (of rocks or something like that) -make a normal map out of it (using crazybump o…	4 Last	Sage May 2008
HLSL shader -> Max .. tiling? Hey guys, I'm learning HLSL using Ben's DVD series (great stuff!) and I am using a shader I wrote for normal maps, diffuse, and specular and brought it into Max. It would great but I would love to u…	2 Last	TSM May 2008
lscmunwrap for max5 and up (new version) hi, now that I am back to some maxing I improved the unwrapper I ported from blender some time ago. please let me know if it works under max6,7,8 before I release it on the other plugin/script sites…	16 Last	Sage May 2008
MDL to SMD conversion Hello, I have MDL Half-life 1 file. Using Milkshape I converted it to a bunch of SMD files. How can I merge all this files into 1 SMD file or any other of these formats: MD2, MD3, MD5? .wysiwyg { …	3 Last	tooom May 2008
Maya Actor X into Unrealed 3 texture problem Hi, I'm new to the forum. As you might be able to tell from the title of the thread, I'm pretty new to the unrealed 3 also, so please forgive me if my questions are painfully obvious etc., but I've b…	5 Last	wsorbust May 2008
Crazybump seams? (normal map->OCC->seam) I`m trying to generate an occlusion map from my normal map and when I put it in the DIFF slot in Max I get a nasty seam. Is it because there is a problem with the normal map/my cbump settings or it`s…	6 Last	vik May 2008
Creating LoDs My biggest question is how does the lowest detail object have the same UVs as the main object? Do you lay out UVs on the original and then duplicate the object and remove edge loops etc to create th…	6 Last	leilei May 2008
failed to install max 2k9. tried to test the trial of max 2k9, then at the end of installation it gave me an error message, and told me to contact the system admin (hum) since vista sets me naturally as not the admin.. how do…	13 Last	nezach May 2008
selecting edge loops in the max unwrapwindow Is there any way to easily select edge loops on your model while in the max unwrap UVW window? this would really speed up my workflow! i really wish the selection controls were the same in unwrap UVW…	10 Last	Mic May 2008
minimal scene in max, very low FPS Hey hey, I'm working on a scene @ work thats roughly 40k triangle in max. There's around 10 materials in the scene, one of which is a multi-sub with about 20 other materials in side of it. Some oth…	9 Last	adam May 2008
Q: laptop (w/ ATI Radeon x300) for May/3dsMax Hello all, Considering to get used laptop, and wondering if it is suitable to use maya (8.0-8.5), and 3dsMax (9.0). Specs are... -Thinkpad T43 -Pentium M 2Ghz -1Gb Ram -80Gb HDD (5400rpm) -ATI Rade…	11 Last	rybeck May 2008
Mental Ray Problem (Smudged Surface?) Hello everyone, I ran into a problem with the Mental Ray renderer in 3ds Max 2009. Basically, I followed 3ds Max's official tutorial for rendering (the one you get in the help files), and instead of…	2 Last	Big Rocket May 2008
RTT/Bake 'Hair and Fur [WSM]' Can anyone here explain Squirrely Jones's method of baking fur to diffuse? You can see what I'm talking about [url=http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=52149&highlight=panda&page=4]here[/url…	7 Last	eboy May 2008
best way to show realtime assets? hi just wondering what the best way to show my game artwork. i think the max veiwport with directX shaders kinda sucks. i've been playing with Xnormals 3d viewer which is really great and so simple…	26 Last	funshark May 2008
ASE files max 9? Hey is there a ASE importer for max9? Im trying to reimport some props to resacle there transform's let me know please	4 Last	pior May 2008
Unreal 3 lighting/shadow issues EDIT: [B]PROBLEM SOLVED[/B]...check bottom post for solution I have a couple of questions to put out there to anyone who knows enough of unreal 3. I have a decent understanding of the editor, but …	10 Last	bluekangaroo May 2008
3D on PSP Hi , seen somebody at another forum created an swf flash file with interactive 3d !!! [url]http://www-personal.umich.edu/~peteralt/files/chinesestreet_inprog/test1/house%20test.swf[/url] from thi…	1 Last	renderhjs May 2008
maya08+xNormal. the puzzle within the puzzle hey all. Ive been browsing the forums around here, reading about peoples experience with normal mapping and everybody's method's for madness. fun times it seems. Currently I am useing xNormal to try…	13 Last	mikezoo May 2008
Nasty AO results with Max 2008 Ok so I made the switch to Max 2008 at work and trying to render out my AO maps using mental ray. I am pretty sure everything is set up correctly but I keep getting shitty results. There are no over…	14 Last	Geezus May 2008
A static Mesh casting a shadow onto a BSP brush I'm trying to get Unreal to cast a shadow onto the ground which is a BSP brush. any ideas what i'm not doing or have you had this problem before? a screen shot to help. and YES its is sitting just …	6 Last	hellobuddy May 2008
Cylindrical shapes normal map baking, newbie problems I'm a newbie trying to learn normal map baking, I'm using Maya 2008 and for the most part it's going well except when I try to bake cylinder type shapes. I've been using Ben Mathis's normal map workf…	7 Last	Slum May 2008
Max 9 HotKeys Issue Hey All, I recently upgraded to max 9 from max 8. I saved out all my hotkeys/UI elements/etc, and loaded them into max 9 when i started. felt so nice, i was so comfy cozy with all my sweet sweet time…	5 Last	Sage May 2008
Max 2008 Mental Ray How do you turn on mental ray in Max 2008? I know it is probably another very easy answer but I am a noob in Max.	2 Last	The_Kozmonaut May 2008
Vertex normal error in Maya Spent all morning searching older threads for a solution but couldnt find one. Im trying to mirror the UVs of the head but keep the face unique. The problem is better explained in this image: [IMG]h…	2 Last	Yozora May 2008
Max 2008 Issues ok so i'm making the switch to 2008 and having a few issues. #1. My uvw editor wont display any edges. Maybe this is a max thing from the past but I have never seen it. All I see are the border edg…	17 Last	Jesse Moody May 2008
Transparency in Max How do I show transparency in max? I have an alpha channel on my .tga but I can't seem to figure out how to show transparency in the viewport or even render it out. I am still seeing the image on a…	3 Last	kio May 2008
Lightmaps in Unreal alright guys...I come again for your wizzzzdom. I heard a rumor that lightmaps just 'happen' in unreal without much input from the artist. In my opinion 'said' lightmaps look pretty darn good in Un…	5 Last	gamedev May 2008
I wanna make a simple 2d platformer I messed with Torque 2D and Multimedia Fusion but I'm an artist not a programmer, is there anything easier out there? I used to have Game-Maker by Recreational Software Designs when I was a kid, it …	7 Last	renderhjs May 2008
Has 64bit helped anyone? hi when i bought my last computer i tried to future proof kinda so i got 4gb ram. i'm only using Xp home so i know i'm not using was just putting off going 64bit because i already had xp home. but j…	14 Last	Illusions May 2008
Resources for learning Maya? Hi everyone, I've been using 3DS Max for the last two years, but had used Maya off and on before that. I have an interview with a developer who only uses Maya, and so far it's sounding really good.…	6 Last	jpgourley May 2008
Breakable environments discussion (56k warning) So I figured it'd be good to discuss breakable environments. First here are some examples, some are procedural breakable objects, some are purely replacing unbroken objects with cut up meshes, and s…	14 Last	Jonathan May 2008