Technical Talk

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tf2 map making helps i hear tell that several of you guys are making tf2 maps, i'm havin a problem with my cap points.. here is the overview of the problem I am making a small cp map with 3 points my map layout is lik…	2 Last	Rhinokey Jan 2008
Smooth Groups in Maya Hey guys, taking a Maya class, and I'm definitely a max user. Made a low poly mountain dew bottle, just to learn the program and how uv mapping works in maya. Got all that working, but when i rend…	9 Last	ElysiumGX Jan 2008
Max 9 x64 craziness So, I'm trying to render out a sequence of frames. I can render individual frames just fine with no problem, but as soon as I set it to render multiple frames, it just continuously renders the first …	5 Last	Slum Jan 2008
3D engine CSG/BSP/Portals doubts I'm adding constructive solid geometry to an engine and got some doubts: 1. Do you like subtractive CSG? I heard is dangerous because can create lot of holes and tjunctions and other artifacts. Some…	0 Last	jogshy Jan 2008
Setting up internet forums does anyone have any info on doing this? I've got a website starting up and I'd like to have a forums section.	8 Last	jogshy Jan 2008
Hotkeys for CrazyBump Hail PolyCounters! CrazyBump needs hotkeys, and I seek your input. Here's what I've got so far: undo: ctrl z redo: ctrl y or ctrl shift Z save: ctrl s save all: ctrl shift s (would [i]ctrl-a[/i] …	6 Last	Michael Knubben Jan 2008
HELP!!!Creating 3D Space from a Photo Reference... so i would like to create a scene using this image... [img]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb217/Fraya713/lijiang4.jpg[/img] i was wondering if any of you could help me out because i am having s…	7 Last	Fraya713 Jan 2008
bluetooth wacom Anyone got one? Any good? Thinking about getting one for home	7 Last	Bruno Afonseca Jan 2008
Need a wee bit of help with the UT3 Editor I cannot, for the life of myself, seem to figure out how to assign Vehicle Factories and Player Start Points to a specific team (ie, in a VCTF map). I've opened up the attributes for each...and I ca…	1 Last	Showster Jan 2008
Max 9, setting own hotkeys Hey there, so I've been lurking on this forum for about 2 years now and I've never posted. And now here I am not posting art but posting for help. I really need your brains now because I am at the ve…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2008
Dreamcast abilities/restrictions I was wondering if anyone here worked on any Dreamcast projects back in its prime, and what kind of limitations were normaly put on characters/objects? things like average poly counts, texture resolu…	12 Last	Richard Kain Jan 2008
Half life 2 Model Decompiling/ Studio Compiler Hi all, Just wandering if anyone had any problems running cannon fodders decompiler / studio compiler lately. Both apps load and I can load a model but if I try to extract / decompile the program …	0 Last	Showster Jan 2008
Directx materials in 3ds max 2008? Sorry if this has been answered before, but the option to view materials as Directx shaders is gone from the usual spot in the Material editor. Where is it found now? I downloaded the trial though, …	2 Last	Snowfly Jan 2008
Hexagon for modeling Does anyone here every use Hexagon for 3d modeling? I find it to be very intuitive even though I'm not much of a 3d artist. It's still fun to play around with. I've seen some pretty neat tutorial …	1 Last	hawken Jan 2008
Does anyone have the Xcloud PDF tutorials? I was looking for these on my machine the other day and couldn't find them, and unfortunately xcloud.net is no longer around. Can somebody hook me up? Thanks.	3 Last	SuperOstrich Jan 2008
Mudbox not running in Vista Ok I haven't had this issue before but now mudbox isn't running and it wont even start in Vista. I have reinstalled it and everything and it just crashes. Anyone got any ideas?	4 Last	Jesse Moody Jan 2008
Wow thechnical limitations and another thing I Started to play arround with the though of making replace models for world of warcraft. And i had a look arround, and i could'nt find any information on their technical limitations or exporting pro…	1 Last	Psyk0 Jan 2008
Zbrush 3.1 Autosave!? I badly need autosave for zbrush! I dont want to know how many work i allready lost because of all the crashes. I try to save constantly but sometimes i just forget it and i have the feeling it crash…	3 Last	Davision3D Jan 2008
Rotary cannons What technique do you use to make perfect rotary gun barrels (i.e. 3, 4, 6, chain/vulcan/gatling gun)? right now I painfully duplicate, and rotate to all my might all by hand hoping it'd be precisel…	4 Last	MoP Jan 2008
Looking for an FPS Engine for an indi game? [url="http://www.sauerbraten.org"]www.sauerbraten.org[/url] They finally implemented full .md5 and normal-map support on playermodels in the latest CVS version (undocumented so far, but there is alm…	0 Last	JKMakowka Jan 2008
skin -> mirror vert/bones -> auuuugh. hey guys, I've been sitting on a problem all week regarding my character I'm rigging. Everything was going smoothly, but now it looks like skin has decided to insert it's own weight values for a cer…	4 Last	sir-knight Jan 2008
Creating AO maps in 3DS Max and tri-optimization Hey polycounters, I had two questions (I'm pretty new to ambient occlusion maps and optimizing by creating tris). I got a quick overview of how to do AO maps in 3DS Max (set the renderer to MR, Ren…	10 Last	artstream Jan 2008
weird max bug? I'm working in max right now building some stones for a new prop. I made the objects and then exported them to .obj's and sculpted in mudbox and brought them back into max for assembly. But the bug …	2 Last	Saidin311 Jan 2008
my edit poly tools help. Hey guys, it's been a while. I'm trying to figure out what's up with my Max. I'm using 8, and before if i used extrude or chamfer or whatever, it'd let me type in what ever number i wanted say .005 a…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2008
occlusion settings hey y'all, i am mapping a hp to lp and i have yet to find good settings for the ambient occlusion map. last time it took 3 days to render. can anyone suggest some settings? thanks!!!!!	1 Last	EarthQuake Jan 2008
Questionnaire for game artists Hi I'm a university student studying games design and for one of my projects I have chosen to research the character creation process used by game artists. This short questionnaire is about the limit…	1 Last	Rick Stirling Jan 2008
buying a laptop, need halp on specs I need a laptop but i'm on a tight budget, so, i'd like to know if one with the specs below would be able to run the latest versions of max, maya, mudbox, zbrush etc, without significant slowdowns, r…	4 Last	Ryan Clark Jan 2008
DS poly limits?? I've been playing through FFXII Revenant Wings and am totally in love with the environments in the game. I was wondering when creating a level to DS specs what is the recommended poly count? sorry if…	10 Last	Ryan Clark Jan 2008
Trying to Find a Reliable Photo Sharing Program: Here is my problem: I need to find a reliable photo sharing program for our graphics department that can be used across a network of computers.Take into consideration we have both PC and Mac users …	2 Last	Slingshot Jan 2008
Rendering normal maps in Maya...how? Can anyone recommend a good tutorial on rendering normal maps in Maya? By that I mean in mental ray or vray or any sexy renderer. Tired of printscreen. Cheers T	5 Last	IxenonI Jan 2008
Normal Baking/Creation in Mudbox (from Max) I've been searching the net for a good tutorial on how to bake textures from Mud Box. I'm building a set of steps ala Cholden's UE3 thread. I've got my mesh built in Max, and I can import it into Mu…	8 Last	TWilson Jan 2008
biped files for quake 3? Hello Please HELP, i have searched in the forum but i havent find anything about bip files to animate a quake 3 model, in a web i have read that Paul Steed post the bip files to animate a q3 model he…	2 Last	akram Jan 2008
ZB3.1 with no UV's work flow? Does anyone know of a work flow in ZB3.1 where you can do a high poly sculpt and do your UV's later? I thought i could import a low poly mesh and use the morph tool, but that didn't seem to work. a…	8 Last	rybeck Jan 2008
attempting a texture with alpha using 1 texture Hey guys, using max8 I'm trying to do the following. I am attempting to billboard a tree texture onto a plane. I know with 2 separate maps, a diffuse and an opacity I can get the effect I'm looking …	17 Last	CrazyButcher Jan 2008
removing edges in 3dsmax removing edges is very handy for polygon reduction but there is a horrible bug whereby if you add an edit poly , then proceeed to reduce polys by removing edges, occasionally if you 'undo' it screws …	6 Last	Mark Dygert Jan 2008
Maya Training Recommendations Hey guys, I need some recommendations for Maya training Dvd's or other useful sources. Clearly there are a decent amount of Gnomon Dvds available but what other resources are out there? I've been u…	4 Last	spacemonkey Jan 2008
DX Display and Vertex Lighting I was wondering if there is a way to get vertex lighting to show up with the DX display of Standard Material option checked on in Max. Because I have vertex lighting on this violin Im working on an…	3 Last	cw Jan 2008
Crossbow for RTCW. Any help appreciated Hi, I have made a Map for RTCW that allows me to walk around a 3D construction of the Castle that once stood in our village ( Castle Donington ). I would like to have some medieval weapons i.e a Cro…	2 Last	TasKiNG Jan 2008
the one 3ds max bug to rule them all. ominous drumming ever since the unfold map function was introduced into 3ds max.. one bug has bothered me from the day i started using it. BEHOLD! the one bug to RULE THEM ALL! [img]http://www.deja…	12 Last	dejawolf Jan 2008
Unreal3 and XSI Hello Guys, we recently stumbled upon a problem while exporting data from XSI to the Unreal and xsi alway crashes during the export.	7 Last	empeck Jan 2008
[Resolved!] UT3, FBX + Maya 7 importing woes So I've been following the folowing tutorial: [url="http://www.ut40k.planetunreal.gamespy.com/unreal-Dateien/UT3_tutorials.html"]http://www.ut40k.planetunreal.gamespy.com/unreal-Dateien/UT3_tutorials…	12 Last	DevilBlackDeath Jan 2008
maya viewport problem hi, i have trouble with the maya viewport rendering. i want to display a lambert shader with a layered texture(a color texture plus a baked gi texture with multiply) and vertex colors with alpha. thi…	0 Last	fade1 Jan 2008
game sounds Anyone know any places I can get some free sound effects for a game I'm working on that don't sound like the 80's or a made for tv movie?	4 Last	Cody Jan 2008
the hotbox in maya is stuck working as usual in Maya and everything is fine [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] then suddenly my hotbox (the menu that comes up when pressing space) simply won't change from animation mode. […	0 Last	Mique Jan 2008
Suggest tutes for learning Maya tools Hey guys, I've recently found myself in a position of needing to pick-up some 'mad Maya skillz'. What I'd like to do is find some learning material that will teach me the tools used to create a chara…	2 Last	Emil Mujanovic Jan 2008
Issue with UVs? Hey guys, kinda sad that my first post had to be a question but I've run into a little snag with my model. For a little background, I'm a 3d max/Zbrush user, using max to model low poly and using zbr…	8 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2008
Max no longer loads Every time I try to run max lately, the splash screen comes up, and it looks like it's loading normally, but then it just dissapears, and the program does not open...I've tried everything I could thi…	1 Last	Archanex Jan 2008
Lighting Basics and You... 3 point lighting is your friend. There is a lot of reading to be found on the intertron, but I'll give you the skinny version. I'll mostly talk in terms of Max however most of this translates to just…	13 Last	rybeck Jan 2008
UVW unwrap modifier bugs since my last bug was a dud, i decided to post a genuine bug this time around: [img]http://www.dejawolf.com/tutorials/maxbug/UVbug.jpg[/img] i'm a regular user of the "stitch selected" due to it bei…	3 Last	dejawolf Jan 2008
dual monitor chatter hey all, i'm looking into upgrading by adding another monitor for my computer set up at home. while researching i've read that i need a video card for each monitor that i'm running. this sounds lik…	5 Last	breakneck Jan 2008