Technical Talk

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Nov 7th Source Update gives me a new error message Due to the Nov. 7th Source SDK update I'm no longer able to compile my characters because of this error message I keep getting: ERROR 'EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION' <assert: 1> The Valve wiki s…	0 Last	Benjiwaa Nov 2007
How to approach inorganic+organic char modeling? Hi guys, I'm basically in the concept phase right now and just about to finish of and start modeling a character (futuristic type marine) whos going to have alot of hardsurfaces for his armor. I wan…	6 Last	aniceto Nov 2007
change multiple materials in maya is there are way to change all materials in maya to a certain material type, i.e. lambert. i know i can do this with values in the component editor, but haven't found a way for materials. thanks in a…	3 Last	fade1 Nov 2007
Various horrible 3d questions for making leilei NI HAO!!!!! o^_^o At some point in the future i'm going to make a new model of you-know-who (HEY I'M NOT LETTING HER GO till I make a good faithful one for my favorite shootan gaems [img]/images/gra…	9 Last	aesir Nov 2007
grayscale in PS why are the results different between a color image that has been [i]desaturated using a hue/saturation adjustment[/i], compared to the same color image that's [/i]image mode is set to grayscale[/i]?…	4 Last	Rob Galanakis Nov 2007
Rigging a weapon to two hands I'm still working on a character's rig, and since this is the first character I've ever rigged, I don't know what I should look for in a good rig until I run into a problem with it (hence the really …	5 Last	animatr Nov 2007
ImageBasedLighting 3dsmax Fx Orginally Brice made that BRDF shader for Maya as seen in [url="http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=238350"]http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=238350[/url…	4 Last	Ruz Nov 2007
Maya 2008 Woes I'm having a excruciating pain figuring out if there are other ways to work around this horrid new axis they have as default in the view port window of Maya 2008. Is there a way to get the old view …	6 Last	pliang Nov 2007
Watts art material ? Hi there There is something I have been asking myself for a couple of years now and I though I'd simply ask here. Most if not all of us have heard about the Watts Atelier: [url="http://www.wattsatel…	20 Last	silversteez Nov 2007
Beyond3D ETQW MegaTexture article For those of you still interested in Megatexturing, here's an interview featuring two of our programmers and a bunch of nice screenshots from ETQW's Megatexturing system. It covers a lot of the more …	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2007
3ds max 2008 woes hey, suppose my workplace hasn't been the only one which recently upgraded to autodesk's newest one. we finally got us some acceptable viewport speeds - and lots of new headaches: anyone know which …	13 Last	Blaizer Nov 2007
Looking for Reference - Inside of an Oxygen Mask Does anyone know what these things look like on the inside? I've found countless shots of gas masks & oxygen masks (like the style a pilot wears), but my meager googling skills have been unable …	2 Last	foreverendering Nov 2007
Collision Models in Source I did a quick search and didnt find anything, but just in case i apologize if this is a repost. Im having problems creating custom collision models in the source engine, specifically for some palm t…	0 Last	Mil0 Nov 2007
Q3 fire scroller shader How would one do a shader script that: - stage one would scroll an additive fire texture upward, the 'fireball' stuff - stage two would 'alpha' this out to a blob shape where we don't get seams and …	9 Last	leilei Nov 2007
omg Crazy black lines everywhere! make it stop! so I'm having this problem in maya no matter what it is, when i'm looking at something in the high quality rendering view. i keep getting these black lines all over the models. Anyone know how I c…	6 Last	Jarrod1937 Nov 2007
photoshop swatch size im watching a training dvd at the moment and I noticed the guy has his swatches set up to be larger squares than I have. All I get the option of is small list or small thumbnails, but I'd like them l…	3 Last	rooster Nov 2007
Help with very low poly characters/models Hey all, Im fairly new too this (very low poly modeling) but could someone go threw a few things about the following subjects: UV placement for small textures Pixel art vs. painting for textur…	12 Last	pixel poison Nov 2007
Arshlevon's Base... Hello, I was just wondering if anyone could upload Arshlevon's base mesh files. It seems as though his site is down therefore I cannot download them. If it is not any trouble and Arshlevon doesn't …	2 Last	Havok Nov 2007
Max shader with env map support? Does anyone know of a realtime maxshader that supports diffuse/spec/normal, and a enviroment map mask, + loading an envmap as well?	8 Last	EarthQuake Nov 2007
Couple Of issues So i'm working on a robot style character for my 3d final project and i'm running into a few issues with the rigging, heres a breakdown. Using maya 8.5 sp1 and advanced skeleton. Since all of his jo…	4 Last	MikeF Nov 2007
photogrammetry i've been trying to make a model based on 3 pictures, and some photogrammetric stuff. but its just... hours of adjustments... does anyone here have any formulas, or general knowledge about photogramm…	6 Last	dejawolf Nov 2007
using max Xref i'd like to get feedback from folks who have used max xref functionality extensively for game production (specifically for level/environment creation & editing). does it work? where does it break…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2007
Post Processing - Filmic Filters So, I've done some googling in the past, but mostly come up dry for what I want to know. I though maybe there were some polycounters with more expansive knowledge that they might want to share. Gam…	15 Last	robioto Nov 2007
Dual Monitor Mouse Issues A bit more of a tech question, but.. I'm running a Radeon x800 GTO, and I just hooked up a second monitor. When I go to the windows properties monitor settings and click to extend the desktop to th…	2 Last	dfacto Nov 2007
Custom character Head Flex Sliders not working-HL2 Thanks for taking the time to read this thread, hopefully you can either help me out, learn something yourself, or both. Using the XSI 6 Mod Tool, I'm working on getting my own character into Source'…	0 Last	Benjiwaa Nov 2007
Ask A Fellow Polycounter - "Maya Mental Ray Issue" This one I really need help with... I've finished my new portfolio scene with shader maps assigned to and all but when I booted up to do final renders today, Mental Ray suddenly could not render. …	10 Last	pliang Nov 2007
What's missing from modern software? I've been thinking about this for a while but I can't seem to think of anything so I'm handing this question that has plagued me to the community. What is missing from modern tools? For a while I t…	51 Last	Sage Nov 2007
How can i adjust mesh after rigging? I have rigged my female character (see Treena Game Design Section) using skin and biped. I posed her with auto key on so when i turn on figure mode it snaps back to t pose. I need to make a couple of…	3 Last	kunglao Nov 2007
bounding volumes for physics and collisions Hi, I was curious how many of the games people are working on use some sort of bounding volume to solve for physics/collisions and if any of them use the existing geometry to the create bounding ob…	7 Last	jpaton Nov 2007
Flatten Brush: Mudbox and Zbrush Ok quick question. I use the flatten brush in Mudbox alot and it reacts just the way one would expect a flatten brush to work. I just really started using zbrush 3 and the flatten brush does not act …	0 Last	CopperHaze Nov 2007
Ambient map rendering problem.. Ok I feel like a right prat at the minute, i cant for the life of me get an AO map to render in Max 9. It just pops out blank. Its for a simple 1k triangle object that I have already UNWrapped I can…	4 Last	Mark Dygert Nov 2007
Corel Painter on a USB Drive Has anyone done this successfully?	1 Last	Mark Dygert Nov 2007
Guitar Hero 3 Character Specs? Does anyone know the character specs for the Guitar Hero 3 characters? Also, wasn't there a contest here some time ago where everyone made their own guitar heroes? If so, I couldn't find them. Cou…	14 Last	nacire Oct 2007
Maya rigging problem I'm having a problem with Maya so i thought posting it here might help me out. I rigged a model to the UT2k3 skeleton and i exported it to a .PSK file.However,when i write the PSK file, i see the ske…	0 Last	movento Oct 2007
XSI Forearm Twist Rig Question I've got a character model I've been working on, and I just got him rigged and enveloped in XSI 5.11. But after I had got all that done, I realized when I twist the character's wrist +/- ~90 degrees …	7 Last	Archvilell Oct 2007
Some environment texturing technical Q's Hi, I haven't found much information around on these things so I'm going to ask them here! (1) When doing UVs for buildings, is it much better to use overlapping UV's (or tiling textures) or are mos…	22 Last	CrazyButcher Oct 2007
Wacom tablet question: Monitor switching... Hey hey... I have 2 monitors at home but while using my tablet in Photoshop I have the constraints of the tablet set to just one monitor, not both. Giving me proper horizontal orientation. However,…	6 Last	Emil Mujanovic Oct 2007
Vertex Lighting? Anyone know some good light baking/vertex lighting/ambient occlusion tutorials? I've seen it mentioned around before. But I'm not really sure how to do it or really what it is. After you bake the …	3 Last	Rick Stirling Oct 2007
dds broken in max 7 max no longer recognizes dds as a file format. i recently installed orionflame 4 modelling tools for max and i'm wondering if that might have caused this. can i copy some files from a coworker's ma…	4 Last	thomasp Oct 2007
Weird Lighting issues in max? Ok, I've never really tried to light a scene in max before so maybe this is normal, but as far as I understand this, an Omni light is supposed to cast light in all directions. Maybe its just because…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2007
Monitor Screwy in Vista Hey guys, just a quick question. I recently purchased vista ultimate and it is working fine. I had untill this morning used an onboard graphics card, and my monitor with a native resoloution of 1440X…	1 Last	Smirnoffka Oct 2007
Quick Zbrush 3 Transpose question If I use transpose to pose a mesh in Zbrush, and then sculpt away, does it have an undo function that will reset the posing, but keep the sculpting intact?	2 Last	Rick Stirling Oct 2007
new wacom ? Im thinking on buying a new wacom, right now i have a graphire 4 for like 2 years , i think it has 512 levels of pressure. So i was wondering what good yet affordable wacom i could get that has 512 …	2 Last	ChaosEidolon Oct 2007
FXGen 0.5alpha released (Procedural Textures) [url="http://www.fxgen.org/"]http://www.fxgen.org/[/url] Finally a new version with the great addition of vector graphics support!	0 Last	JKMakowka Oct 2007
uv breakup when using .obj exporter in Max Im having some trouble when i export a mesh from Max to Maya. Everything was working fine before. I setup my uvs in Max (because i like some of the options) and then i collapse the stack. My uvs look…	10 Last	Noren Oct 2007
Trying to find a post.. It was a mini tutorial on using splines or somethhing to make alpha plane hair by baking the splines onto the planes.. Can't find it with the search tool... :/	3 Last	pliang Oct 2007
UT 3 models polycounts and specs? Hi everybody..do we know about the specs (size of texture and polycounts) of UT3 characters? I was thinking of maybe coming up with my own. Haven´t been doing any modding lately but I have fond memor…	8 Last	MrD Oct 2007
max close/weld spline dialogue question [img]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d3/shika01/dialogueboxes.jpg[/img] Is there a way to have these dialogue boxes default to "Yes" so i dont have to keep clicking or pressing enter? I'm a splin…	4 Last	aniceto Oct 2007
Q: how to install "MR shader" in max? Hi, I haven't much experience with MR in max, and try to learn now.. After a few hours of search, finally managed to find 'dirtmap (= Dirtmap.mi)' shader online, and not sure how to make it work..…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2007
Maya: Isolate Select > Autoload New Objects Does anyone know where, if at all, I can set this to always been on by default? Its become a real pain in the ass as whenever I close Maya, or make a new scene it gets turned off.	0 Last	Illusions Oct 2007