Technical Talk

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Biped Animations in two files As it stands I have two max8 files and a character rigged with a CS Biped. The two files are halves of the same animation, what I need to do is merge the animation sequence from the first file into …	1 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2007
Slow webhost woes oii. i'm looking for reccomendations on a good web host. i'm in the process of putting together a website for my portfolio, here: [url="http://www.thejohnwarnerexperience.com"]http://www.thejohnwar…	1 Last	sonic Oct 2007
Snapping to a central point... Hello, I was wondering how in Max I would select two or more vertices and snap them together so they are perfectly centered and aligned with the rest of the model. If you need help to understand wha…	3 Last	Ryno Oct 2007
question about material errors in max. Hey all Ok so im trying to clean up about 8 large max scenes,with large amounts of polygons and objects,there is also a hefty number of textures in these scenes. Though the objects are now in there…	8 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2007
Salvaging topology in Zbrush... Ok, so...Ive been working with the topo tools in zbrush, and it appears I have had my first newb move. I did a solid chunk of my retopologized mesh, and then saved it out to work on another day. …	3 Last	ChaosEidolon Oct 2007
Recording Viewport out of Maya So I made a turn table of my models in Maya with normal, color, and spec maps applied, and I want to render out the animation. It looks good in the viewport, but when I render it, it looks way diffe…	6 Last	Illusions Oct 2007
Silo uv-troubles Since Silo's uv-ing is still a bit bug-riddled and useless to me (no merging in the uv-editor? wtf), I use Roadkill for that part of my workflow, also because of its coloured stretch-display, which i…	3 Last	ironbearxl Oct 2007
Photoshop CS3 Snap for Guides... broken? Am I doing something wrong or did Adobe break the damn snap options for the guides in CS3? I've got Snap enabled, along with all of its options, and still the damn guides won't snap to halfways acros…	2 Last	East Oct 2007
Max refraction issues Hey, just had a question about something I'm having trouble with in max right now. Hope someone can help, since I'm getting nowhere so far. I have a my model set up with a textured body/head/miscel…	4 Last	Xenobond Oct 2007
Help with rigging a bird I'm going to be modeling and animating a duck for work (using Max) and the animations that are needed are going to be the duck floating in the water, flying, and dying. It can be bones or biped. The …	2 Last	Slum Oct 2007
Normal Map issue Hey folks, quick question. When baking out my normal maps as of late I'm noticing that the triangulated shading of the low res model is baking into the colors of the normal map. Is this the usual? …	27 Last	Honolulu_Ninja Oct 2007
useful feet reference Does anyone have links to any? Something useful like ortho shots maybe. Or even stylized drawings that show the structure. I'm having a bit of difficulty finding anything at the moment. Thanks	7 Last	Fuse Oct 2007
Photoshop CS2 problem Hey fellow polycounters. [url="http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9630/whyfv0.jpg"]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9630/whyfv0.jpg[/url] As you can see, the image in CS2 is NOT the same image th…	1 Last	MoP Oct 2007
Retopo in Zbrush. Worth using yet? Ive been doing some reading up on this, and it seems, seeing as its a new feature, it still has a few kinks to work out. What im afraid of is putting a ton of time into it just to find that it ends …	10 Last	ChaosEidolon Oct 2007
vista is a fucking nightmare well, today i just about had the worst experience with vista ever. my plan is to finish up my current model, and then get the hell out of vista ASAP, but it seems like even thats going to be one hell…	22 Last	PolyHertz Oct 2007
newbie needs help Heya guys, I'm new here and would like to say hello to everyone! I have a little problem at the moment...when you guys show off your work on your portfolio, do you show pre-rendered work or grab a s…	3 Last	krayzie777 Oct 2007
High Poly Hard Surface Modeling... Greetings, this my first post but I have been lurking around for a while just looking at all of the spectacular artwork that you guys produce. I just wanted to know how you would go about modeling a…	12 Last	Ged Oct 2007
Polycounts for Next Gen Enviornments? polycounts for next gen enviornments?	8 Last	Ghostscape Oct 2007
Twist Bone Question "yet once again" (Simple?) You know, I think I might have be weighting and constraining helper bones backwards. Sooo. When you have a biped, and instead of having extra useless bones, you only add 1 or 2 twists and weight th…	5 Last	Rick Stirling Oct 2007
phothoshop issue hi guys i've got a very very very innoying photoshop 6 issue... any tool i select doesn't work as it should... for instance if i select my brush tool the cursor looks like a "pan view" hand instead o…	3 Last	dejawolf Oct 2007
Still Confused. Shoulder Details [url="http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=234603&an=0&page=4#Post234603 "]Ok so its starts in this thread:[/url] [img]http://www.oxynary.com/downloads/shouldertry2.png[…	21 Last	Rick Stirling Oct 2007
Eyes help Does anyone have a good reference on how big eyeballs should be in reference to the head? I am trying to sculpt a female head, and not that it looks fantastic to begin with but its always worse when …	4 Last	rube Oct 2007
New CrazyBump Beta! Beta 5 is ready! It's a major upgrade. Check it: -Everything is faster, thanks to SSE and multi-threading. (Much faster. Seriously. I'm not kidding here.) -Apply your own diffuse texture in…	7 Last	Renaud Galand Oct 2007
Ask A Polycounter - "Maya View Port Issues" So as I'm wrapping up my new portfolio scene for the this weekend...I'm continuously experiencing a symptom on Maya that when sometimes I just started the program and pan through the scrn it would fr…	5 Last	pliang Oct 2007
baking Ambient maps max8 (render to texture) ok I understand you have to use mental ray when your baking your maps, and im just doing defaults, but the maps arent coming out correct there like all dark for the most part and kinda grainy,I notic…	6 Last	seforin Oct 2007
Mental Ray Rendering Issues (Maya) So far when it comes to rendering using mental ray I found out that objects (In Maya) only shows when there's no skybox obstructing the way...however I am currently working on a world right now and I…	11 Last	pliang Oct 2007
Combining maps? Is it typical to combine maps into one big map when doing enviroments? For example, if I'm doing a factory scene, and I have a barrel, crate, trash on the ground, etc, is it common to combine those i…	3 Last	TheMadArtist Oct 2007
Yes! another job phone interview thread! Rock! I got a phone interview this week for the job that I did the ice cream truck for. it was surprising, considering they told me less than a week ago that it'd take several weeks to get back to m…	71 Last	Maddness Oct 2007
right click does nothing in Maya... I can't right click to switch between verts, edges, etc. Anyone know how to fix it?	9 Last	joe gracey Oct 2007
Maya Normal Maps Flipping Green? Hey, I've got a problem where when I bake normals in Maya my green (vertical) channel seems to be flipped. I'm not sure if this is a Maya problem, something I'm doing wrong or what. One thought is t…	8 Last	Tulkamir Oct 2007
Getting started with cubemaps? Hey, in order to have a semi-complete texturing skillset, I really wantto learn a bit more about cube maps. I seem to understand the theory artwise, and I have a pretty firm idea of how to use a mas…	6 Last	Sa74n Oct 2007
Intersecting Meshes I'm modeling a tree that would ideally be for a next gen game. My question is whether it would be better for it to be one mesh with smooth topology instead of each branch being a different object, o…	12 Last	JKMakowka Oct 2007
Original character from XSI into Face Poser ?????? I'm in the process of trying to take my own original character from Softimage/XSI 6 and make it ready for full facial animation and lip synch in the Source SDK Face Poser. I've been using the tutoria…	2 Last	Benjiwaa Oct 2007
what's a good digital camara to get. Hi I'm kind of looking to get a good digital camera. I was looking at a few. I don't really think I need more than 6 mega pixels. I looking to spend between 300 to 400 usd. The thing I want is a high…	15 Last	Sage Oct 2007
3ds max 9 Chuggnut unwrap tools In a thread somewhere here, someone posted a download link to an updated version of Chuggnut´s unwrap tools, fully functional in Max 9. Please, can someone post this link again, I need them for a fre…	7 Last	Psyk0 Oct 2007
Partition question - Half my HDD not showing up... Hey hey, I recently bought a new computer and had Vista installed on to it. I'm now in the process of getting XP up and running (not a dual boot, I removed - or I think I removed - Vista). I have no…	17 Last	IronHawk Oct 2007
Maya PLE to Maya 8? Does anyone know how to convert a Maya Personal Learning File to a Maya 8 file? If anyone has any help this will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance	0 Last	Geeves Oct 2007
3ds capping holes I'm trying to get a 3ds model into Gmax. It has many holes in it: [img]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l43/Marshal_banana/capholes.jpg[/img] Whenever it gets imported, the holes are capped, and …	4 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2007
tris versus quads in game art hello mates, i have a question regarding an art test im making. Im asked to create a lowpoly character using a maximum of 700 triangles. By triangles do you think they mean that my mesh should be t…	13 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2007
DDS photoshop plugin explained I got tired of not knowing what all the different options in the Nvidia DDS Photoshop export dialog box did, so I sat down and tried them all. I also did some online research for the types that weren…	33 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2007
Ambient Occlusion baking question I have an important question. How do i transfer a AO map from a High poly model to low poly using render to texture? I been struggling with this all week. Also,Is there a bug issue with this menta…	1 Last	fritz Oct 2007
In game industry which work fllow you will choose low poly - highpoly low poly -highpoly-low poly topology rebuilding or other great way:)	12 Last	Mark Dygert Oct 2007
texture art test wip (update: Toilets!!) So I'm working on this 2nd art test (popular guy eh?) that was sent to me by another company. this is a texturing test. one of the bullets in the directions state: 3. The lighting should be baked …	31 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2007
I lost my sunglasses on top of my head In other words i think im missing the obvious... Ive been reading over some of the normal map tuts suggested in my project thread (Poop's and Andrei's), and after looking them both over and comparin…	8 Last	FikusOmongus Oct 2007
Using someone else's work... I was wondering if there was any legal problems with taking someone's concept art like Dylan Cole or Feng Zhu and modeling it and putting it in my portfolio? I'm not planning on making any money off …	9 Last	Ruz Oct 2007
Demo idiot needs help. Hi guys, I have some models ready, but do not know how to make a demo reel at all. I know basic after effects stuff and rendering in Maya. I need to know how to put your short reels on DVD for recru…	9 Last	Sage Oct 2007
Upcoming TopoGun beta 1.3 SubD's to Mudbox video Hello, There is a new video on [url="http://www.topogun.com"]www.topogun.com[/url] showing how you can recover the small details from a highres mesh and import them in Mudbox.	1 Last	Pedro Amorim Oct 2007
xref .... hi i have some funky wunky x-ref problems and it would be so nice if max would learn to handle them correct but no.. it don´t want to.. so maybe there is some trick or some other solution, maybe som…	1 Last	dejawolf Oct 2007
ZAPPLINK v3 released. Nice Link: [url="http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=052099"]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=052099[/url]	1 Last	Panupat Oct 2007
vista, 3ds max 8 stutter [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvosFZrcYUA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvosFZrcYUA[/url] brand new vista, and max 8, side by side comparison with a 3 year old XP computer.	0 Last	dejawolf Oct 2007