Technical Talk

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Maya hardware and mental ray issues I seem to have gotten myself into a rather difficult problem with maya and mental ray. I am currently working on a high poly game character using several normal maps. I Have been successful in genera…	5 Last	BeatKitano Jul 2007
Looking for good hair tutorials I'm doing a female character and i need some help with the hair. If anyone knows of any good tutorials i'd like to check them out.	9 Last	RobotRock Jul 2007
Matching diffuse/spec to normal maps 1:1 100% What I mean is, what are your methods of working with diffuse maps, when you come to match them up to the normals? Obviously normal maps are made from higher poly models, mapped onto the lower poly t…	12 Last	JordanW Jul 2007
Max 8, Some physique questions Heya guys, I'm currently rigging a character model using biped and physique. I have some questions about physique in combination with other modifiers. 1. Is it possible to ajust the UV's (Unwrap U…	11 Last	coldwolf Jul 2007
DPI resolution question I have a pretty good idea of sizing my maps and where I want to use them. I am little lost if I should create everything at 72 dpi or increase the resolution to say 150 dpi or higher. I guess w…	3 Last	SuperOstrich Jul 2007
PS3 vs 360 - differences in modelling & texturing? Hey dudes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I was wondering if anyone knows in practical terms, how creating content for either platform may differ for a artist? I haven't heard too much about …	42 Last	CrazyButcher Jul 2007
Max wizards: Altering Max's default settings? Hey guys, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to set up Max so that when it loads up it has all my settings I normally manually adjust every time I start a new project. Basically my settings are... …	8 Last	MoP Jul 2007
Tips for making zb3 more mudbox user friendly? Looking for any helpful or useful tips to make it more accessible to a mudbox user like myself.	13 Last	MoP Jul 2007
1024x512 texture stretching? Alright this is a noobish question but I've never made a texture that wasn't a square, and I wanted to try and make one that was a 1024x512. But when I changed the width and height it just stretches …	8 Last	Jesse Moody Jul 2007
How Carmack did it No flaming, I just wanted to show everyone how fucking awesome this tech is. At TED [url="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129"]this guy demonstrated[/url] his product SeaDragon with PhotoS…	19 Last	MoP Jul 2007
faogen and vista? since their tech support have not replied, does anyone know if this is compatible with vista? I want to give it a shot but so far, no dice. anyone got it working?	1 Last	Ryan Clark Jul 2007
Toy-like Rocket ship WIP This is a rocket ship I did and I was wondering if there was a way to cut back some of the geometry on it. The problem is that it is skinned so i can't get rid of to much. I included a pic of the bon…	5 Last	SouL Jul 2007
"The Industry" and Art Tests. A few of us here at U.A.T. were out to dinner the other night and the conversation turned to GDC and art tests. While I have spoken to a few of the folks I met there, I thought I would start a t…	64 Last	Frankie V Jul 2007
Solution for normal mapping on a slow computer? Hi there. I wanted to try to make a normal map so I made a high-res model of a man in zbrush3. When I wanted to import it to 3dmax, I realized that my computer is too slow to handle the model in max…	16 Last	pior Jul 2007
max scene corruption let me tell you a small story: first image is a thumbnail, of what the scene looked like before i shut down my computer yesterday. its all i have left, and is the actual thumbnail of the very next s…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2007
Tutorial MEGADUMP! Loooong time in coming, it took me forever to edit all of these. There is one final one in the works on rigging using skin, but since it's minor, I'm posting them all now. I had originally wanted t…	12 Last	Mongrelman Jul 2007
Chuggnut's UV tools - hotkeying? Hey folks... I imagine a number of you Max users out there will be familiar with Chuggnut's excellent unwrap tools (from [url="http://www.chuggnut.com"]www.chuggnut.com[/url]). I was wondering if th…	26 Last	cw Jul 2007
zbrush 3 topology tools I have been messing around with this and it works fine on the whole, but does anyone know of a workaround for open edges. my character has open edges at the mouth and eyes and when i retopologise th…	2 Last	Ruz Jul 2007
baking dense vine geometry into lo-poly mesh Hello, I am creating a interior scene that I want to be overrun with vines. The vine geometry is waayyy too dense, and I can't figure out how to (if possible) turn all the dense vine geometry into a …	6 Last	Xenobond Jul 2007
Creating DS Textures The DS has supports 18-Bit (260 000) colors. In photoshop, how do you tell your color palette to only display colors that are 18-bit? I don't know if its something totally noob of me to not know, bu…	11 Last	danr Jul 2007
procedural animated texture ? hey guys, I'm trying to create a procedural alpha texture, somehow like doom3's thing when you kill the demons, just not over all the body, any idea where I could find a (free?) generator or somethin…	5 Last	CrazyButcher Jul 2007
Zbrush3 Annoyances... need a little help please. Ok so after gettin over the fact that saving as a ZB doccument, all i end up with is a 2d image which i can't manipulate in future, and have thus wasted my last 2 hours. i've found something else th…	15 Last	fritz Jul 2007
Connect shortcut key Max 9 I want to say that I was able to assign "connect" as a shortcut key in max 6.5 and it work for vertex, edge, and poly mode (Note: it might have been a meshtools function). In Max 9 I can't seam to as…	9 Last	Jesse Moody Jul 2007
Help modeling a robot for animation I am taking the time over the next month or so to learn roughly how to animate. I am just now starting to get the grasp of modeling efficiently, and now i need to work on modeling for animation. Fro…	10 Last	Mil0 Jul 2007
3ds Max problems hey guys. I'm running 3ds Max 9 on my new computer, and i'm having some really annoying problems. 1) undoing takes forever. Especially after i turn on DirectX view. Then [even if i turn it off] it t…	12 Last	Rob Galanakis Jul 2007
Normal Mapping Color Issues So, I've been tooling around in xNormal a bit and seem to run into a small problem. My colors in xnormal are not as sharp as they are in photoshop or maya. I imagine this is because of the realtime…	6 Last	CrazyButcher Jul 2007
High to Low Ambient Occlusion Lately I've taken a few swings at projecting an AO Map/Dirtmap from a high poly prop for the low poly prop's texture. Stupid things happen, mainly raycasting issues. [img]http://i59.photobucket.com/…	14 Last	vahl Jul 2007
HL2 Compiling Issues Ok, so I had two animators work on the animations for Juice (one of the characters in our game) and unfortunately one of the animators had the model rotated backwards in max so when we tried to get t…	6 Last	TorQue[MoD] Jul 2007
Unusual game design ideas I think this thread should have a rule: [b]Every time you post comments on other people's ideas you must also post a new idea yourself[/b] I had some game design ideas, and I thought it would be …	27 Last	Steve Schulze Jul 2007
SSS For skin in 3ds max? Hey everyone, im trying to understand how SSS works, and I found a video link on genom workshops website that explains how to create SSS skin for maya, but I hardly see any tutorials or anything for …	6 Last	diZzyWalnut Jul 2007
dirt map? hey guys... i was just wondering wat a dirtmap is and what it does. i've seen it being referred to in one or two threads, and in one of Pior's tutorials... and i was just wondering about it... thanks	9 Last	SouL Jul 2007
Torque Question_ about alpha sorting Hey guys, I am using the newest version of maya to export my .dts files for torque. What I have: I have a plant, that is basically 5 planes facing up with their outer edges curled downward and stac…	2 Last	tremulant Jul 2007
.3ds... Will not work in 3ds max... How can I get my copy of 3ds max 8 to open these files... BTW- I exported them from the World of Warcraft odel viewer	3 Last	aesir Jul 2007
Alpha map problem in maya Hey guys,i have a question.I've been working on a model i showed a while ago,and i made alpha planes and an alpha/transperency map for it.i first thought it wasn't possible to view alpha maps in the …	7 Last	Steve Schulze Jul 2007
cs2 keyboard shortcuts every once in a while my keyboard shortcuts start doing different things than they are supposed to do. "ctrl a" selects all layers instead of selecting the image. the "[" and "]" cycle through lay…	5 Last	Sage Jul 2007
Long, thin triangles. Avoid, or ignore? In the old days we were always taught to avoid them, mainly because they were a bugger when it came to lighting (either real time or vertex baking). These days, with per pixel lig…	8 Last	Sage Jul 2007
Helpful Guides Sticky!? Date Labeled is: 07-03-07 if this is old my mistake. [url="http://www.zbrush.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"]http://www.zbrush.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page[/url] Just stumbled upon this lovely boa…	4 Last	Tulkamir Jul 2007
normal flip in some mudbox.... i can't for the life of me find out how to flip normals in mudbox.... any help?....s'killin me.	0 Last	fritz Jul 2007
Maya[n] Woes I recently recieved a new computer for graduation, and since I've had nothing but trouble with Maya. It took much longer than I would have thought necessary to transfer my liscence...but it finally g…	4 Last	Nato_VanDookie Jul 2007
PathDeform 3DSMAX I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the object space PathDeform modifier to work properly and deform my mesh around the spline, without it rotating the restulting object, seemingly arbit…	4 Last	MoP Jul 2007
Enviroment Artist Hello all, your good friend Andy here, i was just wondering some things about environment art because i really want to get into it -are Environments all done all in a 3D app like 3Ds max? -Is a…	15 Last	adam Jul 2007
zbrush3 to max.... i REALLY like zbrush3...so much faster. however i'm having some troubs bringing my sculpts into max. has anyone experienced any probs? the settings are the same as w/zbrush2. but i can't even bri…	6 Last	fritz Jul 2007
Ablility to see vert alpha in max for levels Is there an option to see vertex alpha in max (not the vert colors it shows but it actually alphaing out, like haveing a dirt poly over a grass poly and having it transition) for texturing levels eit…	10 Last	CrazyButcher Jun 2007
Found - Normal map generator for OSX I stumbled upon this today - a standalone normal map generator for the mac. Works a treat, it's very similar to the Nvidia filter, though it's obviously not embedded into Photoshop, so you lose the n…	0 Last	Rick Stirling Jun 2007
Wacom Issues Tablet: Intuos 3 6x8 I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem, or heard of it, or know what might be wrong. Sometimes, and this happens quite often, during use the tablet will spont…	10 Last	SkullboX Jun 2007
Hey, vague graphics programming questions? I'm not sure this is exactly worth a whole thread, but I doubt there's anyone in #md that can help me, and I know there are some programmers here, so... Sorry to ask a stupid question, but, If I was…	4 Last	Joseph Silverman Jun 2007
Are you not entertained!? (FX Composer 2) Look, I'm not great fan of FXC1.8. It was not very user friendly at first, and there were lots of quirks where you wonder how they consider this 1.8 (and not a 1.1), like the window settings. But i…	1 Last	Squid Jun 2007
Creating a 1d texture Anyone know of a way to create a 1d texture in photoshop? I know you can create them programaticaly, but I want to create it in photoshop. [url="http://www.poopinmymouth.com"][img]http://www.mr-chom…	40 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2007
modelling inside of mouth help working on a 4-5k tri model using max and would like to (eventually)have some facial animation. I want to include a basic mouth with teeth. The teeth will be basic planes that i will alpha. below are…	1 Last	Rick Stirling Jun 2007
sub-d error Hey delete this thread if it is Not appriopiated. [img]http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5884/errorbt9.jpg[/img] I asked alot of people about this problem , they just don't know. When I smooth th…	4 Last	CrazyButcher Jun 2007