Technical Talk

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What is the average poly count? What is the average poly count for an airplane, weapons (sword shotgun), fully functional male character and a vehicle used in games ranging from GTA San Andreas to Halo? If someone could answers th…	18 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
Photoshop brush problem Has anyone else been afflicted by this demon? This only just started happening, both at home and here at work, but whenever I set my brush angle to direction, I get about 30 seconds of painting in a…	2 Last	Cthogua May 2007
3dsMax expression controller? I have a Vol.Select modifier on one mesh, and point helper linked to another mesh, and I'm trying to get the Vol.Select gizmo to follow the helper. So as the 2nd mesh moves long, it should create a m…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
NEW CrazyBump Beta! (v2.6) Hi all, A new beta of CrazyBump is available for testing. If you'd like to give it a spin, please download the beta from [url="http://www.crazybump.com/beta/download.html"]www.crazybump.com/beta/do…	30 Last	Xaltar May 2007
Colored Spec Maps. I taught myself how to texture. I know, I know, it shows. That was some time ago, back in the heyday of Bryce, and Poser (did they move on, or did I?)... Recently my colleagues and I are stumped. We…	4 Last	CheeseOnToast May 2007
Can I extract any normal maps from a subD model? Hi, I'm very new here so I hope you guys can help me out a little here. I am pretty aquainted with zbrush and som mudbox, but I've been having difficulty trying to create non-organic stuff in both …	14 Last	pillowsama May 2007
Max to ZBrush to Max... (Mudbox?) My institution recently acquired ZBrush. Granted, it is still being tested across the network, and no one here knows how to use it. In an attempt to push myself farther and harder I am determined to …	5 Last	Hito May 2007
render to texture question Hi guys, A quick question, is it possible to render vertex colors to a texture (with max 8's render to texture tool) ? If so.. how could I do this. Thanks!	12 Last	JKMakowka May 2007
Max 9... what units for Decay in Displace? I'm trying to setup a SuperSpray particle system in Max 9.1 that mimics how doppler shrinks/expands sound waves as objects approach/recede from the emitter. I'm using a cylindrical Displace spacewarp…	0 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
UV checker maps A long time ago there was a thread that had a whole bunch of different checker maps in it for checking UVs. I managed to lose my copy of the really nice 512x512 one with the circles. Does anyone ha…	20 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
Question: Max 9 and the physique modifier ? Im reading the tutorial for physique, and i can't find the "initialize" button. here's what i do: 1) I select the mesh (object) 2) I go in the modifier rollout 3) I apply the physique modifier over …	10 Last	Mark Dygert May 2007
uneven normal map (swimming syndrome) I'm having an hard time with normal maps projections that look uneven, my projection seems ok, but the normal map render are all looking like swimming. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/foo…	23 Last	Noren May 2007
UV Editing outside of 0 to 1. I am using Maya and have ran into a problem that is really starting to bug me. Can you extend the texture beyond 0 to 1 without it tiling (filling a full range of 5 to -5)? It only tiles outside of 0…	3 Last	warby May 2007
unreal ed question.... i need a bone to attach to an actor in unreal ed. i need to control the bones movement with that actor. for example...a characters head follows a dummy object if it moves around. i'm just the mi…	0 Last	fritz May 2007
Modeler Questions Hi everyone, I was just asking myself somes question and I was hoping if someone could answer me (knowing that most of you are in the game industry) #1 : Do you use a lots of different models to com…	8 Last	jgarland May 2007
3DS Max 8&9 - UV editor glitch-unselectable verts Hey guys, this is a minor problem but it can be very irritating at times. As far as I can remember I've only encountered it since Autodesk incorporated pelt mapping into the UVW Unwrap modifier. The…	8 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
Breast rigging Say if you rigged such a character like [url="http://openarena.ws/shots/fun/hnt/hnt-lava7.jpg"]this[/url], how would you go about boning the breasts for animation as well as the straps? A simple bon…	11 Last	Richard Kain May 2007
Unreal Editor questions I've just started learning 3.0 , following tutorials and such. I'm wanting to bring a mesh in from XSI and blend tiling textures together on it, like when you paint the textures for terrain in unre…	1 Last	Panupat May 2007
Question about Sprites in Quake4 Ive been trying to get an alphatested shader with a specular and a normalmap for foliage on trees to work in quake4. This is the shader im using: Code:models/nature/tree_foliage01 { deform sprite …	0 Last	mikebart May 2007
Max 9... Object selected that's not selected? Can't really show what's going on because it's for my company though this happens every now and then. I just launched max then opened my scene and theres somthing selected but I am not selecting i…	6 Last	D4V1DC May 2007
Baking Ambient Occlusion in Maya 8.5 I've been attempting to use the new "transfer maps" option to bake AO from a highpoly to low. Every time I do it, I end up with pure white in the UVed areas, on a black background. If I crank up the …	8 Last	CheeseOnToast May 2007
Skin modifier lagging viewport I am trying to learn how to quickly rig my models with biped and skin so i can do some poses... Everything is going fine and i am getting the jist of it .. Except that after adding all my bones in …	1 Last	Xenobond May 2007
splitting off model bits without seams: maya 8.5 we're looking at using morph targets for character facial expressions- the coders want us to split off the front of the face so that it's a seperate model (so that they only store vert positions for …	7 Last	Whargoul May 2007
tga to 16 colors? How is this possible? Also if anyone has been doing or knows someone with a portfolio on nintendo DS game art, please post or pm me some links I might be able to use as a reference. Trying to get a…	21 Last	D4V1DC May 2007
Zbrush Question : How do I keep my texture visible Question : How do I keep my texture visable while deforming the high resolution mesh? I have a black and white line drawing with designs of a sword applied as a texture to my low resolution model in…	4 Last	Mongrelman May 2007
Choosing colors and coloring/texturing. Hey guys, I'm kinda stuck at the moment, and was wondering if anyone had any advice on this.. How do you guys go about picking your colors when you are texturing an object or character? right now I …	11 Last	Panupat May 2007
zbrush to max troubles Im trying to take this zbrush model through zmapper into max ZBRUSH: [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/thisisadeadthing/rb.jpg[/img] MAX [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/thisisa…	14 Last	Rated Rrr May 2007
faceFX studio users......anyone??? anyone use this? we are having problems keeping any of the tabs like preview etc "always on top". the f12 function doesn't seem to work.	2 Last	fritz May 2007
3dsmax Y coordinate can i make 3dsmax's Y coordinate face up by default?	1 Last	Hito May 2007
Normal map question Hey guys, I got some normal map questions.. For example, I have a wall with a tiled brick texture on it. I also have a normal map to use with the brick diffuse. Now.. can I just tile the normal ma…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2007
veiwing sprites in 3dsmax9 Has anyone got any idea on how to veiw polygons as sprites in 3dsmax? just so that the polygon is always facing the camera like with 'oblivion' trees for example. Thought there might be a plugin or s…	5 Last	mikebart May 2007
resizing normal maps Just wondering if resizing normal maps affects them in any way, either making them less distinct or other noticeable problems. I generally output at 2048 then resize to 512 or whatever the spec is c…	10 Last	moose Apr 2007
Overlaping Normal Maps Hello everyone! I've been recently playing around with Z-brush and 3ds max 8 trying to normal map and so far so good. Now I've seen some of you guys' maps and I noticed that you are able to use hal…	12 Last	vertex Apr 2007
Highpoly renders, Displacement or Other Methods? I've been trying to do some renders of my highpoly meshes recently. Obviously anything I make in the package (max) is going to be easily renderable. The Trick is when I have a heavily detailed mesh i…	3 Last	Mongrelman Apr 2007
Making of "Sunrise of the 80's" [img]http://download.autodesk.com/3dportal/tutorials/denko/img/s_sunrise.jpg[/img] [url="http://area.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/4886/"]http://area.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/detail…	9 Last	Jesse Moody Apr 2007
3dmax 8 Rigging Problem I've finished my rigging using bones for my char. then i just realised that there's something wrong with my poly model, so i go back to editable poly modifier & fix it. But, when i try to move m…	4 Last	Nikko Apr 2007
Id and multisub-object in 3dsmax Im in the middle of texturing my character under 3dsMax, when just figured that my whole unwrapped mesh wont fit in a single window. So i load up a Multisub-object, break down my mesh in 3, assign an…	16 Last	snap.crackle.pop Apr 2007
Question : Symmetry in zbrush ? Hi everybody, I'm sculpting a kind of monster on zbrush, I finally added small details on level 6 with projection master on the left side but I didn't find the way to copy them on the right side.. i …	2 Last	jibowski Apr 2007
Daves Maya Qstns- (another one of "those"threads) Okay got a new job, It's in Maya...Have some questions and thought I would do something similar to what Arsh was doing and make my own thread with various questions for the Maya guys here. Thanks fo…	7 Last	tremulant Apr 2007
Need Render to Texture Help I'm trying to use Max's Render to Texture to bake some lighting from a highpoly model into a lowpoly. But I can't stop the highpoly from interfering with the rendering of the map (see pic). [url="ht…	14 Last	Ryno Apr 2007
Normal mapping a whole character at once ? Do you guys normal map a whole character all at once (project the whole mesh with one single projection)or do you normal map each pieces individually one by one and assemble them in a separate *tga f…	9 Last	fritz Apr 2007
Maya Projects So i'm trying to set up a project in maya 8 that I can burn to cd, and still be able to read all the files off the folders on the cd. How do i do this? Rite now i've got my projects set to c:\apps\ma…	2 Last	MikeF Apr 2007
Max and Maya in Vista I was considering upgrading my pc and getting vista but was wondering if max and maya work on it because last I heard they didnt.	6 Last	fmnoor Apr 2007
Lofting in 3ds Max Does anyone know if it is possible to create a loft object from a path spline that has one or more T-intersections? I did not think that it was possible but one of my co-workers claims he has seen it…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2007
Maya--->Max questions I've just landed an art test, and all's well and good. Trouble is, I've got to learn how to use Max in double-quick time. I've spent a couple of hours just dicking around, finding out how to do most …	12 Last	CheeseOnToast Apr 2007
Where can I find Concept Art for Enviroments?? I am planning on learning how to do enviroments for 3ds max. Btw- I would prefer to have something relatively easy to start out with.	5 Last	Cubik Apr 2007
transferring vert colour between channels in maya Anyone know if there's a way to transfer vertex colour (RGBA) info from one channel to another in maya? I need to do a bunch of vertex alpha work, but would prefer to work in one of the RGB channels…	3 Last	Whargoul Apr 2007
Unreal Ed BSP problem. Any help is welcome, Thanks Hello guys, I've been working on a 100 percent custom map for UT2004. Recently while hollowing out major areas with subtraction brushes and addition brushes I realized that I had to lower a certain h…	3 Last	tremulant Apr 2007
question: what polycount goes with how many loops? i have to make a character with a maximum of 1600 tris for the the valkyrie profile challenge. my wip thread is [url="http://www.gamingartist.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1486"]here[/url] , no modeling…	9 Last	conte Apr 2007
uvs: efficiency vs accuracy? just a general open question, I've seen a fair few uv maps now and I notice some are layed out super square and grid like (dazs dom war general comes to mind), and others (like mine) are all wibbly. …	56 Last	osman Apr 2007