Technical Talk

Topic	Replies	Latest Post
Help! Vert problems in Unwrap UVW! Hey guys, In 3ds 8... All of a sudden while uvw unwrapping my model I can no longer select all verts of my model on the mapping. It only allows me select a select few verts. I can't manipulate the …	11 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2006
Text In Photoshop Hey, anyone know how to get it so that Photoshop won't cut off words half way through with a dash when you make a limited size text box? Gets somewhat annoying. :P Also, I've heard there's a spell c…	3 Last	Tulkamir Sep 2006
Max: Remove Edge loops plug in? IS there a plug-in that someone can recommend that completely removes edge loops and their coresponding vertices? I can remove them now by selecting them with the edge loop button and hitting remove…	14 Last	arshlevon Sep 2006
Your own hotkeys in Zbrush?! That's unpossible!... Or maybe not. [url="http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=299481#post299481"]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=299481#post299481[/url]	2 Last	oXYnary Sep 2006
Lighting for low poly art rendering? hey guys... when your making a low poly render, and you want to use lighting, whats the best way to set it up? how do you position your backlights? how do you choose which lights should be more inten…	6 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2006
Baking Normal maps in maya using floating geometry I'm having a little bit of a problem baking normal maps in maya using floating geometry to create my high poly model. It seems maya either doesn't like floating geometry much or I'm doing something w…	18 Last	EarthQuake Aug 2006
Uvw problem 3dmax 8 I'v got a very weird problem in max, I'v uvw mapped a thrashcan and every thing looks ok	5 Last	GuranGa Aug 2006
my transform gizmo has gone AWOL!! howdy guys. Ive got myself into a pickle,my transform gizmo in studiomax 8 has dissapeared,literally gone. I was messing with my UI earlier in the day,just keystrokes,but there was no problem immed…	9 Last	Bronco Aug 2006
Half Life 2 Max - Source Another game engine question, I've found an abundance of tutorials regarding props / weapons input into the hl2 engine. Does anyone know of any tutorials / workflows that involve character studio / b…	6 Last	GuranGa Aug 2006
Photoshop CS2 - slow? We recently 'upgraded' to CS2 here at work from CS. Previously we had 7 I think and after going to CS I noticed a substantial performance difference. CS had some great features, but was slower. No…	29 Last	NuclearTes Aug 2006
Looking for someone to help unwrap models I am looking for somone that is good at unwrapping models so they are ready for skinning, I have finished models and person that can skin and just need somone that can unwrap the models for us. Model…	1 Last	Downsizer Aug 2006
FaceGen: Nice for ref or for lazy modelers I found this neat little program called Facegen while looking for some decent face references (never found them, of course) and tried it out a bit. [url="http://www.facegen.com/"]http://www.facegen.c…	17 Last	shagspear Aug 2006
normal maps vs. the programmer A couple of months back zbrush generated a wierd, very green normal map. at the time i had never used zbrush so didnt know what to expext. since then i have never seen anything like it. today my pro…	19 Last	Rick Stirling Aug 2006
texture resolution in the max viewpoints Hey there I feel stupid for asking this, but I couldn't find an answer in google or the forums search function. Does anyone know how to increase the texture size used for bitmaps in the Max viewpoint…	10 Last	MoP Aug 2006
why can't I merg them right ; ;? I was trying to create a bow with a half sphere (polygon). I deleted half of the sphere and then duplicated that half sphere and resized it for the inner surface of the bow. Then I try to merge edge.…	4 Last	pyromania Aug 2006
Which 3D Sculpting App? A question to those who have tried the different apps. Now that zBrush finally has some competition (Mudbox, Silo, etc?), which program in your opinion do you like the best? I'm looking into making…	16 Last	oXYnary Aug 2006
Maxscript query This one is doing my head in. Ive posted this in the Discreet Area (why its no longer just support, I dunno.) Due to the scale I'm working at, the Max skin mirroring won't work (no, I can't c…	10 Last	Rick Stirling Aug 2006
scaling issue in zbrush i'm posting this for a friend who is going crazy trying to figure something out. "I am have a problem with the size of my smallest brush. I cant seem to shrink my brush as small as I have in prev…	1 Last	CheeseOnToast Aug 2006
3DSM 8 viewport texture problem I have this really annoying problem with max viewport textures showing up looking 8bit. It only happens when I run max with opengl, in direct3d it runs fine but it limits my viewport sizes. I never h…	2 Last	Enix Aug 2006
bizarre "unresolved xref" problem anyone got a clue about this? It's really starting to wind me up Max 8 : Scene B not finding certain x-ref objects from scene A - they DO exist, the paths are spot on, the names are spot on. I know …	5 Last	FatAssasin Aug 2006
Maya to quake4 Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone has managed to export a model from maya to quake4 using the export models command.	0 Last	Frankie Aug 2006
3ds max 8 opengl viewport error I'm now on a new system(a 9150 dell) that has been partitioned. I'm using 3dsmax 8 on here with default viewport drivers and a diffuse ,specular level and specular color maps. I heard somewhere that …	2 Last	Cubik Aug 2006
texture mapping in Maya 7 I'm trying to uvmap a hand the same way I would in Max 8, i.e. cut around most of the edge, then pelt map it so that it comes out with the top and bottom halves connected and lying next to each other…	4 Last	malcolm Aug 2006
Environment texture help Hey there, can anyone point me in the way of a good tutorial on seamless/tile textures for game environments. I mostly create character textures with a UV layout, but im starting to get into environm…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2006
Max8 Render To Texture Dithering issue? Im using Render To Texture to bake the UVs of one mesh down to another version where the UVs take up less space, but the texture is rendering out with lots of speckled pixels that look like a highly…	5 Last	Noren Aug 2006
Request for Max plugin: Mesh to convex shapes! I'm wondering if there is a plugin for Max that will convert a mesh to convex shapes automatically. Basically draw edges along any face so long as its 90 degrees or less and close off each new shape …	6 Last	EarthQuake Aug 2006
Modeling, in Maya Okay, so I have been modeling loads of objects, and if I do say so myself, I'm getting good at it. Now, I know what I'm about to ask is hard to answer, as it's quite hard for most people to start of…	28 Last	poopinmymouth Aug 2006
MAX 9, commin at ya!! info on max 9 is out, 64 bit for free, just a seperate exe, lots of little improvements here and there,HUGE prefomace increase when working with dense meshes, there is no end all feature it seams, ha…	21 Last	indian_boy Aug 2006
Maya preferences saving? I can't seem to get Maya to start a new scene set to meters. Everytime I set it in the prefs, save prefs and open a new scene it reverts to cm. Also the grid and near/far clip plane don't keep the ne…	1 Last	Zergxes Aug 2006
Zbrush at Siggraph This was just posted on the zbrush forums, I'm quite excited about some of the features, such as storing sculpting and texturing in layers, and transfering details to other geometry. I just hope it …	19 Last	PolyHertz Aug 2006
soo....the best way to avoid overlapping normals.. after becoming really familiar w/the norm process. i am just curious if the best way to dup geo w/norm maps is still the process descrbed by poop. you know the one where you move the dup'ed UV's ov…	3 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2006
Zbrush Zmapper Bump Map integration:Technical Does anyone know how zmapper integrates a bump map into the zmapper integration. I don't mean the actual process in the plugin.. but how? Does it use the high gen model and places the bump map unto…	5 Last	MoP Aug 2006
crazy max! Alright, I've had this problem for about a few weeks, and it's driving me insane. For whatever reason, my UVW Editor window menu gets all crazy. I've tried restarting, deleting the modifier and reapp…	13 Last	Rhinokey Aug 2006
Your top resources for learning 2d art. I know this has been addressed occasionally, with topics about books or links to specific sites with tutorials, video clips, etc. But I figured I'd ask it here in the hopes of getting a nice broad sp…	3 Last	los Aug 2006
glass shader in 3DSMax viewport ? Hey all. I've been trying to figure a very small thing but failed miserably :P Do you know if there is a way to display a rough aproximation of a glass shader in a realtime 3DSMax viewport? By this …	15 Last	conte Aug 2006
A problem in Alias Maya. My problem is that whenever I add a texture to an object, the texture does not appear, merely changing to a random colour, unrelated to the texture. This is a problem when putting an image onto a pl…	5 Last	thingthingy Aug 2006
high poly model rendering on 3ds max hi people, i have a highpoly model exported from mudbox in 3ds max, i wanted to render him in order to beeing able to see details, and not having black shadows etc, just a simple material or somethin…	1 Last	Toomas Aug 2006
Can't get remoted computer to bring up Maya My roomates and I have a computer hooked up to a TV that I'd like to set up to be able to render Maya scenes so that we don't use our own machines. One problem; when using Windows XP's built in Remo…	4 Last	malcolm Aug 2006
Where do you get your techniques? Im in the process of working through an advanced rigging book suggested by another polycounter, and have come to the realization that I knew jack about actually rigging characters till now. Or rather…	7 Last	KDR_11k Aug 2006
Suggestions? "Pre" Portfolio Help Move to general if better fits. I want to attend that IGDA thing next week in Seattle where pros from companies look at what you have, and give suggestions on how to setup your Portfolio(and hopef…	4 Last	Rick Stirling Aug 2006
Crazy Intuos 2 driver problem So I grabbed the latest Wacom drivers last night. Did what one is meant to normally do: uninstalled the old drivers first, rebooted, installed the new drivers. The tablet seems to work OK, but double…	8 Last	hawken Aug 2006
Extra mouse buttons - way to utilize? On this Logitech MX500 I have a 'back' and 'forward' button under my thumb; they seem to not be innately recognized inside Maya. Is there a way to assign them to anything? I'd love to flip between …	1 Last	Slum Aug 2006
Sticker art? I've sotpped doing 3d for quite some time now, and I came across the sticker art scene some days ago and i find it quite cool. Now I wonder some things: I wanna do some black and white designs like …	7 Last	-Ark- Aug 2006
maya additive and multiplicitive materials Hey guys - Out of the box in Maya, it seems impossible to make a purely additive or multiplicitive material (such as one that might make light rays when applied to some planes). a) am I wrong? a…	8 Last	noritsune Aug 2006
erm skd thread? I'm having a slow / bad morning... wheres the sdk thread gone :-s	2 Last	Showster Aug 2006
Maya to Max while keeping topology I've got a maya model as .obj which I assume is in quads as the screenshots provided show it that way. When I import the file in max 7, it's in tris (and needing lots of edge turning). Does anyone kn…	9 Last	Zergxes Aug 2006
VOXEL based modelers? Are there any voxel based modelers? IMHO it would be best solution for sculpting. You might think the file size would be huge but 2 colour 2000x10,000 GIF is only 23 kb so 2000x2000x10,000 scene woul…	8 Last	Rhinokey Aug 2006
MudBox Beta Sign up Here is a link a friend sent my way, to sign up for the Mudbox beta... [url="https://mudbox3d.com/form/betaRequestForm/betaformsignup.html"]Mudbox Beta[/url] [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]	4 Last	kat Aug 2006
Howdy, Need a large MD2. Hey everybody, I'm new here! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I'm currently a game developer in training and I'm currently working on an MD2 encoder/decoder for my game engine. I've been havi…	4 Last	CheapAlert Aug 2006
Max File Bloat Anyone know the command for the garbage collector you put in the listner window in max...thought it was ()gc ....but doesn't seem to be working.... THanks	3 Last	FatAssasin Aug 2006