Technical Talk

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maya->max headache reducer plugin seen this? [ QUOTE ] With Switcher you'll get the renowned Maya workflow within 3ds max! Switcher allows you to use the same mouse and keyboard accelerator keys to navigate your viewports, make sele…	7 Last	MoP Jun 2006
current RTS stats hey guys, just wondering if anybody had recently worked on an RTS and what the ballpark poly and texture limits were for individual buildings and prop objects. only curious to go about making some f…	5 Last	FatAssasin Jun 2006
Pencil like brush in photoshop? I remmeber seeing someone post settings for brust texture stuff in photoshop to emulate that of hand drawn pencil. Anyone know what im talking about?	13 Last	zweek Jun 2006
ATI and maya incompatability. Hi, I purchased a Radeon x850 recently and just noticed yesterday Maya's high quality rendering mode for displaying bump/normal maps is corrupted to shit now. This is a problem others are experienci…	11 Last	allyx Jun 2006
Zbrush normal mapping problem I was testing out normal mapping renders in zbrush, following these instructions: [url="http://206.145.80.239/zbc/showpost.php?p=212154&postcount=2"]http://206.145.80.239/zbc/showpost.php?p=21215…	4 Last	Gizmo Jun 2006
animating painted eye textures? ok i noticed one thing,as im paiting on my eyes on my texture in photoshop, when i animate this characeter,since im not using spheres for eyes, how would i animate the eyes, would i have to paint ano…	0 Last	chrismaddox3d Jun 2006
maya: forgets which script tools I have installed recently, when I start maya all my scripts such as mjpolytools or keegans script pack are not present and I have to re-initialize them even though I have already installed them. Does anyone know how …	2 Last	fmnoor Jun 2006
Realistic Texturing Anyone has any tips/tuts whatever on this? Im doing a Lara Croft for my portofolio but so far i cant get the right style of texturing to match =/ i got the textures out of the game and placed them on…	10 Last	Shady-D Jun 2006
Quads and Tris and some other things. Heya, So far I've been told by teacher(s) to keep things in quads and try to never get things in tris. I've been doing some reading into this to see WHY and all I can muster is that it's better for …	27 Last	SuperOstrich Jun 2006
Question about Diffuse map I don't quite get the idea of diffuse map. How to create a diffuse map and so on. Anyone can give me some tips or link to creation of diffuse map?	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2006
2d Isometric games Anyone has any experience making grapics for an isometric 2D game ala diablo, blood omen, or planescape? Can anyone explain how it works? Thanks	3 Last	hawken Jun 2006
Book Recommendations Hey hey, I'm looking for books on lighting theories*, environment modelling (highres/next gen if possible) practices, texturing, etc. I use Max execlusively (atm) and am interested in current-to-nex…	6 Last	adam Jun 2006
Like totally! Like doing hair. My first time creating a 3d hair piece. Any good tutorials out there that focuses on this? Went to archives really quick to the old reference thread (we should start a new one). Didn't see anythi…	10 Last	oXYnary Jun 2006
new mouse and max all weird....HELP!!!! DELETED Post deleted by fritz	3 Last	fritz Jun 2006
Doom 3 the evilness Okkies I'm trying to get a multi suboject material into doom and basically its driving me nuts with an assortment of errors. I am working from max exporting an ASE file with 3 surfaces, head, torso…	7 Last	kat Jun 2006
importing max to doom 3 in Mach 2 Hi folks! Im completely new to machinima and I've just installed the Machinimation 2 demo. I was wondering can anyone point me in the right direction for importing characters, textures and animation…	0 Last	paudy Jun 2006
viewport quality hey guys, everytime i place a plane and put a material on it, it is realy pixeled, so when i use a reference its real hard to see where im working. I've tried to fix this but it wont work, can any…	4 Last	Xadeko Jun 2006
Hey New to the Forums UV question I was modeling this guy and am currently UVing him in Maya 7.0 I wanted to know if any of you guys could give me some tips on how to UV him. I have never modeled anything hard than a box, tree, and f…	1 Last	Rick Stirling Jun 2006
Mudbox! YEah, i want it! I am interested with program Mudbox, I so much heard about it. Prompt places where it is possible to esteem about it would be excellent if gave a link on a trial the version =) P.S: sorry my stupid …	48 Last	ElysiumGX Jun 2006
stupid hotkeys... (3ds max) Hi, I was busy working on a e new model of mine, when I accidentely pressed some key and all of a sudden my move cursor changes and I'm unable to move something in only one direction. I tried restart…	20 Last	dejawolf Jun 2006
remapping pixels great technique in max. basically imgagine that you have made a base texture from a uv layout , then you realise that it looks crap. rather than repaint the whole thing. try this instead. 1 apply uv …	8 Last	Ruz Jun 2006
What's Hyper Real Setup? I have some one who need a hyper real setup rigging for character. I have never head of such thing and wonder what's the deal with it? Is it any different form normal character skeleton rigging?	13 Last	FatAssasin Jun 2006
Photosourcing ethics What are the generally accepted ethics on using images from the internet in photosourced textures in the games industry? I would never steal from a concept or texture, but I'm not sure what people's…	9 Last	Ninjas Jun 2006
poly > subd convert problem I use Maya 7.0 Whenever I do poly > subd convert, and then I undo the process, there are always those extra frame marks left on the polygon mesh. They are not real vertex and edges, but they just …	1 Last	Daz Jun 2006
Camera/light relationship with Max normal baking? Ok, so I'm playing around with baking normals in Max 7 (thanks for the tut Poop!) and I noticed that there seems to be a relationship between the position of the perspective camera and how the rays a…	1 Last	obson Jun 2006
max gizmo gone My max gizmo just vanished, this isn't the common x key problem, the bloddy thing has gone completely. I've tried restarting both max and my pc but no joy. This is the case for all files i now open i…	3 Last	andrei313 Jun 2006
///// (help)Skirt Filtering \\\\\ Hey all, so recently Ive been doing some normal map tests in max and I`ve recently heard about skirt filtering within Kaldera. My question is does max 8 have another term for this feature? Ive…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2006
zbrush=good for morph targets tip for maya users lacking a decent non clunky soft select: The zbrush move tool works a treat (although strangely the edit tool changes vertex order). Cranking out these shapes in zbrush now is maki…	15 Last	Mongrelman Jun 2006
Maya: lambert bastard 1 this has been a long running issue with our export tools, we cannot export a model that has lambert 1 assigned to any part of it, or we get an error. Not sure what the deal is with lambert 1 but its …	15 Last	SouL Jun 2006
Me hate hand UV... Can anyone post a good looking (professional) UV for hand? All the puzzling around it is driving me nuts. Also, in a game development environment, is overlapping mirror UV a must? or it really depend…	2 Last	KDR_11k Jun 2006
lighting ?...fast and quick question..max related is there a way to toggle between a lighting set-up and max's default lighting? i've looked and found none. thanks!!!!	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2006
animated textures for games Does anyone know how animated textures work in game engines? for example some games handle a character blinking with an animated texture. Kingdom Hearts did this for lip sync.Is there a way to simula…	6 Last	CrazyButcher Jun 2006
UV mapping problem I am trying to create a high polygon model. Here is what I want to do. I want to create facial texture and torso and other body parts seperately. But I want the polygon mesh to stay as one. I am usin…	2 Last	Daz Jun 2006
Facial Animation...Morphing in 3D Max I need help here...or maybe a trick...someone could tell me. I'm new to this 3D modelling stuff (about 3 months now) and i've just created my character... Now i'm actually morphing facial expression…	5 Last	ChaosEidolon Jun 2006
Any good references for drapery? I am getting my ass kicked trying to draw drapery, and i know ive seen some very good tutorials out there, outlining the different fold types etc. but i cant seem to find em. Can anyone point me …	25 Last	ChaosEidolon Jun 2006
Hello guys, just curious about Lightwave Its been a while since I've done any player modelling, and its something I've been wanting to get back into. I used to use Milkshape 3D, and while I feel it was sufficient, I would rather be using m…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2006
Mirroring normals? I been having a problem rendering a normal map with mirrored uvs, I heard it is possible, but I am having some small issues. When I render in object space using Zmapper it comes out fine: [img]http:…	4 Last	Enix Jun 2006
Spec seams in UE3? Ok, this has been bugging the hell out of me... Apparently if you have a UV seam ANYWHERE on your model you [b]can not[/b] get the specular hot spot to not show up as a seam around it. Even in suppl…	7 Last	Ruz Jun 2006
cinema 4d worth it? Lightwave and cinema 4d are the only programs on the mac that export to shockwave director anyone with low poly modeling experience on these programs have any tips?	16 Last	diZzyWalnut Jun 2006
Box or cylinder modeling vs strip modeling? I've noticed quite a few people use strip modeling here, I guess the most noticeable is b1ll but I've seen quite a few others using it. I personally get a box or cylinder as my base and just mold lik…	23 Last	oobersli Jun 2006
Question about Z-brush UV Something I realized, after smoothing out polygon mesh in z-brush and import into Maya, the UV of each every single face is seperated from each other. How can I make it not do that? Because when I ma…	21 Last	tacit math Jun 2006
Cool zbrush trick Ok so i had a problem, i had a mesh half started that i threw into zbrush to test how well it would sculpt. But i got carried away and spent a lot of time without going back to modo and adding more g…	5 Last	John Warner Jun 2006
GAAAAAAAH !!11 this computer is pissing all over me and laughing, guess what..the print screen button doesnt seem to work, sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt, cant be keyboard since it only has two months...abo…	6 Last	Steve Schulze Jun 2006
"Constrain to line" shortcut? Ok, i feel like a total noob asking this, but what is the shortcut key for "constrain to line/surface" or whatever it is that makes your verts/lines move along that axis. Ive been hitting it my acci…	2 Last	ChaosEidolon Jun 2006
Render to texture crashes at 2048? Im trying to transfer textures to a low poly character from several highpoly assets. Im using max's render to texture but for some reason max crashes if I try to transfer them at 2048. Anyone have an…	7 Last	Silva_Spoon Jun 2006
maya: key baking problems :( we're baking from a rigged skeleton to fk keys in maya, but the curves are doing some crazy stuff- sections are jumping 90 or 180 degrees then continuing as normal, resulting in really fragmented cur…	2 Last	rooster Jun 2006
fritz' ? of the day: painting out normal map seams i'm getting oh so close to finally getting some of this stuff straight thanks to lots of help from the peeps here. i am wondering if someone has advice on painting out normal map seams. a couple of…	8 Last	EarthQuake Jun 2006
ZBrush Funkiness Hey fellas, got some bizarre stuff going on with Zbrush at the moment, can't for the life of me work out why this is happening! My workflow has so far been: Import basemesh into Zbrush, sculpt, expo…	1 Last	Super Jun 2006
really weird normal map artifact... hey guys. i'm getting really close here. i did a test normal map on this guy. normals came out fine for a test...no seams YAY!!! however, i get this weird artifact when i render. it's rendering …	5 Last	pior Jun 2006
looking for a penis model looking for a simple penis shaped md2 model with 5 frames or more or can someone tell me how to convert the krotchy model from postal2 to md2 format	36 Last	Wendy de Boer Jun 2006