Technical Talk

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Question: Max viewport resolution problem Under Max 8 ... Directx 9.c ... Photoshop CS2 everything was done under 1024x1024 textures sheets I've got some issues regarding textures done in Max when doing lowpoly work. Here's whats happening…	2 Last	snap.crackle.pop Jun 2006
Oooooh, fancy filters. [url="http://www.filterforge.com/"]http://www.filterforge.com/[/url] It definetly takes away from that fun time hand painted look. But i could see that node system being very handy when you're in a …	5 Last	snap.crackle.pop Jun 2006
meshtools/haywood/cspolytools and max 8 i just got max 8...dropped all my useful meshtools and what not in my max 8 macroscript folder and they aren't working. is there something buggy w/max 8 and meshtools/cspolytools/haywood tools?	5 Last	robioto Jun 2006
Quad menus I don't know how i did it but somehow, i disabled my default viewport quad shortcut in max. it used to be rightclick, but now its just nothing. i tried to get it back in the custom ui menu, i loaded …	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2006
Modo201 painting and baking! I think this should be interesting for everybody. Luxology released 3 videos for modo 201 about the painting and baking of bump/color maps. You can even re-UV map your model and rebake the color map …	30 Last	StrangeFate Jun 2006
Game Engine for School Project Hey, here at my school we do a game design as our final project, and for this the UT2k4 engine is taught and used. However I'm wondering if the engine might not be a bit dated? The reason I bring thi…	9 Last	Lee3dee May 2006
Paul Neale Rigging DVD Just wondering if anyone happens to own or has seen this Paule Neale DVD: [url="http://cg-academy.net/pages/topic_rigging/dvds_rigging_intermediate_4/dvds_rigging_intermediate_4.php"]http://cg-acade…	17 Last	MoP May 2006
any quick lil tuts for relearnin maya's uv mappin? Long story short, need to get re-educated on maya's setup for applyin textures / uv mapping models. Been long enough since I last had to use the app that I'm pretty much drivin blind at it. (Somethin…	5 Last	snap.crackle.pop May 2006
Question about Paths in Photoshop CS2 nevermind people i got it to work.	0 Last	snap.crackle.pop May 2006
DS and PSP polycounts? Hey, im specifically looking for heroe model poly counts (on average) of PSP and DS games, such as tony hawks and GTA etc. I've searched the forums but haven't found anything yet, so scold if you wa…	1 Last	Joseph Silverman May 2006
The whole normal/bump and specularity craze. I'm an old fashioned person. I like my diffuse, but I still want to try all this out. I've tried making a spec map, a bump and a normal map. None worked. I use all default max 7 options. except for t…	1 Last	Ruz May 2006
can you bake animation in max? something we've been doing a fair bit in work with maya is animating models with various constraints and ik chains, and baking down the animation to bone rotation. I was wondering if anyone knows of …	6 Last	e_x May 2006
motionbuilder and alpha masks? not experienced at all in this software, i'm wondering if it's somehow possible to control transparency with an alpha texture? there's no obvious way to do it, i got the tip to replace the default ma…	0 Last	thomasp May 2006
cubemap orientation as with the age old fight of what is up (Z,Y..). I stumbled accross similar problem with cubemaps. spefically I just added .dds support to luxinia and found (among other bugs with skybox) that their …	2 Last	CrazyButcher May 2006
super quick zbrush ?...poop!?!?!?!?!? OK. i really want to try poops method of getting high poly models into max from zbrush. however...when i get to subD6 in zbrush...and try to export as obj...i always get this "insufficient memory" …	11 Last	FAT_CAP May 2006
Quake 3 model animating tools? I'm kinda at lack of one and dunno where to look, assistance would be helpful. ^^;	0 Last	BitFox May 2006
Normal Map Errors in Max As I remember we've discussed these kinds of smoothing errors backwards and forwards before, but I can't remember if there was ever any resolution besides adding more detail to the low poly or using …	19 Last	Noren May 2006
Whats blue channel for on a normal? Hey anyone know whats the purpose of a blue channel on a normal,one of my collegues is working on a normal with no blue channel info on it for some odd reason and noone here seems to know its purpose.	9 Last	Whargoul May 2006
photoshop problem when you click on a swatch it goes into your foreground color, and you paint somehow, now it goes into my background color, and i have to flip using X to paint with it. if i alt-click on my swatches…	10 Last	motives May 2006
ok.. max giving me headche Where can i turn of maxs hunger and desire to triangulate everything? Atm everthing thats not a edit poly or selected (if having a e-poly in the stack) gets triangulated.. Very frustrating as i can…	3 Last	motives May 2006
Quadro FX 4500 Hello. Since Im these days work with huge scenes along with huge textures I'm getting really frustrated. Im thinking of getting a Quadro FX 4500 card. Anyone here have any experience with them? Ho…	6 Last	palm May 2006
Lowpolygon modeling q? hi im new to these forums and have a few questions about low polygon modeling. First of all i hope i am posting in the correct spot for this ? anyway i was wondering how people are able to make there…	5 Last	Mcnugget May 2006
Spline Slices to Surface hello, I have lots of splines which are parts of the rat brain. now I wonder if there is a relatively robust way to connect splines to create a hull shape ? this is 3dsmax5. The only things that cam…	9 Last	sevenfingers May 2006
Mechanical SUB-D tips and tricks Since there really arent a lot of resources on this subject i figured i'de start a thread, heres a lil thing i made for TK to show him how to do soft intersections with floating geometry. Its not alw…	31 Last	coldkodiak May 2006
Rendering Zbrush displacement maps in XSI Anyone know how to do this? I tried following the zb>xsi pipeline tutorials from zbrushcentral, but it misses out some stuff. For examle it shows the render tree setup, but there are two nodes in …	4 Last	Mongrelman May 2006
dark lighting in viewport w/normal? ola!!! fritz presents his 1,520 question of the day!!!! can someone tell me why the viewport is displaying my object w/normal test so dark? and the render comes out normal(no pun intended? this i…	5 Last	Joao Sapiro May 2006
Is there a simple way to do this? I was wondering if there was a simple way to create the cool organic feel this Quake 3 texture has from scratch. It seems the artist used some overlays but a lot of the lines seem they were either pa…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2006
Polycounter using LinkedIn Polycount is one of the reasons I made it into the game industry. I am self taught and it was the info I found here on techniques and the crits I recieved on my work that helped make it possible for …	19 Last	Timex May 2006
Preparing your model for Zbrush goodness Hey guys, I have recently dived into the world of Zbrush, and am having a pretty ok time with it so far. The one problem I seem to be having is preparing a model in Maya to bring into Zbrush. The pro…	9 Last	J.I. Styles May 2006
Photorealism i've been 3d modeling for a while now and there are a few things (some new some old) that i still have yet to fully understand when dealing with photorealistic models. (bear with me i believe these …	22 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2006
Help needed in retaining model shape in zbrush have been working on my female firefighter model(see game design section) finished the character now working on accessories.The model is lo poly and i used zbrsuh to create the normal map I imported …	5 Last	Ruz May 2006
A desperate modeler I have been searching for weeks and been to 100s of sites, but nowhere can i find any information for renameing a q3 model I have been making a mod for quake 3 called Shards of Destiny, I have compl…	4 Last	DaMuncha May 2006
Zbrush noob. Facial Rigging, and other q's (UED3 ) So Im going to start the reading and video watching asap for the project im working on with per zbrush. I still want to clarify a few things. Does the object you import into zbrush need to be one m…	12 Last	Penzer May 2006
Odd Photoshop problem In CS2 is there some way to hide or close out the little linking box next to the visibility box on the layers? I was painting away the other night, went to go link some layers to move them and...WTF…	5 Last	moose May 2006
Vertex color in Max Any experts with this that can give me some ideas? I haven't really touched vertex colors until now, but I'm looking at it as a way to set up geometry-based masks for this geo-mixing system we have.…	9 Last	CrazyButcher May 2006
Spline loops and Sub-D Heads. (Max) Im going about the edge loop head animation idea a bit differently from most. Versus starting with a box or extruding edges and building the surface from scratch, Im using splines (too many years of …	12 Last	JKMakowka May 2006
Seeking guidance First off let me say I've been lurking on and off here for years to view the great work that is posted up in the pimping and previews. I used to draw all the time up until around 10th grade or so. …	3 Last	nomichi May 2006
Need Help-Weird triangle on Model in zbrush working on model in zbrush exported from max 8 only using edit mode,i work my way up sub divisions adding detail and hide parts of body and work on a small section at a time. i finished at lunchtime …	8 Last	kunglao May 2006
downloading xNormal right now....any tips would... be appreciated. i have no idea how to use it. i'll learn...but some tips would be great!!!	2 Last	fritz May 2006
Luck hates me ok, i was texturing some stuff, i merged the layers, and applied a sharpen filter to enhace some definition, each file had like 50 -100 layers. i save AND BAM, computer restarts !!!!!!!!!!! now …	15 Last	WMaker3030 May 2006
BRDF - anyone using this? I just got handed a new BRDF-like lighting option for our realtime shaders, wondering if anyone else has played with and/or studied BRDF, I'm wondering what other ways artists might be using it. I'v…	16 Last	motives May 2006
Maya Q Anyone know if its possible to make a shortcut to toggle preferences? Would like to be able to toggle between selecting faces from center and by whole faces	4 Last	Whargoul May 2006
UV Mapping for normal maps I was wondering on the best way to UV map models for use with normal maps. The way i've been doing it is to try to keep distortion to the minimun, which makes painting the textures harder, especially…	2 Last	MoP May 2006
Painting Metal!? Hey all. I'm working on a new texture and I was wondering if anyone had any links or good tips on painting metal for armor. I'm stumped right now and just saving it for last at the moment. If anyo…	4 Last	motives May 2006
Video format problem I recently rendered an avi format animation in Maya. But after I render, I can't play it correctly with windows media player or edit it with adobe proemiere pro. When it plays back, I always see dead…	3 Last	Daz May 2006
Rendering Normalmaps in Max8... Hey, I was wondering if there's some effective method for rendering and displaying normalmaps in 3dsMax8? Some plugin maybe? I tried using a material with a dx9 normalmap shader on it, the problem is…	5 Last	oXYnary May 2006
3dsmax - Edge moving in EPoly causes crash!? Right, this is an intensely annoying bug which only appeared in the last week or so. I haven't installed any new plugins or software between when it was working fine and now, so I highly doubt it's t…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2006
max: UV relax problems hey guys, I'm having trouble with the uv relax tool in max 8. It doesn't seem to be relaxing stuff evenly. Just trying it on a single poly will relax it to the wrong shape. For example, a Long recta…	6 Last	fr0gg1e May 2006
Sculpting Alright, I found myself sketching the other day, and half way through a drawing i wanted to draw another angle... After about 6 times of doing this, and looking at my paper filled with unfinished art…	6 Last	Daz May 2006
Faces... Faces... Heads.... Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has written, or could direct me to some good face/head modeling tutorials. I've been trying to figure it out on my own, and I can't seem to locate any good tutoria…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2006