Technical Talk

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Reference mesh in Blender (un-selectable)? I seem to remember reading that you could make a mesh unselectable in Blender, rather like a reference object in Maya. From memory, it involved moving the object to another 'scene', but I've had no l…	0 Last	Gmanx Mar 2006
Just what is high poly and low poly nowadays? Its game job hiring season and I am looking to make both a low poly and high poly reel, thing is in the listings they mention just the name high and low for a poly count whats a good number for low a…	12 Last	Eric Chadwick Mar 2006
UE3 Normal maps and z mapper Hi, Anyone found the right settings for z mapper to make ue3 friendly normal maps. Do you know if anyone has made a config file for z mapper that works well with UE3, i'm having there are seams showi…	6 Last	jdevin Mar 2006
can't get normal to show in viewer... hello. i'm using the "normal bump" slot in max material editor. for some reason i'm not getting the normal to show up in the viewer or the render. i've never used the normalbump slot in the materi…	4 Last	fritz Mar 2006
Yafray in Blender not rendering textures I'm trying to render my texture using yafray in blender, it works in Blender internal renderer, but once I enable Yafray all I get is an untextured object. Are there some special settings to get the…	2 Last	ironbearxl Mar 2006
Nextgen standalone model viewer? Anyone got a link to one? One that supports most of the common maps found on nextgen characters, and updates textures as they're saved?	5 Last	pior Mar 2006
Brushes? HI all, probably this may sound a little cheeky, but was wondering if anyone had any cool photoshop brushes they would like to share with me? Also, i am having trouble trying to paint hair. Maybe…	7 Last	Ryno Mar 2006
Max 7 and 8 crashing on material editor.... The subject pretty much says it all. If I open the material editor first thing after Max loads I'm fine. Close it and do a little work (I'm talkin 60 seconds at least) then try and open it again Max …	4 Last	aesir Mar 2006
unlocker Can anyone suggest a tool for unlocking files which you've had open in Photoshop, then want to rename/delete etc? That 'Cannot delete file it is being used by another person/program' message is becom…	4 Last	ScoobyDoofus Mar 2006
Best UT 2k4 modelling tuts? Okay, I've been searching around trying to find tutorials for modelling player models for UT 2k4, and so far have found precious little... I'm probably doing a horrible search routine. So far, the b…	5 Last	JeremyaRandall Mar 2006
metal overlay maps? hi guys, does any one have any good maps or photos they use as an overlay for a metal armour surface? have looked around but everything i come across is not that great. thanks again	2 Last	FEMTO Mar 2006
alpha not showing in viewport? HI guys, another newbie question from me.firstly, just to let you know i am using 3d max 7 and have applied an aplha channled map onto my model to show some areas that should be see through. now for …	5 Last	FEMTO Mar 2006
Hexagon Tutorial [url="http://www.eovia3d.net/showthread.php?s=233a2f9ba910c9384a82685e608ab13d&t=6281"]Hexagon Character Modelling Tutorial[/url] I found this (free! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] )…	4 Last	thomasp Mar 2006
Photoshop CS2 bug? well i have been using photoshop cs2 recently and i find that when i am in it for a while it just stops allowing me to use some keyboard shortcuts. shutting down the program and launching it again se…	4 Last	yeluis Mar 2006
Characters and Particles, UT2k4 Is it possible to connect emitters to character models in ut2k4. I've been hunting in a few spots including UDN and it sounds like it could be done, but I can't really find any solid proof.	1 Last	Valandar Mar 2006
Grow/Shrink selection not workin in maya? My gro/shrink selection stopped workin in maya all of the sudden.. It doesnt matter if im in face, vert or edge mode or wether i try to access the tool with the shortcut keyes <> or form the ed…	7 Last	thomasp Mar 2006
browser & quicktime movie question. So If I use firefox to click on a link on my page to my reel, it nicely starts the movie embedded in a new page ( and I didn't set this up in any way, it just works ) , but i.e doesn't seem to do thi…	5 Last	Daz Mar 2006
SSS realtime, question What you now about this shader in realtime game development? Where i can read about it? How it works?	9 Last	conte Mar 2006
Runtime Error Applying Vert Color in Maya 7 I use the 'apply color' tool for vert lighting all damn day, and at least once a day it likes to crash with a runtime error. Fortunately, I can usually click save before clicking the runtime error pr…	3 Last	Erol Mar 2006
uv tools anyone know if there is going to be an update for uvtools3 by andy oakley. They load in max 8 but don't actually work. throws up loads of script errors	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
Hard to describe problem... I am working in 3ds Max Character Studio. I have two skeletons. For the sake of argument, I want them to walk alongside each other. So I position one skeleton next to the other and then load "walk.bi…	2 Last	monster Feb 2006
Issues with Chuggnut Turbo Unwrapper Okay I having some issues with [url="http://www.chuggnut.com/scripts/unwraptools/TurboUnwrapUVW_BETA01.zip"]http://www.chuggnut.com/scripts/unwraptools/TurboUnwrapUVW_BETA01.zip[/url] Now He claims i…	8 Last	Ruz Feb 2006
NVIDIA Melody problems ok, i have a Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200, and when trying to use Nvida's melody normapping program all it would diplay was unshaded models that are solid black. I wanna know if this video card will suppo…	15 Last	Zergxes Feb 2006
UVHelp for Maya? hello guys. Currently fiddlng with maya at work and I want to unwrap some stuff. I thought, UVhelp would be the max version of RelaxUVs from Maya, but I get constantly bad results. Long story short, …	8 Last	Zergxes Feb 2006
anime tuts can someone point me towards some anime tutorials for max? since the head structure is different from a normal human head	8 Last	jec1183 Feb 2006
LoD question Hey all. I'm working on a model right now for the source engine and level of detail came to mind. Does the engine handle creating the LoD models or does the artist have to make them all and then impo…	2 Last	character Feb 2006
zbrush & stand-in geo jeez why is such a simple thing so goddam absurdly hard? So the classic method of say, bunching up some skin or cloth around a strap, would be to simply export all of it from 3D app. as obj into Zb…	14 Last	MoP Feb 2006
Quick Photoshop Question I think this should be pretty simple, but for some reason I can't figure it out. What I'm trying to do is take an image with an alpha channel and translate the transparency from the alpha channel to…	2 Last	KeyserSoze Feb 2006
meshtools 3....how to get an mzp file to work!?!?! i'm trying to get the mzp file downloaded from scriptspot to work in max 7. i've never used an mzp file before. can someone aid me in this? thanks!!!	3 Last	Joao Sapiro Feb 2006
mocap downloads?!?! Other than Turbosquid.com, can anyone suggest a good site for downloading motion capture files? Thnx. MIKE	2 Last	cman2k Feb 2006
Solved Nevermind. I got it.	1 Last	Soccerman18 Feb 2006
How to bake an ambient occlusion map in Max8? Using the exact same process as creating a normal map, I am trying to bake an ambient occlusion map from a high res model onto a low res model. I seem to have run into some unexpected results. -Fir…	17 Last	Delaney King Feb 2006
what is z brush and what programs is it for? i keep seeing more and more stuff with this "z brush". I am starting to feel kinda dumb that i don't know what it is. how do i get it, and is it used with max or maya or both? if someone would not…	6 Last	Kevin Albers Feb 2006
Environment Modeling Inquiree Hey all, While trying to make my foot in the door of the gaming industry I've received an env art test that is due next week. I want to get the ball rolling on this but one thing is holding in the b…	9 Last	Kevin Albers Feb 2006
Enviromental Modeling Question Hell all I havent done any Level design since q3radiant and I was wondering about how they do it today, In radiant levels were built and compiled out of brushes and primitives, and you could import …	2 Last	kat Feb 2006
Max 8 biped questions OK-so I'm doing some animations with the biped in max 8 and I have a question. All i want to do is offset my bip01 horizontal and vertical keys. Problem is, they stack. I found out about the workbenc…	2 Last	e_x Feb 2006
female body tutorial saw this tutorial linked on cgchannel. thought it maybe helpful. [url="http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/female_body/index2.php"]http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/female_body/index2.php[/url]	7 Last	spider2cool Feb 2006
Newbie questions for zBrush 2.0 So I started doodling on a sphere, then saved teh document as a .zbr file. I come back a day later wanting to work on it some more, open up the file, my previous work is right there on the viewport, …	13 Last	Delaney King Feb 2006
next gen and alpha seems that although the technology is getting more advanced stuff like alpha has a taken a backward step. In some next gen engines, alpha os so expensive as to render it unuseable.	29 Last	Asthane Feb 2006
Modeling suggestions...? First off, I'm a complete [b]n00b[/b] when it comes to modeling, I'm just now learning how to use 3ds max 6 in order to make a Quake 3 model, and it seems like I'm gonna have to almost master the [i]…	11 Last	Highwind Feb 2006
Tablet and Dual monitor problems I just picked up a new tablet and I have a few questions. The first being, is there any way to dedicate the tablet to only one of my monitors? As it stands the tablet surface is split in half, each …	7 Last	Phobos Feb 2006
.3ds woes I've a problem with exporting meshes to .3ds in max 7. When I add a custom unwrap [anything not automatically applied when the primitive is created] it splits the mesh along the uv-seam when it is i…	1 Last	MoP Feb 2006
Exporting from Maya to UT2004 Am I an idiot here? I found the unEditor.mll file for UT2003 but it doesnt work with the current version of maya. Is there another plug-in that I can use to port UT2004 model files over?	3 Last	Lee3dee Feb 2006
Better/Best sketching program I'm not super happy with the results I get in Photoshop. Before I go off and buy a new chunk of hardware I'd like to give some other packages a try. I seem to remember a few coming up in posts a litt…	33 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 2006
Particles!!! Hello, friends! Sir stoofles is looking for any information on the possibility of getting MAX(ver 7 or 8?) to display particles in the viewport. I do not mean the hoopdy little tick marks that show…	17 Last	CrazyButcher Feb 2006
grey scaling hi guys, I want to play around texturing in grey scale, my question is what domost of you people use to colour your grey scale textures in? i.e. do you use a plain colour and then use multiply or do…	7 Last	Valandar Feb 2006
alpha channels hi, just a quick question about alpha channels. when making a texture that uses an alpha channel...does it have to be on a seperate piece of texture or can i include it on teh main texture also? o…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
Need some more help with animating - 3dsMax hey guys, still cracking on with animating. now im trying to work on hair [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] i have a question. does anyone remember the pimpin thread for bobo's awsome little wi…	7 Last	almighty_gir Feb 2006
maya: scale z and x, not y? this should be a simple one hopefully, but I can't see how you go about it. I have some verts on a model I want scaled the same ammount in z and x but not in y at all. The scale tool only lets me sel…	3 Last	malcolm Feb 2006
Maya Randomly screwing up-Deleting Mesh, Crashing Yea... I dunno what the friggen hell is wrong with my Maya, but this is the second time it's done this. Last night I saved a file, rebooted my comp, came back, and the main mesh of the file was myste…	20 Last	thnom Feb 2006