Technical Talk

Topic	Replies	Latest Post
.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
Smoothing groups + normal map I searched and didn't see anything right away. Is it standard to use smoothing groups on a character with a normal map?	4 Last	vahl Feb 2006
UVW Unwrappin buggedness. Some specs first; It's about 3DSMax7. With SP1. I'm new to "Render to Texture" and the first time I used it I apperently also messed up my Max :/. The thing is taht when I apply a UVunwrap, all the…	5 Last	Xenobond Feb 2006
Relax edge loop? Hey, I'm working in maya, and I'm pretty much wondering if there is a function for edge loops/verticies that does the same thing as relax UV's? I have a few edge loops on my model that are a bit wonk…	6 Last	Shady-D Feb 2006
UVW unwrapping advice Id like to start learning more about UVW unwrapping and texturing. Im most familiar with 3D Max but I keep hearing these rumors of tools that make the unwrapping process easier such as Blender. I j…	4 Last	cateaic Feb 2006
Sprite Editors and 2d Engines Hey, I was wondering if anyone here knew of any good graphics programs tailored to making sprites. I've been looking at the "Beats of Rage" engine ( [url="http://www.senileteam.com/borinfo.php"]http:…	11 Last	CrazyButcher Feb 2006
texporter problem having problems with texporter when I save out my uv's, it doesn't want to show everything thats unwrapped. heres the image I get from texporter, its missing an object. [img]http://img136.imagesha…	2 Last	oobersli Feb 2006
Zbrush Normal Mapping Issue Well my studio max won't allow me to render out normals properly. For some reason I can only use my blue channel. So I decided to use zbrush for my normal mapping. This allows me to use my red and…	7 Last	stoofoo Feb 2006
DVD burning for TV & resolution issues I'm trying to burn NTSC DVD's so that they'll run in a DVD player and this is my first time dabbling in this black Art. My problem seems to be that the DVD looks great and crisp on a TV, but fuzzy a…	15 Last	Daz Feb 2006
Ode to Summer [url="http://toolfarm.com/inspiration.html"]http://toolfarm.com/inspiration.html[/url] Any ideas on how the watercolor effect was done? Some things, like the water, may have been done in after effe…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
little help or a lot? Hello there, im kinda new [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img], and i need some help Im trying to render a logo in 3ds, the thing is that i have a white box up on the scene so one object get a ni…	12 Last	(*) Feb 2006
unable to copy/paste biped positions I started up max (max 8) this morning thinking I'd rig up a character I'd just finished.I set up some biped bone positioning, went to copy / paste opposite, and found that I couldn't select these opt…	6 Last	gavku Feb 2006
copying keyframes from one bone to another. hey just wondering there is away of doing this. im trying to make a simple walk cycle and finally after much tweaking have one leg looking OK,but is there anyway I can just copy the keyframes from …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
Questions on starting new Char with Max 8 Hi,Just got Max 8 and planning on creating a lo poly Normal mapped Female firefighter 3-5k polys.If anyone can help with a couple of questions that would be great. 1.As said just got Max 8 and plan t…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
Maya rig question I am playing around with Maya (used to only Max) and I can't figure out how you can manually weigh a vertex to 1 or more bones and input a weight percentage/value per bone. I can only find a weight p…	4 Last	lkraan Feb 2006
UV-map seperate object? Uhh I guess this is a pretty stupid question but I just noticed that the UV map seems to be almost completely unrelated to the original mesh, somehow... and I am unsure of the consequences. Ok hard …	2 Last	JKMakowka Feb 2006
iMac My agent/boss man has taken pity on me, because my HP's GPU went kaput. He decided to buy a computer that I can use, however it's on his term and I was offered a DELL laptop or one of them spanking n…	13 Last	thomasp Feb 2006
Moving presets from one computer to another... Lets say that I wanted to copy all my pluggins, presets, filters, and user settings/defaults over from programs like Maya, 3D Studio Max, and Adobe Photoshop, and move them to a machine with a pure, …	6 Last	sledgy Feb 2006
Blender is mean [ QUOTE ] Using Python version 2.4 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback [/ QUOTE ] I'm only getting interested in blender because it uvmap good. The problem is it's to laggy to let me import …	16 Last	Richard Kain Feb 2006
Getting a particle to stop I'm trying to get particles to stop moving after a certain frame. So for example a superspray would emit particles from frame 0 to 30, and then after frame 30 all the particles would stop moving, fr…	19 Last	FatAssasin Feb 2006
windwaker style smoke? just wondering if anyone would have any advice on how to achieve a similar look. I cannot tell if in game its just a an alpha mapped poly with an animated texture, actual particles or what(been too l…	4 Last	Lee3dee Feb 2006
Jedi Knight 3 Hey, I was wondering what I need to start modelling for Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy. I just downloaded Milkshape, but I was wondering if 3DS Max is better? Or Maya? And what other programs do I need?…	10 Last	Shady-D Feb 2006
Have a MD2 skin question? Hi What is the maximum resolution a PCX skin file for MD2 model that will still working in quake 2? I am using photo shop and NST for this project.	1 Last	CheapAlert Feb 2006
3d painter hey there, I'm currently looking for a 3d painter. I'm kinda curious of the result that can give something painted directly on the mesh and something quicker to fix those seems^^. I know there is Dee…	6 Last	Clos3d Feb 2006
Parallax maps in 3D max? Hey there I used the search engine but found no matches. Is there a way to show parallax maps in 3d max? I'm sorry if this is a repost [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
Viewport Hello everyone. Im having a bit of difculty i am trying to take some screen captures but I get viewport clipping since i have two faces almost right on top of each other. Any way I can reduce this in…	7 Last	yeluis Feb 2006
How to generate heightmaps with render to texture? well, hmm the subject says it all.. I want to try and get some parallax effects going but i got shut down at the heightmap.. I cant get this to work [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] All that …	6 Last	motives Feb 2006
skinning armor pieces? hello there, I'm working on a character that has some armor pieces. What I want to achieve is that the armor pieces go as tight to the model as possible but making them feel as rigid as possible, to …	8 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2006
NST question? [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]Hi I created a model in the md2 format. I used Photoshop to make a texture that I saved this texture as 8bit pcx format. I wanted to use NSTv09b3 to make this…	3 Last	bmnb123 Feb 2006
Making things in scale for the game? Bots Q Okay, so I've made a mesh, got it all set up, and am preparing to rg an animate him, to turn him into a Quake III mesh. But before I do... ...how do I make sure that my mesh doesn't come into Quake …	14 Last	KDR_11k Feb 2006
Nextgen art Greetings to all participants of a forum! I have plans, wish to share them with you. In the near future I plan to work with models for nextgen games for consoles. How much it is profitable and whethe…	18 Last	rawkstar Jan 2006
Question regarding normalmap using zbrush and maya Hi guys I have couple questions regarding normal mapping, please help me out. I build this low poly model to test out normal mapping, first I build the model in maya, lay out the UVs and imported it …	11 Last	rooster Jan 2006
Struggling to animate in Biped. Hey Im having some probs animating someone stand up. The centre pivot point(highest point in the heirachy) won't keyframe or animate. It just seems to reset itself to an initial position when I tr…	10 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2006
anyone have any good eva reference? I'm trying to model unit01 and have some decent blueprints but they are lacking in some areas. The large shoulder vents cover the head from the side view and they are so small that the detail is lost…	1 Last	Downsizer Jan 2006
Animation - Which path should I Take? HI all Well after about 3 years of messing about, trying to paint, model, animate and build levels for games, I have finally decided to take on modeling/animation and attempt to get into the games i…	7 Last	Fordy Jan 2006
Drawing Tablet Hello peoples, Alright, I'm growing both tired and frustrated when it comes to using a mouse for digital drawing/painting/etc. Having looked over these forums for a very long time and being inspire…	16 Last	Rhinokey Jan 2006
q3 / java md3 modelviewer and XP Yop I wanted to have a look at old custom-made Q3 models in all theur shaded and animated glory hence redownloaded the javamodelviewer. Yet for some reason, when I start it up it just flashes a blac…	2 Last	pior Jan 2006
i hat yo normal maping nvidia melody + fb objs = [img]http://www.planetgargoyle.com/models/fbnormy.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.planetgargoyle.com/models/fbnormy2.jpg[/img] suck what's going on, and no i have no flipped nor…	21 Last	kat Jan 2006
Game Animation I am trying to find some tutorials, links or even books, that can get me started with animation for games. I am trying to learn the basics, simple walk and run animations etc. I have not had much luc…	4 Last	tomdon Jan 2006
Max user groups in Seattle? Since there are quite a few Seattlites here, I thought I'd ask.	0 Last	FatAssasin Jan 2006
Now this is cool... OGLE: The OpenGLExtractor [url="http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/"]http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/[/url] From the introduction: "OGLE (i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is a software package by Eyebeam R&D…	3 Last	MoP Jan 2006
Maxtreme 8 (finally) [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/maxtreme_8.00.03.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/maxtreme_8.00.03.html[/url]	3 Last	thomasp Jan 2006