Technical Talk

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preview using multi/sub-object materials MAX 7 i'm skinning a mesh using a multi/sub-object material that has 3 textures associated with it. (using Max 7) i'd like to be able to see the textures when i'm adjusting the uvw mapping, but I can onl…	6 Last	Ryno Jul 2005
buying max 6? I'm currently in a competition called dare to be digital, where 8 teams compete over 9 weeks to create a game. We're lumbered with max 5 at the moment, and numerous bugs and improvements in later ma…	10 Last	diZzyWalnut Jul 2005
Maxscript/Macro help? Hey folks, I know a fair few of you are knowledgeable when it comes to Maxscript stuff... I've been dabbling with a little bit of it just to make some little macroscripts to bind to hotkeys now and t…	10 Last	MoP Jul 2005
Facial rigs Just wondering if anyone knew of a tut online somewhere that delved in deep into good facial rigs. I have in mind teh kind where you set up rectangles and have a circle shape inside and moving it aro…	1 Last	pogonip Jul 2005
Photosourcing and UVs It used to be that we made our character model, unwrapped it, then textured it. These days many games make a lot of use of photosourcing, so I wonder if others find that now you end up making the t…	7 Last	Steve Schulze Jul 2005
Alternate ASE export from maya Greetings, does anyone know of another method for exporting ASEs from maya other than axmesh? axmesh has really limited mel exposure which makes it not as flexible as we'd like it to be.	1 Last	Scott Ruggels Jul 2005
awesome tip when working with morph targets... okay so i made all the morph targets for the character creation system and it was decided that we need to add some changes to the mesh.. well that sucks cause i only made like 120 morph targets.. so …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2005
Copyright protection for models Drumroll... I am new here. Ta-dah! Though not up to par with the forum or the general awareness, I have a question that I am not sure has been addressed, but forgive my ignorance for not having a mor…	5 Last	CheapAlert Jul 2005
Render Hidden In max when you hide a subobject with edit poly, it still shows up when you render. Is there a way to stop it from doing this? Thanks	4 Last	SyaPed Jul 2005
Rendering problem I'm new to Max, I have 7 and have been using it for about a month now. I'm currently rendering a scene that is a motorcycle shop, but nothing looks right at all. The .avi is washed out with white whe…	9 Last	KDR_11k Jul 2005
Selling models? When and where if it's for real? Do people really sell them and make money?	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2005
Smoothing in Maya Hey, I'm having some problems with smoothing in Maya. I'm used to modeling in Max, and in it doing high poly stuff I'd just use the subdivision surface to smooth my models, and in it I had no problem…	3 Last	Tulkamir Jul 2005
Render To Texture problem Using the RTT option in max 7 to create normal maps projects the lowpoly wireframe onto the normal map. I cannot figure out why this is happening. It seems that I have everything set up exactly the…	2 Last	Wells Jul 2005
proper mesh geometry for animation? Hi, i was wondering if you guys might have tips for me on this particular topic. I have made my model and rigged it, but the shoulders and crotch area tend to give me trouble when they are animated …	13 Last	deadflowers Jul 2005
Restoring zBrush 2 to it's defaults....? Anyone know which files to delete if I wanna restore zBrush's controls, interface, everthing, to the default? Essentially putting it back to how it would be after a fresh install?	4 Last	deadflowers Jul 2005
help with rigging in max I'm trying to learn how to rig in max7. I have read a few tutorials on 3dtotal, but they aren't explaining it very clearly. Umm...Should I use the premade Biped skeleton? Or make my own bones? Maybe …	5 Last	Enix Jul 2005
dds plugin question Does anyone have a DDS exporter plugin that will allow you to keep layers when exporting a DDS from photoshop? The Nvidia one Im using requires me to flatten the image before exporting each time. …	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2005
Looking for an easier way to move vertices around I have started learning high poly modelling and I am running into a modelling issue which I think that there must be a easier en better way to get around to. I hope that somebody can give me a tip fo…	12 Last	ElysiumGX Jul 2005
best way of laying out several model variations? Howdy guys as you should know by now, im working on these weapons with someone which we hope to release on the net as a pack on turbosquid etc. However Having done the M16 basic mesh as a single 51…	4 Last	KMan Jul 2005
URGENT! Problem with Photoshop! Please help! Hi all, I just recently upgraded from Photoshop CS to Photoshop CS 2. I have an Intel Pentium III 598 MHz chip, 768 mb of RAM and a Geforce 4 2600 titanium graphics card. Ever since upgrading to CS …	10 Last	pyromania Jul 2005
Question for all you experienced animators! I'm trying to figure out how to make my DoubleJumpX look "right". The start of the double jump works ok, but there's a hiccup in the end where it ends the double jump and apparently resumes the regu…	2 Last	KDR_11k Jul 2005
video tutorials I can't get any of the AVI files to play using Windows Media 9 or Quicktime. both tell me they can't find a decoder for the files. anyone have any suggestions?	2 Last	FlatlanderGEE Jul 2005
Cartoon shading via normal map? How could it be done? Could just simply reducing the colors in the normal map to like 32 would work?	2 Last	KDR_11k Jul 2005
Looking for a Tutorial or Plugin I lost a HDD with some MAX tutorial videos and plugins i once found here and i hope to find em again ( with some help ;D ) Those 2 Videos were about modelling, UVW mapping and skinning a Demon on ho…	2 Last	Monolith Jul 2005
Polycounter that counts real vertice counts Hi I was wondering if there was a polycounter for max or stand alone tool that counted all the vertices added to a model after unwraping it, adding separate materials and smoothing groups. I thought …	8 Last	Delaney King Jul 2005
2 axis or grid gradient tool? i need a gradient tool that will let me pick points on a grid and assign colors to it, then do gradient blends between then on the x and y. sort of like the gradient layer tool in PS, but on steroid…	2 Last	pyromania Jul 2005
What's chopping up my MD3's? Got a problem with exporting MD3's from Max. I'm using Max 5 and the newest version of Cookson's improved PnF exporter, which otherwise works fine. Problem is, when I try and actually use the MD3 as …	13 Last	KDR_11k Jul 2005
UT2K4 Hair Im having issues with the opacity for a hair map. Simple alpha texturing makes the negative space a window through the rest of the model and Masked creates too harsh a transition. Creating a shader…	5 Last	KDR_11k Jul 2005
UT2004 Character COMPLETE Suggestion Im trying to find a ut2k4 character that includes the whole kit n' kaboodle as far as having custom sound and voice packs, to character menu descriptions and team colors setup for all game types. Do…	6 Last	chip Jul 2005
help with gmax files is it possible to have gmax files exported for use in max 6?	3 Last	jzero Jul 2005
modeling for a game Tach' ..?? 'good day! When I'm modeling characters for a game, should I create it in one mesh or a lot of meshs? ( all ) [b]or[/b] ( head - body - arms - legs ) ? The arms and the rest of the bod…	11 Last	Foehammer Jul 2005
3ds max skin mirroring I've been using the max skin mirroring and skin wrapping tools quite a bit recently. Are there any tutorials out there for them, or would it be worth me taking an hour some day to write some? The ma…	10 Last	Rick Stirling Jul 2005
Facial animation in Max... Hi All I have just bought the Discreet Production Workflow DVD's (for Character studio 4). On the Dvd's it shows a model's face being animated using bones attached to the biped. What it doesnt seem…	9 Last	Fordy Jun 2005
rendering issue Hey PC's, I have a possible problem with 3d Max 7. When looking at the interface my character's ear looks fine, however when rendered it looks the pic here. I've tried different lights to no avail. A…	5 Last	todman Jun 2005
Here's Some Character Design Drawing Tutor Stuff.. Quicktime video of Adam Hughs drawing a character....if you don't know who Adam Hughs is, then shame on you. [url="http://comicartfans.com/SubNewsDetails.asp?NID=43"]http://comicartfans.com/SubNewsDe…	18 Last	Delaney King Jun 2005
importing UT2K3 models into max hi there, i want to know if there is a way to import Unreal Tournament UTX files into max	1 Last	lkraan Jun 2005
Edge Mode in Lightwave It has come to my attention that I have never even used edge mode in lightwave, and then I started thinking to myself, does it exist? So can someone please answer this (EarthQuake hopefully, since I …	13 Last	StrangeFate Jun 2005
Create/convert an UT 200x model Hello! I'm new on this forum, I'm from italy (so excuse me for my bad english... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] ) and i want to learn how to create 3d models for UT2003 (i cannot install the …	7 Last	el charro Jun 2005
rotating around local axis instead of global axis I'm working on a project for work where I'm moving and rotating a model. The way the code is written right now when I rotate a model it rotates around the origin, which becomes a pain when trying to…	5 Last	Soccerman18 Jun 2005
drawing hands Id say for about a good year or so, i almost excelled at drawing hands. I saw an illustration for a Poe piece and i really learned a lot as i tried to recreate it. One day i was in the process of dra…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2005
video clip downloads/reference sites? anyone know of a site that provides downloads of video clips on a wide variety of non-specific, general subjects? People, nature, events, old film, that sort of thing? I suppose what would be ideal …	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2005
Free Video Hosting (something like photobucket) I was hoping one of you knew a site where I could upload some videos of my pianfully crappy animation and then show the horrible things to you peeps. You know, the basic free non-pornograghic webhost…	5 Last	ElysiumGX Jun 2005
looking for normal mapping tuorials ??	2 Last	JO420 Jun 2005
Turn a black and white image into an alpha channel I am a noob with Photoshop and have really used it for the first time for a character skin. I was always a PSP user but decided to take the plunge [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I have made …	11 Last	Sett Jun 2005
creating chara-textures hello, hello! I've never found any good tutorial which describes the making of a texture, for a human chracacter. I don't mean the unwrapping! I mean creating the textures, drawing them! I'm using ph…	5 Last	Marine Jun 2005
Model viewer for skinning Currently when I skin a model I use the [url="http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/forum/showthread.php3?s=7d26df4a9d7c4f195f1d99318057d30a&threadid=13789"]MS3D Model Viewer[/url] by Mijacs. I…	10 Last	jzero Jun 2005
Displaying normal maps in maya I have a 3d max model that I created normal maps for. I know how to display the normal map in max, but when I import the model into maya for rigging purposes I can't figure out how to display the nor…	4 Last	Whargoul Jun 2005
Intuos 2 vs. Intuos 3 so, is the fancy top of the line Intuos 3 really worth the money? both have 1024 levels of sensetivety, which is - bottom line - what we each use the most. All the rest is orbitting in useless mode …	13 Last	thomasp Jun 2005
What's more efficient? Well I have a question about textures. What uses more memory, having 4 separate 512 x 512 textures used in game or one 1024 x 1024 texture? A similar scenerio I'm wondering about is what is more effi…	19 Last	KDR_11k Jun 2005
planning a model hello, its my 3rd thread that week and my 2nd that day ^^ I'd like to know how you start creating a character.. e.g.: 1. drawing him on paper 2. drawing him on paper again, as often as you thing, h…	7 Last	Sage Jun 2005