Technical Talk

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Terrain Generators Any preferences? Preferably something free, and I plan on bringing the geometry into Max, so I don't need a program that can render the terrain, just generate it. And is there any way to take exist…	3 Last	CrazyButcher Aug 2005
Displacement shadow mapping Anyone have links on this? Or how its created? I read about it in the Project Offset tech dossier and was hoping there's some other documention on it. I'd like to experiment with it.	12 Last	EarthQuake Aug 2005
Looking for reference of a 10 year old girl. go ahead, joke. i managed to find a picture of a ten year old BOY that apparently came from 3d.sk but for the life of me i can't fine good side/front/3 quarter pics of a girl of the same age. just …	6 Last	PaK Aug 2005
3DS Max 6 crashes when I apply normal map shader I can create the material but once I apply it to an object it crashes. Latest nvidia drivers. My card is a 4600. DirectX 9.0c 3DS Max6 sp1 I've been trying to use [url="http://www.monitorstudios.co…	0 Last	DeathTrip Aug 2005
Alphas + doublesided polys Hi all! I'm having a bit of problems with alphas : i'm currently preparing my mesh in wings 3d and noticed that all the "planes" that i put in place in order to recieve the alphas are actually to pol…	9 Last	Joshua Stubbles Aug 2005
Alpha Channel Hair, seeking for help! Hi guys, I'm having major problem with coming up realistic hair tips in alpha channel. Usually what I do is use lasso tool and feather it and let paint white color into the alpha channel, however it …	3 Last	Ruz Aug 2005
Multi layered materials in Max In photoshop you're able to have multiple layers which can affect a base layer (overlay and such). Is it possible to do something similar in Max? I tried using a composite material, but that only s…	7 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2005
Setting up a network rendering for max/vray? hello guys, well i am here today with a huge question... and i'll try to explain as detailed as possible what i want and need... so: i am trying to render highpolyscenes interior/exterior mostly b…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2005
Preserving vertex weights in Max Hiya I've already created a NPC model, unwrapped it, skinned it, and created a set of animations for it. I thought it was done but my coder massah wants me to add more to the mesh along with a coup…	2 Last	Ruz Aug 2005
WoW texturemap manipulation Hey guys, I've been wanting to fool around with some of the texturemaps in WoW for awhile now. They are encrypted; can someone please tell me how to crack into the skins and modify them? Thanks [im…	11 Last	Toomas Aug 2005
RTS texture sizes After trying my hand at a few mods and not liking the experience much, I've come to the decision to make my own little game. my high poly skills make me go EWWWWWW, so I've decided a simple RTS game …	11 Last	Joshua Stubbles Aug 2005
texture question....need advice. hi all. i used to work for a game company. however, i did "a little bit of everything". right now i'm making some high res chars. my question is this. how do you guys set up your textures. i kn…	6 Last	Delaney King Aug 2005
Push Modifier action in Maya Okay, so this has been a problem for me today (first day with maya! w00t!) and I thought I'd share a particularly troublesome hurdle my co-worker Andrew helped me understand; Howto push modify in Ma…	3 Last	vahl Aug 2005
modeling with wacom pen I was just wondering how many people here model with their wacom pen. I just started strip modeling with just my pen a few days ago and I must say that I'm lovin it. It was kinda awkward at first, …	20 Last	skrubbles Aug 2005
...normal maps in maya, viewing.... how again? damnit. i forgot. i remember 'High quality' rendering..... and that you've gotta manually link up the normal map, but how in the shit do you get it to work/what do you link it to again? ugh i forg…	2 Last	moose Aug 2005
Maxscript skin help I'd like to do the following in max (version 7) In the skin modifier, select a vert and hit a button that creates a data set of all bones and weights of that vert. Then select another vert, and hit…	2 Last	Rick Stirling Aug 2005
Sub-D, inset on curved surface? hey hey.. im currently workin on a high-p piece that will require a rectangular inset on a curved surface.. my problem is that i cant find a good meshflow to make this look right w/o pinching. take a…	8 Last	motives Aug 2005
I really need some help fixing a UT2k4 ragdoll... Ok, When the cow (yes, the cow [url="http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=8890daa59349d76a482794dea7739bed&threadid=450905&perpage=30&highlight=Nali+Cow&pagenumber=5)…	0 Last	HonkyPunch Aug 2005
snail shell i'm trying to model a snailshell, but i have no idea what's the best way to go about it. the polycount really doesn't matter much, since it wont be for any games, i'm just fooling around with things …	7 Last	Michael Knubben Aug 2005
Hotkey for Subdivision surface: Edit Poly I've been looking to bind a key to the "Use NURMS subdivisions" tickbox in the Subdivision Surface dialog box in Edit Poly mode- in MAX 7, to give me a quick preview of the high-poly model. The only…	2 Last	FAT_CAP Aug 2005
BF2 MOD tools Beta [url="http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=mod_editor"]http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=mod_editor[/url] all is …	3 Last	SyaPed Aug 2005
Right clicking gone in Maya? Er, wtf? It's just gone. No worky. Anyone had this issue before? Trying to think what's changed since the last time I booted her up. New nVidia drivers perhaps, can't think of anything else.	10 Last	j4polaris Aug 2005
experienced gmax/3dsmax users : quake3 - md3 I've reached a few roadblocks with gmax while trying to learn how to use the program. My goal is to add a few animations to the quake3 upper.md3 model. (I have a working importer, and an exporter, bu…	7 Last	Showster Aug 2005
Zbrush tutorials? hi anyone know a good website with a few? covering the basics if possible.	13 Last	KMan Aug 2005
Normal map compression Howdy. I wonder if any of you are using compressed normal maps? We're about to start supporting it in our engine. For a 256x256 map, it's a filesize savings of like 55%... 192Kb for 24bit TGA vs. 8…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2005
3ds max hidden object errors I'm rigging some characters, all built from templates. The old skeleton in the scene needs to be removed, but I have a problem. With almost every character, when I delete everything from the scene e…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2005
bodypaint? anyone tried this. I found it a bit annoying.	12 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2005
modelling techniques the other day I saw some images posted in a thread about how to make circles come out of squares (and so on) but can't for the life of me find that thread. So if you have any cool images of modelling…	4 Last	Slipstream Aug 2005
Lightwave [9]!!!!!! [url="http://www.newtek.com/news/releases/08-01-05e.html"]Newtek-Lightwave 9[/url] LW 9 will have real and total support for edge manipulation, as well as the modeling tools set is now acessible i…	16 Last	Raven Aug 2005
Mapping program Know any nice mapping programs? Need to generate a fantasy landscape, break a couple laws of physics and still make it look like it makes sense.	3 Last	Scott Ruggels Aug 2005
Maya - UVW editing window missing. I've put up with this for a while, but its really starting to annoy me now. About half the time when I open up a maya file and go to the UV editor window, the panel will open up without the actual uv…	2 Last	Raven Aug 2005
Maya like camera movements in 3D Max? Is this even possible? One of my favorite things about Maya was the ability to control the camera using only the ctrl, alt, and 3 mouse button keys, and I'm wondering if there is any possible way to…	3 Last	Illusions Aug 2005
is the Max Unwrapper grip scaleable? the title says it all but ill try and be clearer. Im just wondering if there is a way to bring up a grid (or scale the blue one thats there) down to a pixel or 2 size. I read somewhere that when you…	2 Last	Delaney King Aug 2005
Maya Paint Effects Hey, I was just looking at the Maya help info on it's Paint Effects thing. I was wondering how useful these are and if it's really worth learning at all? (I use Maya 6.5 complete) Thanks. [img]/imag…	2 Last	Tulkamir Aug 2005
Looking to buy Gnomon UV Mapping DVD Wasn't quite sure where to put this but I thought it would be the right place. If anyone happens to have the DVD from Gnomon entitled "UV Mapping for Games" and doesn't want it anymore, I would be m…	0 Last	Irodex Aug 2005
xsi and non-square texture uv mapping? hey xsi users, having a bit of a problem with xsi (4.2). if i try to tweak the noIcon.pic or import a texture that is non-square, the uv mapping goes bonkers and distorts the uv's for the model. any …	2 Last	ElysiumGX Aug 2005
WTF! CS2 SHORTCUTS! In every version of PS before CS2, when I held down Control and clicked on a layer, it selected whatever was on the layer... and I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE! AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT MANUALLY! DAMNIT!…	12 Last	oXYnary Jul 2005
Custom CS 1.6 Weapon Not Totally Visable... Hi, I've made a custom knife model for CS1.6 but only the left arm can be seen with the right one (and its accompanying knife) not on screen. I haven't changed any of the original animations, and I'v…	2 Last	King0rz Jul 2005
Maya grid not drawn I'm working through a tutorial in my new book, and it's shown me how to get Maya to draw the grid, and how to set the scale. I've set it all up as taught, but neither before, nor after has it actuall…	10 Last	milla Jul 2005
Baking I've been trying to texture bake my uvs but it aint coming out properly. Tried usin Bobo's technique of vertex baking but i couldnt get it working. then i found this tut [url="http://67.15.36.49/team…	1 Last	JonMurphy Jul 2005
Counter Strike:Source models convert to CS 1.6? My keyboard is not broken, according to the reply i got on my other post, its the fact the title couldn't fit all the words in it so i crammed it all, sorry bout that guyz. I sed this last time --&g…	9 Last	jRocket Jul 2005
Making rock - Without bad UV warping Hey guys. I'm in the middle of making some map models for my level, and rock has come into play. I have quite a lrage section that will be rock, however when i do the model I get quite a bit of stre…	6 Last	jRocket Jul 2005
Custom material plugin for Max? We're updating our 3ds Max material export pipeline, and we're thinking about coding a custom material that streamlines just the options we need to support for our game engine. Awhile back I did som…	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Jul 2005
Brunt_SDK anyone ? I was working on a model made by bobo named brunt_SDK. I formatted my computer and lost it. Can someone upload that somewhere ? thanks	6 Last	BoBo_the_seal Jul 2005
How do u paint your faces? (calling anyone) Hi folks Having just spent 6 hours or so painting a fairly basic face for one of the Polycount SDK's, I realised I need to spend a bit of effort in getting things looking a tad better. I admit im no…	5 Last	Fordy Jul 2005
next gen woes? How are you all finding the next gen stuff, normal mapping and the like. Part of me says, yeah this is fun , another part says I miss making mid range poly models and making a nice simple textures …	51 Last	Raven Jul 2005
Environmnet asset manager Is there anone on your team that collects all the assets for a level or group of artists and checks for good building conventions, texture sizes, and polygon counts? I think there should be some sor…	4 Last	Joshua Stubbles Jul 2005
Maya PLE registration issues Hello my lovelies. I've been PC-free for a while, and I finally have my new system sorted out, so I've bought a book, [i]Game Character Development With Maya[/i], so I can learn to use Maya. The book…	3 Last	milla Jul 2005
Hi-Poly Unwrapping... Does anyone know of any tutorials/guides to hi-poly unwrapping? Do you guys unwrap the lo-poly cage and then apply sub-d, meshsmooth or whatever afterwards? When I try this the uv's get warped from…	11 Last	Delaney King Jul 2005
Know where I can get a cheap Wacom? Know where I can get a good cheap Wacom? Im in the market if anyone knows of any good deals.	7 Last	Josh_Singh Jul 2005