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Help: Q3 player model does not display correct Hello, Thanks for the GREAT tutorials!!!! I used the tutorials here to create a player model for Q3. It worked fine as a player model or a bot. I can load him multiple times and spectate to see sev…		5 Last	Trops Nov 2004
new to nurbs. nurbs to solid object? I have these glasses traced with nurbs curves, and was wondering if there was any way of making it solid. I think i know a way which involves just using the curves as guides, but is there an easier …		6 Last	Snowfly Nov 2004
New animation for Quake II (MD2) model Hello, I have an existing MD2 model. The problem is it seems this models cannot run and shoot at the same time, right? So I downloaded Milkshape 3D and now I want to do the following: Take the leg…		4 Last	firlefanz Nov 2004
HELP: Q3 player model does not display correctly Hello, Thanks for the GREAT tutorials!!!! I used the tutorials here to create a player model for Q3. It worked fine as a player model or a bot. I can load him multiple times and spectate to see sev…		0 Last	Trops Nov 2004
Gmax -> UT2003/4 Anyone one if it's possible, and how, to get a model from Gmax to Ut2k3/4?		12 Last	Soccerman18 Nov 2004
Maya 6.0 PSD Path Exporter Script [url="http://www.jeffparrott.com/transfer/PsdPathExporterWin.mel"]http://www.jeffparrott.com/transfer/PsdPathExporterWin.mel[/url] First off I did not write this. A friend of mine, Zach Burns did. H…		3 Last	Faucet Nov 2004
3dsmax 7 Normal Mapping Mini-tutorial! I did a quick tutorial to show off the speed and efficiency of 3dsmax 7's Render to Texture features and the DirectX viewport shaders. Take a look at it over on CGChat (I'm currently lacking webspac…		21 Last	Kevin Johnstone Nov 2004
3dsmax online workshops/training? Just curious if there is a 3dsmax equivilent to [url="http://www.gnomononline.com/"]http://www.gnomononline.com/[/url] maya workshops and training DVD's etc.		2 Last	Downsizer Nov 2004
Indoor lightning illumination question hey there guys. i'm having a brutal time trying to get the effect that i want, and im wondering if anyone has any suggestions and/or reference. i have a long, spooky hallway that my camera is pann…		5 Last	John Warner Nov 2004
Texturing Intersecting Planes Just wondering if there are any tutorials, or any tricks to texturing intersecting planes that will have alpha mapping like in my Smoke Elemental's base.		2 Last	adam Nov 2004
What's the Difference Between Normal & Bump Mapp'n Well, it seems to me Normal and Bump mapping are both based on the same principle...to add perceived geometric structure that really isn't there. Why use one over the other?		7 Last	adam Nov 2004
any way to render normal maps in Maya 6.0? Does anyone know if there is an easy way or any way to render out a normal map in the maya software renderer or mental ray renderer?		6 Last	ndcv Nov 2004
who made this cool texture? hallo, can somebody tell me the website of the man who made this cool face texture? [img]http://m35514h.port5.com/face.jpg[/img] just wanted to look at the other work, i liked alot the resident ev…		16 Last	Neo_God Nov 2004
Painting obsidian I've been assigned the lovely task of making all the rocks for our game. Currently I need to make a crystaline rock formation, specifically obsidian, and its really doing my head in. It seems like so…		5 Last	Illusions Oct 2004
Closed The Reference Thread		0 Last	eepberries Oct 2004
3ds smothing groups / Maya smoothing heydiho, i want to port a model from max to maya. i found a good 3ds importer for maya but 3ds fucks up all the smoothin groups. Is this a problem from the file type itself or is the 3dsmax exporte…		23 Last	Daz Oct 2004
y are the thigh bone positions changing from max? I riged my ut03 model in max5 to the standard mercmaleB_rig skeleton provided by epic. and I got it moving great in Max. After I apply the mesh properties from the standard HumanMale to my model in u…		5 Last	Kent Oct 2004
Normal Mapped Radial Anisotropy I think I've got it to work...but does anyone know where I can temporarily host a .avi or a .mov for downloading so I can get some feedback or input on it? Still images just don't quite capture it..…		2 Last	Illusions Oct 2004
Unreal Animation Hi guys just looking for a quick bit of advice, I am just switching from q3 mods to unreal 2004 a bit dated I know but anyway,,, I am basically looking on the standard animation listing i.e. quake 3 …		3 Last	FatAssasin Oct 2004
From 3D App A to 3D App B... EX: Max to XSI Hi. The focus of this thread is to help artist out there, like me, go from one 3D App to another by discussing the methods on how to do tasks like modeling, texturing, and animating. I would like Ma…		1 Last	MoP Oct 2004
Reset / Remove Vertex Paint modifier in 3ds max Is there a quick and easy way to remove/reset the vertex paint modifier in 3ds Max 6? Aside from going in and erasing everything? Thanks. [EDIT] NM - there is a button for it that I can't believe I …		4 Last	Mojo2k Oct 2004
Tutorial about specular maps? Hello everybody could someone please explain me how to make specular maps or is there any tutorial which would help me???		3 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
best way in max to render wire on shaded? the "cheap" way i have been using is max's wire frame material on a duplicate of my geom over a shaded version.		3 Last	zebra Oct 2004
Volume and Surface Area is there an easy way in max to determine the surface area and/or volume of a mesh in the scene's units?		6 Last	poopinmymouth Oct 2004
tree foliage Well I just made a tree asset for ut2004 and I was just wondering how you guys went about making trees? I was using planes but specifically I wanted to know how many should be used depending on the s…		1 Last	poopinmymouth Oct 2004
Normal Mapping? Does anyone know of any good normal mapping tutorials for Maya?		2 Last	Faucet Oct 2004
Shading Technique hallo, i am wondering if there are tutorials out there where you learn... well different techniques of shading a picture... but i mean not where to but shadow and light... is more like how to draw t…		12 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
pxl SmartScale This week I needed to scale a small image up quite a bit and found this Photoshop plugin that does this much better than the stadard scale option. It's called pxl SmartScale and you cna download a tr…		3 Last	lkraan Oct 2004
Closed 3rd post! welcome to the temporary boards		3 Last	r13 Oct 2004