When you convert a toolbar to a tab you can't access this toolbar via Customize UI. If the tabs breaks... I don't know what can breaks them, but there is a chance this to happen. Restarting 3ds max will load all tabs.
These are really cute. I find hair to be difficult at times, so if you can make it read really well and recreate it easy enough then you should be alright after that. Same for clothing , the less is more approach.
Ok this is something that I read a long time ago but never really had proper luck with and I wanted to see some good approaches / ideas on this. before I never really realised how powerful max was with baxing out maps pre existing so I never really bothered I just did the maps I HAD to bake and couldnt create (normal maps…
Hey hey :) First off, thanks for the insanely positive response to the last article I put out, it got something like 3k views in 48 hours, for a project that is just starting out definitely helped keep the wind in the sails. Big up to everyone who read, shared and left their 2 cents on it. This weeks article I expanded on…
Being a specialist is good for breaking into the industry, getting a first gig at a big studio etc. The smaller the studio, the larger the skillset needs to be. Its way harder to be hired as a generalist without a pretty broad portfolio and experience, obviously. But a good team needs a mix of generalists and specialists.
Game models don’t use UDIMs, so I would avoid that. Just break your model into logical parts, and make atlases for each. Two to three should be enough.
I think I have the basic functionality down to make the bottle shapes that I want, the graph is a mess right now and there's probably better ways of doing this (there's absolutely a better way to organize the graph). But this is what I ended up with; The big idea is to be able to create a large number of assets with just a…
I don't think many will necessarly quote and agree with me to a T on this, but let's make something clear. If you SUCK as an artist and you know of someone that KNOWS you. You will NOT get hired. Let me break it down as simple as this...If you were employed as a senior character artist at your job for example, and your…