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Re: Max Smoothing groups vrs Maya Hard Edges
give the entire mesh two smoothing groups (1 and 2)... and the two faces sharing the hard edge just one smoothing group (1 or 2)... -
Re: E3 2008
The "secret" second nintendo press conference starts in 1 1/2 hours, let's see what they announce.. wii fit 2 ;) (for the core gamers) -
Re: Substance Painter, 3DS Max - UV seams with smart materials
Hi! Baking can be pretty tricky to wrap your head around, but rest assured it's a logical process you can break down to get right every time. There's a healthy number of stickied threads to help you with many questions you may have now and down the line: 1 2 3 4 There is also the wiki :) To answer specifics. 1) No, a high… -
Re: Laptops for 3d modeling and texturing
Yeh an Alienware is what I got now. It's what 5 years old haha. Old workhorse. Look at this, nice find I think. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114796 --- Model Brand TOSHIBA Series Qosmio Model X505-Q860 Part# PQX33U-01G00H General Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit CPU Type Intel Core… -
Re: Baking pipeline with Substance Painter/Marmoset. Opinions needed.
1. Model as separate objects is trouble-free baking without any reprojection errors. 2. At least in SD 2020 i didnt know any other options to achieve possibility to hide parts of the model rather than have a model separated into pieces. "Exploded bake" can solve the problem, cause we now can have 1 texture set, but it… -
Re: The Forgotten Temple
Thanks for the feedback! I have a spot light coming into the interior. It's using lighting channel 2 and all the meshes on the inside are using that same channel. For the outside, I'm using a directional light going into lighting channel 1 and all the meshes out there are linked by using 1 as well. I like the look of shot… -
Re: simple 3d painter with shader support
in the Shader there is a note about using texcoords like <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> Texture{ .. texcoord 1; # would use UV channel : 2 of max, default is 0 > 1 in max .. } </pre><hr /> about the scaling thing, I will just use texture matrix for both tiles individually, but not for emissive and mask, it is… -
Re: Entry level portfolio examples?
"Junior" artist portfolio = "Senior" artist portfolio with less assets. What do you want to do most? texture/shader artist? prop artist? world builder? Decide and make a reasonable amount of assets within ur focus at senior level quality. Textures/shader, you prob want somewhere from 8-10 shaders. Prop artist you want 2-3… -
Re: MAYA 2020 - Couldn't name the issue, but please help!
You pressed either "2", or "3" on the keyboard. Hit 1 to go back. 1 = Cage 2 = Cage + SubD preview 3 = Sub-D preview -
Re: Building a workstation for home, need input
OMG SSD YES At home on my workstation I have a 4x 30gb SSD stripe (got them for $100 each off ebay), with a traditional platter drive for backup (more reliable) storage. The SSD stripe makes for INSANE performance with a multi core processor - as an example I can click my 3ds max icon, and max is open and ready to go…
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