I finished a prototype to extract the major axis (run the script and then drag the mouse, at end of drag the proper axis constraint should be set) sadly maxscript has no global mousecallback, which means mousetrack blocks all other mouse operations. so one would need to do the move in maxscript, which would be ugly so, as…
We're only seeing a cropped view of the full texture, and there is padding. That's the orange outline. It could perhaps use more, though. I don't know what you're getting at with curves, and Max can display normal maps just fine if you load the texture with the right gamma, though it will not be the correct tangent basis…
While searching for a pie menu for 3ds max read about an apparent pie menu by bryan and perna here https://polycount.com/discussion/197212/3ds-max-plugin-radially-pie-menu-editor-for-3ds-max. The link mentioned by @Revel is dead. Would appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Hey guys, I'm currently trying to blockout a level for a game in 3ds max so I'm trying to make the walls and stuff as modular as possible for re-use. Hours in I realized that the vertex snapping isn't working as it should. Can someone help me figure out what the problem is? Also what would be the best max grid/snap…
Hey Justo, from what I found most of the icons from the Main toolbar (the one that you would like to change) cannot be changed as I explained above. Some of them can actually be change from what I see: I simply tried to right click on some icons of the Main toolbar and on some of the drop down menu appears. Honestly I…
I've got a problem with my Wacom tablet in W7 and 3ds Max 2010. I'm sure I'm not the only one who, when installing Windows 7, quickly disables the TabletPC junk. I usually disable it entirely by turning off the service for it in Computer Management. But when I run Max, it partially re-enables itself, and I can't use a…
Hi everyone, I am pretty new to modeling and UVing in 3DS Max and I'm having some trouble making proper UVs and lightmap UVs. Basically, I am building a modular outdoor railing piece. It's composed of two basic parts - the railing handlebar, and a railing post piece, which is instance repeated 10 times. Here's what the…
Hi I'm having some issues in 3ds Max at the moment, really not sure what it is because this has never happened before. I modelled some low polys in 3ds Max, export these, took them into Zbrush to sculpt my high polys then exported these high polys as an fbx as I usually would, all fine. But when I try to import these high…
I'm currently stumped with adding dynamic water that sloshes around in a jar while you move. What I want to do (and from what I can tell from what Valve did in L4D2 and TF2) is duplicate the inside of the jar (Click the links to the left for two examples) and have the top of the surface of the duplicate utilize a very low…
I have narrowed down my max rendering problems to mesh density as when rendering my pc allways crashes when calculating the scene, plus if I try to subdivide in the viewport it crashes. This seems strange to me as I have an Intel pentium core 2 duo 2.13ghz with 3 gig ram now and sometimes it crashes with meshes exported…