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USD 0.5 for 3ds Max with MaterialX
I'm proud to announce USD for 3ds Max 0.5 was released last week. This version adds several new features and fixes. One of the main new features is support for Morpher modifiers to export as Blendshapes to compliment the Skin to USDSkel we released in version 0.4. The other new feature that customers have been asking for… -
Re: Vertex Color, Baking and Other stuff
I think that vertex colors is a viable solution for certain game styles. If you don't use lightmaps in Unity or Unreal I don't really see a need to UV unwrap the model anyways and both engines I believe can auto generate lightmap uvs. If you UV unwrap a model without any intent on using textures I believe you would just be… -
Re: Bone Driven Facial Rigging
It all depends on the engine and what the code monkeys cook up. In general when exporting (and each exporter is different), helper objects are interpeted as bones, but it depends. Sometimes it's not the object type that determines if its a bone but how it is applied to the scene. For example if you skin a mesh to a box,… -
Re: Maxscript write and read .txt file
monster: Agreed, for reading/writing path to file, that's perfect. For the rest of the question, as it's supposed to be an exporter (if I get it right), some reading/writing in a custom format is necessary anyway. In that case, something like this would be a better approach (from the top of my head, untested): try… -
Re: [Tutorial] Rock modeling techniques
Glad I could help out man, the techniques used have been improved. I'll probably update the whole thing once I get some time. For rock modeling, you can just duplicate the base mesh and do the placements all in mudbox then select all your sub-meshes and export them to 3dcoat. In 3dcoat just go to file -> "merge object" and… -
Re: What are your go to workflows for fixing pinches and general iregularities on a form?
What software and modelling methods are we talking? For Sub-D/poly-modelling I would normally use the relax function on a vertex selection and constrain it to the surface. Sometimes it's necessary to insert extra geometry to 'stabilize' the shading. For low poly modelling there's also the option of duplicating the mesh,… -
Substance Painter- Mesh doesn't come in right.
Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this situation. I have this door I'm working on and something strange is happening with it. I have it where i have it where the door has multiple objects when I export it, as a frame, door, and handle. When I do the door it has it where this extra detail on its uv map… -
Odd MudBox issue...?
Ok, so long story short, I've created terrain at multiple sub-division levels. Pretty standard. HOWEVER... When I export my mesh it doesn't seem to be quite right polycount wise. If I export the lowest sub-division, its fine, it says in MudBox 20,000 polygons or there abouts and when I open the model in Max, yup, 20,000 or… -
Re: ID map keeps baking red
tbf It's neater to keep the resources in the painter file, it doesn't do the best job of handling external assets. Have you tried exporting an earlier fbx version? (the option is there in the exporter) the issue is that painter doesn't understand the newer material types on import and it wouldn't surprise me if the fbx… -
Re: Custom Rigs, and Facial morphs for Next Gen Chars.
[ QUOTE ] [...]mostly because of the ability to lock feet and hand into a certain positions and I've gotten pretty good results so far[...] [/ QUOTE ] I've never understood Biped's way of handling this. There are like 3 or 4 different types of keyframes for the feet and hands. On a custom rig locking down the hands or feet…
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