it started when my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX81 and showed me how to make simple graphics with the "graphic" characters. Moved on to a VC20, C64 (Geos paint!), my Dad's XT (MS paintbrush), Amiga (DPaint, Autodesk Animator). Got my first 3D experience with 3D Studio DOS (r2.5 I think?). I didn't dabble with 3D for a few…
If you want to do this, you need to be in 3d snap mode, if you use axis constraints make sure that you have (at least) the z-axis enabled. if you dont use axis contstraints, you should not have any trouble. However note that the "grid" in the perspective viewport is only available for the XY plane, unless you activate a…
Due to my impatient nature I did a quick mockup of your model. Hope you don't mind and it's of course a very reduced testcase so it's most likely not valid for all situations. I simply put some chamfered boxes and cylinders together for the "High"-poly.Please ignore the lazy uv-layout also Though the highpoly is lacking…
Lets say you have a pirated copy of Max while you are going to school or learning the trade. You get good at it, get into the industry, and then studio has to buy you a license to use it in house. Companies like Autodesk are well aware of this. They know that if a company hires artists they will have to buy X number of…
Kind of f---ing stupid isn't it, at least i can give it sadly, to Autodesk that they support these backwards compatible situations, 100% credit where it's due. Makes no damn sense, perhaps some studios/devs/someone somewhere has created some work around where an outside converted is used? to help with these silly…
I'm a 3D generalist, but my main things are 3D character modeling and animation. I've been doing freelance since I graduated, but now I want to gain some work experience at a studio or company who's looking to hire. Also my health insurance is about to expire and I live in a country where I need to have it. I'm currently…
Hi guys, I had this issue for ages. You minimize a window in max - No text visible anymore. As soon as I had several windows open, it was a an anoying lottery. I don't know if this is the best solution, but I found a workaround on Autodesk forum yesterday. I just want to share it with you, as I found so many useful stuff…
Hey guys, I was reading up on multi-texture-tile systems like UDIM and wanted to see if I could build support for this with ShaderFX. I got a pretty good working solution but I wanted to make it dynamic in the sense that a user could choose a Base value and a Tiles value to basically set how many tiles should be used. To…
Hi guys ! I would like to make some experiment, and try to 3d print a game scene, but it turns out to be a real challenge in itself: To 3d-print anything, the geometry needs to be waterproof, and the game scene is composed of hundreds of props (I guess a lot of them not waterproof themselves). I have a way to export the…
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