Is that how it looks in the realistic viewport? How does it look when its rendered? What does it look like if you turn off the diffuse and normal map? What does it look like if you turn off Gamma correction? (Main menu > Rendering > Gamma/LUT Settings > Disable) If a normal map is being gamma corrected it will throw the…
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…
Hi renderhjs, Thank you for your comments. An .MZP installer will eventually see the light in upcoming versions, although installing PolyUnwrapper is as simple as copying one folder inside you Max Plugins folder, and to uninstall it you just delete that folder. One of the advantages of the .MZP I see in this case would be…
@ozaffer It looks like Autodesk has corrected the issue (Opposite flag set when freezing transforms on -1 scale) sometime post Maya 2011, though I'm not sure in what version they fixed it. Clearly you're on a new enough version that you have the fix. I tested in 2016 and I don't have the issue there either...though I…
Yep, it is. Adding any reindexing related modifier will remove explicit normals. The 'great' improvement since Max ver. 6 or 8 edit and editable mesh can also store this information intact. In case you want / need export object as mesh. I'm trying to make it as neutral as possible in therms of data usage. This is why I'm…
sometimes some mesh info can get corrupted on a mesh or poly object. It helps sometimes making a snapshot of the model and exporting the snapshot. A snapshot is a term in maxscript where it creates a new 3d model of an existing one but as a new Mesh (can be converted to poly). I had it sometimes that some smoothing group…
Well to that I will respond with one of my favorite quotes, from Kees Rijnen when he was working on Jade: That is from http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=5602489&linkID=7771003 It doesn't matter how much someone hates these programs or what gripes they have- when push comes to shove, they will…
Not all Geforce or Quadro cards are created equal, a lot depends on the manufacture. If I stuck a Ferrari battery in a Ugo and called it Ferrari I'm pretty sure its not going to make much of a differance. I'm not into hardware like I used to be, but I'm not sure buying a card from these guys who have trouble putting a site…
You'll want to be careful with Chuggnuts tools, only a handful of features haven't been rolled into max. The vast majority of what it improved "back in the day" has been included in newer versions of 3ds. 3ds is unstable enough already I don't think Frankenstein'ing things will make it any better. Also it overwrites a key…
The instanced mesh being black is actually a new feature, in the sense that it prevents a potentially dangerous behaviour related to xforms orientation that many new users weren't aware of. The black (flipped) display is basically a warning, in a sense. In order to display the instance mesh "inside out", you need to turn…