Lets go over some simple ways to get your feet wet with MAXScript. Even if you have never touched code before, there are some simple ways you can start using maxscript that will help you automate tasks and remove some of the time wasting steps you have to take time and time again. MAXScript what does it do? To answer that…
If your lights cast shadows setting them up correctly will speed up your render times. 1. Try not to cast shadows using omni lights; they are equivalent to placing 6 spotlights with a 90 degree field of view. 2. If youre rendering a scene with a lot of lights dont try and set them up all at once. Use Tools>Light Lister…
Hey man! Get ready for this one because I want you to know as a fellow artist I am not trying to offend you at all. I really want to see you get a job... And I hope to see you in the industry one day. Some things I say may have already been said, but I didn't just want to say it... I wanted to show you. Not saying this…
I want to talk about the common questions and misconceptions inexperienced artists have, either when they start working towards becoming an artists or when they join Polycount. This is a culmination of advice I've given to people over the years and really, a bunch of stuff I wish someone would have told me when I started…
Hi, I’m Neil Gallagher and I’m one of the Lecturers at the University of Hertfordshire, I look after Games Art and Design BA & MA. Well done for posting here, I wish more students were like you before they go of for their interviews. You mentioned some great courses above, also check out the Creative Skillset website as it…
Hi Arsh This is what the pack fixes and as you can see each fix is proceeded by the service pack number that fixed the problem: Heres the SP3 fixes only: Added entries in the .ini file to be able to set TCB default values for the different Biped key types (SP 3). Lag with Select by Name dialog when Cloth is used with…
Well, I've suspected something like that - they're a bit confusing from the beginning, and i probably need to make some more informal introduction into these tools. Let me then introduce myself first: my name is Alexander "Joss" Khalyavin, i'm Maya tech artist/developer with ~16 years of Maya experience. Autodesk Maya…
I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it was started a decade ago, and I'm sorry that the links above are broken, but I'll add my comments now for the record. I published a paper about pie menus in the proceedings of 1988 ACM SIGCHI conference called “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”, in which we measured…