So, i am attempting to get this catapult to work and in doing so have run into some small issues. This was working before but after i made a modification to the model I had to redo alot of the bones/weights. So this is what I have as the bone setup: This is the swing arm bone ( the one giving me issues ) As you can see…
Hey all Ok so im trying to clean up about 8 large max scenes,with large amounts of polygons and objects,there is also a hefty number of textures in these scenes. Though the objects are now in there own groups/layers im having problems clearing/tidying up the material editor. Basically ive had to change the file formats of…
So I finally updated my scripts page. I made it blog format for easy updating. And with the page I present to you a new handy script. Mirror Morphs on X This handy script will Mirror Morph targets on the X axis. If you use Z-brush you can use it to quickly edit your base object in Max, mirror the changes and re-import the…
I'm relatively new to Maya and currently teaching myself how to use it on Digital tutors. At the moment I am following their "introduction to Maya 2013" guide which takes you through a tutorial on how to create and animate a small air craft. I've had no issues apart from creating pipes or extruding NURBS. The tutor tells…
Fabgrid is a new level editor for Unity that has a simple user interface and is very easy to use. It includes an advanced snap system where you can between different snap options:* Snap to mesh * Snap to grid * Snap to floor * Adaptive snap (which combines the mesh and grid snap option in a way that makes it really easy to…
Im working on some modular assests that will be brought into UDK and I have a few questions. Would it be wise to map only 1/4 of that big central platform and just make sure that the ends match up to tile? Image below is of this outer frame for this lift. The selected area on the left is a glass window(another one on the…
I'm trying to export a turntable movie of a character to a .mov file compressed with Sorenson. From what i have read this is a really common format so I dont understand why its proving so difficult So I have an uncompressed video that i want to compress using Sorenson. I bought Quicktime Pro and followed tutorials online,…
I have being doing a lot of technical modelling recently and I'm currently working on a Ottoman Empire Flintlock. Because of the age of the weapon and the styling its wood is smooth and rounded in form. Its essentially like the surface of a car, you have your hard edges but in between you have slightly curved surfaces. If…
I'm trying to learn some different pipelines and I find Blender intriguing. But I already have an established workflow, from years of max and maya, and I'd rather not re-learn too many shortcuts. I want to make Blender more familiar to me, but it's quite time consuming to implement pie menus and all these standard things…
I know what I want to achieve, I just don't know if it exists and/or what it would be called. This script/effect takes the colors of an image and a mask (or selection) and "stretches" the colors on the edges of the mask outward, away from the mask. Another way to describe it could be: Each pixel outside the mask will take…