Hi all. I've been a long term lurker on this site, and now I finally feel ready to post up some of my work. First off; Hi, my name is Dan and I just graduated with a first degree in Game Art from University of Teesside here in the UK. I'd like to think my specialty is with mechanical objects like vehicles, weapons and…
So earlier today I started customizing my UI and installing a few new plugins for Max including SoulScripts, Outliner and the latest version of Textools. After I completed installing these and making a few new shortcuts/toolbars I restarted Max and now I get this annoying error window when I open Max. I thought I could…
I know this is more of a rendering topic rather than game art but i had this problem today in max 2010 and thought maybe others could use the same fix. basically MentalRay can sometimes give a 'out of memory' error when you are trying to render a heavy model or scene. Versions of max prior to 2010 had a UI option in the…
I use 3ds Max 2014 and ive been getting weird glitches in my scene (vertices exploding off screen when I apply a turbosmooth modifier, and crashes when I use some edit poly functions) I just restarted for like the 5th time, and suddenly all my UI settings are gone. Keybinds, modifier sets, Utilities menu all reset to…
Hello guys, I've been following some tutorials from Simon Fuchs about hard poly modeling within max and a little bit of Zbrush. In this tutorial he shares some files so that we can use the scripts that he uses aswel, but he only seems to explain how one of them is installed, similar to textools this one is very easy to…
I had been using the trial/beta for a few months and over the Black Friday sale I bought the suite. I got home from vacation, installed and updated the suite and now it crashes. I do run PS, software, OS on a SSD and would prefer to be able to run this on there as well. Here is what happens: I launch the suite and the…
It's a "spring controller" that gets assigned to a bone. Main toolbar > Graph Editors > Curve Editor > Select a track in the Track View hierarchy. Track View menu bar > Controller menu > Assign > Spring…
You need to constrain movement to the Y axis only, but, as you've found out, the behavior of the move gizmo becomes unpredictable when you have snapping on. You need to enable axis constraints. Right-click on an empty area of the top toolbar and choose Axis Constraints. This should come up: The rightmost button (Enable…
I do everything in Maya with the gui or custom contextual gui's ( cept for Maya shelves which no longer have to be hacked to be contextual ) menuless titlebar and panes save for Maya's hor shelf above toolbar to the right and custom contextual gui to the lft. ( Maya's tabbed docked CB/Lyr or AE easily switched or hidden is…
My experience thus far: The Max UI is more intuitive and 75% of what you need is somewhere on the right hand side of your screen, whereas in Maya it's off into the jungle of sub-menus and alternate shelf layouts and tap-dancing between toolbars. This doesn't really matter much at all if you are experienced because you are…