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Re: Looping particle effects?
Max has out of "Out of Range" controllers which will take a section of animation and, play a cycle, a loop, ping pong ect. They are applied to specific tracks as in XYZ rotation and can not be applied to things inside particle systems like birth, start, end ect... because those things can't be looped. There are better ways… -
Re: How do you accurately calculate eularAngles to avoid flipped orientation?
Thanks again Gray and everyone else here). Unfortunately, I'm in and out of the hospital with a family illness ... and now away from Max tonight. So I cannot give the exact code I have where the problem lies. But here is a little clearer overview. A collection of objects in the scene (say 100 teapots that are references of… -
Re: Up Vector + HeightMap Blending - Demo
ya i noticed the xyz for wind does seem more accurate when upto a certain strength, which makes no sense to me, since i thought the node just outputed the XYZ in RGB than the strength in Alpha, which gets removed in shader anyways. -
Re: Suffer Gimbal lock ?
The second axis of a joint is what you need to pay attention to, on all joints. So, if your axis order is XYZ then the Y axis is going to be the one that you want to be doing the least rotation on. In Max, you can change a joints axis order via motion tab > PRS Parameters: Rotation > Euler parameters: Axis order In Maya,… -
Re: Unwrapping a sphere for a planet.
Tip for Maya users since we don't have the spherify modifier, if you want to use a quad sphere : Grab the script xyShrinkWrap http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/misc/c/xyshrinkwrap Make a quad sphere with however many divisions you want by smoothing a cube. Then make a standard sphere… -
Re: Cigar Smoke Effect in UDK
Also regarding your problems with slowing the particles down: Velocity Over Life is a better approach for what you're trying to do. The setup would be: *Create the module *Change your distribution to ConstantCurve *Set LockedAxes to XYZ, this way you can set only X and it will use the values across all axes *Set a keyframe… -
Re: What Are You Working On? 2010 Edition!
Great work Crazyfool. :) I saw this concept in Shrew81's WIP thread and I had to give #2 a go. I love my sci-fi stuff, and I needed a new project :P. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GBL1mudQYkU/RmCa8BAiT7I/AAAAAAAAACI/xyecewk72nk/s1600-h/NS2_RailCar_Sketch.jpg HP: Very much a WIP. :) -
Re: UV Sphere Mapping Problem
The following only works in some cases (like the random noise texture that you have). You can use "triplanar mapping" to map that displacement to your sphere, it maps XYZ to UVW. On this page, search for "triplanar" to get to the relevant part:… -
Re: Chew Magna Fortress, UDK
Awesome guys, I really appreciate the feedback! 3 was my gut feeling too, so I'll stick with that. XYZ - Hey, thanks very much for the detailed response. This last week, while doing paintovers, I was considering all the points you just made. That being said, I was constantly drawn back toward the more symmetrical design… -
Re: Q: What do you do again?
hahah... man dont take it bad is just a personal opinion, I just got tired of the "artist" word thats all... heard it too often in the cg industry for whatever position you are doing...and it sort of lost its value for me... ironic thing is the the people I consider "real" artists as a whole, I never heard them saying hey…
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