Hi, I'm relatively new to 3D modeling and starting to get into it. Now on our university we use Maya and I have started learning the basics with the program. Since I'm probably going to do an internship next year in that direction, I'm currently trying to evolve my skills in that program. Now i have the opportunity to get…
http://cganimator.com/unofficial-3dsmax-whats-new/ 3dsMax 2021 * No SDK Break – Plugins compiled for Max 2020 are supported in Max 2021 Full MikkT Space Support for Normal Map * Baking -Scanline Renderer can output normal map in MikkT sapce * Rendering – Normal map in MikkT space can be rendered in Scanline Renderer *…
I am considering using ptex for my 3d masters project animation.Its going to be arch viz.I want to experiment with it and see how useful it can be in my pipeline.I understand its used for films and not games. The animation I will be making will be done with mental ray using 3dsmax(I have to say 3dsmax is better than…
Hi,I'm currently making an auto-retopo plugin for Maya and 3DSMax. I'm looking for few beta-testers. Let me know if you are interested ! I will need your email to create a license key for the test - so just send me a private message with your email.And let me know if you want to test for 3DSMax or Maya. -------- NB: The…
It would seem that Maya is superior when it comes to animation. I use 3Dsmax but I can not seem to find any proffesional tutorials for it. All I see in gnomon is maya, maya, maya and more maya animation tutorials. All I can see that 3Dsmax has is stuff like tutorialized which are beginner and not even related to games. I…
Hi! - I just wanted to pose some of my older models, and decided to bring then into 3dsmax8.. However, i ran into problems. I made a couple of animations for my spy girl model and kitano model - Then when i opened the scenes yesterday, i noticed that neck keys had changed. I ran some tests and noticed that when i made key…
I decided to upgrade my old tool for hair cards creation to the latest version of 3dsmax and make it public on artstation store. HairCards Tool is a 3dsmax tool that will speed up your work for real time rendering hairs creation. You can create layers of hairs much faster than usual. This tool is working only with 3dsmax…
Hello folks. First of all I'm most likely not a member with a big name on here but i wanna change that and most of all i wanna help newbies to learn 3Dsmax since i know how hard it was for me-so i made this ''most Importand 3dsmax shortcuts cheat sheet'' with the default hotkeys of 3Dsmax. I will write it down here and…
#3dsMax 2021.1 has been released. There are lots of fixes. But, there are also some new new features and improvement such as... * SHIFT_Drag to Extrude and Inset. * UDIM support for viewport via OSL bitmap. * Slate ME drawing performance improvement. * Support OSL string in viewport. You can play animated sequence in…
I frequently use XREF for my models to keep my 3DSMax files small and manageable when importing decimated ZBrush meshes. I use proxies to make viewport performance better. But XREF has a major disadvantage, it loads very slow. When I load a 3DSMax file with 20 XREF files (For each object and each proxy a different file) it…