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To RAID or not to RAID
I've got three 1 terabyte HDDs and Win7 64 bit. I'm thinking of doing a reformat and setting it up as a RAID 0 (Striping only) and having an online and offline backup set for my data files. Is the speed increase and efficiency of striping worth it? The apps I use are 3dsMax2012, Mudbox, Sculptris, Photoshop, Sketchbook… -
Create Mental Ray Node
I wish I knew someone who knew Maya so I didn't have to post small questions like this but... Does anyone know how I can get the Create Mental Ray Node to appear? I'm trying to do an ao bake on my object and I can't switch to the Create Mental Ray Node. -
maya mental ray ambient occlusion bake weirdness
Hi all. First time poster, long time lurker here. I'm encountering some weirdness while using batch bake(mental ray) to bake ambient occlusion for a ground terrain object in a level in Maya. If I bake my 1k map within my working scene file, i get a massively blurry result with no fine detail. However if I copy/paste the… -
Megascans to V-Ray
Hello there, I have exported a texture from Megascans to Maya V-Ray but I don't get the results I have expected. I'm sort of new to V-Ray and I don't exactly know what maps it needs and where they go. This is my material with the maps I connected And this is the result. It lacks detail, the normal still looks flat in the… -
freeze ray rifle!
I'm working on this freeze ray idea i came up with. The upper part of it shoots out the ray to freeze people then the lower barrel can shoot out a metal slug to shatter the frozen person. If anyone has any ideas on how i can make it look a little better that would be great! I'm trying to figure out a good way to connect… -
Re: How to reduce normal map baking artifacts caused by low/high poly mismatch?
There's an encyclopedia on that very topic right here on polycount: https://polycount.com/discussion/81154/understanding-averaged-normals-and-ray-projection-who-put-waviness-in-my-normal-map/p1 -
[PAID] Freelance 3D Artist - Emerald Ash Borer
Hi everyone, We’re looking for freelance 3D artists experienced in creating realistic 3D models. Task: Create a photorealistic model of a pest beetle. Use the main reference for modeling:… -
Dark Knight blu-ray
If you have a HDTV and a blu-ray player you have to own this movie! OMFG its the definition of eye candy, hell its better its eye sex! Every time it switches to the 16x9 imax film i have a a nerdgasim from the sheer amount of detail for my eyes to soak up. Anyone else pick it up on blu-ray? -
Baking AO with Mental Ray ...... HELL!!
Hi there again! So I've been able to bake AO using the Skylight method in 3DS max 2012.:) However, the results are not as good as Mental ray. The skylight method would always leave a light rim in corners using intersecting geometry. MR does not. I've been experimenting with MR and the big trouble I'm having with it right… -
Re: Spider mech model, would love some critique!
Welcome to Polycount! This is a sweet design, it's nice to see non-conventional mechanical designs like this. The biggest thing for me is how difficult it is to get a "read" on the shapes. I think this happens because the materials are all very similar across the whole asset, so it's difficult for the eye to parse what the…
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