Working on the Infinite Skills 3ds tutorial and trying to teach myself to use max. Running into an issue trying to check the envelopes to make sure the mesh is going to deform the right way. On Sect 7.13 in the series. I've got a bone structure rigged and have controllers set, ect, but when I move the bone structure the…
Hello ,I'm into 3d modeling and sculpting for something about a year.I'm using blender. I watch many video tutorials etc. and I practise it but I think that it's all gone wrong,so I'm looking for advice. Last week , I've been trying to learn hand painting . Maybe it isnt as bad as it could but i don't like it. In all…
Hey, my lovely Polycount community! I know it... we all hate UVs and it's a pain in the a**.. In the last weeks, I tried to learn UVs, smoothing groups to bake perfect normal maps, but I'm not really sure what I'm actually doing. I'm relative new to UVs and I hate them.... Here are some bakes: (I don't know if there are…
Check out the new tutorial from Andreas Glad, on making a splashmesh in Houdini and using it in UE4! Get the scene files here: https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/splashmesh-houdini-for-games https://vimeo.com/213730714 Create a nice and thick mudsplash in Unreal Engine 4, using a FLIP tank in Houdini. Literally go from an…
I'm going through the hard surface tutorial at: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=373024 I can't get the part about undercoat/primer to work. It involves expanding an all layers flood fill selection. When I select the layers, most of the Modify menu is grayed out. I understand how it should work, and can…
Hey guys! I'm having loads of trouble getting my cloth animation to loop - I've followed the two main tutorials I could find online and I'm either missing something totally obvious or Max isn't having any of it. The first is [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBZtxyjWJQ"]this one[/ame], in which it all goes to plan up…
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone knows how to import custom sound effects into unreal ed. I have been trying for days without sucess. I am using regular PCM wave audio files with no compression. I am using a program called Goldwave to record and Reason. I have followed a tutorial located here…
How is this done in max9? I looked at the tutorial about motion mixer though the tutorial shows Bipeds the actual option is .mix did they change .bip animation files to .mix? If I wanted to create other animations such as run/walk/die how is this done? Do I still create a new animation on top of the same time scale?…
Hi polycount artist. I just finished 3D motive Scifi Floor tutorial and i have have one issue with AO baking in 3Ds max 2013. The author of the tutorial unchecked Use cage options in Projection option method. He use offset insted. I followed the instruction but my AO seems wrong. Max does not render any information below…
How do I go about texturing modular game environment assets for Unreal Engine using Substance? I'm trying to texture a few wall tiles for a game, I need to keep the texture seamless across each piece. I would like to keep the textures down to a minimum. Can I unwrap all the pieces into one UV space and texture from there?…