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Weird experience with normal mapping
Hi everyone, I'm new at the board, just reading some thread from time to time. I have a question regarding baking of normal maps with 3ds max 2010, I'm new with this stuff, done only texture and specular mapping and some ambient occlusion in the last few years. This is my high poly mesh: The problem,.. well. You can see it… -
Normal Maps Again
Im trying to see if I can find and justification to give to our programmer about incorporating 3Dc or DXT5_NM for tangent maps since I found out the engine we use can only do tangents - period. . I found nvidia's showing Ids document about the different normal map options.… -
3dsmax - viewing normal map error
I have Max 8 and want to create / view normal maps, but they display as solid black in the viewport. I'm sure I have everything setup correctly but when I check "DX Display of Standard Material" it goes black. When I uncheck it, the diffuse displays correctly. (the normal map texture looks correct too - and when I render,… -
Quick max tip - fast baking of animated position
You probably already know how to do this, but Ill tell you anyway since its useful in max. The problem I sometimes get with running through dozens of character models in a project is that parts (lets choose hands as an example) were modelled in one position, skinned, and then the initial postion/pose of the bones get… -
Re: 3ds max baking problem (really anoyinng edges)
To avoid this bad padding you need to bake your AO and normal maps separately. First - bake Ao, then delete it from output in the render to texture dialog and add the normal map to bake. I dont know how) but it fix the problem. I killed a lot of time trying to bake correct padding in 4096 textures with Mental Ray in 3ds… -
Re: 3ds Max 2017 texel density question
Hey, There is kind of a solution: If you apply a UVW Map you can Aquire the Texel Density from another objects with an active UVW Map in it's stack. I have not tried this, so I don't know if it works. Regarding Texel Density, I have an issue of my own that you might be able to help me… -
Creating independant dust/grunge on my floor and objects [maya/max/zB]
Hey there, I am currently working on an interior scene, and I would like to have this level of details when it comes to the dust and dirty floor. I first thought I could get it with a displacement map [indeed, I can, but then it's gonna be a very long way and take a lot of RAM to duplicate it] I think the best way would be… -
Setting up Max for environment work - how do you approach it?
When I started 3d, it was making props, so I've grown with the habit of making an individual prop in 3ds max, and then arranging it in a scene in UDK. It took a long time for me to get out of the bsp habit! But I know this is a limited workflow and I've tried in the past to work on an environment as much as possible within… -
3ds Max Multi-tiled uv issue
Hi guys I've just finished uving my character with 13 different uv patches in Max and am having some issues getting textures to entirely fill the desired UV patches. At the moment I've got two gradients (one entirely black, one entirely white) going into the composite map which is going into the mask slot of a material… -
Re: [Maxscript] Array Modifier for 3DS Max
interesting thread over there, though personally I have a different opinion. For me so far there never came up a reason for encrypting scripts and I am really grateful to the big max scripters out there (Bobo, James Haywood,...) who release their source code to read, learn and modify. Whenever I am obsessed with a project…
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