Hi all - there's probably an easy answer to this but I haven't been able to hunt it out. I select a face of my editable poly it goes red - this is good, I need an indication of what's selected; my question is if it's possible to make this red 50% transparent so I can still see the diagram behind it? im using now max 7 i…
Hi fellow polycounters. Probably an obvious question to all of you, but before that im going to explain the situation. Im making a bunch of models, theese models have no "highpolyversion" and i want to bake an Ambient Occlusion pass for them. However when i try to bake in max its ALLWAYS freezes when i try to make a test…
I'm looking forward to it. Doesn't mean it'll be good, but it has the potential to be. I loved the book, but I'm not looking for this to be too much like it, if it's like it at all. I long ago gave up hoping that Hollywood would make faithful adaptions of... well, of anything really. The most you can hope for is that they…
What are main pros and cons between Maya and 3ds Max? I heard that a Maya is getting so much more love from AD then max, but also I've seen that most 3D artist (modelers prefer.) are using 3ds max. Why? I'm intermediate Maya user (who focus on character/creature modeling) but there are some things and tools which I really…
Background: I worked for a company outsourcing game for +2.5 years, and Now since it done there is no other companies/studios working in games in my whole country. And I haven't been able to get any job in the game studio abroad (which I know is VERY hard(wish I was super duper talented or something), but I don't have any…
Hey all! Very happy to report that starting in early November I will be a full-time Environment Artist at Digital Extremes in London, Ontario! I'm pumped for this opportunity as the guys and gals at DE seem to be an awesome bunch. I hope I can fit in and look forward to meeting everyone in November! Big thanks to…
I was in a bike accident this weekend and I broke my mouse clicking / drawing /sculpting hand. Ill be going to work tomorrow, but im a little nervous about it... Im wondering if theres any other artists out there who have had a similar situation. I am kind of getting anxious for no reason because im sure everything will be…
Hi guys. So i have my final pc build. The new mem came today. Now i want to give it a little juice by overclocking a little bit. The specs are: EVGA NForce 680i SLI Mobo EVGA 8800 GTS 2Gb Corsair XMS2 800Mhz PC2 6400 CAS4 I dont know nothing about overcloking (literaly) so i would like some info from more experienced users…
After I close a popup window, one that always happens when I visit this social networking site {yes i have Adblock plugin. Maybe there's a better one? dunno} I close the popup and my bookmarks are cut off and i cannot click them. It looks like this I have to go to my Bookmarks text and drop down to what I want. Ideas to…
Oh I know, I am so in Love with Zbrush. and getting "past" bad geometry goices in the base model is just amatter of cranking the counts higher, and a bit more sculpting. But man I am loving just the calmness and "Zen" of making things work. I wish I could show you all what i am doing in Zbrush, but NDA and all. Scott