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Optimize your 3D models: Atangeo Balancer 1.0 released
Atangeo Team recently released Balancer 1.0, which allows quickly and easily simplify 3D models. It also features fast and effective stripification algorithm, to optimize meshes for rendering based on triangle strips. Hope you will find Balancer useful. From the press release: Atangeo Balancer is a tool to optimize and… -
Does Substance Designer have a channel AND operator?
Hello everyone. I'm having some issues with colorID maps. These were pretty straight forward in painter but substance designer is a bit of a challenge. I use to mask things by channel and it worked fine. however the biggest problem I have now is working with an object that had more than 3 materials. I would like to mask… -
Re: cheap but good wacom
LordSebbington - I like what Monoprice does in general, honestly it seems like the only downside to a lot of their stuff is that horrendous logo. That said, I think with tablets I might get a little edgy about it. I would want to try them side-by-side, if I could, but that newest Cintiq alternative looks really sweet, and… -
Re: Modo Creating edges without faces/faces behind edges
I prefer MODO's modeling and UVing workflows to Max and Maya. I don't use MODO for rigging and animationr. I'm still figuring out the Shader Tree. :) The elegance of MODO's modeling tools is compromised by the amount of "dirty mesh" that needs to be cleaned up for game engine use... I've replaced MODO's default… -
Re: 3ds Max 2016 VS. Maya 2016 for modeling?
Just wanted to drop in here and say that I totally agree that XSI is the king of modeling and the good news is that the same developers of XSI who made a lot of the really great tools that we all love are now developing Maya. If you notice 2016 extension to adds a lot of XSI style features. Including full symmetry across… -
Re: Maya 2014 finally gets a huge update to its modeling tools!
Lookin good! My only wishlist items remaining for Maya now are: 1: A better algorithm for the UV Smooth and/or Unfold UV's tools. They work, sorta, half the time. Smooth UV gets "stuck" on many types of projections and needs a lot of finessing. Unfold UV's only works somewhat reliably by constantly toggling the unfold… -
Re: Dry Soil Material (Done)
Update on the height and normal map. I worked on the cracks to make them less uniform and also the main shapes got a little attention. I made the cracks way more subtle and less uniform by masking them off using blending mid to high contrasted masks that I extracted from the "creased" noise with linear dode to reduce the… -
Re: Is the way game artists texture bad?
I can see where he comes from when he says "When you run a radiosity algorithm on a scene full of unpainted geometry, it has an elegant, sophisticated, scent-of-the-real kind of thing going on; but it is very easy to spoil this sophistication through texturing". The funny thing is, ancient roman and greek scultpure was… -
Re: 3dsmax 2018, I am afraid Max demise will accelerate.
Our small studio is currently transitioning to Blender since we cannot afford 3ds max subscription any longer. Knowing that most indie game have almost zero chance of making money this was a necessity and also a reality check for us. We were also using Mudbox as our sculpting and painting app but we ran into many problems… -
Re: Cats, frustration, comedy, failure.....my (almost) year long hatred with this stupid Maya bug.
I was piggy backing someone else's post, christinahall3d doesn't deserve some form of response/resolution? Regardless of my stupidity/childish approach. I guess I've never dealt with such poor customer service. I've contacted other software providers and gotten resolutions and at the very least a RESPONSE. Algorithmic,…
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