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Re: Modeling technique
Make a long thin poly strip with lots of divisions along the length, rotate it a little then slap a Twist deformer / modifier on it. Instant wrap. If you're using Max you can put a Shell modifier on it to give it some depth, and if you're making it for highpoly you can then take it into zbrush and give it a nice texture… -
Re: organic rock UV seams
ah Mark Dygert thanks i was already using a quadspehere as the base but did the unwrap near the end the process so i will got back to the primitive and unwrap there. and my method for the rock is similar to that max script it essentially uses a bunch of displace modifiers with 1 cellar maps and some noise maps i modified… -
Re: Terrain in 3Ds max
If you're looking for a starting point, Displacement would be the way I'd go. Displacement uses grayscale, with white being the highest point, and black the low. Height maps work well if you can find one that suits your needs, or try a heightmap generator. Once you have the map applied to the mesh, add a "Displace Mesh"… -
Re: Giving up the high poly or not?
If there was no explicit obligation to give up the high poly assets in the original agreement, the client doesn't have a leg to stand on. The original agreement (as per your statement) was for what you already delivered and he paid you what was promised for that. Both parties got what they agreed to, the "contract" is… -
Re: Max 8 - UV planar mapping problem
Try running this script which will square the map gizmo. Just drag it onto the tool bar or create a macro out of it and run it before you leave planar mode. tm = $.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.getGizmoTM () vX = tm[1] vY = tm[2] xLength = Length vX yLength = Length vY len = xLength if (yLength>xLength) then len = yLength… -
Re: Who uses booleans?
Already covered but ProBooleans if you need to Boolean anything. James Haywood wrote a script called Clean Verts which helps remove those added verts. For most small things you can normally get away with floating geometry, at least for normal maps. High poly work, you're probably going to need to create it by hand or… -
ZBrush: Brush settings greyed out, can't adjust spacing
Hey there. I'm just starting to pick up ZBrush (4R6) but I've run in to a problem. For some reason, all of the stroke modifiers appear as greyed out. As a result, I can't change the spacing options for my brush, which means I end up with strange lumpy strokes while sculpting. This happens for every brush and stroke… -
EdgeChEx really nice plug for mechanical modelin
this is a really nice chamfering modifier, it keeps all quads with the nice cube corners. its perfect for highpoly mechanical modeling, just block out your mass, add an edgechex modifier on top(make sure its advance) and then a turbo smooth on top of that and thats really all she wrote, you can adjust the properties of… -
MAXScript - passing a string without quotation marks?
Hey guys. I'm trying to have an automated wire parameter and am getting caught up in one of the arguments. Here's the code:paramWire.connect $.pos.controller.X_Position.controller[#Limited_Controller__Bezier_Float] (pickMesh.object).modifiers[#Morpher][(morphNameResult)](endString) Which translates into:paramWire.connect… -
Re: Creating seamless and unique environments - My final university project
ParoXum: Thanks mate :) I did use glue meshes before, but I found it to be not very flexible when used to cover the seams on terrain. It works great for unique meshes though and I used that method for the broken walls and roof. Yeah, I was quite surprised myself to see that multiple UVW channels would cause such issues. I…
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