I am looking for opinions of experienced users: Would you say you can tell for example if a garment was made with marvellous designer or not? if a mountain range was made in blender or with world creator? if a texture was made with substance or 3d coat? etc. Is specific software very recognizable to you or would you say…
you can also hit ctrl alt p to send the current view to photoshop and projection paint on it in photoshop. of course projection painting can have issues. i use this once in a while when i miss some of my photoshop brushes.
For the circle tool you mentioned, I would use one or several of the curve tools and the curve tool options such as rebuild curve, you can then choose polygons for the geometry output in case you were trying to build a pipe or tube prop etc. For the "even spaced edge loop" tool problem, if you go to insert edge loop in the…
Yeah Building from the base looks like a good way to begin. It's not necessarily the way to start. If time is your limiting factor then it really isn't possible to give you a fail safe rule because no one can judge what works best for you. All anyone can do is give you guidelines as to what works for them. Would it be…
Your UV layout has the pieces too close together, if you where to mip-map that texture the pieces would bleed into each other. Always leave some padding and color that padding the same as the material it surrounds. Also don't be afraid to detach end caps, on cylinders, it can create smoothing problems if you don't. It also…
I am having a hard time understanding the question. Are you using the symmetry in 3D coat? Or mirroring it in something else then bringing it in? In 3D coat you after you activate symmetry from the menu, on the left side toolbar near the bottom you can apply the symmetry to the model. Then turn off symmetry from the menu…
EDIT : Maya initial idea isn't really necessary after I've discovered pivot marking menu. When pivot edit mode is toggled (press "d"), you can right click to open common options for pivot. So no need to hotkey those. I'd like to get the script which runs the "Reset" button on the pivot. When I open script editor and press…
Hello! I am a film director looking for one UNIQUE vehicle to be created for my sci-fi short! A fantastic, totally original 3D vehicle for your portfolio. This will be something very top secret and more in the lines of a futuristic skateboard so animation skills a plus. I have drawings and dimensions ready to go for the…
Hi, i'm currently on my 3rd (And best attempt thus far) to learn modelling, started with Softimage a while back, failed, tried maya a while after that, also failed; Now i've moved on to 3ds Max and feel comfortable with the interface, can make basic shapes and such. I want to learn to model to improve my level design…