thomasp makes some good points. Great plugin, and it's clearly needed but I never feel 100% comfortable depending on plugins, I must say. Autodesk should buy this and incorporate it fully within Maya 9 (or in harsher reality I suspect they'd just rip it off). If you read the thread on CGTalk, I think they say they'll…
Hello everyone, This is my first time here and I am a complete beginner to Autodesk Maya(one week). I started a tutorial, then saved the file. When I reopened the file two objects were ok, but the third appeared as an unending black square plane. I closed the file and reopened it and the missing file was back, but one of…
Ok, i saw yesterday this link to some of GDC08 videos and tought i would share. http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/events/gdc08 The videos features only stuff from autodesk but its fun to watch anyways. I was particulary impressed with Harmonix and Ubisoft. Ubisoft made a presentation on Assassin0's Creed, where they…
Hey guys, I'm learning HLSL using Ben's DVD series (great stuff!) and I am using a shader I wrote for normal maps, diffuse, and specular and brought it into Max. It would great but I would love to use this for terrain so it needs to tile. Is there a MAX function that I can just type into my shader to allow for that? Or…
Hi there, This isn't something I'm working with right now, but something I'd like to know for general knowledge and because I'd love to know how its done. In games such as Metal Gear Rising: Revengence & Mortal Kombat, characters are ripped and sliced open and always have an inner part of their model that appears whenever…
I'm successfully running Autodesk 3D Studio Max8 in Windows7 64 on my system, but have a problem with the hair tools styling module not completely opening. The module tries to load but I only get the window frame and nothing is visible in it. Can't use it unless I can fix this. Does anyone have a clue how? Please post…
Hey all, My desktop is getting harder and harder to lug around so I recently purchased a 2014 Macbook Pro retina 13" to use on the go. I am interested if this would be an okay machine to use for Maya? The specs on Autodesk's site say it is on paper, but on other forums (macrumors, apple forums, etc.) people are saying Maya…
Hello guys, I'm thinking to build a new computer and I have some dubts regarding game-art ideal computer. I'm a gamer and since some time also a game artist/photographer; the programs I use are Adobe (most of their programs) AutoDesk Maya and 3DS Max, I plan to make some realistic renderings and learn to sculpt with Zbrush…
Had no response on Autodesk forums. For some reason, Render to Texture is just completely broken for all versions of Max I currently have installed (2016, 2018 & 2019.) It did previously work when 2016 was the only version on my machine. I can see the "CompleteMap" like result that's in the preview window but every texture…
Hi guys, Nothing better than the little screen capture to show what's going on with Mudbox : It happens rather often here and there on my meshes, it's just insanly annoying ... Do you have any workaround or will we have to wait till autodesk works that out ... ? :poly122: I also noticed that the color picker often (1 times…