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Re: SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy)
Simplest way to bake a lightmap in maya: 1: setup your lights 2: apply a basic gray material, specular type if you want it. 3: open hypershade if not already open 4: select your mesh and the material (hold shift) 5: in Hypershade go to edit>Convert to File Texture(maya software) 6: set up your options for the conversion.… -
Re: Zbrush Decimator vs 3ds Optimize / Pro-Optimize
Hey, just came about this thread through google(was looking for st else though, more of a poly reducer not a decimat'or per se), decided to revive this to point a few things about ProOptimizer and also MultiRes, especifically about masking, you can pass them a vertex sub-object selection and tell them to not operate on… -
Re: Beginner Sculping, tips and suggestions ples
Ohh noooo, using that merge trick is a bad idea.. You are creating so called "lamina" faces. Go to mesh > cleanup and set the cleanup effect to "select matching polygons" then uncheck everything and check "Lamina faces" and click apply. Notice how every polygon is being selected? Another way to find out, is to zoom in on 1… -
Re: Editing Channels in photoshop for DOTA 2 Items
Generally I make a folder/group for each where I make the channel as a regular image (only using greyscale), then create a new layer, fill it with white then copy/paste the group contents for each into it's channel. Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+Shift+C (copy everything that's visible, rather than, just the layer), then select… -
Re: How do you think this was created?
That actually doesn't look like it's baked from geometry to me. To me it looks like they just used some simple rounded squares, some mask/selections and the gradient tool and some texture overlays. The actually bevel just looks like another rounded square with a smaller setting for the roundness and a lighter color. I was… -
Re: Baking Normals Topic: Cages. Are they old news?
@Devon M This one works in Maya. I can't remember who made it, but it sits on my shelf and I use it constantly. It's in MEL: string $objList[] = `ls -sl -o`; string $uvBorder[]; string $edgeUVs[]; string $finalBorder[]; for ($subObj in $objList) { select -r $subObj; polyNormalPerVertex -ufn true; polySoftEdge -a 180 -ch 1… -
Re: Show only BSP shortcut + player scale
i think by default in the newer versions is set to have WASD fly around. go to Preferences > Flight Camera Controls and set it to Use WASD when right mouse button is held. If ever you want to hide anything without a hotkey, go to the little downward arrow next to your vieport type (P, S, T, F) and go to Show > . there it… -
Re: Maya Help with toggle script
Are you just trying to make it so it'll only let you select hard edges? If so you need to switch it to the appropriate mode as well. Mode 3 is probably what you want which will make it so all selections from that point forth will be only on hard edges until yo toggle it off. ex: On: polySelectConstraint -t 0x8000 -sm 1 -m… -
Re: Mental Ray baking problems
hey, thanks for the quick reply I was doing everything right, and I've followed the eat3D sample and another tutorial correctly, but it seemed to be a version difference (guess I'm not running the same version of max) The workaround was to throw an edit poly on to the LP after the cage is set, then select all faces and hit… -
Maya Bevel Question
Hello everyone. I was watching a cinema4d video and a question came in my mind when compared with maya. In maya, at least to my knowledge, there are 2 options to bevel, either beveling the whole mesh, or selecting the edges you want to bevel. In cinema though, if you bevel your whole mesh and then use the option -use…
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