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Re: Gender monkey warriors ( I need a better name)
What the hell is it with you people? Something incorrect occurs extreme anger occurs and the peanut gallery comprised of yesmen and bops chime in (not such lolet,but the other fellow has been on my case since the begining) "oh even if it's wasted on him it's such good advice", "I hate that guy he throws everything to the… -
Re: Tire tread normal mapping?
Hmm, I use my own sort of approach. I do enjoy making tires, so i've done it quite a few times already. First, I unwrap the part where the thread goes, in one long stretch, via cylindrical mapping. Then, I divide it into parts, for example, an 18-sided wheel I will divide in parts of 3 poly's long every time. Then, I stack… -
Re: Starcraft Gauss Rifle
Hey there. A nice start you have there. Although I would suggest a few things for improvement: you highpoly looks like the main parts of the gun are totally build from one piece. but a real gun consists of many seperated parts out together and fixed by bolts and stuff. So to get the look a little more realistic I try to… -
Re: Help a 3D newbie please!
You make your low poly with as many models as you need. Lets say it would be easier to split your character into two parts: a skin part and a costume part. Merge the high poly subtools int the two groups and export them. Then you would decimate all the subtools (back to 1% of their original rez (or as low as you can go… -
Re: 3ds Max/Zbrush: Proboolean + Dynamesh hardsurface workflow tutorial
Yeah split your model into parts, or at least a few large ones to make it manageable. Even then parts that you dont want to be welded together to give you nice fillets should be in a separate polygroup. Then smooth by polygroup. Look through the thread and you will see that curves have alot of polys in the base model and… -
Re: HP to LP Prop issue Normals
That normal map hurts my eyes. :poly115: Looks like it may be down to the smoothing groups though. I see you've split up some parts into seperate UV islands, does each islands corresponding polys on the mesh have the same smoothing group? Also make sure you don't edit any of the smoothing groups once you've exported for… -
Re: [Technical Talk] - Tutorials Sticky Thread
ok just wrote this up for someone on cgtalk... thought it might be helpfull for someone, feel free to piont out any mistakes and ill correct them UNWRAPING WITH SIM CLOTH! PART1 1 Make a box bellow your model 2 WHILE THE BOX IS STILL HIGHLIGHTED! click "create rigid body collection" in the reactor dock (should be on the… -
Re: Lost Undead
Hi to everyone, my name is Alexandr Novitskiy and this is a short breakdown of my latest work “Lost Undead”. Project artstation is here. In this article we will talk about steps which can make your work closer to a very best result. Today we will talk about: concept, silhouette, texturing and cloth, rendering. I wish to… -
Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | July - August (85)
You Done really Great Job , The yellow part is Plastic Right? -
Free Stylized 3D Character – Cartoon Boy (Test Rig + Head Modeling Video)
Hey everyone! I just started a new series on stylized 3D character creation, and this is the first part – modeling the head of a cartoon boy using 3ds Max. 🔧 Software: 3ds Max + V-Ray 🎯 Focus: Topology, Stylized Form, Rig Readiness 📽️ I recorded the full process and published it on YouTube: 👉 [Modeling a Cartoon Boy's Head…
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