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Re: Why you should NOT trust 3ds Max's viewport normal-map display!
[HP], but now you have to worry about displacement accuracy and mesh density too, for example a standard 8-bit displacement map will look "stepped" due to the lack of range. That's a whole different discussion though :) I imagine vargatom knows what he's talking about since IIRC he works on prerendered cinematics and… -
Re: Tupac Performs at Coachella - Holograph Technology
^ iirc Madonna did it for gorillaz performance sometime (when gorillaz were still relevant). this whole tech it's quite expensive, and is not largely profitable for world-wide touring for example due to set-up complexities and such (unless things have changed in the recent years) but I can imagine it being used for annual… -
Re: Organizational Philosophy within Maya's mesh tool-sets? Help Appreciated.
One little bit of context related to the naming : IIRC around the time of the acquisition of Maya by Autodesk, the term "polygon" got replaced by "mesh" (probably because renaming "edit polygons" into "edit mesh" would then sound a lot like Max's own "Edit Mesh" mode/modifier). I vaguely remember hearing people complaining… -
Re: How would you achieve these border details on road textures?
I think the top picture was not exactly what I should have used, this one has a road with more of what I was talking about. See how it looks kind of random and more like what roads are IRL? Its kind of wavy. I'm guessing they made the entire road as a section and tiled it, not sure how they would have done this as they… -
Re: Help!! Animation importing problems
Haha, guess I didn't notice that. Good eye Lonely IIRC I dont think you even need to unbind/rebind, just combine the meshes in the base mesh FBX, save and it should work fine, since there is no change to the UV layouts and topology of the model. The anims should also work properly after that as well, so no need to do it in… -
Re: Hardsurface Normal map problems
yeah max 8's obj was broken iirc, my normals were baked directly in max2009 tho, not maya2009 or xnormal, so you should get similar results without using 3 different softwares, plus, if you're viewing in maya, you should directly use maya's baker, which gives pretty awesome results, as long as you preview in maya. -
Re: Looking For a Mentor
i think there's been a bit of a resurgence in people posting their workflows lately. some great stuff from Gav, Tits, Hazardous etc. the idea that knowledge is not freely available irks me a little, i don't think it's entirely true. the biggest barrier right now is the shift to PBL systems, and even that is becoming less… -
Re: Mira - Wood Elf Assassin
Really cool. The drawing has a lot of cool curves in it, like up in the horns and also the knives. I think with your translation you could bring some more exaggerated curves to the body. I am thinking specifically of the arc from the knee to the ankle. Getting more of a curve in that area might make compliment the curves… -
Re: Slow viewports In Maya with new nvidia card !
Well the story is kind of strange as far as I can tell. IIRC when Modo 501 came out people were complaining about ATIs performance and crashing while the people with Nvidias were having great experiences. It makes me think that performance might be a combination of the particular 3d app you are using + the GPU rather than… -
Re: How would you recreate the UT99 "pressure chamber" death effect?
Max has nothing to do with damage, gameplay and etc values, unless you mean death animations? IIRC, there is something called 'damage zone' volume, you should set that up, to a small value and have it deal damage over time to the players, I think it also has an offset timer, so that when the player enters the zone, they…
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