Do you remember how some big action movies from the 90s had those neat miniature & matte painting cities that were heavily exaggerated? I would like to make something like that for 1990s Los Angeles. My pitch is an open-world, third person, action game / simulation set in megacity LA. There are many great films set in LA…
Hi, I'm looking for a way to utilize multiple uvs sets in max, one set for a tiling color map texture (think a 512x512 carpet tiled), and one set to utilize an ambient occlusion map and blending between these two using a real time material. I can do this in soft imagine using open gl and two open gl texture nodes but I'm…
It would be good to get some bright specular reflections, and some dark shadows in the roots. A good tonal range would be good, using the full range of the histogram. For example: What is your reference? What are you trying to match in style and look? What's the end goal for the hair? Are you going to make some portfolio…
http://www.djx.com.au/blog/customizing-maya/ I believe these settings would go into Maya.env. Via the script editor, 'Echo all commands' can be turned on to get the names/arguments for the commands you want when you click on them. (since most non-scene based info doesn't normally show up there)