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Re: Modelling an anatomically correct arm
find several pictures of an arm, create a nurbs plane in maya, apply a lambert material to the plane with pictures, place the plane or planes in areas that will help you trace, make a cube extrude it a bunch or add a bunch of divisions from the attribute editor, drag vertices. rinse repeat until mastered. -
Re: [WIP] Dinosaur
The thighs support the weight of the dinosaur, they need to be atleast at a vertical angle to sustain support. beyond that point the dinosaur would be falling. the pelvis bone relative to the knee joint would need to be behind it. the only point in which the knee would go behind the pelvis is when its walking forward or… -
Re: [WIP] Elephant Gun
Your wireframes are hypnotic o_0 How is it that you get booleans to work so cleanly? I'm a bit of a novice but in my experience booleans seems to result in horrible messiness everywhere. Is there a particular way of using them, or have you just tidied up the extra vertices and stuff really well? -
Re: Ninja UV
That looks incredibly useful. But then, I have only ever messed around a bit in unwrapping using vanilla Maya and pushing around vertices in Max after a basic flatten/cylindrical unwrap. How well does it work for characters and objects with internal geometry that is hard to select (like a mouth cavity). -
Re: Sketchbook: dii
Not sure how I missed this until today :O This is really good stuff man, especially the character with the faceless helmet! ZacD: It seems dii modeled the head closer to the proportions of a skull, so it's a bit smaller vertically than it would be if it had muscle and skin on top. At least that's my assumption :) -
Re: 3ds max boolean - Modo boolean
The only intrinsic problem with Max booleans is stray vertices, which you can eliminate with a free script The other half of the equation is using sensible side counts on primitives, making sure edges align for minimal problems. This is down to you as a user regardless of the program you're in. Are there any issues beyond… -
Re: Normal Maps: Why do mirrored UVs produce a seam?
Mirror seams usually occur because the tangent basis isn't calculated properly to handle that case. The axes for the vertices in the tengent basis have to be twisted around along the seam, so each side will get its own proper "flow" in the tangent basis. Hard to explain. Need to make pictures. :( -
Re: [Portfolio] Giles Ruscoe
That's some great stuff! Saw you working on the Rogue textures the other day in a Google+ hangout and really liked it. Nice work! The only suggestion I have is to maybe put all of the characters in vertical thumbnails on one line so that the person looking at the portfolio doesn't have to scroll at all. :) -
Re: Normal map generation question
Umm, search. And yes, you could bake that out. There would be nothing on the sidewalk since you have no hipoly mesh there. But it would definitely bake out for the main road. Since the sides of the sidewalk are vertical though, you're going to get some wonkiness there, depending on how your UVs look. -
Re: quick udk noob question about displacement
the world displacement node actually moves the vertices based on the texture that you're using - useful for making plants blow in the wind etc. what you want is a bump offset node. there's loads of good video reference on udk if you google or places like here: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/VideoTutorials.html
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