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Re: gamma LUT settings 3dsmax
After enabling Gamma at 2.2 I left Max on idle for hours with my project open and that's when my hardware failed. SLI still doesn't work. If it's a coincidence then it picked a hell of a time. Oh well. The cards still work separately. I have Gamma at 1.8 as suggested. 2.2 is washed out indeed and takes too much of the… -
Re: Hand-painted Wells
I'm not sure how amount of tiles can affect size of the stones. Its all about finding proper scale for UV chunks. Scaling them down will make stones look larger, and you still have other benefits. The only issue here is texel density. If you scale down UV chunks too much, texture will appear as lowres compared to nearby… -
Re: NEW CAR
Thats a sweet ride and it can sure book, i was part of a bachelor party a few weeks ago and the groom was driving that and the car i was in was being driven by a police officer from Puerto Rico,well the groom stepped on the gas the guy driving the car i was in saw it as a challenge and we raced through the streets of… -
Re: Detail / Micro Diffuse maps
Well, there are no standards for normal maps so you can't really say what does what. A quote I just googled up from blender's homepage. So if your implementation only uses 128-255 then normalizing something that is off the scale would most likely push values below 128 and get you into the minus range. If it uses the full… -
Re: XGen Eyelashes/Eyebrows - Best Way to Convert to Hair Cards?
Sorry for the thread necromancy. Just tried this out myself and it seems to work beautifully. @Neox - Great trick man, thanks for posting it. Should also work for Zbrush Fibermesh hair if you've remembered to assign UVs to it ( doesn't happen by default). Just a quick sanity check - I assigned the 128, 255, 128 map as a… -
Re: How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
In blender one can use the inset tool to inset ( shortcut I ) the rectangles individually ( shortcut I again ) while draggin with the mouse and control the depth ( Ctrl-drag mouse ) ( or extrusion) like so (the cylinder has 64 vertices and the middle ring has 128). In other software there is properly somethign simialr… -
Re: Hi! My very first item (or 3d model) lol
Hmm I noticed something. When I use a blank template for normal maps (128 128 255) ... I don't see any changes in my model in the portrait view. The model looks exactly the same as before lol. And you gave me another idea. Perhaps I can make each leaf stick out a little at different elevations in the high poly model? And… -
Re: Maya zPipeMaker Script
Hey, so in the donation versions... I'm modeling in meters and this really messes with the script. In 1.7 and 1.8 the default values become huge and a little weird to adjust since you have to scale it down so far. But in 1.8 it just doesn't work to use the script at all in meters because each new pipe is placed way far out… -
Re: Black seams at UV island borders with DDO generated curvature map
1.8 doesn't like alpha channels of any kind, I would avoid using them entirely. 2.0 is slightly more forgiving in this regard but it's still a best practice to remove alpha channels from your input maps before creating a project. The custom curvature input is broken in 1.8. It's not performing as expected due to the… -
Re: Gtk Radient and 3DS MAX Working in harmony?
I'd think it's probably best to build a rough level layout in Radiant using BSP geometry, then import Max models (handily, max's default units match radiant's exactly, if i remember right, so 128 max units = 128 radiant units)... then you can do as Thnom said, bring in a mapmodel from max and either build a "caulk"…
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