I'm having trouble in creating a over-exposed look in Max. In another word, to make part of the diffuse texture brighter than its own. I tried the following: make material 100 self-illuminating use composite map for diffuse put diffuse map on the base layer of the composite map put light map in multiply mode on 2nd layer…
Dear forum members of Polycount.com We are a group of students currently working on a 3rd person game in the Unreal Engine 3. We are proficient in 3dsMax and Maya and have experience in the 2nd and 3rd Unreal Engine. We have currently stumbled upon a couple roadblocks and are in need of some assistance. 1. How do we…
My problem is simple, I'm trying to model a sword for a project. Simple enough, however the sword has a wrapping on the hilt. Which looks like this: However I actually want it to look a little like this: I also want to to one High Poly and one Low Poly so I can bake it together. However I'm unsure how to completely model…
I just got a new Cintiq 13HD and I am sadden that I cannot use it yet :( I've tired to re-install, calibrate, disable "Use Windows Ink" and nothing works The pointer is slightly above the pen, and this is driving me nuts. I was in such a mood to get actually work done, and BAM it doesn't work. Here is my setup Windows 8.1…
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Hey pinkbubblegum, the wings have 2 meshes, the same mesh duplicated ontop of itself. On the 1st mesh is just the wings textured normally with albedo and alpha, without any spec colour. On the 2nd mesh consists of metallic specular colour and alpha, so the iridescence has its own mesh, this is because the colour spec was…
huh? Why would Epic spend money on making a port that has proven to lose money? If they made significant money off of Gear 1 for PC, they'd be outright stupid to not port the 2nd or 3rd ones. Sorry for PC gamers, but the video games industry is a business. Epic Games is not a charitable non-profit organization that makes…
Kelly L. Murdock's 3ds Max Bible. covers a little bit of everything (modeling, texturing, rendering, animation, rigging). everything has a theoretical and a practical explanation. The book is quite thorough without being overwhelming. I still keep it as reference. When I learned max I found it way better than the included…
Goddamn, I've been playing for more than 2 hours I think! This little game is great, only I'm stuck at the 2nd boss, level 36 I think. It's a bit hard when it does the spiraling thing to avoid its energy ballz. Oh btw It has the option to continue your game, which is AWESOME. Yeah I know what I'll be doing when I wake up…