I use Substance Painter and sometimes Designer . SPainter has a nice name matching system to avoid the pain of cage tweaking . So the baking rays doesn't return hi poly object normals or other properties beyond two matching pieces like when you bake normal map on a finger and getting other fingers projected too. It…
A point cache is a model which has its animation stored as a point cloud. In a point cloud, every vertex has a position for every frame. Its like how Quake does its animations... no bones. Now why is this useful? Well, if your doing a crowd scene or a flock of monsters, you will run into problems having hundreds of…
Hello everyone, I hope it is the right place for such a post. I would like to tell you about an opportunity that you might be interested in, if you are in need of a solution for facial animation in 3dsmax using motion capture. I've e-mailed and asked the developers of BonyFace for a mo-cap only version of their highly…
This tutorial is covering, how can you use multiple materials on one mesh in 3dsMax/UDK. The theory is simple, we will assign different material ID's to the mesh for different materials/textures.Lets try it with a simple box. After you made the box, open up the material editor, and click to "Standard" Then select…
/waves I am. I'm a Linux guy now. Been running some flavor of Debian for about 5 years now. Windows 7 was my last Windows. I'm running zBrush under WINE (it has a few quirks but is entirely usable for what I'm doing), and in the rare instances where I need 3dsmax I spool up a VM and it's pretty darn seamless. Nomad Sculpt…
Hello ! I have a question, i am trying to do a low poly microphone and i was wondering how can i deal with the unwrap of a rounded shape like a microphone net without seeing the seam? Do you have any ideas please ? Let me show you a photo so it's more clear : I've been struggling with this for hours i can't see how to do…
UE4 will make it sexy as hell :poly124: Here are the first finalized bakes. I'm baking in 3dmax with triangulated meshes and so keeping tangent space synced with 3dsmax. Everything looks good, I can't tell any difference from baking in xNormal with Mikk, and since it's such a hassle to export everything to xNormal I'll…
Hey folks, I've been working on a simple scene in Max for camera matching and compositing... camera match and making matte objects was easy enough, it's just the lighting and matte rendering itself which is giving me headaches. I feel like I'm up against a brick wall with this one, I've scoured the Max help files to no…
Hello, I have a question about rendering the data channel to a texture. From my understanding the data channel can output this colors either to vertex colors or to a map channel, but whenever I try to render these, I get either a single channel or the wrong mapping for all the channels. Basically I want to create a…