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Technical Artist Project Goals or Direction?
Hi Everyone, I was recently hired a few months ago as a Technical Artist at a games company but am not working on 3D content at the moment. I was wondering what sort of scripts and projects TA's are expected to do in regards to rigging and controllers, python scripting for tools (what sort of tools??), shaders (is this… -
Re: does maya have any form of material inheritance?
I was thinking a level deeper than that really - eg. if you wanted to change how you unpacked a texture or add a parameter in the base material and have that propagate rather than having to muck around in each of your sfx graphs. in theory that process should work with .sfx files but my experience suggests it doesn't work… -
[3ds max] Help me to understand/recreate icon style from the game
Greetings. I would like to ask your professional opinion about such subject... Here are several item icons from one old game. From your perspective - are they drawn by hand (pixel art, etc) or rendered from the 3D model? Just for comparison - this is what i have got by rendering their ingame 3D models - images somewhat… -
3ds max show number of triangles macro
small macro script to display the number of tris in an editable mesh (I know there's shortcut 7 key but it defaults to a load of bolloxs, besides it's easily extended to show a range of values.) -
Re: 3DS Max most efficient technique to control flat cartoon eyes?
it's not pretty or elegant but it works :) start with the theory, basically find the intersection of the ray from the center of the eye ball to the target helper on the plane where the pupil resides. so the rig helper "ball" (the virtual center of the eye) it's parent is the main head mesh, has a lookat constraint (lookat… -
Re: Fastest exploded bake method?
You can detach the low poly and high poly (pre-zbrush) by element (there's a cool script available), freeze transforms, then move both the low and high objects so they don't intersect by hand (shouldn't take very long). Then export the high poly for sculpting, import the decimated meshes once they're done, and you can… -
Re: How to Post on the Internet
1st, awesome write up Joe, I'll probably be linking to it often. 2nd, Exactly. It's basic interviewing skills, ask good questions get good answers. The people who tend to be good at learning on their own will ask and probe and experiment. The people who tend to be passive in their learning tend to think its "1 of 3 simple… -
Re: custom maya button commands
Not sure which extrude you're talking about but I think the code you're seeking is: PolyExtrudeFaces; or dR_extrudeTool; Though I'd rather have context sensitive extrude if it was a button than 3 buttons for each component. But I like the context-sensitive marking menus for extrude. A nice way to see what code is being… -
Re: Materialing - Free Photoshop Material Painting - Feedback and Suggestions Thread
Thanks for the feedback man! Yeah I actually don't see why not ^_^ I'll put on top of the feature request list. Oh this is totally customizeable and up to you. You can name those groups in "export" folder anything you want. You can be saving out your "ballsack" maps for all materialing cares :D Just rename the groups… -
Re: Perspective tools for Photoshop
Thanks everyone! tingham, whoa! I probably wouldn't bother with the scripts if I knew something like that exists! But in the end I feel like that was a nice math exercise for me (at least I think I understood how to use functions properly :D ) lloyd, I totally understand: I have the same with other toolkit which is a…
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