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Materialist — free Maya material manager (search / assign / duplicate / cleanup)
Made a small material-management tool for Maya and put it on GitHub (free, MIT). It's the set of helpers I reach for when a scene's shading is a mess: * search & filter all materials; assign to selection; select objects by material * create + assign a material from a dropdown * duplicate a shading network with clean names… -
Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026
Looks really nice. Only crit I have is the leather gun holster seems a bit shiny, compared to the boots and the belt. Not reading so much as leather. Maybe give it more variation in the roughness texture? -
Voxelus Improvement Tread
Good day, dear polycount users! I'm interested in working in the studio, in the direction of Hard-surface / Environment 3D.But the portfolio does not shine, skills are forgotten (after a long break), and the industry has driven far ahead.So I’ll have to start with the basics: form, composition, light/shadow, PBR rendering,… -
Re: Arm and Wrist Pain - how did you dealt with them?
1. Mechanical keyboards were one of the culprits for me, especially after a day's work in Unreal where I'm holding down WASD keys and mouse buttons. 2. Compression gloves/braces and the equivalent for the elbow. 3. Vitamin supplements with ingredients specifically for joint and tendon health as well as exercises to… -
Re: Scout Hover Bike — Sci-Fi Checkpoint Bay
Cool theme / style for the project. The bike has interesting shapes in silhouette and nice surface contours. I also think the detail hierarchy reads well / is interesting. As far as the ergonomics are concerned, I would get an actual human figure posed in there (prefab asset, simple blockout or whatever) so you can really… -
Problem with DDX DDY normals breaking lighting when used for opacity masking
Hi! [TLDR: Tree's shadows break when masking out polygons that are perpendicular to the camera by multiplying the opacity mask with the Dot product of Camera Vector and Normals that have been calculated using DDX and DDY (as the tree has edited vertex normals). Shadows work when using Pixel or Vertex normals instead of the… -
Re: So what is the final thought?
I give a year or so for AI to replace 3D modelling completely. It does tech art better then most freshmen already, automating groom art and weightpainting will be a matter of months with the new models. Anyone who's claiming AI topology still sucks just in denial and doesn't want to come to terms with the fact their entire… -
Re: Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!
got bored decided I should build an infinite runner decided that was boring decided I should build a 2d runner where the world is generated like minecraft (deterministic, generated in chunks etc.) and the player actually moves in space (forever) did that, pretty cool remembered I make 3d things because I hate dealing with… -
Re: How to reduce normal map baking artifacts caused by low/high poly mismatch?
Thanks for the reply, yes, I've read this several times. Unfortunately, it is still unclear what exactly needs to be done. Perhaps this is one of those cases where the answer is right in front of me, yet I still cannot see it at all. -
Re: Learning Blender and Texturing
@pior Got you, under the premise of not knowing what I'm going to break and what great feature I'm going to miss out on, that's really solid advice and a strong argument to learn the default first - (in fact on my first key-bind attempt, I already had to disable 20 or 30 things I had no idea about, just to not conflict…
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