No it's not a pluing. Adobe made "material" panel few years ago where you could load sbsar. it reads a layer as rgba input. Makes it into smart object and put live sbsar processing on top of it. So far I use height to normal map ,height to smooth curvature and height to AO "materials" It works best if you document follows…
It sounds like you want a shader that blends based on height and slope. If you stretch the terrain up too high and you get ugly distorted textures you will want to go with a shader that has "triplanar". Max is pretty limited on this front. There is a small chance you could piece something together using the data channel…
Joopson, if I may ask (and sorry for derailing the thread), could you elaborate on how you feel that the modeling methods in Max and Maya are different ? I keep hearing people mentioning it, but I do not quite understand that statement. Of course if we are talking about overall object operations (like, the very unique and…
"Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I am going to brush up on low poly techniques, as that seems to be the main message you're all sending. I hope the tools have evolved from last time I did this." TBH it's really not much about any new tool or technique, but rather about one's bagage and experience when it comes to…
Hello everyone, apologies upfront as I lack the programming knowledge to understand the problem I am having. I have been trying to utilize Thinkbox Sequoia Meshing, the program comes with 3ds integration maxscript for loading Seq. .xmesh into 3ds. Code on GITHUB: They have provided a .ms file which I have loaded and run.…
Hi guys, I had this issue for ages. You minimize a window in max - No text visible anymore. As soon as I had several windows open, it was a an anoying lottery. I don't know if this is the best solution, but I found a workaround on Autodesk forum yesterday. I just want to share it with you, as I found so many useful stuff…
Every example scene I open in the editor seems to be slow. FPS 20-30 and in cinematic mode 10-20 FPS. I have a 16-core 4.3 GHZ CPU and an RTX 3090. I know I can lower the resolution, but even then performance is still not good. Does anyone know what could be the problem? I am using this free…
Something like this? This is a mesh transformed into curves then filled and passed through a triangle tessellation group, all with Blender's geonodes. Corners are preserved in the conversion to curves by being marked with a Boolean x Point attribute so they get temporarily split. You may need to tweak the Corner Angle…
I attached a quick example below. I'm struggling with how to derive a solid one-bit style mask from two heightfields blended using the max style blending. My mockup below is basically approximating some pebbles I want to blend on some sand. But I can't use the original pebble generator as a mask because a lot of the…