I'm using a student version of 3DS Max 2011 and there's a licensing problem. I was planning on doing some high poly modeling during break today (I'm using 3ds max on a laptop). So I click the icon and it says 3DS Max 2011 is initializing. After a few seconds my computer's battery decides to die on me. So I plug in the…
Hello! Wow, long time no see! This is the first post I've made here in like 4 years. Still been lurking around though. :) This weekend I started a little project that has been brewing inside my head for a while now, ever since I played The Vanishing of Ethan Carter with its gorgeous environments. Autodesk has this nifty…
Hello, Current Ambar and I are enrolled in 3D animation and game design bachelor degree. We want to do something very organic. We want to incorporate European Gothic Cathedral and Organic plants in our design. We want to play around with shape and structure of the throne giving it a strong silhouette. We want to…
Hello everyone! I'm asking for help with importing models into Prime World. This game was closed a few years ago, but after 3 years, at the request of fans, the developers opened its source code and put it in the public domain. Now the community can mod the game. The main details: Editor to work with the game: The editor…
I tried to import my mesh from substance painter to maya but I didn not get it to look right in Arnold. So I decided to start with the basics and follow the Arnold tutorials first. Unfortunately the files provided in the solidangle learning area https://support.solidangle.com/display/AFMUG/Learning+Scenes do not look like…
Hi there ! Just found out somewhere on autodesk forums : https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/set-chamfer-to-default-to-smooth-chamfer-only-and-not-the-whole/idi-p/7293034/page/2#comments You can change defaults persistently so every new session of max will keep using your settings instead of resetting them each…
There's a reason Autodesk makes Maya free for students: it's the Microsoft Word of 3D apps. It's old, it's buggy and it's bloated. It's an application designed for a different time when you bought software in a box and you expected it to do every single thing. There are a number of better, more stable, leaner alternatives…
I don't know if lowpoly is the best way to go first. I know this is a legit way of starting but it is usually when you know your tricount and you need to get the silhouette down with your tricount first and then match it with the highpoly. At the moment you are not even sure what you are modeling. If you were to start with…
What version of max are you using? Technically it doesn't matter because there is no way to change the caddy system back to the old system. Autodesk has said numerous times that they will tweak the caddy system in future releases but the old system caused too many problems and limited too much behind the scenes. I think…