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Re: New Job + Maya = I miss Max
Hey, thanks for the great tips. I'll definitely be switching my hotkeys around like you did. I didn't know F8-F12 did the same thing. I've already started mapping some other keys, including extrude and edge loop. Those two alone have sped things up a bit. Yeah, I picked up a Max 2011 book and went through some tutorials in… -
Re: Baking Question
It generally doesn't make sense to try and bake those deep extrusions onto a flat plane, especially when the extrusions go inward/ outward with a 90 degree angle like in your model. The normal map will not be able to capture this in a sensible way. Normal maps are used to 'fake' more subtle details, deep extrusions like… -
Re: Lars Homestead WIP
I love Ben Mathis's site, every time I have a question I will check there first. [ QUOTE ] 1) Everything does NOT need to be one continuous mesh. [/ QUOTE ] I guess it has kinda stuck in my head to extrude everything rather than to combine. From now on that will probably change. [ QUOTE ] 2) Too many polys where it doesn't… -
One or Multiple Meshes?
Hello Polycount! Just recently I decided to start learning 3D-modeling so I'm still a newbie. I'm using Maya 2012 and so far I've started off by getting fimiliar with the most basic tools like extrude, cut, merge, setting up image planes etc. 3 days ago I begun modeling my first "real" model which is a F4 Phantom. This has… -
Spiral HELP!! - 3DS MAX
Hey guys, I'm currently having major issues modelling this spiral bit on the cylinder. (This is a concept by Mikhail Rakhmatullin) I'm a maya user and I have to transition to max. Please do note that I'm an absolute noob at this ): and even as a maya user I still fail lol. But anyway. I haven't tried this in Maya but when… -
Questions about xnormal cages, exploded bakes, and Maya
I have a handful of questions that are kind of unrelated but its easier to put them in all one thread. (ANSWERED) Exploded baking. I know how to do a exploded bake, that is simple enough, but what do you do for the AO map? Do you bake the AO from the exploded bake or do you do it from the combined mesh to get more accurate… -
Re: How do i model this ?
It's a repeating pattern, so seems like prime candidate for boolean. Make one long thin cylinder or whatever the correct shape is. Looks like it conforms to the curve of the handle, so I would start by making the pistol grip "live" (enable surface snapping), then you can just draw quad strip along it. Now you have the… -
Re: Wish I was a Character Modeler!
lol, don't watermark your stuff. It will make it harder for people to critique when they cant see what you are (not) showing. No-one gains anything from stealing, nor do you actually lose anything. As for the model itself, bury your nose in some anatomy reference and start over, don't approximate, aim to nail it. I hate to… -
Re: Zbrush hard surface problem
Fisher, I think I see what you want to do, and peanut even if that's still another valid technique it is not the same at all as the technique Fisher want to use. ( No offense at all just trying to help :) ) cryid is right, that's the fancy quick way to extrude with transpose, but I think you can only do in the lowest… -
Need Help Making my first Dota 2 Model
I've been teaching myself Blender and GIMP for about the last 4 months, and in a spur of madness/boredom I've decided I want to make a DOTA 2 item set, after I had an idea for Naga Siren. However, I've already met a few issues I really need to solve before starting. * Do I delete everything except the "body" file and…
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