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Re: Lock weights in 3ds max
There are a couple of things you can do. With the vertices selected open the weight table. Set the bottom left dropdown to Selected Vertices. Turn on the Show Global option. Then click on the M checkbox in the top (Global) row. M stands for Manual. If you edit envelopes any vertex marked manual will keep its current… -
Re: Protestant Church Environment
Appreciate the crit guys! @aajohnny, working on the rays right now. They're throwing me for a loop and I'm not sure how much I like them, but it's certainly good crit. And I've been meaning to try out some dust particles in a 3D engine so we'll see what happens! @Dazhbug, I kind of pride myself on my understanding of… -
Re: Baking/Smoothing Groups Question
Pre-defining smoothing groups is fine, but you're basically just adding a step that you are going to re-visit anyway. If you are taking the time to select a range of polygons that you want to define as a SG (and therefore a UV shell later), just cut out the middle man and project/unfold those polygons right away instead.… -
Re: How to create Point Light Maps?
Hey Guys, I was trying to figure out how to do that what was asked in this topic. I kind of got it working, but the results I get are strange. Nothing on the UV is mirrored except for the hands and shoes of the character. The parts that are mirrored are off set a UV tile to the right. (the normal map and AO for example… -
Re: Orloth - Final Major Project
Agreed. I will be developing these mesh's further. For the purposes of testing modularity I wanted to get some basic mesh's in to test some stuff out. Due to the scale of the project I'll have to be quite picky about what I bevel and what I use trim sheets for, but certainly the base of the buildings can be afforded some… -
Re: [WIP] Sci-Fi Floor Panel
Hi CrackRock, thanks for the reply. So I've modelled the lowpoly and baked out the normal map and AO. Having a few shading problems on the railings - think this is down to smoothing groups as have tried to keep them on a single smoothing group and changed the angles away from 90deg to decrease splits, however seeing as the… -
Re: [solved] 3D Viewport mesh display issue (Designer 5.3)
"Compute binormals in fragment shader" means - if the fbx has NOT been exported with tangent/binormals, or - if the "Always recompute tangent frames" option is enabled then the tangent and binormal will be computed per pixel (compared to per vertex). If you plan to use/view the mesh and normal map in Unreal Engine 4 (and… -
Re: Am I allowed to rant? Non-contributing community members. (Uh oh!)
Since when does post count, +1, or "reputation points" mean anything around here? This is Polycount not Postcount! I always thought reputation and status in this community was built by posting good art, critiques, tutorials, and tech advice. Maybe we should just get rid of all that info under people's posts like the null… -
Re: Semi-WIP Pipo Walk
If the polycount is that much of a concern, I'll elaborate on a few things. The front and back points of the feet have way to much geometry for such a small detail. You probably have a total of 80 polygons or more total surrounding each vertex where all the edges connect. Most of those can be removed and simplified. Along… -
Re: some max Q's
Snapping verts to 0... To keep the same vertex shape: set Ref Coord Sys to "World," set Transform Center to "Use Sel. Center," right-click the Select And Move icon, then type in the values you want. There are scripts to shortcut all this. To deform the shape: set Ref Coord Sys to "World," set Transform Center to "Use…
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