Hi everyone, my name is Lance Chamberlin and Im a college student currently enrolled in a game development program. Ive just started my capstone class and am required to have a mentor, so I figured I would ask on Polycount. Im hoping to improve my hand painted texturing, in a similar style to what you would find in…
Hello everyone. I hope all of you are doing well. My name is Jason. I need some help/advice on a few things. Do to the economy here in Ohio and my personal situation I am going to be forced to stay home with my kids. I really want to work in the videogame/cg industry however I can't really find direction. I really enjoy…
Hey All, I was wondering if someone out there could help me out a bit with setting up 3DSmax to work with low res (pixel art) textures. The issues that I'm having are: 1: Getting a grid set up in the Unwrap UVW to work off of a 32, 64,128 etc pixel grid size. 2: Viewport looks horrid. I can't see my textures correctly. I…
Hello, I'm hoping to contact an admin that can assist in changing my username. I haven't used this account in a while and would like to update my name for ongoing use. Thanks
When character modeling I tend to use mostly Silo/Zbrush/UVlayout and avoid Maya until the very last cleanup and export stages of a model. Recently I'm doing a lot more environment work where I pretty much have to use Maya for the majority of the process. It feels horribly clunky after using Silo for so long, so I'm…
Hi, Im 14 and I've wanted to make works of art, to be a concept artist, and make video games. But I have a big obstacle to overcome... I am turning away from my dream a bit, because I realize I am horrible at art. I have a wacom bamboo, and I have tried to make many things on it. All of which end up like something a 3 year…
sup guys, i have been working on a 100 percent custom multiplayer map for UT2004. right now i'm trying to get a single material id setup for for a rocky cavern type mesh to sit outside windows to give the illusion that the level is inside rock. my problem is that my mapping coordinates are not being saved in my ASE file…
Hi guys! I got huge difficulties to figure out how to write a script that can make pixel padding between the UV elements based on resolution in Unwrap UVW modifier. I found one script from internet http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/general-scripting/maxscript-uv-pixel-padding which works perfect for one object…
Oh... you best be gettin' my Baby right. I have driven one of these, a former Czech model, that this resembles strongly. the things I done se is the massive "piano" style hinge at the top of the driver's hatch. the single "headlight" on the left front corner of the hull and the rounding of the rear deck engine cover. also…
Hey Polycount, I'm fairly new to modeling and I could use some help with rendering my personal logo. I mocked up this logo idea for a class a while back, and wanted to bring it into 3d. My concept is pretty basic, a simple cube that has my initials [JL] in it. What I intend on doing is having strong rays of light shining…