So i'm wanting to try messing with the dx shaders in max, but I'm not sure how to get it to work. heres what shows up on my mat. editor. ne help would be great.
Ola, Let's say i have a multimaterial, with standard submaterials in it, with a diffuse texture in each of the submaterial. In the material editor, my current slot is on a diffuse bitmap node. I want to access the parent standard material from here. Not the root multimaterial. (Purpose is to rename the standard material as…
I made a smoke particle and have it being emmitted from an emmitter. It apears to be completely self illuminated all of the time. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it to receive lighting from my the lights in my scene? Is this in the emmitter itself or the material, both? EDIT: I messed around in the material and…
hey guys, so i'm a concept artist and a bit new to 3d. i'm trying to make this render of a 3d scene in modo and then paint on top of it. but there is too much noise in the render for me to overpaint. i watched a tutorial from vaughan ling and used the same settings as him but his render is pretty clean and mine isn't. i…
hey guys I was wondering if you amazing guys could please give me some feedback and help pleaseeee :0(. ive just graduated and im self taught and my old university thought it would be better to teach kids Flash :0(. I was wondering if you guys could please critique my work and tell me where im going wrong and get better.…
I have a coiled cord that goes from my shotgun to the flashlight. I'm trying to get the polycount down on it, but I feel like I'm as far as I can go and was wondering if any one has any better suggestions on going about this? So far all Ive been doing is deleting edges. Ive gotten the tris from 14K down to 2300, but its…
I need to get more detail out of a mountain range in each individual mountain. And each are absolutely huge, it is part of the emphatic awe that I am going for. But, obviously to do this I need pretty high resolution maps and right now it is just not good enough to cut it. Everything is so pixelated up close where the…
I was trying out some of the scripts when I suddenly noticed that the "get Material" Button in the Material Editor does nothing anymore (neither does the hotkey G). The Editor flickers and then nothing happens, the new window to pick from the material library does not appear. Is there a file that I can try to replace? I…
Actually, the whole entertainments media is kinda saturated and it's always hard for the artists/devs to get success because the consumer has plenty of choices. It's not just with games but with movies, tv series, comcis and novels,animes and let's not forget the music industry. Sure it's saturated but compared to other…
I have just started to learn the tricks of rigging and skinning/weighting and its alot harder than i thought! feels like the first time i was tryin to unwrap a model hehe my biggest problem is the shoulder and how to assure a good deformation there. For example, i now got pretty good deformation when rotating the arm from…