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Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Projection baking didn't really get popular til post 2000 iirc. The first version of Max to support it was I think 5.1. I wasn't using Maya much at the time but it's had some pretty advanced features for a lot longer than people realise so I wouldn't be surprised if it got there first. -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Before true projection baking in 3ds max, there were plugins like Mankua's TLUnwrap that let you transfer your UVW-Unwrap into XYZ (basically copying the UV channel to the geometry channel, and there were other scripts for this as well through the years). Due to the W component that would give you some depth, you could… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Hi there, I'd say you are thinking about this backwards. You are assuming things about the past based on what you know of game art and 3D software of today, which I suppose is an intuitive thing to do ... but this leads you to imagine things about previous tech and workflows that just don't apply at all. - First off,…
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