Hello Everyone, My name is Mettle, I am student in Game Design but I am learning to model in 3ds max and just learning Z-brush. I'm very new to these forums but I felt that I could really learn from people here because everyone seems very skilled. This is my first attempt in using z-brush by following a tutorial off the…
Hello everyone. I started making assets for an art style my friend concepted awhile ago and I need a bit of help. The idea was the World of Warcraft style with higher detail. This meant things like indirect lighting, normal maps, special shaders, etc. I began making a wishing well that I thought would have looked good. He…
I remember being told before that one of the reasons the fog in Silent Hill was used was because it limited the view of the player which meant less rendering, enhancing the performance of the game which was an issue. However I have no way of knowing whether this was a cited source and was wondering if anyone could point me…
Hello, i am 3d modeller (Maya.mudbox), i have an offer from a friend to create a 3d tour oh art gallery/exhibition for the web, i can do the Maya part and final rendering but how do i turn this into an interactive tour , where people stand in front of the art pieces and get the story about each of them?I assume there is…
well i'm still learning too but i will try to help and hopefully not lead you a stray. floating geo is not really bad or wrong to do, but as a note you should consider the re-usability of the item and get as much out of them as you can... its a lot of polys you have for little pay off right now. While you kept to quads as…
I'm shattered because I've been working on a big assignment, saved it, and suddenly my pc crashed...upon rebooting and opening the file about 80% is completely gone from the outliner and everything else is green? I think its corrupted but is there anything at all I can do to fix this? Here's the…
Hello, It is very likely that the flawless patterning that you are (loosely) visualizing in your minds eye isn't even possible given the nature of the surface your are dealing with here. In practice, if this surface was to be covered with some sort of IRL tapestry/patterned fabric you'd need at least a seam on the sharp…
Hello Creators i am new to character modeling this is my first 3dmodel created in Autodesk Maya,Xgen and Arnold,your critiques will help me improve thank you
Hello, I had a couple of questions, the first one is regarding converting uv shells to smoothing groups. Is there a way to do this in Max 2013 without tex tools? I've had some issues with textools and it looks like they don't update them anymore so I was wondering if maybe new versions of Max have this feature built it or…
Hello everyone. I just started studying the Trim Sheet technique but i'm coming across several problems and doubts. Since i am also not good at researching specific and sometimes hidden information on the web regarding the topic i will try to ask here. In few words: - I made 4 different marble materials using Substance…