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Re: Zbrush mesh extraction prob
Ok another question ... I am trying to make those stripes and I realized that sculpting directly leads tonot really smooth results ... so I tought to extract two times the stripes and then criss cross in junctions where they met , but 1 when I extract I get the angles smoothed and rounded loosing the shape of X .... 2 I… -
Re: Are gloss maps going away?
not really. gloss and roughness maps perform the same function to the artist. but the way they are calculated internally are both very different. and, more to the point. roughness has a finite value, whereas gloss doesn't. for example, gloss maps allow you to input a value between 0 and 1. this is then interpolated to… -
Re: Modo - Moving relative to view plane
That's what I was hoping. The work plane seems to automatically have the right answer, I just need to access it somehow. I thought of that but I don't necessarily want it aligned to the screen ... I just want to know which of the major axis ... X or Z ... is most parallel to the screen. I still want to move in cardinal… -
Re: WIP - Island Shrine Environment
As requested, tree wires and assorted plants: My process for making the trees? Z-spheres! 1- Made a Z-sphere skeleton 2- Made an adaptive skin out of the skeleton 3- Sculpt that skin 4- Export the lowest subdivision level into Max, unwrap the shit out of it 5- Threw the low poly from Max and the high poly from ZBrush into… -
Re: Building Sourge Engine Displacements in 3ds Max
Thanks for the input Mark. I'd like to get the viewport texturing out of the way first... then work on ways enhancing the sculpting tools. I tried a Composite Material but wasn't able to get it to display in realtime with the Vertex Color as a mask. If you find a method, please do share. Over on Interlopers, it was… -
Re: (MEL) unable to group uvs based on Area(Size)
Just throwing a random guess out there, but my guess is when you sort shellArea, you are losing the indexes of the mesh, and that's why it isn't working as expected. If I were to do this in Python, I'd instead do something like this: # Assuming that getUVShellArea is a Python function. shellArea = getUVShellArea() #… -
Re: How will DX10 change our jobs?
Aside from the fact that that comparison was a healthy load of horse shit, I honestly don't see DirectX 10 changing the way we work much at all. Shaders will be improved, of course, system resources will be better utilized, and what have you, but it doesn't truly detract from the fact that we're artists, and that's… -
Re: Created a PC gamer
i'm on both sides of this, i like halo (x-box and PC) and like halo2, i recently got a mouse/keyboard adapter for xbox to play halo 2, and while i have not had much practice using it. i currently like the x box controler better, just feels more natural for that game, it is anoying not being able to control the walk/run… -
Re: Best Video Card for modeling?
Thanks for the feedback. I can see normal maps fine with my current card when I play games or render out a scene. The card doesn't see real time shaders that require directX 9c or open gl higher than 1.1. Do the latest detonators drivers update those? I can seen some of the directx 9 shaders in XSI and Max but not the… -
Re: Linux question about drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292.html What is wrong with this explaination, have you tried it that way? (to get root previleges type "su" and then your root password in a console window.) If you need to install the kernel source, open your RPM manager and install them from your Linux CD. Not sure though…
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