Oh was just brainstorming of making a whole huge floor of coins and stuff in a dragons den in skyrim game :) . The player woudl get quite close to the coins and possibly wade among them , or climb hills of gold coins :) ... Its just an idea I was toying with but wanted to first explore the best approach to take , usually I…
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/ You can use this trick to retrieve windows from off screen. I had the same issue with the material editor, curve editor... and it got them all back. You can also delete/rename the 3dsmax.ini file and it will reset…
You mean UVW mapping or landscape mapping? I use 3dsmax 7 dissplace maps. I get a Plane or low scaled cube with about 1000,2000 faces and apply dissplace modifier. Next I open Photoshop or Painter or paintshop pro or whatever program you have and I Pick only black to white colors. I Draw the basic outline of the landscape…
It's a bit of a pain, but you need to do two things, save/load the settings and copy some files. First copy the files... Personal files can be found in 2 places you need to trasfer the Scripts, UI, Plug-Ins and Scenes folders from each spot to the same places on the other machine: 3dsmax Root Dir: C:\Program…
Hi All, I`m wanting to uv a few cad environment models for a tech test so will be using upto 20-30million polygons, the idea is to show off tech i`m not wanting to reduce the poycount. So i`m looking for some suggestions of a fast, low memory software package that can either unwrap or repack uv`s . Idea is to split up the…
Scaredy Cat Games is an indie mobile developer. We're on the lookout for a 3DSMax Character Studio Animator to create some cool and funny cartoony animations, to start rather soon. Ideal candidate will have: - Experience using 3DSMax: Character Studio to create animation - Able to animate in a cartoony style (Facial…
Hey, I'm posting this cause my team really needs more artists. and i'd rather try and push for some tallented people in the community to get hired over letting EA's HR dept. pick for me. On my team i need one or more tallented fixture artists, we use 3dsmax. duties will be creating (with or without concept) objects to…
Andreas Meissner has released Max Hotbox out into the wild. It's like Maya's hotbox but for max, its one of the things I miss most about Maya. If you've ever used Maya's Hotbox (spacebar) and loved it and wanted some of the same functionality in 3dsmax well the wait is finally over.…
So let's say i want to create a normal map that works in substance painter 1 by creating it in Xnormal from geometry files that come from 3dsMax. Once i create the normal i would drag the .tif file (yea, i like tif files) into the 'textures' tab from SP and then drag it into the 'select normal map' section so it would show…