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Maya user learning 3DS Max
Hello Polycount! I Know am not the first and I won’t be the last to try and learn Max coming from Maya and I thought I would document my experince and post any questions I have here. Hopefully others can save themselves some time while learning Max and if the also have some questions feel free to post in this thread… -
[WIP] Underground Fighting Arena
I am working on a Fighting Arena based in the Pokemon world. Similar to the fighting arena in the Pokemon Detective Pikachu movie. Arena concept by Concept Art House: Lighting reference: https://youtu.be/6ooNSgAnOoc I did Basic Blockout in Unreal engine using blockout tools. I'm currently adding assets to create an asset… -
Re: Open sub D
Goeddy: http://www.mariussilaghi.com/products/turbosmooth-pro I allows vertex weights, but I don't see a use for it. The vertex just becomes super pointy and it creates a spike when you move it away. Regarding automated smoothing: It works for TS pro too, it can set a fixed crease level for edges between smoothing groups,… -
Re: Problem with envelopes mode in 3ds max 2016
This is a bug that happens on some models in most versions of Max. * Make sure Skin Modifier > Display > Show Colored Vertices and Show Colored Faces are both checked. * If that doesn't work with your object selected while in Skin sub-object mode right click and open Object Properties. Check Vertex Channel Display. Make… -
Re: Modo 801
I think there are some updates for UE4 compatibility. The "Save smoothing groups" option in the FBX options should work for UE4 now, but it screws up vertex normals for Unity3D (because Unity's FBX import loads in the vertex normals from the wrong layer). You'll have to toggle it depending on the engine you're using. So… -
Re: n/a
Wouldn't vertex colors require a separate mesh for each color? I thought when you check the 'vertex colors' box, it's letting CryEngine use whatever color/alpha is applied to the mesh. So if he wanted walls that are white, brown, tan, red, etc. that would be 4 more meshes to color and export. Either way, I don't think the… -
Re: hand topology for animation
In this case, you might want to look for a simplier topology. You should try and minimize the number of non-standard vertex and get rid of triangles since once you apply CatmullClark, each triangle will generate one more non-standard vertex in it's center. If you have too many of those too close to each other, your… -
Re: Maya LT 2016
Hi, thanks for the reply. So the weld issue seems to be only happening on objects that I have recently beveled, Although I have not tested much with that issue. Deleting the prefs worked, Not sure how they got messed up in the first place as this was a fresh install of Maya lt Even when set to bake and bake to vertex,… -
Re: .3ds woes
It's a problem with the .3DS format. 3DS always splits geometry along UV seams, because it only supports one texture vertex per mesh vertex, for some silly reason. You'll have to switch to a different 3d model format if you want to get round this problem. Unless your coder feels like writing some code that welds vertices… -
Re: snake
Sadly, Maya can't do quasi-realtime DoF like Max can. I've tried vertex colouring a few times in Maya, and it's pretty straightforward. As far as I can remember, the tool is in Edit Polygons -> Colors -> Apply Vertex Colours or something along those lines. Learned it from this tutorial on CGTalk. Prelighting in Maya I…
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