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Your ideal working environment
I'm sure everyone has their own preference when it comes to their ideal working atmosphere, and I'm curious to see what everyone else prefers. When I'm at home working, I usually turn down the lights, or turn them off completely. I always need some sort of ambient background sound, so I typically turn on some music. I've… -
Maya 2016 cursor offset when selecting objects.
edit: PROBLEM SOLVED. Here's the solution for anyone else experiencing this b.s. Windows>Settings/Preferences>Preferences>Selection>Click box size>Lower the variable Anyone else having an issue with this? For some reason there's an offset being applied to my cursor when I'm using Maya, no matter what selection mode I'm in.… -
Weird lightmap issue on objcts with custom vertex normals.
I have a bunch of objects in my scene that use custom vertex normals (for chamfered edges) that appear to be breaking the lightmaps. They are coming out looking like they are at a way lower resolution than what I set for the mesh (256-512), and also it looks like the normals are inverted, which I know for a fact they are… -
Re: importance of LODs in game ?
Unreal doesn't use simplygon - you can plug it in but the default is just a rudimentary (shite) decimator ok so.. this is a gross oversimplification but hopefully gets the point across The primary function of LODs is to reduce the amount of stuff on screen that your machine has to process so that it can draw frames more… -
Maya scene won't load CgFX
So I created this environment scene in Maya 2011, and use two different CgFX shaders for all the objects, one that allows for texture blending and one for everything else. So I saved everything in one folder, and moved the CgFX files and all the textures there, beacuse I want somebody else to be able to open the scene… -
What programs can save *.rcs *.rcp point clouds?
I need a point cloud from a friend to get into my 3ds max. He uses agisoft photoscan which is able to export point clouds into many formats, but sadly none is compatible with 3ds max. 3ds Max allows to import only rcs and rcp format which is from autodesk recap (which i do not own and it isnt free AFAIK). So i want to… -
Props and wip scene made for my portfolio (crtique and feedback wanted so i can improve what is bad)
Hi everyone my name is Abid Becirevic im 18 yearold self taught enviroment and prop artist (atleast i call my self that :D )and this is my first ever topic on polycount so I wanted to show you the props i made for my upcoming portfolio.I have 2 more scenes 1 in unreal engine 4 and another one in cryengine 5(i like to show… -
Do you draw on your clothes?
For the last few years i've started drawing on my clothes, usually with a basic marker pen and I was just wondering if anyone else does this? I like making my clothes unique anyway but I also use this as an exercise to increase my drawing skills too. The stuff I draw is quite random, anything from cartoon characters like… -
Blood Lines - My side project comic series.
Hey guys, I am a digital artist from Pakistan working in the vr industry, I am really passionate about games and storytelling general, and this here is my small indie project. It's a high fantasy comic book that revolves around the concept of self-righteousness and the unreliability of the human memory system. It's my… -
Photoshop saving over texture that is open in Maya
I have never had this issue before but I am getting an error in Photoshop that I cant save over my texture that is applied in Maya. I get the error "Could not save a copy as 'document name' because the file is already in use or was left open by another application. I am using Maya 2018 and Photoshop CC. I have tried saving…
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