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Character animation with shaders
Old school poly modeler seeks info on pipeline/toolchain for getting animations from maya/3ds max into scenix, or other game engine tech, to use vertex shaders for character animation. I understand the work flow from 3d to skinned/rigged model, but what options (pre-packaged?) are available for shader based character… -
Roman Cistern WIP
I decided to create a tileable environment and I took inspiration from the roman Cisterns under Instanbul. I started working on it yesterday, and so far I have 4 major pieces done. I'm doing this in 3DS Max (relatively new to it). As you've noticed there are gaps between the pieces. Is there a snap vertex tool similar to… -
To Cage, or not to Cage
I have just now baked some Normal Maps in 3ds Max and at first I used a Cage for every object. It resulted in some skewed and squashed detail which I deduced to be caused by the Rays not being shot perpendicular to the faces, but slightly angled, due to the difference between the Object Vertex and the Cage Vertex. I then… -
Re: How to go from Triangle, Game-Ready Mesh -> Retopology to Quads -> Same UV Map -> Sculpt?
If you need them to be the same vertex count, don't you need the original vertex order too? In my experience that's not so straight forward to copy unless the mesh happens to be a single contiguous surface. Anyway sounds like you'd be better off setting up a morph from the exported, quadrangulated model to a version of… -
Re: UE4 Desert Scinematic - Project Aeolus
Thanks. We are still figuring out what to use for what purpose. Until now we are testing some of the UE4 tools, like vertex painting, terrain tool, road tool, and mesh brushes to speed up the process. What were you thinking about? Here is some of our progress on the terrain thus far. Some concept art, renders and a video.… -
Re: Rigging problem-Skin Weights not having full effect
It is so hard to translate without images lol. Every vertex has to be 100% painted/influenced at all times , if you remove/replace some influence most of the times your vertex will not be a 100% painted and Maya will try to balance it by adding influences from other joints. The way you remove influence on the shoulder is… -
Re: Learning proper use of UVs in 3ds Max. Need help
You can try saving the UV layout and loading in onto the others however this can be EXTREMELY dicey since it is dependent on the vertex numbering. If you've done anything to the boxes to change the vert numbering like attach and detach them to other objects or make any geometry changes, it will order the faces incorrectly.… -
Re: 3Ds Max: Water question
And if you want water as good as that Bioshock video then you've got your work cut out for you. It has an animated mesh (you could do this with a vertex shader or using animated verts if the engine supports it, or using engine code if you can script your verts, and probably a bunch of other ways I'm not thinking of) and… -
Re: [3DSMax] Any way to copy Maya's smart selection?
I think I would generalize it. Increasing the selection range should affect the selection of objects/components in general, not just the Editable Poly preview selection range. Also if you dissect maya's selection behavior it's a bit smarter than just having selection range. E.g. if you are in vertex/edge mode and hover… -
Re: snapshotasmesh into new mesh
can't imagine that - all what SnapShotAsMesh does is creating a world state snapshot as mesh : fully xResetted and ready to export without glitches or errors. I even used it for a vertex animation exported and created this way a snapshot every keyframe to export that particular keyframe state - so no problems with that. Or…
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