I don't fully understand your goal. But... To clone objects with constraints the easiest way is File > Merge the objects into the scene. To remove all constraints select all the objects and go to Motion Panel > Trajectories > Start Time: 0 End Time: 0 > Collapse Transform > Collapse. This will reset all animation…
Still not entirely sure what you mean... maybe a mock up of what you want the quad menu to look like? Have all objects appear on a quad in your quad menu so you can select them that way? Also, do you want all selected objects, objects of a particular type, etc?
Mossey: you can do it either way(depending on app), in Maya i generally use mutliple objects, because you can have multiple objects loaded as your lowpoly, but in max you need keyframe sub-objects, because of the limitations with only one lowpoly mesh in RTT.
A damaged weapon, or grunge on any sort of object, when done properly, can add visual interest to an otherwise bland object. It can also tell a story about how the object has been used. You look at this gun and you know that it has seen some serious action.
Reset xform. whats happening is you have uneven transforms being applied. You might at times want to use one of the subobject selection modes to change the shape of things with scale etc, That will not modify the objects transforms. A fair few operations and modifiers will be affected by the stored object trasforms of an…
I'm working on my first ever character in blender. It's been fairly easy all till now. I have two separate objects: the body and the legs. For some odd reason I can't separate the material by object, all of the material goes to both body and legs. I'm sure it's something simple but I have spent half of my day working on…
So I ran into an issue that it would seem no one at my studio could figure out, not even the tech guys. How do you either edit your Lattice Cage in Maya without deforming the object to get a custom Lattice or how do you apply an un-linked Lattice to an object so that you can then deform the object based on that Lattice?…
So I'm trying to use photoshop to paint a 3d object created in 3dmax. however when I paint on one part of the object, it is coloured in multiple places. I want to paint at only one part of the object. Does anybody have any suggestions on what to do to the model or in photoshop? Also is there any software other than…
So I'm trying to light my model in ZBrush and am a bit new to this, the problem is that the lighting doesn't apply to certain poly painted objects, I can't get it to apply lighting over the polypaint but the Light is applying to the object when the polypaint is turned off. It likes the rocks and grass only but won't light…
this is doing my nut in: how do you extract just selected faces? I've got a bunch of combined sub-objects, and I want to extract one of them, but maya insists on seperating every single sub-object when I all I want is the one. I am currently duplicating the entire thing and deleting everything but the object I want, but it…