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Re: So I have this landscape, and 300 houses. How can I align them quickly?
There are a few different ways. If the placement doesn't matter you can group all of the houses and particle scatter them across the surface. You can also object paint an array of objects over the surface of a mesh. You can also use a Surface Constraint. If placement matters you can use Select and Place. Although, that… -
Re: Dither opacity noise on animated mesh?
You don't need any uv for option 3. Shadow is like a projector. Pretty much like a decal. Its the object shown from the light's perspective. To simulate omni/point light, you would use a cubemap depthmap of the object, captured from the light location. For directional light, its simpler. Imagine like you place a camera on… -
Re: Maya 2013 - Shading Errors when combining meshes
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I did try this as well but it didn't solve my problem. It seems that maya treats any new created object with the standard weighted normals calculation. And I think combining two meshes always leads to the new object to be treated as an entire new object, even if you don't delete history.… -
Re: 3ds Max Pivot Positioning???
You can create a script that places a helper object at the vertex selection center. Then manually align the bones to the helpers using pivot snap. When you are done run a one line script to delete all the points. --//USES THE WORKING PIVOT TO CREATE A TEMP POINT OBJECT ( --//SET GIZMO TO SELECTION CENTER… -
Re: Points For Toothbrushing: The Gaming Speech Everyone Is Talking About
Well, i guess the distinction here is that while it's annoying, it isnt really actually hurting you -- not taking away from your bank account or your health. I totally agree that this bullshit is annoying, but not that it is HARMFUL and SHOULD BE STOPPED. that's where i'm drawing the line, i guess. Cthuoga, same reason i… -
Re: Scared of Polycount
They use proxy, so the insane objects are only loaded at render time. Vegetation for instance. Or objects are at subd 1 and only divided at render time And war render farms. You don't need to have everything turbosmoothed while working. You don't need to subd everything either. I don't think cgi models differ from hp for… -
Re: 3dsmax snaps help?
another perspective-monkey here, although i frequently hotkey to various ortho views. the weird zooming can be countered with zoom extents selected, it resets the zoom of the view. and it zooms in on sub-object selections as well, which is nice, when working in details. i've also changed rotation to arc-rotate selected.… -
Re: UV mapping gizmo warping
What I meant was that if you rotate a primitive, you will also rotate the pivot. This is the reason why the gizmo gets unproportional and skewed. (It's ok if its rotated 90 degrees) To fix this, create a new primitive like a box, then attach the model to the box (or box to the model? you'll see whats the right one). Thus… -
Re: Normal Errors in XNormal
So I followed along with what you guys said and followed PyrZern's advice, I triangulated my objects, which are a new separate set of objects under their own group. Then took each one into Zbrush and inflated them to create them as cages which were also saved into their own separate files and groups. (i.e.… -
Re: Realistic Tropical Island - Aztlan -
One statement helped me model vegetation proficiently... If it doesn't look natural in the 3D modeling program, it won't look natural in-game. As for tri counts, it all depends on how large that object will be in relation to the characters in the scene. If that tree is going to be extremely large, then even 4000 tris is…
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