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Slow Viewport Performance 3DSMAX 2011 with complex materials
I have a 3DSMAX 2011 scene (directx mode) with many objects and when I assign complex Vray materials to the objects in the scene the viewport slows down to a crawl: 4FPS. When I apple a simple Vray material the viewport performance is about 40FPS. When I apply an simple Standard material the viewport performance is about… -
requesting a 3dsmax modifier?
how would i go about requesting a 3dsmax modifier that i think could be fairly beneficial/time saving? i'm aware there are some tech artists here who could do it but i don't know any of you well enough (sorry) to ask personally. and i feel like if i post it on the autodesk forums it'll just be lost in the noise. what i… -
3dsmax 2014 student version help!!!!!
Guys,need some help here.I have been having a lot of problems with my laptop so I decided to do a clean re installation of Windows.When I tried to reinstall 3dsmax student version,it installed with d3dcompiler.dll missing.I updated my windows online,the problem still persisted.I had to do another clean install to get the… -
3dsmax, how to best organize hierarchys
Okay, coming from Maya I used to work like this: Set up a hierarchy that consisted of a series of parent child relationships. Then I would hit a toggle button that would auto select the top most node in the hierarchy. I would turn this on and off as I worked. If I wanted to move a piece that was a child of another I turned… -
Need some more help with animating - 3dsMax
hey guys, still cracking on with animating. now im trying to work on hair i have a question. does anyone remember the pimpin thread for bobo's awsome little winged creature? just about everyone skinned him. then one guy, by the name of Podman, started to rig and animate it. using Maya (i believe) he managed to create a… -
Baking textures to objects for arch viz animations in 3dsmax??
Guys, I just watched this on youtube. [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB09T--_ZvU&list=UUOKHwx1VCdgnxwbjyb9Iu1g&index=3"]Introduction to Cycles Baking - YouTube[/ame] Seems Blender now has cycles baking .It even seems to work with caustics. I wanted to ask if 3dsmax has a feature like this with mental ray.My archviz… -
[3DSMAX] Reference external materials (I can't use XREF Scene)
I have a complex scene of about 500MB. I can't use an 'XREF scene' because somehow it crashes 3dsmax for this particular file and I have not been able to determine why. When I start rendering and make interactions in scene and materials but not in the model, I don't want to have to save the unchanged 500MB of data each… -
Rigging bones moving along a spline 3DsMax - I need help
Hello I'm trying to learn some basics on rigging in 3DsMax, I want to rigg a rope in a cable roller / spool then pull it through a pulley. After some tutorial research I think the best way is to move a chain of bones following a spline but I'm not able to make them follow each other. After making the bones and assign a… -
[ZBRUSH] UVW Smoothing problems (cumulative) and inconsistent with 3dsmax.
When I turn off smoothing for UV's in zbrush, the UVW's retain their shape, but the mapping of textures is wrong because there is no smoothing. The UV's are straight but the texture needs smooth UVW's. When I turn on Smoothing for UV's, they are smoothed but increasingly so. Each time I go up and down the subdivisions they… -
3dsMAX language localizations - help to find the name of the Command panel.
Hi! I found that in the version of 3dsMAX in languages different than english the name of the command panel is different. For example in max2011 localized to German the name of the command panel is "Befehlspalette", but in in max2012 and 2013 (german licalization) the name is "Befehlsgruppe". Can you guys help me to find…
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