Hello! I was working on a model and the I wanted to test some fur on mental ray, when I try to do a preview render with mental ray, the cd unit (I don't know if it is called like that) launches and then maya crashes. I am using a macbook pro with maya 2012. My file is a low poly character with normals, and color (nothing…
Okay, so I have this problem with my skin envelopes where they seem to be locked in a position where I was moving the rig around to test the quality of the skin. I'm using CAT (Because I'm not too fond of rigging just yet) and I've toggled all of the animation layers on and off and I've reset it in and out of animation…
Hi all, I have this tilable texture which i made in 3ds max 2012. Everything works perfect and seamless. Until I rotate my texture_plane 45 degrees. I also tried rotating my brick layout. But nothing seems to work. How is this possible same file I only rotate the RTT_plane and the tiling doesn't work any more?. I tried…
Hey guys, so this is my first question. I've been a lurker for a while, I figured it's about time I get serious about getting help at becoming a better 3D Artist, so here it goes :) I'm working on a project right now and I need to use FBX objects as static meshes in UDK, the January 2011-2012 version. Right now I'm having…
Hey guys, I'm new to this forum. I'm here to get good critiques and technical advice. I've been making 3D art for about 5 years now, going at a snails pace at The Art Institute in San Francisco (my real name's Jason Pettibone for those of you that know me from school - hey). So here is what I'm working on right now: I'm…
So after buying Dark Messiah of Might and Magic which is a fantastic game by the way, I found that I got 3 levels in and it literally locked up my computer with read writes to the hard disk. I even had a radeon x1650 512 card and I could not play the game when 4 enemies came on screen even with lowest quality settings…
Hello, I have decided to teach myself modular design, and the 3d modeling pipeline and workflow for hard surfaces from 3DS Max 2012 to UDK. For texturing I am using PS CS5. The model is very simple, only 22 total verts. I pick a very simple road to start with, and would like some input and some critics on my overall…
In Maya 2012 my manipulators for both the Extrude and UV planer mapping do not show up. The actual functions are still working just no manipulator. The manipulators for everything else still work fine, such as the Translate. So far I have tried resetting to default settings, resetting the manipulator tool settings,…
I havent been able to get anything close to usable with this method. Ive set it up as follows: The low-poly mesh is in both the High definition meshes list and Low definition meshes list. In the Low definition list, the path to the normal map is placed in the Highpoly normals override file section and the Highpoly…
Well, some pieces you finish some you don't. The most important thing is to know what you want to do with your life. If one of your goals is to become a better artist then you need to put some hours into it even though you might not feel like it. It should always be some kind of fun though, if you're not up to a big…