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Maya rigging issue
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My friend has this problem when rigging a character by using the rig from an online tutorial. The picture below is what happened when she tried to 'create control rig' in human IK and she already binds the skin roughly by using 'bind skin' tool. it's not how I usually bind skin to a character, I normally binding skin after… -
Which software to learn first?
So about half a year ago my friend tried out blender and got me very interested in 3D modeling (although he himself gave up after a few weeks due to his lack of english which made searching for tutorials very hard) and i started to do a bit of modeling myself and watched some tutorials and so on. Now ive been thinking… -
The Edge Flow Thread. (controlling topolgy)
I thought that in this thread, we should share with eachother how Edge flow works and how you can change it. Mainly because I Suck at controlling edge flow. ( I know this thread is similiar to "how to model this Shape", but i thought this was needed. Just in Case! ) :P… -
zbrush into max
There is soooo many tutorials on how to get started in zbrush and not enough about how to get out of it!. THIS IS FOR A SHORT FILM<<< I have done a lizard mesh in max then imported it into zbrush. I used 6 subdivisions and added heaps of detail. now the question I have is.... how do I get this zbrush detail into max model… -
setting up UV's for high poly baking
Hi again folks. I've just finished the Briefcase tutorial on 3dmotive and also have been learning Ddo. In the Briefcase tutorial, Alec uses uv splits on all surfaces that require a different smoothing group. For example a cube requires different smoothing groups on all faces so it will also require uv splits on all of… -
I need some advice: Switching modeling programs
Howdy I'm new to Polycount and I'm in need of some advice. I'm 15 right now and seeking to become skilled at modelling & animation, right now I'm using Lightwave 9.6 to do everything because it's the program my teacher taught my class with. during the class I've had a sneaking suspicion that light wave was not a very… -
Weapon: RK62 WIP
Hello everybody this here is my first post to polycount. I want to show some renders of my current project. Its a very wip highpoly model of the finnish assault rifle RK-62. Someday when I finally am happy with the HP model im planning to create a LP version of it and bake normals and maybe try to import it to some game… -
Baking (good) normal maps in Max?
Hi all, Despite of countless tutorials, I'm still having issues with normal maps. I have tried several different ways of setting up UV seams for example, but I still don't get clean results. I'm baking the maps with Max's render to texture and I must be missing something, because I keep getting quite noticeable artifacts -… -
Getting cozy with 3d Art
Hey, guys! I've been reading polycount for a year, looking at all of this awesome stuff here. My previous job wasn't related to game ready models, and especially to art, so now I decided to fix it) Here is my first completed (almost I guess) game ready model. AKM was created following along Tim Bergholz's tutorial.… -
Serious help with rigging / skinning!
Hi everyone, I'm in serious need of help with rigging / skinning. I need to learn it for university, yet I've followed the tutorials the lecturers have put up, I've looked at so many tutorials on youtube, and yet I still can't get the hang of it. My limbs deform horrifically whenever they move, and I've tried weight…
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