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Re: Traditional texturing vs 3d Painting
my studio just bought all the character artists 3d coat licenses. I have a personal copy as well because it's a floating license, $350 isn't bad and they usually have $100 off sales - I was using my own license at work until they decided to give everyone a copy. 3Dcoat also connects to 3dsmax and photoshop pretty… -
Re: Seams on normals again! Help?
What do you mean? Should i make a separate smoothing groups for every piece of unwrap? Yep. Errr... if "welded" means "vertexes on UVs seams should be welded togerther" if so, i thought that UVs can be split in separate pieces; otherwize i cant properly texture a model. I havent baked any maps in zbrush. Nope. Yeah, i… -
Re: Really strange normals issue.
3dsmax doesn't display normal maps correctly, it CAN show them but it isnt easy to set up and it is known to produce errors (with mirroring, incidentally) You can try 3point shader which makes it much easier to set up multi-texture materials and use normal maps http://www.3pointstudios.com/3pointshader_lite.shtml I am not… -
Re: Tyre Treads
I'm not sure if this is the best way to do wireframes but what I do is.... For 3dsmax. 1. Create a composite material (you have to be rendering with mental ray) 2. Set a color for the main material. 3. make the 2nd material a Standard material and check 'Wire' 4. Next change the blending mode to overlay the wire over the… -
Re: Cannot Connect verticies in 3ds MAx
I think in xview There are a number of useful additions you can turn on. That can show up bad geo. http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/index.html?url=files/GUID-26CAF521-851A-4F91-8937-C44B40BB20F-803.htm,topicNumber=d28e179244 Also the STL modifier you can add at the top of the stack, can test for stuff not… -
Re: Applying motion capture from Perception Neuron to rigs from TF2?
So I managed to actually get everything working using Maya and Motionbuilder (Jimer Lins guide). Retargetting works fine and everthing looks good, my problem is that when I export the file from Maya to .DMX and open it in SFM there is no animation at all. The character changes position but no animations are applied. You… -
Re: Low Quality Texture
But that's exactly the only way to do it. to spend time, learning how you could use 3DsMax to do what you have to do. Or else you will never get a good result. So, the best thing to do, would be to take the time and learn how you can do this one correctly, it might take a relatively long time as you are not familiar with… -
Re: (ZBRUSH) Insertmesh forgets it has been UV'd?
Ok it seems it DOES work now if i don't split it. I suppose i'll just have to export the entire subtool then to 3dsmax or something and just split them to different parts there? Thanks, this video explains it perfectly. I did start out on a mesh with UVs, but since it had multiple subdivision levels i ended up freezing or… -
Re: How do I Rig / Animate a rolling egg in Maya?
+1 for physics. A sphere/ball rig would give you exact control, but AFAIK those are complicated rigs. We had a thread like a year ago and I can't find it at the moment, it was mostly references to some similar setups in 3dsmax if you decide to go down that route. From here, you'd probably take such a rig and add ramps to… -
Re: Good book for 3DS Max 2016
Printed books have become a bit out of fashion. I think its a bit sad, because i enjoy reading good written and structured documents and tutorials, and find them more in depth and easier to follow than videos. Also, because i enjoy reading learning stuff when im not in front of my computer. Luckily, there are tablets and…
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