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Re: rigging for portfolio posing
anybody have a good list of do's and don'ts for painting weights in Maya? Ive rigged a character, smooth skinned it and started fixing weighting problems with the paint weights tool. Im using the add brush with a range of -1 to +1 and sliding between the two for adjustments. I first select the bone from the influence list… -
Re: Anyone mess with Maya 8 yet?
Connect tool, you mean append polygon? I've been told by max users the bevel is about the same in both packages now. There is a chamfer vertex but I can't figure out what you would actually use it for? Not sure what coordinate systems you are referring to? We work in x,y,z with centemetres, this is relative to the game… -
Re: closed meshes necessary?
inside,why would holes increase drawcall counts? the rasterizer has no clue about how stuff is connected. not breaking up stuff has the benefit of vertex-cache reuse, but removing stuff is not gonna hurt performance. tight meshes are ideal if you do oldschool stencil shadows. For newer effects it's also practical to have… -
Re: Duke Nukem Forever Cancelled?
pior, just hit I and U while playing duke and you'll get mouselook and a crosshair. and no, duke's engine is vertex/line/sector based and is raytraced and it's not possible to look straight up and down, it just shears the screen [ QUOTE ] I know they made Duke 3D open source recently, so hopefully someone will 'modernise'… -
Re: Warhammer Online Environment
Looks great man! Loving the wood textures. Although I think you could have put some more love into the stone texture. Feels like they got less quality. And the totally black areas could use some life, maybe a little depth with a stone texture in the back or glowing animal eyes or something :) Also, if you havent used it… -
Re: 3dsmax Quick and Dirty Workflow Tips!
F1 EDIT: When using the paint tool (paint weights, paint vertex colors ect...) - Ctrl+Shift+LMB Drag changes the brushes size - Alt+Shift+LMB Drag changes the brush strength - Hold Alt to reverse the strength V will do a quick preview of the motion on a biped (with Keyboard Shortcut Override turned on and a biped piece… -
Re: Oblivion xbox360
What a pointless disscussion. Getting down on speedtree is the same as getting mad at high end 3D artists for not creating and placing each strand of hair. I guess programing wind is a cop-out for hand done animation? Bone based animation is not real animation compaired to vertex animation? At what point do you consider it… -
Re: beach details and details
Ahh, if you are going to use a texture like that, you could just fix it to be seamless and have the lighting you want &c, get some normals out of CrazyBump or any of its alternatives, and just blend in that shell-strewn texture as is often done on terrain... you could create a blend mask so it doesn't fade out in the… -
Re: 3D minotaur model
The model looks great, digging those proportions :) Heres my 2 cents:- -) Those abs are really unnatural :P -) You could have done so much more with youre speculars. I see some issues with distinguishing different materials. I do think you could have handled the triangulisation on the top of the forearm (the… -
Re: help about Roadkill UV tools in 3dsmax 2k9
haven't tried the plugin for max yet but have you tried: - working with a poly instead of a mesh - checked that it works with the prehistoric max 8? - Generating a UV upon your first primitive start model (there should be a tick that says "generate UV's) otherwise you wont have a registered vertex Channel for the UV. apart…
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