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Re: Angle of approach?
I tried doing it in Max to begin with and I didn't like it at all. I did it the SketchUp way and found it much nicer. You were right though, the artist didn't follow his perspective lines 100%. I'm having some issues importing it now though. I try and import the .dae and it gives me this error: While reading or writing a… -
Re: The importance of quads when modeling environments
If you're using vertex lighting, having an evenly divided suface is definitely helpful. You can further tesselate areas of more detailed lighting easily if you have a clean foundation. Also, terrain divided up into evenly spaced quads is good for predictable texture blending. As mentioned, they're also helpful when… -
Re: Maxscript query
Yeah, it's a pain. Take comfort in the fact that if there was skinOp.GetVertexSelection that it would return a bitArray in numerical order and not in your selected order, so it wouldn't work anyway. I just remembered I was facing the same ordeal about a year ago. What I did was make a script that made a dummy at every… -
Re: Need Some Maya Tips
One of the best things I've run into is the contextual menu. Say you want to extrude a face... R-click on object > select Face Mode > L-ckick to select face > SHIFT+R-click for the contextual menu > Extrude face. If you're in vertex mode, it gives you options for dealing with vertices and so on. Using SHIFT + R-click will… -
Re: 3ds Max 7 and 8 (Snap Tool)
hehe.. Yeah I switched my snap toggle to make it easy.. but it has become and annoyance.. I might switch it to vertex welding now... but it still not the same thing.. Yeah assasin... it kills me.. why change something if it isn't broken... It was so nice having it on all the time... cause there are times when I just want… -
Re: Help on game development.
Rick has a good article on his site that sums up the mailbox issue. Listen to Rick, he knows what he's talking about, when he's not drunk. http://www.rsart.co.uk/2006/11/20/how-many-polygons-in-a-piece-of-string/ This article might also be good reading. http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf1.html Basically, you… -
Re: Max7 script help! View align and bones addition
as I said to pior, the bones are added the way maya handles hierarchy (so in maya you just add the skeleton with the origin selected and you are set) but max hadles the hierarchy a bit differently. the md5 assigns numbers to bones function of their position in the hierarchy, these numbers are used to assign vertex but also… -
Re: Sketchbook: wasabimilkshake
Not from what I know of. It can sometimes cause problems with shadow casting I think, but in this case it wouldn't be a problem. So ye, floating geometry is deffo a good thing and I use it myself pretty much all the time. If the vertex lighting turns out to look odd, then some extra segments ain't always a bad thing indeed… -
Re: Even quad flow before export to sculpting app
Eh, I'm new to Max (a few days) and have much to learn. (Have used Maya for a while, tho). Guess I need to look into creasing, turbosmooth and smoothing groups. This is all comparable/relateable to soft/hard edges and vertex normals in Maya, no? I think I get the gist of your tutorial, though. Thanks, Darth. Just let the… -
Re: ZBRUSH - All new updates to require Maxon subscription
Hey guys, have you ever tried Nomad Sculpt for Android & IOS? On new IPad Pro 2021&2022 it is super fast compared to Blender with really nice real-time rendering with some post processing features. While it is not a replacement for a full suite, it is astonishing what you can do. Since Maxon bought Pixologic, more and more…
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