Hey everyone,
Importing Pre-Painted Textures into Mudbox
I know I don’t hit Mudbox users enough, so I’ll try to start posting good stuff I find around the internet. For starters, 3dTotal posted an interesting little trick for Importing Pre-Painted Multi-UV Textures in Mudbox. It’s very quick- about 3 minutes long. Word on the street is that a Mel script will eventually be available from Autodesk for bringing multi UV textures back into Maya.
I’m rather surprised I haven’t written anything about this yet.
This week I’ll be showing you how to create wireframe renders in 3d Studio Max. It’s surprisingly easy and yields a great result. We’ll start off with a composite material that uses a black wireframe overlay and an ambient occlusion map for some subtle shading. Then I’ll show you a trick I like to use for rendering wireframes next to fully rendered versions of the model.
Also, I’m super-stoked about the front page placement on 3dTotal. For those of you who don’t know, 3dTotal is the source of 3d industry news, tutorials, and texture CDs.
3dsMax Boolean Types
Booleans have been in 3dsMax as far back as most of us can remember. It’s a powerful object type that allows you to combine objects together using a Boolean operation. You can combine two together to form a new, unified mesh, or subtract them from eachother and create shapes that would otherwise take a very long time to create. If you’re coming from Bryce or Vue you’ll find that Booleans are a delightful (but slightly bitter) taste of home. ProBooleans clean up and add to the ordinary Boolean object in many ways that we’ll outline shortly. It actually makes it the indispensable 3dsMax tool it was meant to be.
In this primer paper, I’ll be walking you through the ProBoolean compound object in 3dsMax. We’ll first do a deep dive into the features available in this tool, followed by when you should use Booleans and some techniques for doing so.
Hey all,
Wanted to let you know that my webhost (IXWebhosting) is having some trouble keeping my site up. I’m going to give them a very stern talking to, and I’m considering migrating the site to somewhere with a better up time.
Again, sorry for the dodgy serving.
