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i need realistic texture of lips and skin. i need texture of lips..... and eyes....like on the picture if you know how...tell me pls.... or give me link...on tutorials..:) thanks ...

I'm trying to learn the new max 5 edit UVW interface. For some reason I can't see buttons for break and weld tools. They are in the menu and in the quad, but no buttons. Did they remove them on pur ...

Is there a way to adjust the default bone creation settings regarding alignment???? So far I have only been able to get bones to create repecting the orientation that the viewport would suggest(i.e f ...

Currently using XSI 3.01, and elliptical filtering seems to be bugged to the point where I can't even use it. It seems to work in simple scenes fairly well, but any scene wit ha realistic amount ...

Just released - eFX Extract3D is a new After Effects plug-in that enhances the connection between 3DS Max and After Effects. The plug-in offers quick and easy access within After Effects to powerful ...

Hi, Im just playing around with particles and was wondering if using snapshot with Afterburn was a limitation or is there a special way to do it? Thanks ...

1 what is define step marks? 2 the velocity threshold high is better(the two red cube with a line is long) or low is better(two red cube with a line is short)? thanks ...

i select it and input some number in the preferred rotation angles, but there is nothing change in the view port! ...

the 3.0 book says: With 2D and 3D chains, you can rotate a bone in X. However, you cannot do this with a 2D chain that is solved in inverse kinematics (its effector is translated). The solving ...

Hi all I want to do what I would consider a simple task and XSI is driving me crazy. What I want to do is (in VB scripting I guess) parent one object to another. Now these objects belong to a ...

Hey, I'm using the default rig in XSI 3, and have come across a few things I don't understand. 1. The arms when in FK mode do not follow the chest rotations. 2. The chest rotation contr ...

Hi, I am losing my particles Billboard everytime I tried to render the scene. Them I need to recreate the Particle Billbord on the render tree again, and again, and again..... What am I doin ...

How? hehehe Could u help me? thnaks. ...

Please help! I am rigging and weighting my character. All has gone well till now. I just created my symmetry map and mirrored the weights for the body. this worked fine. but when i try to mirr ...

Hi All, I get a head/chest bulging thing happening every once in a while when using physique. I'm not sure if it is the same problem but the things you suggested have not worked. What is reall ...

I seem to be having a weird problem of max giving me artifacts after awhile. I get these weird green bars after a little bit of use and they are annoying. The thing is it only happens in max i can pl ...

XSI has recently updated a new dotXSI4Maya convertor (march 21st); it fixes the problem of polygon importing/exporting, does anyone have the compiled version ?? ...

i make a video about my quesition please visite www.zzzwz.com/rayguo/1.avi why the below bone can remove deformer ,but can't set envelope agian? and the above operate ok? ...

Hi there once again; :) I have been going through shape animation in XSI and wanted to do an inbetween shape to shape set up in the mixer but got quite confused... I tried many things like mixed w ...

Have anyone used this b4? Cos i need some help in understanding this plugin... ...

Hi I'm using CS 3 right now. Is it possible to use biped with "slider manipulator" since i want to animate hand/foot easier. I've tried it before but i can't connect the slider with bi ...

First post..yay:buttrock: Anyways I'm pretty new to 3d and max even though I did use it a few months ago for a month or 2 an thus I have some basic knowledge of most tools. I'm currently trying t ...

when i add referenced objects within a light association groups the groups are not saved and i los emy lighting set up upon loading. what am i doign wrong and how can i fix this? ...

Hello everyone, I am a new user to XSI. I just came over from another package when I realized how much more (features and capabilities) XSI had. I will try to come up to speed quickly with XSI, there ...

Hi everybody!!! Ive a little problem with the transparency map and the fog in my xsi project I have a grid whit a transparency map ( a gradient for instance ) and it works very well, but if I us ...

Hi all, I was trying to make a good high gloss white plastic texture, but am failing miserabley. I've used raytrace, to no avail, Any suggesestions, If anyone has some settings to share that would b ...

Does anyone else use this as a start for modeling heads?? I always had probs modeling a subd head from a box, then I found the ol' extrude poly along spline :) I draw my heads profile with splines, e ...

When using character Studio, is there any way to see the properties of all five (or whatever) individual fingers in trackview? If I select the "Arms" checkbox in the Animation properties ...

Click Me =) (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=andthreadid=48310) Thanks in advance. ...

Is it possible to export a 25 frame per second AVi file from the XSI3 compositor? thanks :scream: ...

I try to make an underwater scene ( like this http://www.jellyfishpictures.co.uk/ ). I want create the reflects. I have created two plane texture fractal in reflection for the sea, volume effect for ...

Daniel Martinez Lara had updated his website with a couple of new animations and character rigs using Max 5's new spline IK. They're a blast to animate with. If your interested in 3dsmax characte ...

Anyone here know where I can get some 3ds max 4.2 UI skins? Thanks. ...

hello Im totally stuck and have only a few hours til my deadline. Im doing some uvw unwrapping and it is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. I have a few questions. I would VERY VE ...

I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about Softimage's Mixer. I am using Softimage XSI 3 and having a tuff time. Ok here goes. I want to do a walk animation of a character walking for ...

hello everyone, I am currently working on a toon shaded scene set out to sea. i would like to change the ink colour on the lens shader from black in the foreground fading to a lighter colour at ...

So everytime I go to create a rig from a biped guide, it craps out with "Error: Argument 0 is invalid". I thought I might be "messing up" the guide, but creating a rig from an un ...

Well I did not know in what forum this problem would fit best so I made a link to the threath at the animation forum I hope you can help me out >>Link>> http://www.cgtalk.com/show ...

Using XSI 3.0 Experience. I created a character rig using the preset available from the Modeling panel. Then I pose the character and open the Synoptic View and press Key All to set keys for all part ...

Hi there, Just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to make a bone setup that uses HI IK and has Sliding Bones. I have been working on theis Motor bike and I'm tring to come up with a goo ...

hi folks got a problem....... the paint push tool in xsi.........can i somehow animate my strokes.....like something in growing........ ...

Greetings, I am going to be making a realistic red ballon rendered with HDR in XSI 3.0. I was wondering if anyone has attempted a "balloon" shader before, and if they have any tips/tric ...

thank you for telling me! I just wounder what it like??:p ...

I have ben experimenting with MR lately, and managed to get a 5 machine render farm running it.
the render farm working great with a simple scene but when I add a few complexities things go awr ...

When i add bones, i attach them using skin then sub-object to sort out the vertices on the mesh. Now im not very knowledgable with the terimology here, sorry :) Is Weighing vertices by hand settin ...

Does anybody know if there is a option for bleeding on and off in 3d max 4 or 5 like in XSI? I would love to see the same tool in max... and if there is one can someone point me to the tool or the ...

hi! I'm experimenting and learning how to use soft bodies. I am trying thing on a polymesh sphere. I want my sphere to bounce on things :bounce: , that's why I need an initial force. I have ...

XSIs ease of use and workflow is simply excellent but I feel a little trapped sometimes. I and a few other XSI users have been running into a few issues with proceduralism and interface in XSI. One ...

hi i've got a problem. i wanna render out something in wireframe. so i used the way with the lens toon ink shader. works well for most of thr parts, but some of them are high dense poly. so i sear ...

hello! i just want to tell you some exciting news: helge mathee, a german cinema4d user is currently working on a new file-exchange format that allows c4d,max,maya,xsi users a samless exchange o ...