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I have been having difficulties with trying to create particles to give the effect of dirt flying into the air during an explosion, this is mostly due to the fact that I don't have very much experien ...

Hey I'm kind of a noob with 3dsmax but I am slowy but surely getting there. I've hit a problem which I can't work my way around, I made a material which reflects objects around it and when I render t ...

Ok, I have some really basic and stupid questions. In being honest, I am not a modeler, I am asking these questions to get a better handle on the work to be done, and to get a handle on the whole pro ...

This might not be the right place to post this, but I thought I'd give it a try. WIN AN IPOD BY PARTICIPATING IN AN ONLINE EXPERIMENT Within our group a lot of research is done on computer an ...

Well I am doing a small animation and decided that this time I would use IK solvers (sounded too complex when I first started) and I am having a problem with the spine of my character. I am trying to ...

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Are you interested in Open Source Multimedia Instruments? If you are I would like to invite you to participate ...

Hoping someone can help: Our company has access to very detailed Sketchup files of our building products. I'd like to use them as a resource for some possible 3D animation. Can anyone suggest a go ...

Having issues with animating. I am fairly new to animating... I usually just do still frams so I haven't needed to learn. But, I am working on a mod for Crysis that involves a lot of land/sea/air mod ...

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Is there any way of making crowds of bones-controlled animals? Is there any way i can make motin-clips out of a hierachy? The manual does'nt help me, so i'm turing to you instead. ...

Well, i did some white hair to my character, rendered it and it was ok. Then i imported him to a scene with hdr picture mapped on sphere and FG and i discovered that when i render, all the white hair ...

I am trying to create an object moving along a path using the path constraint controller as position controller. Now I want to adjust the speed of the object individually but it always refers to the ...

hi, I want to use FG for my animation but it takes so much time to render the whole animation with FG. So how can I tweak it? I think this would be OK but I don't know how to do it (I mean H ...

Hi guys Chaos group has posted a tutorial how to make trees with shag fur /www.chaoticdimension.com/ may be this is usefull for the maxers:) cheers .chrom ...

Hello, I've just started exploring the wonders that are bones so bare with me if I'm a dumbass. www.btinternet.com/~hull.family/IK.bmp I set up a leg and foot with HI Ik solvers and points and ...

hey, i've got a problem in max 4.2. Every time i draw something (a sphere, cylinder, rectangle, or whatever...) , i get crossed lines in the middle of the polygons. It's just like all the triangular ...

hi guys , its me again :D Is there a way to render wireframe in xsi?> and how do i add glow to my textures? thanks a lot !!! A|i ...

I have a problem when i put an image in rotoscope mode...when i zoom on a detail of my model the image don't resize with the model.... :confused: i don't know how change this thx and sorry for m ...

Well I just followed the tutorial in you site Ed, for HDRI renderings. I dunno if I-m doing something wrong, but my images lacks color... it seems like I just get a "nomal" final gathering ...

Does anyone have tips for eliminating texture seems? If I use multi/sub-object mapping to use for example a cylindrical mapping for the model and apply a planar map for the top / bottom to get rid of ...

Title says it all, is there one available? or maybe a tut, any help would be awesome :) thanx all ...

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I have been using Maya for 2 years now and am considering doing a degree were they use soft. I was wondering if anyone has learnt maya and changed over to soft, i know its good to know a few differen ...

Does anyone know a pipeline to get animation data from maya into XSI? Help greatly appreciated. Richard Smith ...

Hi Guys , I am not trying to start a flame war here. I just want to know this: since so many animators prefer softimage , can you tell me whats the difference between the animation tols i ...

hello, this is a simple script request that might be usefull for many guys, i'm can't do it cause i don't know any basic of maxscript but here the problem: when applying a symmetry modifier to a ha ...

Ok, I'm trying to install shag in R5. I went from R3 to R5 skipping R4. Thusly, I have an R3 CD. I've tried to install from the CD to my R5 directory, then patched it twice. When I open max it giv ...

I make some HD IK solver,but when i use the end effector,the ik chain move to some where strange.but i reset the max and make the test , the end effector is ok. and i open the file again , the proble ...

http://img40.photobucket.com/albums/v124/shinova/modelling/belt.jpg I'm trying to make a sort of rubber belt that connects along the two "gears". Basically an engine and shaft, in other ...

hi, how can i "scatter" objects to hair, for example to make feathers and so on. i know about helge's tools but i'd like to do it with hair. thank you ...

Does any one know how much support for a wacom tablet will be in XSI 4? ie: pressure, tilt, eraser...toolbar, etc etc. Maybe one of you beta people could spill the beans for once :D ...

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Wrote three new tutorials on my site that I wanted to share, they are already in the massive tutorials list but wanted to list them here to get suggestions and crits. The Magma accidently got overwr ...

Hello, I'm working on some VFX project and I,ve got stuck due to something in Afterburn that I can't describe take a look at this animation (200k) http://yk3d.tripod.com/files/problem.avi w ...

I have created a particle system where the basic shape is a mesh instance. I need to use this option but it seems it is really limited. But maybe you can help me for my 2 problems. 1st I'd like the ...

Does anyone know how to use rendervertexcolors(prelighting in maya), I click this button then cilck the objective, a window pop up the shadow and illumation are checked others are set to default ...

Hi, Is it possible to drive a shader parameter with a curve ? I mean I want to use a curve showing me the incidence falloff rather than using bias and gain ? (A handy way that max and Maya both ...

I wanna animate the size of the particles where I put an instance geometry. The problem is that once I have chosen my instance group I have no more control on the size in the particle overview contr ...

this is a question for anyone who can help me. i am having some issues when setting rotation keys in XSI version 3.5. i am setting rotation keys in LOCAL mode, but when i play my animation, the c ...

ive got a problem,, im working on a game model thats arlready weighted,,ive added some geometry ( a collar) that ive then point snapped to the existing geometry its not extruded or anything fro ...

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A couple of questions for you SoftImage XSI gurus: Is "Character Designer" included in the SoftImage XSI "Essentials" package? Is the ability to export DirectX (.X) characte ...

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I hav applied to a normal grid with two polys cut out a toon material set at defaults and then on the camera a toon lens, but it then puts a line around some of the faces of the grid as well as the ...

So my goal is to make an umbrella and I have the model complete. I have the fabric attached to the rods, and the fabric folds properly when I move the rods. I've also wired all the ROD's Y Rotation ...

I have a problem with cloth simulation. I need it to make clothes on game model. So i need one object that i can export(no visibility track). This model is animated for some movements. For example ...

I made for my rig a big spline rotator that controls with wire parameters the other small rotators of the spine of my character. just like in the rig tutorial now, with this spline rotator my ch ...