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cord474
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: FG and animation. Help?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 11, 2007
Originally posted by sumatra_xsi

hi,


I want to use FG for my animation but it takes so much time to render the whole animation with FG.


All your ideas will work. One that you might also consi ...
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Metaball Plugins Question
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : May 28, 2007
Metareyes5 vs Clay studio pro. Does anyone know which is

better? And do they both work with Max5?


Thanks


Meggo
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Guess I don't need new video card.
Forum : 3d Graphics Hardware Forum
Posted : April 13, 2007
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWow........!!!!!!!!!


I just installed the quadro driver with the rivatuner.exe and

MAXtreme4 drivers.


Guess I don't need new video card.


I HAD a geforce2 400MX now I have a rea ...
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: [Please help] Display problems in Max4
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : April 05, 2007
Hi all


The framerate in Max 4 decreases dramatically (by about 80%!!) when I make one of the objects semi-transparent.


I messed with the display settings for transparencies; "stipple" ...
cord474
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : March 29, 2007
there days i learn about Toon shader


i found Detection Threshold parameter.

i have read the help about this parameter.

and try to adjust this parameter value from 0 to 1

but i still dont find ...
cord474
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: about motion blurs controls
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : March 29, 2007
look at the pic with the area of red line


i want to ask under what kind of situation i need choose the first one, or the second one


thanks !!


http://www.xsibase.com/forum/attached/1188.JPG
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Animation bug? -maxr5
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : March 28, 2007
Help. This bug(?) has been driving me crazy for a few days.


I'm using the new "Set Key" feature in MAXr5. Animating poses is great, and everything is going fine until.... I turn off th ...
cord474
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: Get rid of the sliding problem
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : January 25, 2007
Now I finished the walk cycle but it's really painful. I have to put a lot of keyframes to animate the master puppet to get rid of the sliding between the feet and the floor


Everytime I change some ...
cord474
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Subject: XSI : parameter connection editor crashes
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : September 15, 2006
more often then not XSI crashes when I try to use the Parameter Connection Editor.

I can open it just fine, select the target, but when I try to select the source....kaboom, xsi is gone.

Very often ...
cord474
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Subject: Xsi 5: Reset Actor is not working
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : August 12, 2006
Thank you.
cord474
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Subject: Xsi 5: Reset Actor is not working
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : August 12, 2006
Reset Actor is not working in xsi.. Sad
What is wrong? I have worked several hours on my rig and now when I want to go to default pose I can't do it? Sad
I can see it because when I mute the envelopes t ...
cord474
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Subject: Aerodynamics in car design?
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 14, 2006
Waiting ages?
maybe in max Wink
cord474
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Subject: Aerodynamics in car design?
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 13, 2006
Of course not... if it runs slower than on the cpu - you have a problem Wink
cord474
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Subject: Aerodynamics in car design?
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 12, 2006
Like with the same amount of stuff but on their card - the game runs slower Wink
cord474
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Subject: Aerodynamics in car design?
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 12, 2006
Beh the benchmarks so far have been awful
cord474
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Subject: xsi5: element selection
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 22, 2006
Did you try using the Polygon Island filter?
cord474
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Subject: 3ds max: renderable in reflections only
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : June 08, 2006
Should be possible I guess though
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
Wohoo! got it! 100% quad. thanks a lot!
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
Oh wait a minute, I'm fuckin stupid
Yeah you're right
I should've though about cutting the vertex in the middle of the polygon
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
Oh well I guess I can live with it, it meshsmoothes pretty ok
Yeah that's the solution for a 6-sided polygon... mine comes outs 5 or 7 sided :\
cord474
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Subject: 3ds max: lense FX vs afterburn
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : June 08, 2006
Does afterburn even provide a lens shader for glows?
cord474
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Subject: modo: UV mapping in modo?
Forum : 3D Texturing Forum
Posted : June 07, 2006
How is modo's UV mapping? easier then 3dsmax's? cuz i hate 3dsmax's UVunwrap's and multiregion shit
I shopped around for a UV mapping program purely to avoid using max's but came up short
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 07, 2006
What do you mean?
Hmm I keep getting an extra tri no matter how I divide the n-gon
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 07, 2006
It surprises me I've never had this problem before
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 06, 2006
Ok, thanks
I'll try to work it out
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 06, 2006
So first chamfer, then work out the tris, or slice edgeloops and then I don't have to chamfer?
cord474
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Subject: I'm back
Forum : New Members
Posted : June 06, 2006
Oh yeah?
You will like it even more now Wink
cord474
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Subject: 3dsmax: extrusion on a plane
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 06, 2006
Yo
Got a polymodelling question
I'm trying to do something very simple... a creased extrusion on a plane
Anyone have a decent way off doing this?
When I chamfer the edges I get tris
What should I do?
cord474
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Subject: I'm back
Forum : New Members
Posted : June 06, 2006
Yeah many have changed since your last visit.
cord474
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Subject: I'm back
Forum : New Members
Posted : June 06, 2006
Welcome back, mate!
cord474
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Subject: Hey there
Forum : New Members
Posted : June 05, 2006
Hey man! Welcome to the forums!
cord474
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Subject: 3ds max: what is low poly nowdays?
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 04, 2006
Not if the project alows 50 only..then u exeeded with alot of polys
cord474
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Subject: xsi : Scaling UVs
Forum : 3D Texturing Forum
Posted : June 03, 2006
Is there a reason why my uvs are scaling from some goddamn offscreen pivot in the uv editor?
rather than pivot from the center of my selection like id expect it to?
Thanks
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Rendering video with alpha?
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : May 31, 2006
hmm but there is a codec where u can put also alpha channel into avi file
try search at doom9
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-quali-105-1.htm
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Rendering video with alpha?
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : May 30, 2006
if not try to make a search on yahoo and find a codec with what u can do alpha render on avi file i found it some where but i can't remember
don't u look an alpha render on avi video ?
cord474
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Subject: 3ds Max: Rendering video with alpha?
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : May 30, 2006
drop007: Try this one http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/AVI-Preview.shtml
Hope that helps
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 26, 2006
hehe
i thought it was ad supported for the free version
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 26, 2006
yeah but firefox is free
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
because like i said, i love tabs and i love extensions
i just dont like memory leaks or instability or the mozilla internet bandwagon
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
and i have the "open IE" extension for those tricky websites Smile
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
i use firefox
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
ah
well ive never had much luck with it Sad
its always been unstable and a memory hog
cord474
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : May 25, 2006
yep some1 do maybe cared about vue Smile
cord474
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Subject: Concept art?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
well not nearly often enough I think
they usually are not useable and not well coded
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
i didn't always like them
but then i discovered middle click functionality
and now ill never go back hehe
cord474
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Subject: Concept art?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
who cares if it's useable, we want it to be well coded Very Happy
cord474
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Subject: Silo videos
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
hahah
firefox is one of the most unstable programs ive ever used
those damn extensions and tabs keep me using it though Sad
cord474
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Subject: Concept art?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 25, 2006
still the site design is very cool
Razz
cord474
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Subject: Concept art?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 23, 2006
oh
bummer
should've gone with aspx Razz
cord474
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Subject: Concept art?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : May 23, 2006
yeah
works here too
great site design btw
complex yet w3c valid
cord474
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Subject: Car from hell
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : May 23, 2006
Razz
yeah
isn't that that xbox showcar?
or some other console?
cord474
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : May 23, 2006
e-on software Announces Vue 3D enviroment Competition http://www.dreammotion.com/cg/viewtopic.php?t=255