Ive been learning XSi for jsut over 5 months and Ive found it very straightforward! .....once you've found where all the buttons are

When I am using materials from plugins such as Vray, brazil, etc

once i apply them to a object, the object turn to a full black

i can not even preview the diffuse color on it unless render it
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I am using d3 normal map shader. Is there a way to use a traditional bump map in conjunction with the normal map?

http://www.chinavfx.com/bbs/attachments/200305/21204149-untitled.JPG


i follow the 3.0 book "Rendermapping cluster"on pdf format file "shade" page 231


but the rendermap resul ...

I am usings eds layout from his site however the hotkeys for the render tree and the explorer dont work.All the other layouts that i downloaded the hotkeys work fine.I went into the keyboard layout an ...

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i guess a lot of ppl will model the way i do. The hands and legs of my character are modeled in different pieces.


Here is the problem comes. Once i have the weight set in the right hand, may i ...

does any know were to set frame padding in XSI like you can if maya..... yes I know I can use fcheck but I wanted to know if you could set it before you render in XSI like you can in Maya!

Please help
I don't seem to be able to delete UVs

When I select 20 vertexes can I set same Y coordinate to all of them? When I do this in the bottom of the screen in max, it does not help this...
it will just move all of them

I am trying to make a heart. I made its outline and then extruded it http://www.bolotnov.info/tmp/h1.jpg and how trying to make it smooth and shapy http://www.bolotnov.info/tmp/h2.jpg with meshSmooth. ...

Are there cool open space sky type of HDRI maps?

ah... ok... thkz! )

yeah... reset all old values to original values...

but, this reset all values?

hi! plz, how to restore 3dsMax to default settings???

Anyone knows where to find info on writing exporters for 3dsmax?