Do you know hot to do grass with shag and fur like in the picture from the tutorial http://www.cgtalk.com/avatar.php?userid=225anddateline=1008590225

We're having some severe pulsing problems with the heads and bodies of characters that are rigged with Physique. Anyone had this problem? Know of a workaround? We're still waiting to hear back (well ...

How do I stop the texture from deforming with the vertices? I want to move the geometry around and have the texture stay where it is.


Im using XSI 3.0; I haven't frozen the projection, but it still ...

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I installed DX 8.1 and tried to use Direct 3d on my system.....every thing goes fine but in Win98 the geometry is leaving trails while i try to manipulate it but i m not having this ...

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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, ex ...

Just wanted to anounce that XSI Base has launched a new resource section for Tutorials,Shaders, Training, etc.

I'm recently searching for tutorials for Max and there are hundreds of them...But actually I coulnd't find a whole (maybe a project) valuable one about photorealistic designing that goes step by step. ...

Is it possible to create .ico files with PHOTOshop?

Any idea why my environment color is now black instead of the color I set?
Now that I have an IBL node for my reflections....

That's the thing I want to learn about IBL... making my own HDRI images and using it to light a scene
But I need a better camera, and the big sphere and the tripods and whatnots

I did
Just wanted to see what the result would be

Damn smartresym take for ever :(
Is it normal?

Wow... IBL takes a lot longer to render

Yes
Works fine closer to the middle

Vertox, yes, of course =]
Natashka1954, pretty much. just curious what you guys use for this kinda stuff. (my original question I guess) =]

Right - but i want the mirror in the x
Thats why i'm using it...
So it mirrors fine when the points are close from each other but as they go more far from each, the mirror becomes less and less notice ...

I'm using the standard tool with X and M (deform in the x and mirror ) but the farther the points get from each other the less mirror i'm getting on the mesh - any ideas?

what I did is just made a sphere, and mapped a texture to it, then set the sphere's primary visibility off, and kept visible in reflections on

Not big, it's just a single object

Can i make particles follow a path without using surface flow?

Http://www.hdrimaps.com/downloads.html
Free there, but they seem kinda low-rez.

Heh, I don't have the time to set myself up to make HDRI maps now.... man someday. =P
Its such a frickin' sweet concept

Vertox: you have a point. I'll have to search for some free HDRI images.

Natashka1954: that makes a big enough difference? I thought it was just a mapped sphere too?

Well... it doesn't need to be THAT accurate.
I'm not using it to illuminate, just something to reflect.
Just looking for suggestions of types of photos / modifications to them that make decent reflect ...

What's a good image map, to map onto a sphere (as a cheap environment) so that chrome can reflect something?
The one I made makes the reflections look bleh

learningmaya.com

edit Polygons/color
and the polyCount would be in the HUD when activated
or polyEvaluate -f

Tried that & it doesn't work.
All uvs get wiped out on the original
though i think i found a workaround using the connection editor

I have 2 duplicate objects with multi-uv sets on each. I need to copy one of these sets to the other poly , and UVTRANSFER copys them all dammit. what to do?

It's low-poly modeling with the intent to subpatch (meshsmooth is a subpatcher, and not really a great one)

kinoman,
You have to learn 'subpatch modeling'

Don't know really. Why are you using particle flow for this?

i use editable poly for low-poly