Well, just recovered from ECTS yesterday, so I thought I might share what I saw. Well, I think the bit people here will be most interested to hear about was...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 4, 2000 9:19 am
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... was the latest tech demo of the new Unreal engine. sounds great, but for those who missed it (me!) is anywhere posting screenshots of the new...
Roger Bacon
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Sep 4, 2000 9:46 am
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... I would have taken pictures [and not just of Unreal ;)]... but my camera run out of film. It was actually in the Rage booth, right at the back, so it ...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 4, 2000 9:53 am
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... Yea I'm suprised that hasn't leaked out yet, but it's better if it doesn't. That was the same demo we have been showing since GDC, but only to potential...
James Green
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Sep 4, 2000 5:06 pm
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that ... It did look a bit Quake-ish... but maybe that was just the brown armour... really nice resolution on that texture, though. ... Well, I for one am...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 4, 2000 5:25 pm
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Hiya Folks...just a simple thing i used to work around my mapping woes...as i hate(repeat Hate) Max's UVunwrap and love NST...and untill actor x comes...
David Robinson
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Sep 4, 2000 7:47 pm
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Well, if you're going to go that far, why not rough out your mapping in Max first? I mean, I hated Max 2.5's Unwrap but Max 3 does most everything NST does....
James Green
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Sep 5, 2000 12:04 am
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Thats True...maybe i will do it that way...even though i am half way done with the mapping...and i am releasing a skin SDK on friday...so ohh well...heh... ...
David Robinson
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Sep 5, 2000 3:03 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the utmodeling group. File :...
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Sep 5, 2000 5:24 am
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Agreed. Since I started working at Rage, I have been using MAX3's UVUnwrap more regularly, and although it is fine, I do miss NSTs nice snap grid and ...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 5, 2000 8:13 am
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-- yeah i kinda like MAX3s unwrap, its pretty powerful..ive even started using just UVunwrap from scratch (i used to do the dissasemble/planar/morph back...
Roger Bacon
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Sep 5, 2000 9:55 am
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Hmmm...well...since i am already done with the major mapping tweeks...in UNST...the long cloak in particular...as that is the piece that was a pain in my...
David Robinson
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Sep 5, 2000 5:19 pm
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Howdy Folks...just a question...if i lay out the entire map on a 512*512 map...and then set the mapping channels...will that affect anything??? ~Phoenix~...
David Robinson
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Sep 6, 2000 5:07 pm
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... Depends on the program. MAX will scale the UV co-ords dependant on the texture size, whereas I'm still trying to figure out an easy way of doing it ...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 7, 2000 9:04 am
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... the ... doing it ... are in ... are doing ... for a bit ... I am laying out the mapping in UNST using Texture Channels and a single 512*512 working skin(in...
David Robinson
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Sep 7, 2000 3:11 pm
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... Actually I think you will be ok. There is a new option of resizing the mapping in UNST, which will scale it up and away from where you want, but you can...
James Green
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Sep 7, 2000 7:36 pm
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sorry non max chaps! question: for some reason when i try and rotate something using the rotate gizmo, its extremely slow and is rotating by increments of 0.1...
Roger Bacon
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Sep 8, 2000 12:04 pm
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... And I thought you were whoring yourself to LightWave? Customize/Preferences.../Viewports in the 'Move/Transforms' box Rotation Incr. or Customize/Grid and...
Jonathan Murphy
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Sep 8, 2000 12:33 pm
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-- thanks! as for lightwave, slow progress.. i keep trying to use the hotkeys of one package in the other now. BAD! it also has no 'edge' functions so you...
Roger Bacon
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Sep 8, 2000 12:45 pm
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As for Maya, the keys are fully customizable, so you could make them quite similiar to Max if you wanted. As for myself, I made up custom marking menus, and...
Ritchie, Cody
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Sep 8, 2000 5:44 pm
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well...i did it...i managed to map my model in Max...with good results...till i loaded up the first bitmap...some how or other...all (i mean every triangle) of...
David Robinson
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Sep 9, 2000 4:36 am
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i am very new to modeling, and i was wondering how many of you all use Maya. We have Maya 3 here at school (bowling green St. univ, Ohio, USA) on all of the NT...
Maury Mountain
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Sep 9, 2000 6:14 am
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... I use it. We'll be using it for our next gen skeletal characters. CS just doesn't have what it takes.... -James...
James Green
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Sep 9, 2000 6:19 am
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I have a small question that's been bugging me for a while. Is there any way for me to take a model that I have made in 3D Studio Max, that has all of the...
Guillaume Couture-L€ ...
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Sep 10, 2000 12:05 am
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Nope, sorry. Something about bsp brushes having some sort of strange internal UV format. -James ... -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- james green ...
James Green
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Sep 10, 2000 1:50 am
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You could subclass them as a decoration, but that's about as close as you'll get. Brushes seem to just have planar mapping that's meant to be tiled, with a few...
Shane
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Sep 10, 2000 2:01 am
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Well, I learned a lot at the last Siggraph convention I attended (the Orlando one). They mostly used box modeling to create characters for games. NURBS are...
Osborne, Richard N
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Sep 11, 2000 9:08 am
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I am none of those people...but i use box modeling combined with point by point face creation for my models...most of them are done with carving boxes and...
David Robinson
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Sep 11, 2000 5:11 pm
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Q: is there a really good poly reducing program available? i am much more experienced making high poly models and have recently fell in love with a NURBS BASED...
b ionic
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Sep 11, 2000 8:50 pm
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I don't know of any specific optimizing programs or plugins offhand though I know they exist. Someone on this list should know and if not try the messageboards...
