Having so much fun with the « Copy/Paste UV position » in Modo 901 and IPackThat. It’s been a long time since i wait for that features in Modo, as it’s in Maya since a long time (« Transfert Data »). With IPack That on the side, it’s so sweet and quick to layout UV’s perfectly. Also Color’s UI look like they match closely between the two ;^D
The process is easy.
Hello.
I’m experiencing some issue displaying the same PBR Rendering as SB Painter in Modo. I’m looked into some forum thread like those from Wes McDermott here and some on modology.fr (Modo French User Forum), but didn’t found how figured out the same render in both software. So here i’m trying to find a workaround to this challenge. I’m probaly doing it in a wrong way but that is a good way to get involved with tools. So feel free to comment on the original forum Allegorithmic.
Setup both Software to Match the same result of Sub Painter viewport and Modo Render. Lire la suite
Extended PipelineIO Menu for Modo 701/801
I’ve made a « tweaked form menu » for the PipelineIO (InOut) from Ariel Chai scipt suite. For more information about that script and that tweaked form you should go to the TF community forum.
Thanks Ariel
Before installing this form, you should create a new directory « TEMP_OBJ » in order to export you resulting meshes to your C:\TEMP_OBJ\.
(if you’re on a mac, edit the cfg and define the output directory you want & save it)
This enhanced Menu is composed with many combination for exporting your meshes. You will export the mesh named with some suffix related to the way you’ve exported them. It export files as OBJ or FBX.
Final_OBJ_BVSTM.OBJ will got those settings:
If you’re actually working on UV layout, I ‘ll probably suggest you to take a look at the work of Snoelk from Germany – Technical Artist at
Piranha Bytes.
He have post an interesting thread (through Polycount forum) on is new Standalone UVpacker, still currently in dev and in Beta but still promising CG tools: IPackThat
Please tell her your support on Polycount or CGtalk for that upcoming « CG amazing must-have tool » !
I’ve take a look on it, and i could say that it’s really promising for the result you can got in few minutes. The next image will talk about that better than more words:
26 % of wasted space in 6 mins > compared to my 21 % on my hand made layout in around 4 h of tweaking.
And for the Fun after 8 Run to find the Best solution it goes down to 18 % of Wasted Area. So Good !
Working on common tools: ZBrush, Modo, PS, AI, Marmoset, Substance, dDo.
MaxScript « Bad Day »
I’m so sad to see that in MAX you can just switch from one command to another and back and forth… Why do they didn’t had the possibility to Enable or Disable an option/command instead of just switch it (nobody cares about the position A or B….seriously).
Here is just a little script to clean a scene in order to focus (Zoom) onto the scene and go to a Maximized Perspective view – Shaded with Wireframe:
actionMan.executeAction 0 « 40182 » — Views: Perspective User View
max vpt persp user
actionMan.executeAction 0 « 50026 » — Tools: Maximize Viewport Toggle
max tool maximize
actionMan.executeAction 0 « 550 » — Views: Viewport Visual Style Shaded
actionMan.executeAction 0 « 40078 » — Views: Show Home Grid
max showhomegrid
actionMan.executeAction 0 « 310 » — Tools: Zoom Extents Selected
max zoomext sel
macros.run « DragAndDrop » « Macro8 »
But now as you can see i can’t go directly to Hide/Disable Homegrid…
If i open a file with homegrid in the viewport, i will switch it on and that’s not what this script is supposed to do.
I’ve search that on internet but i couldn’t find that tricks:
This post is intend for my students, that got some issue with there laptop using Intel HD 4000 / 4400 on 3DsMAX.
If you have any problem with the viewport of 3dsMAX (Like this).
And nothing in the Menu / Customize / Preference / Viewport / Display Driver.
You should look at this workaround to solve that problem.
