The other day I got into an argument with someone who creates 3d models and knows little about uv mapping. They take faces of their model and apply royal free textures across those faces and adjust as needed. Hence they use tilable (128 x 128, 256 x 256, 512 x 512...etc) that someone else created and offered royalty free. So they have 1 object and maybe 2 - 10 images on a single model. They offer those models up for sale and want to claim that any use of model OR images is illegal to anyone else. They claimed that another beginning modeler took a texture they applied to one of their models and renamed it.

My argument with them was that IF they use square images that they downloaded off the internet then they have no claim to ownership.

Any thoughts on this?

please help.

I cannot get the sky background to come out right. The image used has a ground level with the sky. I can't get the horizon to line up with the uhhh...ground? haha. It comes up all being blue with no ground...Any ideas?

Anyway, Here's a new post CAD64

Hi!

My name is Pavel.

My issue is the following:

I need to cover a body with a sheet.

The problem is that the sheet is covering body too tightly.

(the image is attached)

What parameters should I change in cloth modificator,

so it will look real

Thank you in advance,

Pavel.

I am using 3ds 2015 on a Dell running Windows 8.1 (6GB RAM, 1.9 GHz). I am extremely new to 3ds (like just downloaded four days ago). I have a problem with an object becoming distorted after applying textures to it. The object is from an older 3ds file I downloaded.

Before texturing the object looks like this:

Smooth surface, great pillow form. After I apply a texture, it turns into this:

Lines appear, the tiling is off, and there is a section that is discolored as well as distorted. I'm guessing the problem is something inherent to the object. I've searched for a solution and tried to use the smooth modifier after converting to polygon, but that hasn't had any affect. Anyone have any ideas? Im hoping for a point and click solution, but am willing to dig in with good directions.

Thanks in advance for any assistance

dragonfall1221

ok, here's my problem: I'm trying to add the jpg image to the cylinder (the liquid hot tea w/ milk added) so I can go to next step in this tut (uv map, etc)

even tho I know how add jpg's as background images (for that jail I started to make about a year ago) to the view port I don't know how to add them to subobjects (this cylinder/liquid hot tea object) - how do I do this?

see screenshots, (my practice model, part of tut I'm having difficulty with, & my jpg of hot tea)

thanks in advance

I am having trouble applying materials/textures. On occasion when I select an object then apply a new material, another object in the scene is also changed to the material I just assigned even though it has its own material assigned.

Basically materials are being changing automatically.

It happens with a UV map and without on an object.

The materials I am adding are Jpeg's, Bitmaps etc.

How can I stop this, or is there something I am doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated, cheers

I do see the stock Autodesk Material Library towards the bottom, but I was hoping 3ds Max had an abundance of even better material selections. So is this all I get, the same stuff from AutoCAD? Or do people purchase material content packs and scour Google for items?

Just inquiring is all, thanks!

-Tannar

Rod - how does modo handle this?

i asked my friend he told me there is a material update option in max.

..i cant find it please help me i need a urgent answer form some one .

can someone please educate me on how to create a grass displacement on a editable mesh created from a plane object. I am new to 3ds max 2012. i have tried all sorts of grass creation methods GrassOmatic and proxy objects, but all take op too much memory and i would like to try displacement maps.

many thanks lino

http://artist-3d.com/free_3d_models/dnm/model_disp.php?uid=1159&count=count

and now I'd like to make them look like the port authority buses of my home town before I try to animate them and make them fly thru the alien cities I already d/l today.

Here's one way the city buses of my hometown are designed

How do I do this?

Thanks in advance.

I learning to work on 3Ds Max, the problem that i stuck is that i can't understand how properly import V-Ray materials and apply it to objects that they would look like in the picture.

For example i found this material on internet:

I download it, and import it to Max trough Material editor.

When i do that, i get all list of materials:

,

and thats what i dot understand, i though that it would be one material, and and i could apply it instantly, but i get this mess, or just i do something wrong?

How do you permanently attach or embed materials to an object in 3Ds Max. Thanks if anyone can help.

I have been modeling non-characters for years and have just started venturing into making actors for stories and have run into a problem, so far only the one.

I would greatly appreciate anyone who can help me with this. I have been trying to solve this problem for 4 days already, a couple hours here, a couple hours there and its about to drive me NUTZ!

I have modeled an eye ball model for use in my characters (eyes for a face obviously). The modeling went smooth and perfect. I then tried to texture the previously mentioned modeled eye. And everything went perfect except the texture for the Pupil and Iris also shows up on the back of the eye ball which I need them not to do.

I have ended up with an eye ball with the front of the eye on the 'front' and the 'back' of the eye. I had a similar problem 12 years ago while I was making a Lego-man in college and this happened when placing his 'face' on his head (basically a cylinder). I just used a UVW Gizmo placed the map on it and then shrank it to fit.

This method isn't seeming to work here because I am trying to do the same thing on a sphere (Round Capsule) that I did on the Cylinder.

The Lego-man problem I messed with for about 8 days also but was using Max 4 or 5 at the time and just 'accidentally' fixed by messing with the buttons in the different roll-outs over and over. I can't seem to have the same dumb luck here.

I also wished to ask if anyone who can help me solve this boggle would know an alternate way of how to put one texture on the front of the sphere and a different one on the back? I'm trying to get rid of the white line on the textures on the separation between the front and back of the eyeball.

Thanks in advance,

Michael

attached are the texture files I am trying to use.

\http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17160268&linkID=9241177

Okay, so there is the missing material library, so far so good. However, the Maps library is still missing, and when I search for that, Autodesk apparently does not have a supplement download available for that, and it seems they do not even offer it for those that downloaded the program in the manner that I did (as opposed to those that have a running subscription).

Does anyone know where I can download the Maps library?

Thanks in Advance! Cheers!

I searched the forum to find a solution to my material assigning problem.the only question similar to mine was answered by a person who indicated there were assets missing.I couldn't finds simple exact description of what assets are.

My problem is: when I open a vray material in material editor I see a list of different materials some have (standard) in front of them and some not.what should I do when I see 5 names and which one should I double click on?

this is confusing me so much and I just can't find the answer via experimental process....