** SOFTWARE Help / Advice **

This will cover every app. For now I'm not gonna make a MAX one, a LW one, etc. etc. To keep the thread from being cluttered you guys should post your question, take it up via PM or EMAIL privately, then come back and share you solution. Then in the future people can search the site or this thread for answers. I want people to share problems, help each other, etc. But we can't flood the forum and turn it into a training place. SCIFI-MESHES has forums specific for each piece of software and will gladly help people... as long as they're not dumb questions. Otherwise feel free to talk here.

 

ok, I have a question. my Lighting/Shading wont work in Maya PLE. does anybody know how to fix it? The program stops responding when you try to pick the color

 

maybe its a glitch.I am not to fimiliar with maya.So I cant say.sorry.

 

i donloaded the new drivers for my graphics card and it works now

 

I'm hoping this is the place to ask this. . .

I just got hired on at a hospital as the media coordinator for neurosurgery. They want to implement 3d illustrations into their presentations. I've dealt with a few of the programs enough to be able to animate something, but I don't really have the capabilities to make objects from scratch.

So here's the question: Does anyone know of any kind of human anatomy package that would have objects or meshes for any of the major 3d programs? (We haven't bought one yet, so it doesn't matter whether it's 3ds Max, Lightwave, Maya, Bryce, etc. Infact object availability will probably determine which one we go with.)

 

I would look at both TurboSquid's and Viewpoint's model libraries.

 

I've been looking at using Combustion with 3D Studio Max for the Meteor Shower scene in my Fan Film.

Does any one here have any personal experience with combustion, or know of any tutorials that deal with their particles?

 

The particles systems in Combustion was licensed from particleIllusion by Wondertouch, so the same tutorials apply. You can even use emitter libraries from PI (though not the latest as PI has gone through a few minor updates).

For tutorials I can recommend The Focal Easy Guide to Discreet's Combustion 3 by Gary Davis (Focal Press) and it has a tutorial on using particles. On the more visual side there are a few training DVDs on Combustion that cover all aspects.

 

I needed help with Photometric lighting in MAX r6. I set them in a scene and all my objects become black silouettes where they should be. I tried posting in the main section of the fan activites section and no one seems to care. I really want help figuring this out. And I know someone here will give me crap about posting in here too. So help me out anyway.

 

Bryce Beginner tutorials? Anyone, anyone?

 

Ok i jsut got blender...but everytime i click a button it doubles and triples and then it blurrs together and i cant get it to do anything...i cant even jsut play aorund wiht it to elarn some of its stuff....Any advice?

 

Sounds like either a problem with the installation or your graphics settings. I would make sure everything is set really low (don't have Blender, but things like Open GL and such) and then try it again. It could also be a resolution issue...just a few ideas. Hope you get it working!

 

ehh still no good

 

Hmm, well assuming the installation went well, what else are you running while you use the program and what are your PC's specs?

 

its a brand new xp machine....2 hardrives 30 and 40 gigs...im not sure on the others ones and im too sleepy to look im pm them to you later. 256 megs a ram.....so yeah

 

Well it sounds like you should be fine...have you looked through the support stuff at Blender's site?

 

Ok I have a question about rendering somethig in Maya. I have my scene and cameras and everything. The problem is, when rendering, the cameras dont pick up Image Planes. How can I get the perspective views and cameras to see the Image planes when rendering a frame or clip? Relly sorry if this is a dumb question, could really just use some help.

 

I don't know if this will help you at all, but I found this with a quick Google search:


Turn Off an Image Plane's Primary Visibility

The user must create a primitive 2D geometry plane and match it's location with the renderable camera. Once the plane and the camera are matched correctly, import the image file texture and assign it to the plane. The planes Primary Visibility can be turned off within the Attribute Editor (Render Stats menu-> check off Primary Visibility).

For objects to reflect and refract this "imitation" image plane, ensure Raytracing is turned on within the Render Globals (Window-> Rendering Editors-> Render Globals). The objects within the scene will now reflect and refract the image assigned to the geometry plane, which now has its primary visibility turned off.


Hope that helps!

 

I am the newbest of noobs. I am serching the site and not finding my answer... Being the noobest of noobs you will all beat me for sure... but i still need to know...

I DLed Blender... gonna run some tuts on it... I also DLed the toon stormtrooper from this site. However when i go to open it, it is a .rar

I have no friggin clue on what that is or what i need to do with it.

I was guessing that the model would work in blender.

Any help would be super.

-signed, bigbaldpapa, noobest of noobs!

 

Welcome to SciFi-3D! The .rar filetype is an archive format like .zip/.tar/etc. You can decompress the file using a variety of tools like these. Hope that helps!

 

Thanks. Got that much worked out and understood. Now, do 3dS Max files not work in blender? Or should I try another file? If I shuold be reading this elsewhere and I am just not seeing it please point me in the right direction.

-bigbaldpapa, noobest of noobs

 

Have you tried the support files available on the Blender website? Most of the info you seek will probably be in there. Hope that helps!

 

So it finally seem that i have found the right place to ask my question.

Im looking for a program to edit my scenes with... Something i can use for: Adding voice, cutting scenes and stuff like that.

Hope you can help me...

 

I would take a look at some of the resources and information here.

 

jack_sogaard posted on 4/26/05 11:38am

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So it finally seem that i have found the right place to ask my question.

Im looking for a program to edit my scenes with... Something i can use for: Adding voice, cutting scenes and stuff like that.

Hope you can help me...
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Just out of total morbid curiosity, did you even TRY Google? I bet if you were to type in something like "digital video editing" into Google the first thing it would say is ADOBE PREMIERE.

That's a hint. Go look up "ADOBE PREMIERE". Seriously. Now.