http://area.autodesk.com/forum/ The Area en Copyright 2012 2012-02-08T10:41:13+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/problem-importing-uv-map/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/problem-importing-uv-map/page-last/#When:10:02:13Z hai there, Im new to Mudbox and have trouble getting my UV-map to work in Mudbox. This is the situation; I created a lowpoly mesh in 3Ds max to lay out my landmarks for an enviroment. In Mudbox I subdivided this mesh lv 6 to get better resolution and start sculpting. After finishing my work I exported the a lv 3 mesh( lowpoly ) from Mudbox to 3Dsmax to start setting up my UVmap. Having done this I now want to import the baked mesh into Mudbox to start painting. The import is fine. Problem is when I start to raise my levels the UVmap seems to distort. I dont know where I went wrong or how to solve this problem. thx in advance! 2012-02-08T10:02:13+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/dissapearing-layers/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/dissapearing-layers/page-last/#When:19:10:17Z I tried turning off a layer to see what it looked like without it. my PC poped up with NOT ENOUGH MEMORY then there was a black feild around the target area on my mesh. now its collapsed into this. the impressions are depressions and visa versa is there a way to reverse this or atleast avoid this in the future? 2012-02-07T19:10:17+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/2012-sp3-performance-issues/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/2012-sp3-performance-issues/page-last/#When:15:01:34Z Hello everyone, I'm running 2012 sp3 on my new machine and I don't think I'm seeing the performance that I should be seeing. I'm running 64bit windows7, core i7-2600k, 16gb ram, and a gtx580. I'm seeing lag at around level 8 using the base sphere. This is around 25 million polys. A brush size of around 10 is lagging when drawing on the surface. There's also some slight stuttering when zooming in and out. Is this the correct performance for my hardware? 2012-02-07T15:01:34+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/wayne-master-classes-tip-breakdown/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/wayne-master-classes-tip-breakdown/page-last/#When:05:48:54Z Wayne has uploaded some excellent training I've watched some it's good stuff. I have a question, I couldn't break down myself. In one of the Master class training Wayne describes a normal map technique. I don't know if there is more then just one, the only normal map technique I was able to extract was taking a normal map in photoshop and blending it with a AO map if I stand corrected, was there another one :) ? Wayne also talks about if you create a 2K map your sculpt should not be above 2 million polygons yet he describes 4 million polygons for a 4 million polygons sculpt ? A 4K map you should only sculpt at 4 million polygons, anything above 8 million polygons you should use multiple displacements. Softimage is a pain to join multiple UV maps together. I hope someone can clear this up for me ? 2012-02-07T05:48:54+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/saving-mudbox-sculpt-as-stl-file/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/saving-mudbox-sculpt-as-stl-file/page-last/#When:05:18:36Z Hi All To those who could help. I need to know the procedure to save a finished sculpture in mudbox onto a stick as a stl file so it can be put onto a 3D sculpting machine. Have placed the file onto a stick but have to convert it to stl or slc file for it to work.. any help would be appreceiated. Johncast 2012-02-06T05:18:36+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/cant-export-ptex-map-to-target-models-greater-than-level-0/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/cant-export-ptex-map-to-target-models-greater-than-level-0/page-last/#When:10:22:40Z This is a frustrating issue I have discovered while trying to work with PTEX and Mudbox. I have a mesh with 5 subdivision levels; I export the level 3 mesh to Maya with the intention of adding a Normal Map to cover the rest of the detail. But Mudbox thinks otherwise. Mudbox will only let you export maps to a level 0 target mesh if you want to use the PTEX SETUP in Texel Distribution. I get the following error when I try to extract: "Use PTEX Setup" can only be selected if the target mesh is already set up for PTEX. Extraction works great though when the target mesh is at level 0. I don't understand why this is the case, and it is causing some headaches. Any chance this could be resolved? Any workarounds for this? Thanks! 2012-02-03T10:22:40+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/painting-troubles-help-much-appreciated-/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/painting-troubles-help-much-appreciated-/page-last/#When:16:43:52Z I created a boat in 3ds max then I sent it to Mudbox so I can paint the texture on it. in 3DS Max I UV Unwrapped it with Flatten. I made sure there was no spacing in between When I sent it to Mudbox to paint and started painting, there seem to be some parts of the boat not being able to paint over. I was wondering what you guys and gals think the problem might be? I added the photo as a attachment so you can see what I mean. Any kind of help is much appreciated. Thank you for your time :) 2012-01-31T16:43:52+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/mb-2011-texture-degradation/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/mb-2011-texture-degradation/page-last/#When:07:07:51Z Hi, I'm having some strange issues while projection-painting some skin on a character mesh. The diffuse map is an 8k png (which I forced into mud by scaling up the native 4k paint layer, since there's no options for > 4k). After working on it for a bit, I've noticed that most portions have been degrading with some strange stains/streeks (see attachments) and have no idea why this is. If I paint over them it looks fine but I think the problem is when I save the file...if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it. 2012-01-29T07:07:51+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/mudbox-2012-creases-and-hard-edges-selection/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/mudbox-2012-creases-and-hard-edges-selection/page-last/#When:04:43:02Z here is the problem I am doing several different projects where I need to have some sharp well defined edges. In two places I have seen YouTube videos where this has been accomplished using a selection under the Mesh menu and they have selected "creases and hard edges" to ad divisions to their work without rounding key areas of their work. I have looked and looked and have been unable to locate this tool in my version of Mudbox. Is this something that was developer only or Windows only? Please advise this would be a great tool especially when creating things that are more mechanically looking and less biologically looking. I am using Mudbox 2012 for the Mac if someone with more experience good advise me on this I would be grateful. I have enclosed a link to the youtube video as well. Thanks again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH0qUgZkI9Q 2012-01-26T04:43:02+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/extract-button-not-active/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-mudbox/community-help/extract-button-not-active/page-last/#When:19:42:01Z Hey guys, just mucking around with mudbox and extracting normal map. Currently trying to extract a map but for some reason on my model the "Extract" button is not active. I have tried another file and that works fine, i have tried to export the high and low polly meshes as obj files, re-importing and tried extrating the map that way, but the button is still not active. I have also tried importing the model into the file where the extract worked fine but the extract button remains inactive for this particular model. Copying the exact properties from the file which works to the one that doesnt work didnt work either. im not sure whats happening If anyone has any ideas greatly apreciated, cheers guys. 2012-01-25T19:42:01+01:00