Forum - Importing Assets - FBX - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Forum - Importing Assets - FBX - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:44:51 GMT Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:44:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from primaveranz ]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:44:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly primaveranz wrote:
Wow! Those are impressive stool samples.

Oh I was just going through the motions! Whaaaaa?]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:01:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:23:59 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from primaveranz ]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:38:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly ]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:00:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly













]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:00:24 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:01:56 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from ziggy72 ]]> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:43:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:35:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from ziggy72 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:13:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly
Click this icon for the full scale image.

]]> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:01:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb ]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 22:01:12 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly ]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:34:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from ziggy72 And the right stool is perfect.]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:18:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb

I am also what i call "a button pusher" and have always been that way I must take things appart or push all the buttons just to see what it will do and how it works. Regular bump maps I found its true do not work in muvizu they recognize normal maps but not bump maps I actually was playing with bump maps the other night but when I look at the wiki in fact they do not name bump maps as usable although in many cases they are interchangable with normal maps in some engines in the case of the unreal engine and muvizu the case seems to be no

I havent noticed the rest though it does for me seem to work but I haven't spent a lot of time on actual set building right now yet I am still in the modelling stage of my next blockbuster and have been taking more time then needed to build overly detailed items just because it pleases me

anyhow it looks good so far dylly there are going to be some idiosyncracies i am sure but in the end the added map layers bring a whole new level of awesome to sets and objects

Buddies]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:24:58 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly
So with a few hours to kill, I've been fiddling with textures and FBX. I noticed there was a slight problem with objects that had a standard material and a bump map applied to them whenever I turned on realistic shadows in Muvizu. Call it what you like, but I'm calling it 'flying dog muck syndrome', where the combination of texture, normal map and specular levels play havoc with the material in Muvizu turning it a sort of sun dried 'doings' colour.

I also noticed that FBX files are powerful beasties and models with realistic textures applied to them...sort of seemed out of context with the style of the characters. With this in mind I've been looking at toning down and 'tooning' up my textures, so a total repaint of the current scene I'm working on was called for applying some hand painted textures as well as making new bump maps, specular maps and fiddling with the gloss and reflection levels in 3ds Max before import into Muvizu. One thing that I learned is to avoid generated specular and diffuse textures like the plague and hand paint the lot, takes a bit more time but I think it makes an improvement in the finished set and models.

Below is the current scene I'm working on with new 'toon textures', complete with two versions of the same stool...excuse the pun...model. The one to the left with 'FDM' Syndrome and the one to the right the corrected version.

]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:10:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb Dylly wrote:
Finally managed to get a model finished. One thing I noticed with Max when making emissive maps is not to use a light map or indeed variations of black or white. Instead i had to use a simplified version of the texture map. So far opacity is still giving me headaches...and I'm totally stumped as to what 'shinies' are? Come on lamb...let me into the secret?

Finally I have lamps that both glow and shine!


shinies is my slang for shiny things

think of the phrase people use "ooo look shiny"


I will see if i can figure how to explain opacity have you got an alpha layer defined on the opaque map? this is usually the main thing you need so say its a window with some bars on it you would define opaque areas as white alpha and the metal bars would be black you also would need to do this on the actual texture using a map it should work fine that way. Buttons one pushes unfortunately changes with software package
edited by urbanlamb on 21/10/2013]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:05:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb ]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:32:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from fazz68 ]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:19:24 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Mike_Num_5 Dylly wrote:




Wow! That's awesome! ]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:16:00 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly
Finally I have lamps that both glow and shine!
]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:45:23 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from urbanlamb
anyhow glad your figuring it out ]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:51:47 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3113-fbx.aspx Message from Dylly
Applying normal Bump Maps is not a problem. I managed to sort out the emissive maps...but transparencies are causing me incredible headaches! Particularly an emissive map used in conjunction with an opacity map.]]> Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:58:07 GMT