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Making Your Sky

Posted on Mar 12, 2014 | Last Updated Mar 12, 2014

Series on making your 2D Sky and 3D Skybox in 3ds Max for the Source Engine.

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sky, 2d, 3d, toc

Understanding How to Set Up Paths

Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | Last Updated Jun 21, 2018

Many new users of WWMT find themselves confused when it comes to the setup of WWMT. This is primarily because there are some specific paths you must set correctly for the automation of WWMT to work.

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file system paths

Recovering a Displacement Mesh

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 | Last Updated May 31, 2013

This page explains how to recover your displacements from a Sculpt Mesh that was never committed.

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Arch Primitive

Posted on Aug 18, 2015 | Last Updated Apr 22, 2020

The Arch Primitive is a scripted geometry plugin for 3ds Max that creates arches for world geometry in BSP games such as those made on the Source Engine

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arch, geometry, brush

Converting Displacements to Models

Posted on Oct 25, 2019 | Last Updated Oct 26, 2019

Steps on converting a collection of displacements to props.

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displacements, convert, props, mdl, render to texture

Viewport Freezes in 3ds Max 2017+

Fix: Update to the latest NVidia drivers.
Posted on Apr 13, 2017 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2017

The Max viewport can freeze and become unresponsive with Nitrous in DX 11.

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3ds max, viewport, freeze, hang, 2017, 2018, nitrous, directx shader, dx11, NVidia, windows 10

Displacement Proxies

Posted on Jun 18, 2018 | Last Updated Mar 29, 2020

Displacement Proxies allow teams to work more efficiently with displacements in multiple files.

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displacement proxy, sculpt proxy, xref scene

Export Multiple Texture Skins

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Sep 22, 2019

You can give your model multiple skins (textures) so that the same mesh can look differently in different uses.

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skins, texturegroup

Bitmap Crop and Coordinates in 3ds Max

Posted on Apr 8, 2018 | Last Updated Sep 2, 2019

Tutorial on using the BitmapTexture crop function with models and world geometry.

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crop, bitmap, coordinates, uv, bitmaptexture

Texturing World Geometry in 3ds Max

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 | Last Updated Oct 13, 2015

Basic tips on texturing world geometry in Max, especially for those with a Hammer background.

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texturing, world geometry