Thomas S Nelson
04-09-2003, 07:03 AM
Hello,
Does anyone have experience with this pipeline. I have the opportunity to do some texture work with a shop that is using Max and Deep Paint. I would like to work in C4D v.8 because I have more experience with the program and no time at all to get up to speed with Deep Paint. I used Max at a previous job for about a year and a half and I am sure that I will be able to remember enough to navigate around. I got C4D a little over a year ago because of the price performance ratio and another job that wanted me to work in the old (1994?) unix program Amazon Paint.
As a test I've tried working with an old .3DS file and realized immediately that I was constrained to 8.3 filename conventions - problematic but not insurmountable. The maps came into C4D with the luminance channel checked - don't know why. However, I was unhappy to note that the UV mapping seems to be not quite the same and C4D also handles smoothing differently. Do I need to go back to C4D v.7 and use the 'BodyPaint 3D <-> 3DS MAX integration' plugin from Maxon to get this to work properly or is there something else that can be done from version 8?
Thanks for any help.
tsnelson
Does anyone have experience with this pipeline. I have the opportunity to do some texture work with a shop that is using Max and Deep Paint. I would like to work in C4D v.8 because I have more experience with the program and no time at all to get up to speed with Deep Paint. I used Max at a previous job for about a year and a half and I am sure that I will be able to remember enough to navigate around. I got C4D a little over a year ago because of the price performance ratio and another job that wanted me to work in the old (1994?) unix program Amazon Paint.
As a test I've tried working with an old .3DS file and realized immediately that I was constrained to 8.3 filename conventions - problematic but not insurmountable. The maps came into C4D with the luminance channel checked - don't know why. However, I was unhappy to note that the UV mapping seems to be not quite the same and C4D also handles smoothing differently. Do I need to go back to C4D v.7 and use the 'BodyPaint 3D <-> 3DS MAX integration' plugin from Maxon to get this to work properly or is there something else that can be done from version 8?
Thanks for any help.
tsnelson