great tip

Hello RenderRam! I am having a problem skin wrapping. I modeled a basic trousers shape for a character, animated it with cloth to get wrinkles and then modeled in detail the trousers in a new geometry. Trying to skinwrap the new geometry to the old trousers and after frame 8 the skin wrap stops working, it messes with the geometry as if you put crazy amount of displacement... what is going on? could you help me?

I just found a way to use expert mode correctly! Use the expert mode, but also show the Command panel (make a shortcut for it). Soooooo much space!

that's actually really interesting.

C'mon, give this MAN A TON load of money for this hack! <3

hahah dude, i love you work as a teacher. thanks!!

Here's a Before and After image of Tom Ford Foundation using ChatGPT www.artstation.com/artwork/qJN2Zy

Did you ask it about how convincing your last attempt in a single thread? I mean, it might bias it to answer that you've fixed everything and therefore now it is better. What you should do instead, is to ask in a fresh new conversation to get an unbiased opinion.

AHHHH you really should have shared the before GPT advice and after, would love to see the difference

Thanks for sharing Vjeko! As said @LookRender earlier, ChatGPT only gives me generic advice on how to get more photorealistic results, not a detailed, tailored analysis of my image like yours. What ChatGPT version are you using? What prompt?

so you maybe spend half day of potentially completely made up feedback lolz

Thank you!

Not an artist, but a very cool use case for AI. Great video!

This is actually a game-changer. 😯It's a perfect example of how AI can help us improve our skills and speed up the whole process. I really like this video. 👍

That's an excellent use case for integrating AI into your daily workflow. Bravo and thanks!

What would be a good prompt to ask chatGPT to analyze a network so deeply, for me, it only makes a couple of fairly generic comments

So you are not showing the two different results?? I was dieing to see that!

You are a genius, could ve see the before and after images?

I think... It's a good thing to replace politicians with AI 😶‍🌫️

@renderram how do you understand "mean pixel value" and "standard deviation of pixel values"?

Vi'š, nikad se ne bi sam sjetio pitati GPT tak nešto. Koristim AI za tisuću drugih stvari al' ovo mi otvorilo oči. Hvala ti!

I never about thought getting art critique from fuckin AI. I feel dumb.

Man! This video is mind boggling! Thank you very much. Cheers 🍻

now I'm totally going to do this, when I totally don't have time for it 😂 The wink moment made me laugh. Great video!

lol I even rate my artwork with chat GPT.. gives a brutal answer which is great. much more honest and non biased view.

Nice one.

#1 Thing that doesn't make sense..... Autodesk doesn't develop 3ds Max anymore, only 3rd party plugin developers do. #2 UI doesn't scale like a modern program when you use it on monitor resolutions above 1080. #3 Wireframe colors don't match color picker colors. #4 They removed Mental Ray and it's 999 free render node licenses. #5 No 3D camera solver..... it's a 3D program.... #6 Charging for a new program every year when they hardly change the program.

A 3dsmax expert is just someone who’s perfected the art of endless workarounds to keep it kind of functioning while in a project. True mastery! LOL

I've got one for you - how about when you select "skip existing frames" in the render settings and Max is too stupid to recalculate the "time remaining" estimate. This has been broken as long as I can remember and I've been using Max since the mid 90s.

You literally saved me! I spent the whole night trying to solve this problem and looking for a video that could help. All I wanted was to animate a screw tightening at a 45-degree angle, but it turned out to be way harder than I expected. Haha!

I was wondering if there are any ngons left after cutting

I was wondering if there are any ngons left after cutting

​ @RenderRam changed job/production workflow vray>fstorm, and I have really been enjoying your content, please keep it up! and yes, a tutorial on how you 3d scan products with just a phone, and your whole convertion workflow would be very, very appreciated. Have a good one!

Do I really need to manualy set up dimensions for my plan that I will be using for a reference image? "Fi aspect ratio to bitmap" works for vray decal, it cant't be hard to do it on a plane :D

Who still uses video post? It was great 20 odd years back!

Hi, I I was wondering if there are any ngons left after cutting

I use UVW Mapping Clear always, i even have it pinned. why? because it removed the auto seems and whatever, i just am sure that i'll start fresh. ___ I use max also 20 years and, the expert mode made me laugh LOL, it's a joke xD

The most annoying thing about 3ds Max is the interface. The modelling menu on the right hand side is over-over-over-and-over-organised. Sometimes we need to click 5-6 times in order to reach the command we need. I just click "X" on my keyboard and write what I need to create instead of going through all that tabs and folders. Who needs those tabs like "geometry, shapes, lights etc" under the "create menu" for example? Is there anyone who does not know the difference between a circle, a cylinder and a circular light? Will someone get confused if all of those were under the same dropdown menu? Or will I click "wind" instead of "wall" if I see them in the same dropdown menu? Even in "geometry" tab there are sub-categories such as "compund objects, stairs, aec extended etc"... Everything needs to be simplified. And also the "collapse/expand" option in the edit window... Why? Why? Why? It regardlessly collapses and expands. Why not make it solid and just fade away the unavailable parts so that our middle finger will remember how much it should roll the mouse to reach the "detach" button for example? I use it for more than 10 years and I have a work around for all of these but to tell the truth the interface is extremely mixed up and I would love to see it much more simpler.

Without using UVW Mapping Clear, generic nodes like "falloff" does not work properly sometimes. Also when exporting a model to a stand-alone GPU render software in order to be able to use the property of that software which equals to "tripilanar mapping" or "stochastic tiling" (in terms of vray) properly without any messing around, sometimes I need to use UVW Mapping Clear. I did not even mention the solution it provides for the problem that occurs when exporting ground planes to D5 Render. Sometimes because of the existing UVW Map on the geometry, the grass material in the D5 library (which is very lightwieght) renders completely flat rather than having the fur effect.

Brilliant video and great humour, taken me a while to stop laughing! The "I just don't get it!" way of looking at things opens up a lot of questions and answers in the comments. Absolutely agree with the locks situation, im using them every day and as a part of the standard interface, you shouldn't have to go through so many mouse clicks each time you want to lock something. Fixing this would be such a huge time saver! I'd even consider it a major upgrade!

I hate that I cant snap Slice plane to vertices of geometry I'm working in Edit poly. That makes zero sense to me. If there is a way to do it, please tell me I'm stupid and show me the way how to, I will highly appriciate :D

no expert

90% of max is just ancient junk

Expert mode used for modelling with hot keys for example, so yes it seems you're right about not be that much of an expert)

THANK YOU! That Link clicking makes me insane! Click click click click.

Houdini hides old legacy tools when they come up with something better. It doesn´t break old scenes since those can still use those old nodes and if you are checking out tutorial with weird old legacy tools you can still make those visible from console. Maybe autodesk should do something similar. But wouldn´t hold my breath 😄

Precision in applying unit measurement while using Move, Rotate like Sketchup. Is that possible in Max? I hate that you can also preview the measurement using default measuring tools but does not have the ability to edit it unless you use bunch of keyboard buttons hahaha

I totally understand your feelings about the Lock Link Info, is crazy how they could not add a buttom for all at once, we have made a mini script for it! ahahah your videos are always dope tks!!

3:10 just a dummy for dummies😂😂

UVW Mapping Clear is something I use almost daily in game development. I think it's critical for users who don't need UVWs for their meshes for a variety of reasons. Having UVWs on a mesh that doesn't need them doubles and triples vertex counts in a game engine like Unity.