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#26 2005-12-09 8:52 pm
- Ice Cream Man
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Re: Best 3D Application? (non-free ones)
I like lightwave 3D. It has been used in Jurasic Park, and to make those little M&M guys on those comercials. I like it, but i'm a little partial seeing as it was based in Topeka KS, and I used to play there after school, the sales rep was a friend of the famliy. I love the VideoToaster.
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#27 2005-12-10 12:06 pm
- avkills
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Re: Best 3D Application? (non-free ones)
Ice Cream Man wrote:
I like lightwave 3D. It has been used in Jurasic Park, and to make those little M&M guys on those comercials. I like it, but i'm a little partial seeing as it was based in Topeka KS, and I used to play there after school, the sales rep was a friend of the famliy. I love the VideoToaster.
Ever try Allen Hastings's first 3D app for the Amiga? Videoscape 3D... fun stuff. Had to enter nearly everything by hand.
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#28 2005-12-11 8:10 pm
- RoboCop001
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Re: Best 3D Application? (non-free ones)
And now for a 3D Studio Max question......
There's a tool in Truespace 3D called the "sweep" tool. Is it at all like the one found in 3DS Max? If not, then what is the equivelant tool?
I'm following a tutorial, at least part of a tutorial anyway. It's a truespace tutorial but I'm doing it in 3DS Max. It's the only Stargate tutorial I can find. The only part I'm trying to follow is the construction of the chevrons. I can do the rest.
If anyone can direct me to a 3DSM Stargate tutorial, that would be nice. 
I just think it's one of the best designed movie props. And it's just so cool! Hah. ANYwayyy....
So that's it. Here's the link to the tutorial.
http://www.quantumss.freeserve.co.uk/QSS3D/Tut_SG.html
And can anyone tell me what the hell is going on in the 5th picture? It's the one right below the angled shot of the gate with the white triangles on it. I know what is supposed to be done, but what are those smaller white shapes inside the triangles?
Ok that's enough outta me.
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#29 2005-12-11 11:07 pm
- Ice Cream Man
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Re: Best 3D Application? (non-free ones)
avkills wrote:
Ice Cream Man wrote:
I like lightwave 3D. It has been used in Jurasic Park, and to make those little M&M guys on those comercials. I like it, but i'm a little partial seeing as it was based in Topeka KS, and I used to play there after school, the sales rep was a friend of the famliy. I love the VideoToaster.
Ever try Allen Hastings's first 3D app for the Amiga? Videoscape 3D... fun stuff. Had to enter nearly everything by hand.
-mark
Yah, there was a room at NewTek that overlooked Topeka. We played with it, they had an Amiga set up with like 12 gigs fo space, which in the 90's was allot of space. And they were testing the portable VideoToaster editing box then. It had slots in the back for cards, and there was an LCD display on the front, and you could lift that up, and there was room for three hot swappable drives. It was like a foot and a half long about 6in wide and maybe 5-6in tall. I remember it like it was yesterday. The CEO collects old, like retro TV’s. Their door security was handled by Apple Macintosh computers with Biometric. I loved that place. They had an arcade and a gym in the basement. And they had a whole level of doom, designed after NewTek HQ for them by ID.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -- Isaac Asimov
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#30 2005-12-14 8:09 pm
- RoboCop001
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Re: Best 3D Application? (non-free ones)
I know this isn't exactly the 3DSMax forum, but can anyone help me with making a spline with the line tool, and then add a Sweep without it just making it into an outline?
I draw a triangularish shape with the Line tool. Then I add a Sweep to it. But it just adds faces onto the lines, and it doesn't fill the shape in.
How is the sweep tool supposed to be used? It doesn't seem to appear in the modifier list unless it's an unmodified spline.
(read my previous reply for more info...)
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