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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 12:31:48 pm

Title: GMax
Post by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 12:31:48 pm: For time now, people have been complaining about the price of good modeling/rendering programs. Well, Discreet also released a prog named GMax. It pretty much reminds the good ol' 3dsmax but has less features. Buuut, it's free... :D
Title: GMax
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 14, 2002, 12:36:26 pm: Yay!

*downloads*
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Post by: Martinus on October 14, 2002, 12:37:15 pm: Sorry to steal your thunder Ten but GMax is widely known about. You should read its limitations though. It is possible to export as quake2/3 format models and then convert to .3DS or .COB but you need a converter which you have to pay for.
Title: GMax
Post by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 12:39:58 pm: I know about its limitations. (that's why I'm using the REAL max). Just some people here still haven't found a modeling program.
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Post by: Stunaep on October 14, 2002, 12:41:39 pm: Use blender.

*hides*

anyway, this is widely common, so search is A-1 SUPAR
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 14, 2002, 12:50:07 pm: Shows what I know...
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Post by: Stunaep on October 14, 2002, 12:56:59 pm: well, at least one person got hapier
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 14, 2002, 01:01:27 pm: I'm easily pleased :)
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Post by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 01:03:52 pm: Yes, this is actually a new goal, assigned to "metal dices" team. Khm-khm, I am the leader of course. The borg corp. will be satisfied.

Anyway, glad I could help. Also I wonder why anyone haven't mentioned it here before.
Title: GMax
Post by: Sandwich on October 16, 2002, 08:46:32 pm: Kabump.

Since about 3-4 days before this topic was sarted, I was experimenting with GMax, mainly for the puspose of getting a nice Merkava Mk. III into Renegade. :D But so as to not put the carrige before the horse, I've been going through the Discreet GMax tutorials available for download at the GMax site. They're quite well-done, but since I haven't gotten through them all yet, I can't say how comprehensive they are - it seems to be very comprehensive.

Anyway, I had next to zero knowledge of 3DS MAX prior to diving into GMax, but I've learned a ton. I highly recommend downloadign it and the tutorials, help files, etc - just so you can become familiar with the modelling method and interface used in the world's most commonly-used and best pro package, 3DS MAX.

Unfortunately, it can't export into any file format that anything else can read. So basically, if you wanna learn 3DS MAX (like me), but prefer learning via well-done tutorials (like me), then get GMax and start learning!

It also will help in future game MODding, as pretty much everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. ;)
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Post by: Ryx on October 17, 2002, 03:20:32 am: yep, those GMAX tutorials are excellent.
The tutorials that comes with MAX are pretty good too. ;)
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Post by: Ulundel on October 18, 2002, 07:21:47 am: Right. It's good to start with GMax cuz the real Max is what I call difficult.
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Post by: Stunaep on October 18, 2002, 07:29:30 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Right. It's good to start with GMax cuz the real Max is what I call difficult.

nah. If you know what a one or other function does, then it's all down to creativity. Like maths.
Title: GMax
Post by: Sandwich on October 20, 2002, 04:05:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
If you know what a one or other function does...

Operative word being "if".... :rolleyes:

:p
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Post by: Ryx on October 20, 2002, 04:21:05 pm: I recommend the tab panel for MAX. It makes life a bit easier. Just too bad it isn't enabled by default.
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Post by: Silver_Scythe on October 20, 2002, 08:50:22 pm: Does anyone know if there is a free program that can open max files?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 20, 2002, 10:45:50 pm: Uh... GMAX is it. .3ds is used by most modeling software as a sort of standard, but .max format is proprietary.
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Post by: Vertigo1 on October 21, 2002, 12:03:11 am: heh, been meaning to give it a try for a while now since I've been using MAX 2.5 for years.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 21, 2002, 12:09:31 am: Meh. I ask you- if it's nicish, free software, and it's legal to own, then what's the point? Takes all the fun right out of it- never mind that you KNOW there's a catch in there. In this case, making the catch obvious aggravates the situation.

Hell, if it was a functional modeler and still was free, I'd go download the illicit warez version just on the principle of the thing.
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Post by: Vertigo1 on October 21, 2002, 12:18:21 am: Ohh boy...

*leaves thread before it gets closed by T*
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Post by: Shrike on October 21, 2002, 12:34:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Hell, if it was a functional modeler and still was free, I'd go download the illicit warez version just on the principle of the thing.
Warez bad. Next it comes up we'll discuss a short vacation.