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Title: Priceless
Post by: brandx0 on April 15, 2009, 09:52:32 pm

Very off topic I know, but I just had to post it.  I was digging through some old stuff and found this, it's the first ever model I made in 3DS Max back in about grade 5 or 6.  I handed it in for a school project.  Man this takes me back.  So here we go, I present the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross (It transformed too, I remember, though not too well)

(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2670/cidmedia1y.jpg)

Apologies for the quality.  Had to take a picture from my phone being as I don't have a scanner.

EDIT: Aug 20 1996, had the date written on the back.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: StarSlayer on April 15, 2009, 10:34:03 pm

 :yes:  Valks rule the sky

That reminds me, I think I still have a print out of a PzKpfw VI  Tiger I made using CAD in high school, probably buried in a drawer some place.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Titan on April 16, 2009, 06:00:57 pm

 :eek2: Is that detail texture or actual model?

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: brandx0 on April 17, 2009, 04:42:42 am

Some of both.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Snail on April 17, 2009, 12:01:31 pm

So if you're a student studying 3d design do you get 3DSMax for free?

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: brandx0 on April 17, 2009, 12:40:52 pm

No, but you get a discount

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: TopAce on April 17, 2009, 01:37:33 pm

And how much did it take for you to model that? Including everything such as digging up references, texturing, making that background, etc.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: chief1983 on April 17, 2009, 02:30:29 pm

My bet is that it's a hijacked image for the background, Brand's even done a few FotG renders like that :)

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Snail on April 17, 2009, 05:50:33 pm

They used to have a free version of 3DSMax but they got rid of it... Blah. :blah:

Doesn't the full version cost like a thousand dollars or something?

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: chief1983 on April 18, 2009, 01:47:48 am

I guess if you're using it commercially, probably something like that.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: brandx0 on April 18, 2009, 04:10:46 am

Yes, it's several thousand dollars.  The background is an image that came with stock 3dsmax, I think it was called sky2.jpg or something.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Angelus on April 18, 2009, 10:54:02 am

Quote from: Snail on April 17, 2009, 05:50:33 pm

They used to have a free version of 3DSMax but they got rid of it... Blah. :blah:

Doesn't the full version cost like a thousand dollars or something?

There is still a "free" version of Max - Gmax (http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax), it lacks the rendering ability and other stuff, but all modeling features are there.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Snail on April 18, 2009, 01:20:43 pm

Wait, I thought they got rid of GMax a while ago?

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Black Wolf on April 19, 2009, 12:14:23 am

They're not supporting it or anything AFAIK, but it's been released and it's free - they can't unrelease it or slap a price on it after the fact, so it's still around and still legal.

Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: chief1983 on April 19, 2009, 02:46:53 am

Hmm...releasing something for free and then trying to unrelease it...where have I seen that before...bah it's probably not important.  Rest assured we'll never pull something like that.