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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Snakeseyes on June 23, 2002, 10:42:41 am

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Post by: Snakeseyes on June 23, 2002, 10:42:41 am: I don't know if any one else posted this before, but Discreet, the creator of 3ds Max, made gMax, a somewhat shorter and free version of 3dsMax, for moders. There is a poll there for what games it should support.

The link is here (http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/).
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Post by: Darkage on June 23, 2002, 10:49:34 am: It has been posted allot of times before;)
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Post by: wEvil on June 23, 2002, 10:51:22 am: *waves softimage|xsi flag around*

oops..it costs $7k....
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Post by: Stealth on June 23, 2002, 10:55:50 am: lol, thanks for trying to help though man :)
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Post by: Blitz_Lightning on June 24, 2002, 05:50:26 am: How big are the differences between the free version and the full version?
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Post by: Styxx on June 24, 2002, 08:06:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by wEvil
oops..it costs $7k....

Pfft. 7k.

* checks wallet *

Thinking again... :doubt:
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Post by: Nico on June 24, 2002, 12:01:14 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Blitz_Lightning
How big are the differences between the free version and the full version?

Gmax has no render nor video post effect tool. Iuses it's own file extension too. Still it's perfect for modding.
... if only...
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Post by: Black Wolf on June 25, 2002, 07:09:30 am: If only... what? If by that you mean if only it could be exported, well, it can. You need to find the GMax to Quake three model export plug in, then use deep exploration to convert to cob, then cob to pof to convert to pof. It's messy, but workable.
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Post by: Nico on June 25, 2002, 07:32:20 am: nope, I meant, if only there was a gmax2pof :p
don't wanna use no crappy cob.
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Post by: Styxx on June 25, 2002, 07:55:12 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
nope, I meant, if only there was a gmax2pof :p
don't wanna use no crappy cob.

LOL! Yeah, now that the source is out we gotta bug the V guys to release that damn plugin. Hell, I'd almost rather have the plugin instead of the source... :p
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Post by: wEvil on June 25, 2002, 08:22:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx

LOL! Yeah, now that the source is out we gotta bug the V guys to release that damn plugin. Hell, I'd almost rather have the plugin instead of the source... :p

I think there might be copyright issues with the MAX SDK.

Its always been a rather closed format....now dotXSI, on the other hand.... ;)
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Post by: Styxx on June 25, 2002, 08:31:27 am: Quote
Originally posted by wEvil
now dotXSI, on the other hand.... ;)

Okay, so you volunteer to make an export plugin for XSI to POF? ;7
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Post by: wEvil on June 25, 2002, 08:37:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx

Okay, so you volunteer to make an export plugin for XSI to POF? ;7

i could - it would take me five years (and thats just to translate a box!!)

Naa..i'll leave it to someone more qualified.... *pats styxx on the back* ;)
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Post by: Styxx on June 25, 2002, 08:58:50 am: Quote
Originally posted by wEvil
Naa..i'll leave it to someone more qualified.... *pats styxx on the back* ;)

Meh, I have no idea about how to write XSI plugins. Heck, I never really looked into MAX plugins... :p
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Post by: wEvil on June 25, 2002, 09:35:37 am: well XSI is fairly easy mainly because the whole formats' open.

MAX is a little more tricky (procedural file format for one) because discreet are a bunch of twats.
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Post by: Shrike on June 25, 2002, 06:55:07 pm: ......

Do you ever not insult someone's product you don't use? :p