[xenthorious]

How do I horizontally invert a mesh in MAX (e.g. Creating a pair of shoes from the first and only shoe).

[Galemp]

You want the Mirror tool. It should be on your main toolbar, to the right. It looks like two triangles on either side of a red vertical line. You can choose what plane to mirror it on and whether you want to make it a clone, another instance of the object, or just a reference of the original, or if you don't want to copy it at all.

[xenthorious]

Awesome.  Never used that tool.  Thanks so much man. =)

[Nuke]

while were on the subject of max, anyone know how to do the equivelant of truspace's lathe tool?

[Galemp]

Max has a Lathe tool that will let you take a spline curve and make a solid, shell or surface from it. Look under the Create panel under Splines, I think... or perhaps it's a modifier.

[Nuke]

cool, thanks galemp
this is one of the things that keeps me from using max as much as truespace.

[Vengence]

Trust me man, 3ds ROCKS! It was well worth the $600 for the educational version. Once you learn it, almost anything is possible.

[Nuke]

i see its potential, but you see i have full mastery of truespace, and can do more in it at this stage. so i can design an awesome ship in truespace, or bump around blindfolded in max trying to figure out some stupid little thing that would take me 3 seconds in truespace. but im getting into it slowly. i have a pirate installation im working on for nukemod, totally in max. and a few half finished models for ferrium that im still too unhappy with to show (even on the ferrium internal board). im in no hurry to learn max but i figure playing around with it and trying to make models in it is a start.

[Vengence]

A tip, right click . Brings up of stuff that really speeds up things:

[Nuke]

nice mech

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Nuke
i see its potential, but you see i have full mastery of truespace, and can do more in it at this stage. so i can design an awesome ship in truespace, or bump around blindfolded in max trying to figure out some stupid little thing that would take me 3 seconds in truespace. but im getting into it slowly. i have a pirate installation im working on for nukemod, totally in max. and a few half finished models for ferrium that im still too unhappy with to show (even on the ferrium internal board). im in no hurry to learn max but i figure playing around with it and trying to make models in it is a start.

That's what I first thought. You'll only appreciate how clumsey TS is untill you adapt to Max. Trust me.

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Galemp
Max has a Lathe tool that will let you take a spline curve and make a solid, shell or surface from it. Look under the Create panel under Splines, I think... or perhaps it's a modifier.

IIRC it's under compound objects (near the ulp! booleans)

[FireCrack]

Maya FTW!


Too bad it doesnt have much support

[Vengence]

Maya is still very good though. I find it a very good capital ship maker because I was able to make entire hulls from one polygon!