[SSC-ADMRL]

is morpheus better than kazaa?

[WMCoolmon]

That might be considered a link to warez...beware the admins  ...

[Xelion]

What's morpheus, never heard of it.

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Max
Flash Developer
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[CougEr]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Good point - how do you blend explosions into renders? I never could get just one explosion graphic (as opposed to an entire animation).

Well, that depends what package you'd use.

In a pretty straight forward set up, say...
Illusion for particle animation (thus explosion) over Lightwave or max or under for this matter: forground  or background images.
 The essential thing is to render the sequencial  frames of the explosion with Illusion in TGA format. That automatically gives you a hidden alpha layer.  Easy then to use that in lightwave or max.  As well as that, Illusion will render just the alpha  images alone if need to. Once again, easy to do a compositing in lightwave or max. The only problem is maching the camera movement on both programs since Illusion does not import mot files and it does not export the cam movement file in any format. I have a method for that but it takes too long to explain it here. Of course, the easiest thing is to keep the camera still during the composited explosion. I don't know about TS, but in a general sense it should be able to render a compositing of the two images easy enough.



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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Zeronet:
Here's a explosion, created in illusion. Illusion though has animation program but if your good with the print screen button you can get a good one at the right moment.

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what the???  
save as bmp and choose the frame, you droofus  
OMG, print screen  

[Zeronet]

I,ve got a PIII 600 with 256mb Ram and all that stuff you mentioned. Although i,ve only got Truespace 1.0.

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
what the???  
save as bmp and choose the frame, you droofus  
OMG, print screen  

You need the full, $250 version to save as bmp.

[Fineus]

Why is it all the cool features only feature in the full thing  

Or at least the only feature I really want... oh well.

As for Kazaa, I use it - and I consider it file sharing, not warez - so thats ok  

[Inquisitor]

ADMRL,

I posted some suggestions to free/cheap modelling resources on the SSC BB in the FF forums (we don't see you post enough there  ).

What do folks think of Blender?

How about gMAX (i know it's kinda crippled for saving as anything other than it's format, but does it have good rendering capabilities?)?

I use Milkshape quite a bit for manipulating low poly models for use in games, it's like 20 bucks, the other two are free. There is also Strata3D (which I have only tinkered with), Truespace1, and a couple of decent terrain/landscape freebies out there (terragen comes to mind).

[Unknown Target]

Also, you'll need POF2COB, I have it if you want it.
Also, I am wondering how to do effects, like lasers, ion beams, etc. in TS1.How?

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
You need the full, $250 version to save as bmp.

oh oups, mea culpa  

[wEvil]

Gmax is 3Dmax without the renderer or advanced options of the material/shader editor.

It also has a far more limited IK and many of the modifier stack tools have been removed.

Other than that, it is identical in every way.

If you want to learn a high end package and plan on going into this field as a living, softimage currently offer XSI 2.0 for $500.



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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by wEvil:
Gmax is 3Dmax without the renderer or advanced options of the material/shader editor.

It also has a far more limited IK and many of the modifier stack tools have been removed.

Other than that, it is identical in every way.

If you want to learn a high end package and plan on going into this field as a living, softimage currently offer XSI 2.0 for $500.

I think Gmax won't save max or 3ds files, tho, only .gmax files...

[SSC-ADMRL]

I made a weird pic id like to post it here
can somone tell me how?

[Xelion]

click here on how to post

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Max
Flash Developer
Ps6 Beginner

[Setekh]

Get some webspace, Admrl - anything but Geocities