[redsniper]

nothing too special, just a nice looking perseus. the cool thing is, I rendered it from gmax.

[Carl]

it's okay.

[Unknown Target]

Self casting shadows! Whoopee!
But what's wrong with the nose?

[Carl]

no smoothing.

[Setekh]

It's a start for sure, and the shadows do indeed make it look great. But yeah, can you get smoothing working in gmax? Does it even support it?

[Nico]

Of course Gmax supports smoothing. It's for making game meshes, remember?
What I wonder is how you can render, there's no renderer in Gmax afaik?

[redsniper]

I was waiting for someone to catch that
There's a third party renderer called Yafray (Yet Another Free Ray Tracer) and various programs that can export to yafray from 3d modeling programs. There's a MAXscript utility thingy that converts a gmax scene into the proper text format. A little program that converts the text into an .xml file (the kind that yafray reads) and then yafray itself which makes the render. It may sound like a lot of trouble but it's pretty easy once everything's set up right.
btw, I was wondering if and how I could get different FS2 effects into gmax (beams, gunfire, subspace portals, etc.) would I just have to make a plane and texture it?