HELP!!!! WITH 3DS MAX 6!!!!!

jackson · Oct 2005

Alright, this is probably something simple but i cant figure it out. whenever i insert an image in to a plane, the image only shows up in the perspective view point.
e.x. I Created a plane, in the front view, and inserted my bitmap image as the material. But the picture doesn't appear in the front view

only perspective!
please help me. thanks in advance.

PaK · Oct 2005

you probably have the wrong draawing mode on the viewport with no texture, hit f3 (i think) until you see something.

-R

jackson · Oct 2005

ill give it a try, firing up 3ds now...

CMB · Oct 2005

Where it says perspective,left,right,top,ect right click and change it too smooth with highlights.
Problem solved!

jackson · Oct 2005

no good. all i did was go to create>standard primitves> plane. set it to 1 segment long and 1 segment wide,adjusted the size to the same size as the picture, but divided by ten to create a smaller window (a tutorial said to do this to avoid massive planes) and inserted my material, i also made sure to select "show map in viewport"

jackson · Oct 2005

CMB ill try your way now...

jackson · Oct 2005

CMB your suggestion worked. thank you. now 1 more, if i need to take it off of smooth, will i lose the ability to work with my picture, say i wanted to use "facets+highlights" (which is what this tutorial said to use)

jackson · Oct 2005

while working i noticed 1 other issue, probably something simple but im a newb,in when i rotate my picture in the front view (along X axis) the picture in the perspective view gets progressively darker, how should i fix this? at 90 degrees it is completly black

jackson · Oct 2005

well, im making progress, thanks for the help! night everyone

CMB · Oct 2005

I can't stress how important it is too expieriment!
If you ever get stuck you would ask here...theres not realy a way you can screw up 3dsmax by expierimenting...everything is fixable.
But lock your UI's realy helps from losing your windows.
Oh and next time edit your posts :P
-cmb

Ninjas · Oct 2005

You should post in the correct forum next time also.

Seyiji · Oct 2005

QUAD+1 FTW...The Force is Strong within you young one but I sense you lack discipline in the arts of editing and proper capitilization!

The proper location as hinted by Ninjas is 2D & 3D Discussion BTW

jackson · Oct 2005

Yes Seyiji, I do. I'm not much of an internet person , so editing never crossed my mind. As far as the proper capitilization, would you believe I'm in an AP English class?

HELP!!!! WITH 3DS MAX 6!!!!!

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