Most racing games I've read about use a dedicated track modeling system, not purely geometry out of a tool like 3ds Max. They use splines and their own meshing/UVing system, tuned to what they need. For the bumpiness there, have you tried reversing the triangulation, so the diagonals run the opposite direction in each…
I had xp 64 on a p4ht machine at work, I used it for about 2 years with no issue, the only reason I was forced to change was because the office's free virus software didn't have a free 64 bit version. I was running max 8 and ps cs2 on it with no issues, it was a dell machine though and had a quadro graphics card. My new…
If you have a bunch of pieces to render out, I also suggest setting up a local backburner server on your own machine (Launch server, monitor and manager) and set RTT to network render. That way as soon as all the jobs are sent you can continue working in 3dsmax while it renders in the background. If you use Mental Ray it…
Doesn't Germany already have a pretty strict set of restrictions on games and the like, KDR? I seem to (vaguely) recall news about various games being banned there. To my knowledge, no game has ever been banned in the US. I know a few that have gone unreleased because of their content (I played Thrill Kill on a modded PS…
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