This is great! I'd love to see it shown off with some nice lighting though, instead of just the plain old headlamp you have right now. For example, some lighting more like this would be neat:
Can of compressed air and a fine brush (get it in a camera store) I wouldn't disassemble it though. If there's too much dust, think of putting your PC somewhere else. Maybe on the desk and not directly on a carpet, for example.
It's pretty straightforward if all you want is the transform. There's an example of an ascii format (.ASE) exporter in the maxscript docs iirc so I'd say just have a go at it and post back here if you get stuck.
This looks awesome! Which software did you use to paint? And from the highpoly, Do you extract any maps? for example, AO,Normal? if so, how do you composite them in the final texture?
For example, this is a good place to start. This is Max 2011 help, looks like you're using 2010 but they're similar. http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/13/ENU/Autodesk%203ds%20Max%202011%20Help/files/WS73099cc142f487557579ab9211cd73fdb9e4def.htm
Thank you for taking the time to write back, I will check out that video. Yeah, I also need to be more flexible and be willing to move the placement of the texture thumbs. Like in the Dumpster example, to the upper right.
Try what I suggested initially. In your example, you would select the one face that is on uv set 2 and copy it to uv set 1. Edit: Then you can just delete the 2nd set.
Can you give a specific example of what you're talking about? Because unless you're asking about legal responsibility, you're not going to get anything but opinions because that's all this question boils down to.
Yes, unfortunately this is a limitation of the shader. The refraction shader is a screen space shader, which means it can only refract what is on the screen, this can be problematic when other objects occlude the refracted material, and this is a good example of that.
TeriyakiStyle yeah that is what I'm looking for. I assumed there would be some standard naming convention for colours by this point in the history of the world. For example I could interpret your cobalt as royal blue and violet as purple.