Hey everyone, after a long hiatus i tried to model in 3DS Max again and gain some beginner expierience, but i just cant wrap my head around some things. I can't understand when you connect different objects with edges or when you just leave them as different objects and move them close/into eachother. This seems like a…
@count23 Correct. Extruding and rotating the new edge into place ensures that the longitudinal edges remain parallel, until they are joined with the surrounding geometry. Constraining the scale operation by length and height ensures the width remains consistent and this helps prevent unintended surface deformation. Without…
Hello @FrankPolygon, Thanks a lot for taking the time to view my post, I have been struggling with this problem for a few days now. The 3D model that I am creating will not be very close to the player so the first example from your post will work the best here. I have attempted to replicate what you had show and have…
Hi ;-) First off I want to thank all the contributors in this thread, it is really helpful and I often just read all the stuff in here and learned a lot already. I am a 3d max user and just recently started doing 3D again (after a long brake, 20+ years, the era of Half Life modding and I remember polycount from back than…
Nice break down. Couple things: 1. That orange highlighter look is baller. Totally going to steal that :D 2. If you wanted more geo on your LP than your version of the cage has atm, how would you go about adding that back in? Would you recreate the entire length of the optic housing? It's not difficult. In my mind though,…
Hey guys. So I'm making this robot and having troubles with a certain part. It's frustrating and where I live no one knows how to hardsurface good (don't even mention using max at all). I've read many hardsurface guides, but because each situation seems too specific for my inexperienced mind, my head simply can't grasp how…
Hi everyone, my first post here, and I can't believe how useful this forum is. I thought other ones were helpful, but there are so many amazing resources here. I'd like to show you a project I'm working on, and an area I'd like to improve I'm trying to build an AT-AT walker and I decided to actually model the panel lines…
@Brick Top - This was done very quickly(rusted) with no blueprint so its incredibly inaccurate!!!(its crap basically :P so i shouldn't really be giving you any advice but i will anyway :poly142: :P) So once again you have abit too much geometry where some areas have way too much, but it is a good improvement. Here's what i…
Well of course, that's not how it's intended to be used - you don't go back making crazy changes beneath it or move it around, but you can change proportions, or some values of previous modifiers, there are many cases where it works and it's very useful. It's just as buggy as plenty of other features or modifiers in Max.…
Nope. I understand I'm limiting myself by not utilizing all the tools max has to offer, but I prefer not to work with a stack on models. Aside from mesh smooth and symmetry from time to time (I usually collapse the sym). I use modifiers constantly through out the process of modeling but I've never found it very useful to…