You can use the Smoothing Groups tools to manage surface shading. F1(Max Docs should be your first port of call for the basics) https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-1244162D-A063-486C-BD9B-168466F6488B-htm.html
Hey guys. About time for a status update but first I'd like to say that I am impressed by everyone's progress. @monkeydonuts246 Yours is coming along nicely. I don't know why but to me he looks small, but powerful. Me likes :) @Starfish235 Nice hard lines. Looks super clean. @Pearse I think he looks much better with…
AMD FX 6 core 3.5GHz 16gb RAM AMD 7970 4gb Win 7 1tb internal disc 250gb internal ssd / keep my working files on here 6tb external storage Tried increasing virt ram but still getting same error. Only had photoshop and the suite open too.
Pictures would help... *still rendering the back shot Been pretty busy building a gaming rig for my little bro, took a hell of alot longer since he only had £200 xD. Haggling and alike got me £400's worth of parts (for £200). * Oh fuck you photo bucket, there contrast was spot on. Highpoly is pretty much done. Deleted most…
Doubt there are any mobos that support x2 5000, but dont have PCI-E. Get the extra 2GB of ram, should run you $50 or so. Then upgrade that videocard, for about $80-90 you can get a 9600 GT http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=9600%20gt&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=RATING $100-120…
Nice samples Mezz. By all means, if anyone has their own pictures they'd like to share, feel free to post them. Bonsai are interesting little creatures, and I was very surprised to learn that their shape and design are not natural, but are in fact heavily manipulated (trained) during their life to make them look the way…
Thank you! ^^ That is kinda my goal with that tool. The native Maya UV tools have been lacking for so long. Autodesk keeps saying "we´ve improved the UV tools" for every new version of Maya since they implemented Unfold3D - but in reality the updates are miniscule at best. If you have an Autodesk account you can vote for…
Hmm it seems to get worse the more he works with it. Which in that case I wonder if that may be ram related? Is that the 4 gig or 2gig version? Remember the GPU also will share the main memory so that could be in effect as well. Edit: Also was that with the Turbo mode turned on in the bios? Normally the CPU runs at 1.3,…