Well magic number is 160, 192 (add 32 or 64 on top of 128) or just go with 256 high walls and fill the area with trims, pipes , natural coverage etc to make ur environment look bulky or fill :D . even without that 256 is ok for average envirnonment you can go as high as you require.
I made the transition from Maya to Max about a year ago, and I found Eat3D's 3DS Max 101 DVD invaluable. Great value, and it covers just about all the Max functionality you could need, from modeling to lighting, some rigging and animation and even some of the cloth tools. I'd highly recommend it.
Quick update for something I was considering. I'm not sure if I like these, because they block so much of the scene. Dot-111 tankers being left behind to rust. Some rail beams, tools, etc. on the sides. Been playing a lot of The Last of Us and Crysis 2 though, so a makeshift quarantine environment is still on the mind :)
Just remember that the 16th and 17th is the weekend of carmageddon so I truly don't know how bad the traffic will be that weekend. 405 from the 10 to the 101 is closing down (which is quite a distance and quite the congestion already) so you might want to do it somewhere else or possibly even reschedule...just a heads up…
Tried messing with it a bit more. Changing it to an unlit, additive material took it down to 27 'base pass' shader instructions and 111 vertex shader ones. That definitely sounds much more efficient. Anyway - should I sort of disregard the amount of vertex shader instructions, and only pay attention to the other number (59…
Hi Sammy 101, If you PM me ill send you my skype name. I'm on most of the day (Time zone +01:00), but i have more time to chat in the mornings. Im a huge substance fanatic, and if you want to discuss substance im all for it. (I'll learn from it as well ;) ) Cheers
Tnx for feedback rogelioD. I increased wall height. Now it is 256 units tall (was 192). Looks much better now. I tried increasing floor size but I think the current size suits perfect. One floor piece is 256x256 units so the width of the floor is 512 units (from wall to the window).
[ QUOTE ] green tooth isn't that hard of a image to make, seems a bit silly to make a file for everyone to use. and depending on on the model, greentooth might look a tad different than others. [/ QUOTE ] tru, but consider the one in Xenobond's avatar. compare to Valandar's. lots of variations... it was just a thought....…
Yes sadly that's a weakness of Bush's. You'd think in his 8 years of tyrannical rule he would have gotten past dictator 101. Incidentally it would have solved the Guantanamo problem also. EDIT: If anyone is interested in a translation of what he yelled and when... [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWt3-kPBQ4A[/ame]