** NOObie's... all appz all questions **

use uncompressed AVi with default renderer. the file size will turn out bigger, but advantages are 1/4 rendering time, VERY high quality

 

That's a good advice, I'll check that out.

 

Hi noob friends.

I hope this is the right place for this question - I am using 3DS Max 7 and want to create a planet with an atmosphere like the one on the Endor Max file on this site. My planet textures are all ok but I have attempted to reverse engineer the material used on the atmosphere geosphere that the Endor author used with no success. I have even saved his material to my library and used it on a geosphere in another max file. I have a slight glow, but nothing like the full on Star Wars effect I'm after. I believe I have set the lights and camera up the same too (one targetted spot at a fair distance, cone covers the entire planet).

Can anyone point me in a direction for a tutorial on how to achieve this effect or if you know of anything obvious I may be doing wrong could you point it out?

Thanks in advance.

 

how do i disconnect part of my biped/model... The droid is gonna get cut in half by a lightsaber

 

Select that part and make it a group.

 

Hello

Can anyone suggest how to get the body and head panel detail on an R2 model (LW8.5) ? Say I start with a cylinder and half a dome for body and head - how could I get the blue panels slightly raised/lowered on the head and the rectangular body panel detail raised ?

cheers

 

Can anyone tell me how to rig characters downloaded from sci-fi 3D in the 3D Toolkit so I can animate them? I bought it 3 weeks ago and I have been slowly been working my way through the tutorials and the manual, but I cant find anything that tells me how to rig a biped for animating.
Thanks for any help.

 

Hello, im basicaly 0 at 3d compositing.But i want to ask some quastions.
With Maya, wich models can i import from scifi3d.com? what terminations of the files do they have?

Thx in advance

 

Here's a stupid question. I've rendered a landscape scene using Terragen. I want to make it renderable in MAX. I have set up in my viewport, obviously to map the camera movements. Did that looks great. Is there a way to make that animated background renderable in MAX so I don't have to composite in a separate program?

 

Nevermind I got it. I'm a complete idiot at times.

 

hey dood, what kind 3d max are you using. I mean what version or type?

 

Are there any tutorials on creating a quite large/ hi poly landscape in 3ds Max 8? I'm not really a n00b, but I haven't found any ways of doing this. Do you create a bump/ displace map in Photoshop, or procedurally? How do you paint the diffuse colour of the ground? How big (pixels) are textures for large virtual areas? How do you light it? How do you create grass as an object, but without too long a rendering time?

Sorry I'm asking so many questions.

 

Im not sure how colouring and texturing works in MAX but in BLENDER for a high poly landscape, I go into Terragen, play around with the settings, export to a .lwo and import into Blender, if MAX can import .lwo.

Hope that helps!

 

I agree with lightsaber monster. Here's a quick example of combining terragen with MAX. Either use a camera plugin from terra to MAX, or set your rendered Terra AVI into viewport in max to map by sight. Then drop your AVI into environment, presto.



http://savefile.com/projects.php?pid=456274

What do you think of this zoo? The lava is way to yellow. But I love the atmospheric mist.

 

how do u make these lights...any help is appreciated

[image=http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1669/lights0ya.jpg]

 

Many different ways to do that. Depending on results, if you can isolate those 2 panels, assign a object and material ID to them and just add a lense effect glow. Or you can connect 6 planes to make a cube, stick a omni in there and make the top plane 90% transparent.

 

thanks....ill try it

 

Hey guys. I'm learning Lightwave (8.5), and to practice I'm modelling a Canon XL1s, because I have one sitting next to me that I can try to match up to.

[image=http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/~phil/_Graphics/Facilities/Canon%20XL1s.jpg]

Here's where I'm getting stuck, applying a face to the sides of the handle.

[image=http://static.flickr.com/31/103654900_488a71d7f5.jpg]

I can't stretch a polygon over the points on that handle. I tried going around all of them clockwise and hitting P, and it says that Discovery Edition only allows 400 points in any layer. Is there something obvious I'm missing? Thanks folks.

 

I have a little question

Im planing to make a space batlle scene in 3ds max7 and i do not know how to import many ships, like an x-wing chaising a tie-figther over a star destroyer or someting.
so can anyone help me

Help is good

Thanks Eliaskiller

 

I'm using An Artoo deetoo mesh at sci fi.com for 3d studio max 7.

I am trying to get R2's heat to pivot like he's turning his head and when I try, His head comes off.

Can anyone walk me through the steps i have to take so I can link him up to move his arms and head at will, without it looking like he's all into pieces.

Here's the file I'm using:

[image=http://scifi3d.theforce.net/downloads/Star_Wars/SWCharacters/large_r2d2.jpg]

 

hey everyone. I need help with something. I not really a noob anymore with 3d modeling but how do you make lasers and explosions using blender. Its for my movie and it is turning out great but I need this so please help.

 

Go to the Blender website, go to those forums, post the question there, or better yet, search online with Google and you'll probably have your answer.

 

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP ME!! Can anyone tell me how or where to look or something on how to make a flyby sequence in 3ds max7 or any version? I really need to know of a tutorial or maybe someone could share their knowledge with me. PLEASE!!! AHHHHH!

thanks all

 

I am pretty new to animating in 3d. I have 3d Studio Max 6.0. I have animated a Sith Infiltrator flying through space with the camera panning from left to right. I have attempted creating an engine glow, but I do not know how to attach it to the ship, so that it follows during the animation. Either it stays in one place in space, or the whole ship glows when I attach the splines I created. So, can someone (1) tell me how to create an authentic Star Wars engine glow, and (2) how to attach it to the ship so it moves during animation?

Thanks much in advance.

 

I was wondering if anybody could tell me how exactly to use the Laser Script download from the Ultimate Sci Fi resources page. I'm new to 3d Studio Max and I can't figure it out. Thanks.