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61 by Flipside
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LOL Well, it's like all things, once you are familiar with it, it seems like the only right way of doing it.

I started on Lightwave, and I simply cannot get the hang of 3DS Max, it all seems too 'numerical' and long winded for me :(
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62 by Vasudan Admiral
Elite SG Elder
It means you must have intuitive powers to be able to tell where the commands are.

:p
Ok i have just painted and tested my model and it has some problems. So, I will probly just make another model, since I know how to skin them now. And I say the most easy way to skin a model is to paint it in truespace with a freespace texture and the go to Segeltech and change all of it.
Oooh, don't use segletuch - it generates _really_ screwey pofs. :( I never had it generate one stable pof actually.

Anyway, i'd suggest that you use TS for all skinning purposes for now - till you get a good grasp of how its mapping system works. After that, learn Lith, and you'll be able to texture just about anything. :)
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63 by aldo
The Blessed One
Black Wolf wrote:Yeah. Lith sits at the right han of Max in #D Modelling heaven. Thou shalt respect it.
Presumably it's changed since the version I used, because that one was pretty much f#####g useless compared to max - simply slapped on a basic cubic mapping.

64 by WeatherOp
SG Admiral
It's that bad? Wow I just mainly use the subsystem part to show where my thruster glows are, but since I found modelview again I don't have to. I really broke a big rule of modeling ther other day. While I was looking on how to skin my model I put all the turrets on it without testing it first :( . Now I find that I made some mistakes and it won't work... Trial and Error I guess.
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65 by Black Wolf
Ascended SG Graduate
aldo wrote:
Black Wolf wrote:Yeah. Lith sits at the right han of Max in #D Modelling heaven. Thou shalt respect it.
Presumably it's changed since the version I used, because that one was pretty much f#####g useless compared to max - simply slapped on a basic cubic mapping.
Well, TBH I only have Max 3, and if that has a UVMapper, I'm yet to find it. But Lith can do other sorts of mappings as well - I mainly use Planar, box and cylinder, but there others.
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67 by Flipside
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Meh, don't see it being a problem, it'll be the only one in Machina-Terra, and it's not as if he stole the name, he had no idea you were using it :)

I'm sure it won't make the name any less original, or MT any less enjoyable ;) After all, someone made a ship called the Ragnarok not that long ago, which was the name of the Pre-TI campaign we were working on ;)

68 by WeatherOp
SG Admiral
No.. I have no problem in changing it. :D Since I found that other site I have plenty of names. I have it posted somewhere in this topic. If anyone has named a ship the same name I name mine I will change it, no problem :) Plus I know there are some names that someone has not used yey :wink:
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70 by aldo
The Blessed One
Black Wolf wrote: Well, TBH I only have Max 3, and if that has a UVMapper, I'm yet to find it. But Lith can do other sorts of mappings as well - I mainly use Planar, box and cylinder, but there others.
Max 3 should have both the standard UVMapper tools and also the UVUnwrapper that was strangely omitted in v4 (I needed a plugin for that).

Besides which, lith can't do mapping on a per-face basis, can it? And that's what you need - planar mapping on groups of faces.

72 by aldo
The Blessed One
Black Wolf wrote:Yeah, it can do all that.
so they've added a face selector part, then? Last time I used it, it was simple one big UV map for the entire model, and you could move the UV-ed vertices but not, for example, assign an angled & scaled planar UV to a (visually selected) group of faces. i.e. there was no interaction with actual model.

a few things...

75 by Star Dragon
SG Guard
1.) Weather, don't dump your ideas (I find them amusing)...

2.) SEARCH (when HLP is back up, if ever, he he) is your friend for Model Dumps (you'll find you're not the ONLY one who's done a Shivan jug :razz: )

3.) The Gigas Oowns J00!

4.) The Gigas Owns Joo until the Gargant shows up! :badgrin:

5.) The TSJX Apocalypse , is that the SAME one I use for target practice? Some day when I learn how to turret properly I will fix that sucker (possibly a New Year's resolution)...

6.) The is only ONE Ragnarok... FF8 is 7EEt!
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