To the artists here

ColdSteel · #1 March 25th, 2002, 02:42 AM

Well, you can just forget about gmax.

After spending some time with the tutorials and deciding it was one pretty sweet program, I started looking for the renderer in there. Guess what? Yep, no renderer. And the real kicker is that you can't export it out in anything other than the gmax file format for which (you guessed it) there is no renderer support anywhere by anybody. Boy, was I po'd. What the heck were they thinking?? Avoid this one.

I downloaded Strata 3D Base (free with registration at strata.com) and have played with it some but I may go back to Moray or try some of the others mentioned here. Apparently there are no really good modeling/rendering choices unless you want to spend about $10K on the good stuff.

CS

Phoenix-D · #2 March 25th, 2002, 03:35 AM

"Guess what? Yep, no renderer. And the real kicker is that you can't export it out in anything other than the gmax file format for which (you guessed it) there is no renderer support anywhere by anybody. Boy, was I po'd. What the heck were they thinking??"

It's NOT a standalone modeling program! It's for making game mods, and the game has to have a specific gmax- "pak" for it to work.

Phoenix-D

pathfinder · #3 March 25th, 2002, 06:05 AM

Gmax: yeah, all you can do is in gmax "render" then take a screen shot.

unless of course you happen to have a game that has a gmax "game pak" for it....

wr8th · #4 March 25th, 2002, 06:33 PM

Thanks folks.

I'd like to try my hand at some of this. Unlike the fantasy figures that I've painted, I can put this to some use.

ColdSteel · #5 March 26th, 2002, 12:30 AM

I just found another one. it's called OpenFX and it's an open source project with binary distribution files for a variety of operating systems.

Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but it looks very promising based on the information at their site (openfx.org). The good news is that it includes a renderer as well as modeling tools. I like open source projects like this a lot so I'll try it out and post my experience with it here.

On gmax, I knew about the gamepacks but thought that was stupid since they only have one pack available which is for quake 3 and if I want to develop more maps for quake 3 I'm going to be using QERadiant like I always do, not the tempest pack. The only thing it makes sense for is weapon and character models. Now that I can see as very useful.

CS

candy kain mech · #6 February 8th, 2003, 06:36 AM

i lost my doga-l3 registration numbers can some one maybe be a nice guy and give me theirs for a short while until i find mine i dont want to pay another 40 bucks. thanks i have doga-L2 numbers if any one needs them.

Warhawk009@yahoo.com

The Canuck · #7 February 8th, 2003, 07:21 AM

i use MilkShape 3D which is pretty cheap, i think about 20 to 30$ canadian, because i also do models for mods for Homeworld and for the WW2 mod im doing for SEIV because i cant make the models i need for it in DOGA V3 unfortunately