Autodesk 3ds Max

[Tomm]

Hey,

I thought I might have a go at some 3D modelling so I "aquired" Autodesk 3ds Max and had a play around. With some help from a tutorial on modelling the mace I came up with:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6954/firsta.jpg

For my first attempt at 3D modelling I am fairly pleased.

Takes around 10 seconds to render, maxing out my Q6600 @ 3.2ghz. Must take immense computing power to render even a rather short film ^^ (At ~29FPS it would take neally 5 minutes to render one second of a very simple scene like mine on my computer)

Some screenshots of Autodesk 3ds Max:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3028/autodesk1.png

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6453/autodesk2.png

Had to install it on Windows XP as it did not play nice on Windows 7 (Just gave me a C++ runtime error).

Thanks,

Tom

[Flisker]

Very nice, the GUI seems very complex to use but I'm sure it gets easy once you know what does what.

[Tomm]

Played around with the lighting a bit and managed to get some better lighting (Although it now takes over 45 seconds to render :P)

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4069/firstnewlighting.jpg

[Jamesy]

45 seconds? I rendered something for 27 hours once... and then immediatly overwrote it by accident.

:(

[Metric1]

I have a copy of that program at the office, I don't know how to use it, looks too complex for me!!