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Off Topic => General Interest => Topic started by: Duo on February 20, 2004, 12:46:01 PM

Title: gmax
Post by: Duo on February 20, 2004, 12:46:01 PM

Can any one teach me how to use gmax?

Title: gmax
Post by: plymoth45 on February 20, 2004, 10:16:12 PM

wht is gmax?

Title: gmax
Post by: Duo on February 20, 2004, 10:30:03 PM

Its like 3dsmax but free

www.discreet.com/products/gmax/ (http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/)

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Post by: plymoth45 on February 21, 2004, 01:40:49 AM

oh, that would explain it, and i habe no clue how to use it

Title: gmax
Post by: Zircon on February 21, 2004, 07:34:12 AM

Im pretty well versed in 3dsmax but dont have any knowlege about gmax...

Im guessing they're pretty different as gmax is primarily a level/character creation tool for games...

Title: gmax
Post by: BlackBox on February 22, 2004, 05:15:55 PM

nope, they're almost the same thing... You can create animation in Gmax. (it's like a scaled down 3dsmax, they even look similar)

Zircon can teach you better than I could.

Title: gmax
Post by: Zircon on February 23, 2004, 05:24:38 AM

gmax® is Discreet's free game development level editor based on the world's best selling 3D animation platform, 3ds max™. Game companies can extend the life of a game by creating and distributing gmax "game packs", which allow game players to create, customize, and trade game content online. It has a subset of features from 3ds max 4, including Polygon & Patch Modeling, as well as texturing and character building tools. You cannot render with, or write plug-ins for the free version of gmax.

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It seems you cannot render with the free version...

Also by animations they could mean character movement etc etc, not actual movie sequences... For use in games...

But as said i dont know much about it...

As for teaching someone how to model... It's mostly try and learn and then try again to get better results... That's atleast how i do it...

Remember that old conestoga model, it2000 said it looked like a messed up screw  :heh:

I'll go look for it....

Edit: I found it  :P Really deep in the library, As can be seen it isn't pretty...
But things have progressed, dont you think...

http://www.bonetweb.com/Zircon/ancient/conestoga3a.jpg (http://www.bonetweb.com/Zircon/ancient/conestoga3a.jpg)

hehe, to think i thought someone would like to steal that thing  :heh: *sob*

The moral of the story: Things look like crap when you start out but can end up good with a few years of practice...

Title: gmax
Post by: Duo on March 01, 2004, 12:45:33 PM

Does any one know where I can get 3dsmax 4 or 5 trial version  

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Post by: plymoth45 on March 01, 2004, 12:46:04 PM

nope, i don't, sry