These are my last year's artwork.
Made them using Blender 2.5*
still a noob though.
enjoy!!



This post has been edited by QoMPLoT: Sep 1 2012, 12:06 AM

can i wat is ur rig spec average here becoz my rig slow 4 all kind off heavy 3d

This post has been edited by xboxrockers: Sep 1 2012, 12:20 PM

My riq spec is on my signature. You need high processing power (at least quad-cores) & good dedicated GPU in order to have smooth object panning/moving in viewport. Always view in wireframe mode to increase fps.

hi sifus...

hope someone can advice me on this. this is 3dsMax related

i have a terrain built using the terrain command in 3dsmax. i need to do a series of road going in the area, some are elevated but some will need to cut through the terrain.

so far i just pulled the vertex points of the road and extrude. the road is basically no problem...

my problem is, how do i create retaining walls along the edges of the road? i tried duplicating the line from the road, and enabled thickness to it. but doing it this way some parts of the line got twisted etc. so i imagine this is not the correct way

so what is the best and correct way to do such a project?

pls advice and thanks in advance

Create a line, like a path of the road, then make a very long road.
After that, click on the road convert> editable poly, in modifier list, find path deform (wsm).
Click on pick path then click on the line you created, play with the path deform axis to get what you want, very easy.
Play with the percent to move the road. hope it helps.
Please make sure your road has enough edges to bend.

EDIT,
Basically same way to make the wall you mentioned, sorry didn't see that.

This post has been edited by entei00: Oct 4 2012, 12:29 PM

thanks for the info. will try out later see how it goes

Wow look real

This post has been edited by scen: Oct 8 2012, 04:16 PM

looking to build my own machine for 3D purpose

apart from the best i7 within my budget, what else i need? a quadro? cheapest quadro can do the job? what about SSD harddisk? necessary?

hmmm nice render.. vray settings is a headache for me =(
any good starter tutorial?

my suggestion is go for gaming card first, after another 1 or 2 years only switch to quadro.
Im using quadro 5000 which is very costly, if you really want to go for quadro, aim for mid to high range quadro card,
low cost quadro doesnt seems help a lot.
if you want, can go for ssd. if no budget, hdd is enough.

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Added on October 13, 2012, 4:55 pmvray is really the easiest and fastest rendering engine available.once you get use to it, it really could come in handy
http://cgpersia.com/ has a lot of tutorials, just search for vray tutorial for max/maya, got a lot there

This post has been edited by entei00: Oct 13 2012, 04:55 PM

thanks for the reply

a i7 processor or a xeon? i'm pretty noob about specs

mid range quadro as in...

thanks

learnt 3ds max by myself as a hobby (and a dream of making movie?lol)
for around 9 months during my free time after work (i learnt the basic of 3ds max via the internet few years back and now picking it up again ).
designed & made my own gundam while learning through youtube and google.

well, i think the below is the best i can do now with the knowledge i have currently.





















maybe can give me some feedback for self-improvement from all seniors here, Thank you!

*updated with wire-frame and my first time cg creation using photoshop

This post has been edited by gundamsp01: Oct 20 2012, 01:05 PM

Wow.. Thats very nice..
care to share wireframe, interesting.. how long it takes you to build?

wireframe? have to go back to my house and screen shot from my pc, i think around 40,000++ polys with turbo smooth for some rounded part, if remove those around 34,000++ polys

coz i learn during my free time, and design at the same time, so around 3-4 months for this project? with around 2-3 hours per day whenever i off work

for each shot, it needs to run around 30 min+, so now i headache with how to proceed to animation with 24fps if i want to do it as i learning how to animate it

and now try to learn how to use photoshop for some effect in those cg like photo (darn, photoshop is much harder compared to 3ds max)

xeon can combine 2 processor which makes rendering faster.
If you got the money, go for imba spec XD, 12 cores 12 threads .

For mid range quadro i mean quadro 2000 and above
more info:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/workstation-solutions.html

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Added on October 16, 2012, 1:46 amLooking good for a hobbyist, wanna go fulltime? XD


This post has been edited by entei00: Oct 16 2012, 01:46 AM

thanks for the reply

is one quadro 4000 better or 2 quadro 2000?

btw what is imba spec?

fulltime? have an IT job at hand, can only go part time with my hobby now, in hope one day can make my own animation just by watching tutorial online and learn from it...

and hope that someday, someone will notice and maybe (MAYBE!) give me a chance to make an animation movie? sort of...hahahahahahaha

This post has been edited by gundamsp01: Oct 16 2012, 10:23 AM

Answer for your question:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=928265
It depends on how you're going to use them.

Imba spec as in Top specs of pc > 10k. LOL, perhaps its too simplified XD
Here is an example of what i mean:


Ofcourse you dont have to go crazy like that. for beginer, try to sharpen your skill before going to those tools, because no matter how good the tools are, if you do not have the skill to use them, its pointless.

Good luck

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Added on October 18, 2012, 3:43 pmCan see your passion in there, you have what it needs , go and pursue your dream


This post has been edited by entei00: Oct 18 2012, 03:43 PM

thanks there for your info

i actually did have a look at the T7500. a lil confused about the spec. i can go for SSD with one SATA hdd correct?

a little bit confused about the hdd configuration

also, if i go without, should i go for RAID?

Yes you can go for a SSD and a HDD both in a pc, no problem.
Not sure abt RAID, sry =(