Stupid Khor may i know which college u r studying currently?

College? hehe... I've just finished my SPM last year......
Registered to MMU Foundation in Creative Multimedia,
waiting for the registration day...

This post has been edited by Stupid Khor: May 24 2006, 09:06 PM

cool! means u learn Lightwave base on online tutorials? Or u hv friends teaching u?

click blindly at first... then remembered the way I learn photoshop, so I started to follow some tutorial... while following them I tried to remember the functions of all tools, so that I can make my own models next time... now still a beginner, and those are simple models I can model... hehe...

well, I really hope I can be as good as them (those in page 1 - 42)... T_T

Don't know anybody asked this question before. What machine are you guys using for modelling and rendering 3D? What are the specs like? Thanks.

hehe... my machine is a quite lousy...

Pentium 4 socket 478 2.6 Ghz HT
256MB + 512MB DDR 1 RAM
GeForce MX4000 128MB AGP

going to change a pc soon!
wish mum allows me to buy a GeForce 7600 this Sat...

This post has been edited by Stupid Khor: May 25 2006, 03:00 AM

ermmm... I have another question here......

have you guys ever heard about a machine that does non-realtime rendering jobs? as I know it's in a cube shape, but I never see one before... and I heard that with just some seconds, it can render an image which takes hours to render with ordinary graphic card... besides, Blizzard company has broke 20+ of them in the making of Warcraft (not sure it's Frozen Throne or wow)...

well, I just want to know what's the name of that machine... any idea?

This post has been edited by Stupid Khor: May 25 2006, 02:50 AM

you can see how boring i was..
nothing to do after exam

you have a nice start.. i think you should smooth out your model like applying something like meshsmooth inside the 3dmax. Donno what LW called it.

erm subpatch?

yup... Subpatch...
but I still couldn't control its weight map nicely yet... >.<

i hate subpatch!!!.. ah

y u hate sub patch? it is very usefully esspecially when moddelling character and others daily living object too.

may I know instead of using subpatch on polygons, is there any way to model using curves? (like using nurbs in maya) how to do that if so?

Found this outside my house!
haha.. jk
dono why suddenly start to model this.
hehehe...... guess what is this.
20min of modelling based on 2 reference pic
10 min rendering both..
No GI, only FG in max8
mental ray renderer used
din plan to render it properly cos very time consuming.
Hope to get a better pc next yr

not very happy with it, the cd hole too big,feel like the cd will fall out anytime. but lazy to change it liao
mayb next holiday

wow, all so pro, i can only do low polygon unrealistic thing right now. just started to learn 3d one month ago.

anyway, i am not rich boy so i dun have expensive 3d tools to play around. i am using Blender3d (Free/OpenSource)

low poly character in blender


low poly character in game


This post has been edited by mclelun: May 26 2006, 01:29 PM

i like ur low poly
errr... u can ... go to get .....ahem ahem ..the..ahem.. DEMO version XD

cos it makes ur object totallly different from the one without subpatch mode..
or isit my lack of skill

by the way nice low poly character there.. how u do the texturing??

to control the subpatch smoothing, you have to modify the subpatch weight and subpatch division...

for subpatch division, press [O] in modeler, you can modify it in that option panel...

for subpatch weight...
- in the right bottom side of your modeler, select SubPatch Weight in the drop down box...
- depend on your situation, you may select some points/polygons
- go to the Map tab, press the Weights button and fire up the numeric panel
- change the falloff mode if you need to
- either use your mouse to drag or control the weight using numeric panel...

hehe... that's all for controlling subpatch I guess... subpatch is actually a useful tool to do organic modelling... hehe... though I know the way to control it I still couldn't do it well... must practice more...

New project!! Keisuke's project.D Rx-7