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       

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?

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

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

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?

i totally dont get these
C1 SATA 3.5 Inch 1-4 Hard Drives [Included in Price]

 
C2 SATA/SSD 2.5 Inch 1-4 Hard Drives add RM 0.00

 
C3 SAS 2.5 Inch 1-4 Hard Drives add RM 0.00

 
C4 SATA/SSD 2.5 Inch 5 Hard Drives [add RM 425.00]

 
C5 SAS 2.5 Inch 5 Hard Drives [add RM 425.00]

 
C6 2.5" SATA/SSD BOOT, plus 1- 3 x 2.5" or 3.5" additional SATA HDD add RM 0.00

 
C7 2.5 Inch SAS BOOT+ , 3 or 4HDD Total add RM 0.00