John wrote:
>>Texture maps are image files that you bring in from...
>
> Wow - thanks a lot for that explanation - I really appreciate that you
take
> your time to help me - I hope I can return the favour one day :o) I will
go
> look for the books you recommended.
>
>
>>Everything that I've heard says that you don't really need a super
>>expensive graphics card.
>
> Sounds great (and cheap :o)
>
>
>>How much empty space do you have on your hard drive(s)? and have you
>>defraged your drives lately? Are they fast drives? Cleaning up your
>>drives and making more continuous space might help some too.
>
> I have about 500 GB (two 250 GB drives) but they´re pretty filled up -
so I
> will delete some old stuff and do a defrag tonight. I guess thery´re ok
> fast - they´re SATA drives - but I don´t rememer exactly which kind.
My suggestion would be to maybe get a couple of the external usb drives
to keep stuff that you really don't use much. I've got a couple of them
and I keep most of my old content on them.
> I am not doing animations (yet) - but I will of course take your advice
on
> "planning the work". I have a problem with creating the different
buildings
> in different files - because when I ex****t my buildings as 3ds files -
and
> then im****t them again - some stuff is missing, and the materials are
gone.
> I don´t quite understand why, because I haven´t made any changes on the
pc
> between the ex****t and the im****t procedures... Is this a known bug? Or
do I
> just need to read a book on that subject as well? :o)
Just save the individual files as regular max file and instead of doing
a straight "im****t" - do a merge. Like I think I mentioned before I
don't do much with max myself - so I forgot that it's im****t function
didn't include max files and that there was a separate merge function.
I am thinking of getting back into max. I played around with it a bunch
back in the days of R2&2.5 but then got frustrated trying to do
animation and having problems with a Pinnacle Systems miroVIDEO DC30pro
card I bought. After trying to get this card to work for a year,
(Pinnacle Systems has/had horrible customer service) I got too
frustrated and gave up on doing this stuff. I later found out that the
card itself wasn't the problem, but that; that particular card didn't
work well with the chipset of the motherboard that Dell used in the
machine I had. Later when I got back into learning/playing with 3D
stuff, I ended up using some of the inexpensive lower end stuff -
Infini-D, Carrara, Poser, Vue Esprit and stuff like that. I have had a
license of 3DSM R5 sitting under my desk since it came out - but up to
this year didn't have a computer running an OS that it would work on.
Now I do, so I might start back learning R5. Right now I'm spending most
of my time looking for a new job, just quit the one I have been at for
the past 11 years a few weeks ago.
Good luck with your endeavors. You might think about setting up a web
site to show off some of your experiments. I started one a couple years
ago, but never got around to actually fini****ng it. I posted a link to
the site below - keep in mind I was learning html when I started this
thing and it's very simple looking.
Martin
http://www.geocities.com/industry3d/
>
> Again - thanks a lot for you help!
>
> John :o)
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