Guild of Writers

By the way, you can still find trials of 3DS Max 7 and 8 on the internet. Both work for plugin purposes.

When you export something (say in an .obj file, which is the best for single-asset exporting) from 3DS Max, it should include the UV map by default. You could also export a .3ds file or a .FBX file and Blender will probably be able to import happily.

Of course, when Cyan releases the plugin source it would probably take less than a month to get versions of their plugin out, either for Max 6 or Max 2011. But we just need that source, and that is going to take quite a while if all things remain constant. Bear in mind it's been over six months since we got the binaries. We're all in for the long haul.

Thanks. As I am only getting into his myself I really don't have an understanding if those poly counts are low or high or just right. From memory I think an age shouldn't really exceed 50,000 ploys. So from that calculation they could be about right but confirmation of this would be nice.

Question for writers: looking at the gazebo picture above, if I wanted to get the same lighting effect in Blender, how should I do that? I see several solutions in the tutorials, vertex painting, light baking, etc, but I don't know which one to use.

Chacal wrote:Question for writers: looking at the gazebo picture above, if I wanted to get the same lighting effect in Blender, how should I do that? I see several solutions in the tutorials, vertex painting, light baking, etc, but I don't know which one to use.

You almost definitely want a lightmap for the floor and the steps in order to achieve those shadows from the pillars.

As for the pillars, you might be able to do it with either the lamp itself, or fake it with vertex painting or a blend texture. Lightmaps are a bit overkill for something like that.

Alright, I've downloaded and installed blender and then did some importing. the only snag I ran into was that large cube thats in the center of the viewport. Is that standard? So far its looking like its importing okay and scaling nicely. I just have to figure out how to reapply the textures.

Albanvs wrote:the only snag I ran into was that large cube thats in the center of the viewport

Blender at startup inserts on default: one cube, one camera and one light.
You can delete them by presing "a" (to select all. Selected objects will become pink.) and "x" (x is for delete).

Doing that before importing stuff will probpalby help

Here are some more assets I've been working on. Most of them are currently being reworked to keep the aesthetic and rustic quality. If you see me in the Cavern staring at a wall I'm taking notes

Some more things

Gorgeous!!

Wed Nov 03, 2010

So you are coming back to this project after a 10 year break? Impressive.