risktaker
12-19-2003, 12:03 PM
I thought it would be nice to get some commets.
First of all I wanna "Hello" to all ya wizards!
I´m deeply impressed of what´s possible for you guys.
:bowdown:
Fortunately I got the link to this forum, so I was able to see the light...
You guys allow me a few words?
C´mon - this is my first post...
Thanks!
I´m in that 3d-thing since the days of the old C64. Oh yes – there was at least one program that could do it on that pocket calculator. It was called Giga-cad and sold as bookware here in Germany (any Germans remember? Around 1984). It did amazing things with 64K ram. Imagine: The complete construction program and all object data together <48K …whow! It took a while to rotate some poly´s but you where glad to be able to do it at least somehow. So one didn´t lament.
A few years later, I earned my own money after school, I bought myself a used amiga 2000 with a TATAAA harddisk! (None of my friends had one, I was king!)
That was great fun. Expierience the wonderful world of colours in 3D. And what amazing number : 4096! Me and my friends where using “Reflections”- software which later was available on PC too (turned into Monzoom and finally is no longer distributed).
It was really cheap, (even though we took it for really expensive, keep in mind we had only pocket money to spend) about 400.- DM (~200 $)
On the amiga it was quiet impossible to test-render full scenes. I usually rendered the pics (I didn´t even think about animation) overnight. That was cool, waking up and the first thing to do was to check the new pic!
Anyone who did it on an Amiga knows what I mean, I´m sure.
After a while my friend got a pc. I never wanted one but I can still remember (must have been around 1990) the first look on his desktop. Tiny TINY TINY pixels! (800 x 600!) I was addicted. We bought Reflections 4 as an update on the Amiga Version and I used to hang around at my friends room waiting for him to leave the screen, just to take over the steering wheel. Never made any pic to be proud of, but man, that was fun these days (and nights!)
Bored? The pic is coming, hold on!
Around autumn 2000 I finally got my pc. YES, it DID take a long time, so what? I was out of 3D for more than 5 years and it took me a while to get familiar with Reflections again. Soon after getting a new job (no, not related to computers) I picked up a nice guy who told me about Max. I visited him and – you surely suppose – was addicted. Now I´m hangin´ around at his room, stealin´ his time.
I decided to buy myself a new car and came up with the idea of a Z3 2.8 coupé. Since there are not so many produced (15.000) it took me a while to find one. (I couldn´t afford a new one, but knew exactly which colour and so on). To shorten the waiting time I tried to do one in max. That was kind of difficult, considering the small amount of time on my new friends machine and the complete lack of max-knowledge (my friend usually is not around while I´m using his PC, so I can´t ask) …
I searched the internet for some tuts on making a car and found one in which a car was made using quad-patches. I did the whole car that way, A PAIN IN THE ASS! If I only knew what I know now…
By the way – I found a Z and drove it about 20.000km until I finished the Max-version…
And this is the result:
http://home.telebel.de/jeschmi/Artwork/final.htm
I really would like to hear some critz since it is my first max-model ever. Currently I´m working on various cars (X5, DeLorean, my own design sportscar) I´m trying to get Curtis Newton (aka Captain Future) to look familiar to the cartoon version and I`ll start my own head on saturday. That´s it for me....
First of all I wanna "Hello" to all ya wizards!
I´m deeply impressed of what´s possible for you guys.
:bowdown:
Fortunately I got the link to this forum, so I was able to see the light...
You guys allow me a few words?
C´mon - this is my first post...
Thanks!
I´m in that 3d-thing since the days of the old C64. Oh yes – there was at least one program that could do it on that pocket calculator. It was called Giga-cad and sold as bookware here in Germany (any Germans remember? Around 1984). It did amazing things with 64K ram. Imagine: The complete construction program and all object data together <48K …whow! It took a while to rotate some poly´s but you where glad to be able to do it at least somehow. So one didn´t lament.
A few years later, I earned my own money after school, I bought myself a used amiga 2000 with a TATAAA harddisk! (None of my friends had one, I was king!)
That was great fun. Expierience the wonderful world of colours in 3D. And what amazing number : 4096! Me and my friends where using “Reflections”- software which later was available on PC too (turned into Monzoom and finally is no longer distributed).
It was really cheap, (even though we took it for really expensive, keep in mind we had only pocket money to spend) about 400.- DM (~200 $)
On the amiga it was quiet impossible to test-render full scenes. I usually rendered the pics (I didn´t even think about animation) overnight. That was cool, waking up and the first thing to do was to check the new pic!
Anyone who did it on an Amiga knows what I mean, I´m sure.
After a while my friend got a pc. I never wanted one but I can still remember (must have been around 1990) the first look on his desktop. Tiny TINY TINY pixels! (800 x 600!) I was addicted. We bought Reflections 4 as an update on the Amiga Version and I used to hang around at my friends room waiting for him to leave the screen, just to take over the steering wheel. Never made any pic to be proud of, but man, that was fun these days (and nights!)
Bored? The pic is coming, hold on!
Around autumn 2000 I finally got my pc. YES, it DID take a long time, so what? I was out of 3D for more than 5 years and it took me a while to get familiar with Reflections again. Soon after getting a new job (no, not related to computers) I picked up a nice guy who told me about Max. I visited him and – you surely suppose – was addicted. Now I´m hangin´ around at his room, stealin´ his time.
I decided to buy myself a new car and came up with the idea of a Z3 2.8 coupé. Since there are not so many produced (15.000) it took me a while to find one. (I couldn´t afford a new one, but knew exactly which colour and so on). To shorten the waiting time I tried to do one in max. That was kind of difficult, considering the small amount of time on my new friends machine and the complete lack of max-knowledge (my friend usually is not around while I´m using his PC, so I can´t ask) …
I searched the internet for some tuts on making a car and found one in which a car was made using quad-patches. I did the whole car that way, A PAIN IN THE ASS! If I only knew what I know now…
By the way – I found a Z and drove it about 20.000km until I finished the Max-version…
And this is the result:
http://home.telebel.de/jeschmi/Artwork/final.htm
I really would like to hear some critz since it is my first max-model ever. Currently I´m working on various cars (X5, DeLorean, my own design sportscar) I´m trying to get Curtis Newton (aka Captain Future) to look familiar to the cartoon version and I`ll start my own head on saturday. That´s it for me....