3dsmax 6 : Discreet for dinner

[JIII]

hey I want some meat balls.

but usually this kinda thing shouls not be posted, the moderators do not like to deal with the possible flame wars that result.

[Signal2Noise]

It coincides with Digimation's newly announced max 6 particle plug-in "Spaghetti" and fluid dynamic plug-in "Tomato Sauce" ;)

[ndat]

Is this a joke? metaballs are pretty old stuff...

[Apt Pupil]

The mentioned shell modifier looks pretty sweet.

[Signal2Noise]

Originally posted by ndat
Is this a joke? metaballs are pretty old stuff...

*sigh*...the joke is: "Meatballs" typo instead of "Metaballs".

(But it's no joke about the Digimation PIs)

[Marsel Khadiyev]

I'm so hungry. Err, who's up for some warm Max 6 with bread? :)

[arctor]

if you want metaballs check out Houdini.....
I don't know how they will be implemented in max, but they are very cool anyway :)

[Ryan-B]

I've used the Shell modifier plugin since Max 3. It's not really new.

[Abraham]

I might be totally wrong but according to the pdf you can download at discreet it doesn't seems to be the "modeling" metaballs" but more the ones used to create the mesh in a fluid engine like Real Flow whice would be cool too anyway :)

[Rurouni]

is there a shell modifier plugin since max3? is that plugin respect vertex normals?
what i know that max5 and older can't save normals. correct?
is vertex normals and polygon normals the same thing?

[victor throe]

i hope they make the keyboard shortcuts for uv editing the same as the main ui in this version

[dell]

Hi does anyone have any idea when its going to be available?

[opus13]

word is august...

you know.. for the public beta. :annoyed:

[Ryan-B]

Originally posted by Rurouni
is there a shell modifier plugin since max3? is that plugin respect vertex normals?
what i know that max5 and older can't save normals. correct?
is vertex normals and polygon normals the same thing?

It was called "Solidify" and has been around since at least the Max 3 days. It was written by Andrei Zmievski. Here's his description of Solidify:

"Solidify is a modifer plugin that takes your surfaces and makes them solid. An easier way to describe it would be to say that it does extrusion along vertex normals. No more wrestling with extrusion or double sided materials, Solidify makes it a snap to give your surfaces thickness, with as many segments as you need. "

Maybe I'm wrong (not the first time!), but it sounds to me like the Shell modifier is very similar to Solidify.

[plaguelord]

NEW FEATURES??? MAX 6???? Must be a joke, that "new features" are only for a simply max 5.5 version...
with that kind of progress in 2004 we will have the Max 9.3 version... :thumbsdow :thumbsdow :thumbsdow

[Xilica]

i don't even know what metaballs are

i need to do some research ... :beer:

[ToddD]

I guess discreet is going to continue to ignore the nurbs implementation :annoyed: Shell modifier does sound just like solidify, I use solidify for cars, great time saver!

[Xilica]

yea that is one thing i'm glad about, saves time without having to hunt for a plug-in now that we will see shell in their

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