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[Disaster]

Well that tutorial sucks.
NEVER EVER EVER use a displacment map. EVER.

As long as you know how to use a displacement map you are fine. Don't just paint black and white on a canvas and call it a displacement map. Thats not good enough.

http://mcmlinks.ocscottie.com/Tutori...es/texmap3.jpg

Thats a good example of one.
However, if your going to use displacment maps, your going to still have to model. When using a displacement map, you can not have overlapping or inverted slopes. So, use the displacement map as a starting point.

[Hunter]

Depends what the map geometry is mainly made up of. If its mainly indoor then you may as well model the ground and organic objects without a displacement map.

But if there is more organic geometry, like ground and hills then you could use a displacement map to get the BASIC shape.

[Alwin Roth]

Did I miss something here?

New person, asked for help, then banned, seem like an Ok person, what happened?

[Higuy]

Did I miss something here?

New person, asked for help, then banned, seem like an Ok person, what happened?

Apparently it was a alt account but no ip matched up with another account. :|

[kid908]

all round consense on gmax as a good freeware program, and mapping is easy, its the bases and caves that get a little difficult, especially creating faces, I hate creating faces. though said earlier, rhino is good make very good looking objects more photo friendly, but solid works I know is very technical an percise and is made for more 3-D technical drawings. actully in my experience Rhino has similar end results to 3ds max and gmax dispite a much diffrent style of use.

If you know what you're doing, ALL end results would LOOK the same, but may not be the same. I honestly HATE Rhino; It's annoying to me. If you work on advance techniques, not just gaming, you will have very photo friendly results. This is a famous render that's been spread around.

Actually, Rhino can be use for precise "technical drawing." In fact, Rhino uses nurbs, which is mathematical averaging of control points (vertices) to create a curved surface. All hard surface models can be nurbs, but the results may look bad if not done correctly.
Rhino 3d:


Laughing_rabbit, here's a max vs rhino vid on doing the same thing.
http://designreform.net/2009/05/3ds-...-side-by-side/

[CodeBrain]

you should post in amys thread
be like
"banning masters while he's posing as a girl on valentines day? Well that's just rude"

There is your explanation.

[Inferno]

Lol masterz is so cool. He asks to be banned and then makes alt's to make himself feel better.

Also he is apparently gender confused now.

[sevlag]

There is your explanation.

masterz isnt very mature :| im sorry but he isnt

[teh lag]

That's enough out of this thread then.

[SnaFuBAR]

mental.