Yeah i played with Truespace for a while. If you're going into character animation or general animation you're best bet is Maya or Softimage|3D but the software is very expensive, so the uni will be unlikely to have it.

Not sure about plugins for max - best person to ask is chris - msn him sometime.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono This is some imaging I did for NASA, in the initial stages of creating a next generation Mars rover. No need to congratulate me, I know you're all astonished.

what are we supposes to be astonished at?

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Originally posted by Ste know where i could get a fractal plugin from anyway? or any graphical plugins for 3d max?

Theres no specific plug in for creating the roots as seen in Tim's piece altho there are a few different method. Easiest and most simple way is to create a cylinder and apply 'bend' and 'twist' from here simply taper the edge. Duplicate the shape then tweak the shape, connect to growth point and so on. Also make sure you add plenty of shape smoothing. Level 3 is about right.

Not the best way but defo. the easiest

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Originally posted by dstrukt Theres no specific plug in for creating the roots as seen in Tim's piece altho there are a few different method. Easiest and most simple way is to create a cylinder and apply 'bend' and 'twist' from here simply taper the edge. Duplicate the shape then tweak the shape, connect to growth point and so on. Also make sure you add plenty of shape smoothing. Level 3 is about right. Not the best way but defo. the easiest

yeh i thought he would of done it that way but then coz there are so many maybe there was a fractal based plugin.

how do you make bevels (or apply general smoothing to squarey objects) smooth they always look shit for me unless you have a trillion sides

also how do you create light halo's? you know, like a light in a fog or something

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Originally posted by Ste yeh i thought he would of done it that way but then coz there are so many maybe there was a fractal based plugin. how do you make bevels (or apply general smoothing to squarey objects) smooth they always look shit for me unless you have a trillion sides also how do you create light halo's? you know, like a light in a fog or something

You wanna add a mesh smooth to the object with myabe 3 literations depending on ur CPU, as for lighting thats a mother of a topic. Check out some of 3d tut. sites fella. I kinda drifted out of 3d this last year so my skills aint what they used to be.

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Originally posted by magnasoma Photoshop is as big, or as small, as your imagination. That is all.

I have a big imagination, but not big skills with the software (yet).

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Originally posted by dstrukt You wanna add a mesh smooth to the object with myabe 3 literations depending on ur CPU, as for lighting thats a mother of a topic. Check out some of 3d tut. sites fella. I kinda drifted out of 3d this last year so my skills aint what they used to be.

hehe will check them out, but i usually learn by pissing about with things.

and i chose not to install the help files, haha, nevermind

cheers for the tips tho.

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Anyone know where I can find a tutorial to pull something like this off? Don't know what the technique is called, so I can't exactly Google it.

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Originally posted by Turbonium Anyone know where I can find a tutorial to pull something like this off? Don't know what the technique is called, so I can't exactly Google it.

Image Manipulation is prob the best way to describe what i did here.

a photo mainpulation i've done.
got som other works of mine in Deviantart

don't have some wonderful ps skills, nor amazing creations, but im an amateur graphic dude