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[Rhino]

He Could always just export as an .3ds or .obj file? Unless Max 2009 doesn't do so. I mean you have to do a little bit more work but I don't see a problem.

Or are there some other underlying issues?

exporting to .3ds or .obj often crates lots of errors, such as the loss of smoothing groups or some smoothing groups getting corrupt and lots of things like that.

Its FAR better for everyone to be working on the same version of max, hence why we all are working with max 9, apart from katarn who insists to work with max9 SP2 which has problems exporting to bf2, but luckily normal max9 can still open max9 SP2 files, so chuc ends up having to export all of katarns stuff

[motherdear]

and fist is taking care of mine lol, max9sp2 fixes the bugs max has on vista. have you found another way to fix that rhino btw since i'd rather be running pure max9 but vista goes all fubar when i try and do that.

[DankE_SPB]

what export problems SP2 has? because on win7 pure max9 said GTFO to me(iirc it couldn't use texture in .DDS format for example, other random errors)
i tried exporting some models as simple static meshes and it worked, or those problems appear with more complicated stuff?

[Kenny]

This is what I have been working on to learn it's not finished (no magazine) and it hasn't been smoothed yet still learning but it's what I have so far.

[Lan]

Nice its looking good, are you following a tut or just going on your own?

[Kenny]

I'm sort of following the Beretta 9000 tut but I chose to do a Glock instead

[Lan]

Cool look forward to seeing the finished gun.

[Tomato-Rifle]

You know there is a tutorial to model the Glock xD

[Kenny]

I have finished the magazine and optimized and smoothed now I just have to texture it but I don't think I will be able to import it to BF2 I've lost my CD key ages ago
I'm going to try and do a render in the mean time.

OK here is a quick render

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8236/renderw.png

[derg]

A G36 Highpolymodel I'm currently working on, still W.I.P. of course (418,000 Polys so far):

[Tomato-Rifle]

G36 looking very good, way to detailed for a game engine

[Tim270]

G36 looking very good, way to detailed for a game engine

Highpoly -> bake normals -> build lowpoly = win.

[Tomato-Rifle]

Highpoly -> bake normals -> build lowpoly = win.

But will he?

[derg]

Yes, I will
It's the first gun that I model this way.
Let's see if it works

[Z-trooper]

Highpoly -> build lowpoly -> bake normals = win.

corrected

[derg]

A little update:


If anybody want some close-up renders, just reply.

[Kenny]

Looking good so far how many poly's are you at now? And how long has it taken you to do that much I need to get into the bigger guns myself but I'm currently working on a plane(spitfire).

[Howitzer]

How do you make these holes in the handguard ?

Boolean or a "-"t load of poly's ?

[field-ops.]

dont mean to rez a thread, but just for friendly criticism, the barrel looks a WEEeeeeee bit small as it approaches the handguard. might be the angle of the shot but meh, just some food for thought.

[Derek]

What Are you guy's Using to make these?