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Michael Van Beek posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 13 years, 10 months ago

please upload any work you may have done to the discussion forum entitled: “the gallery” there is some new stuff if you want to check it out… scroll to the bottom…

Michael Van Beek posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years ago

check out new discussion board stuff

“discussions on somewhat interesting things (part 2)”
“SITE LINKS: inspiration, tools and advice”

please add some comments. It makes us all smarter, Its a fact…

Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 7 months ago

I meant to add, use the trees as proxies otherwise the polygon count will kill you.

Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 7 months ago

I like the Luxigon style where pretty much everything but the basic render is done in photoshop. but if you can get onyx Treestorm which comes with a grass generator and and a lot of trees that can be changed and there is a free ivy generator that I posted somewhere on here but I can’t remember the name.

Most people just seem to get the…[Read more]

Brad Nordling posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 7 months ago

never mind, found the tutorial

Brad Nordling posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 7 months ago

I REALLY like the itoosoft, wish the full version was free though so I could use some of my own images. Still working on the shadows though…

howl posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 7 months ago

I got the same question with Alexandru, I’v been told to use photoshop do the aftereffect of vegetation for plan or the cluster of trees and grasses in 3dmax would drag my laptop to work exemely slowly.Is there any good suggestion for the plugin programmes to create vivid planting elements in 3d max?

Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 8 months ago

I believe it is a Nvidia 280 GTM, middle of the range but still better than the one on my old computer that ran max 2010 quite well. i7, 8 gigs of ram. Having some photoshop problems too. pretty much everything is frames per second related, it makes zooming and moving things around so hard.

Lee Attinger posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 8 months ago

My experience with 3ds max 2010 on Windows 7 Enterprise x64 has been very good. Its certainly a huge step up from Vista. I’ve got a nice set of graphics cards though so maybe thats the difference. What kind of hardware are you running?

Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 8 months ago

So what are people’s experiences with windows 7 and max? I am running 7 professional 64bit and max 2010 64 bit and having some problems, mainly graphics card related. very low fps which is making it hard to model. though I am hoping that max 2011 which comes out in the next month will help.

Joanna Spiez posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 14 years, 8 months ago

Arina Habich posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 2 months ago

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kavan donohue posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 3 months ago

Best case situation, buy a blade server and kick your rendering jobs out to it. However, I would have to say that some of the best environs that come out of 3ds start as basic spatial models and are brought to life in post production. Animations are important to get right solely in the program and demand real power. You better have 2 computers or…[Read more]

Frank Varro posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 3 months ago

I know of network rending, and have a vauge idea of how to do it, but I have yet to actually try it out. I’m currently running a laptop with 2G ram, 256Meg GeForce6800 Go Graphics Card, and a 2.17 Pentium Centrino. It isn’t fast, but it gets the job done. The dream rig I was planning before my Fiance’ got laid off was a Intel I7 processor, 32 Gig…[Read more]

Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 3 months ago

I thought this might be helpful for people learning. It is 26 lessons on how to do arch/la visualisation. It looks really good, and goes through the whole process.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/VI/default.asp

Matei Radu posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 4 months ago

Samuel Burnett-Ragueneau posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 4 months ago

advice on learning to use 3dmax? i am so impressed with the images and would love to play, but am unsure how or where to begin. any advice would be greatly appreciated!