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Imo it's not so annoying. Works well for me

 

Oh that kind of annoying.

I've had it crash only seconds after opening a .max file. I once even had it crash saving the first .max file and had to start over (only 5 minutes of modeling, still annoying). I forgot about this weird behavior since it hasn't been happening recently.

 

Got bored so I made a car bender in 15 mins.

[webm=]http://puu.sh/eRBUv/32680149a2.mp4[/webm]

 

"car"

Looks cool though!

EDIT: Nevermind, I read "made a car in blender" -_-

 

Nice Drowsy. Can the column be made a smaller diameter, as in telephone pole smaller and still have the collision snagging issue under control?

 

Welp, thought I'd this here too, outside is basically ready to go ingame, I just dont have the knowledge to get it ingame, someone here maybe wants to put it ingame?

 

Good god is right. I learnt the basics of Maya in no time, but holy hell is it slow everything is one painfully awkward mouse axis control or sub menu away...

 

I do, weighs a little too much to just be flipped at a moments notice though

 

^^^^ I could not agree any more.
By the way, which 3ds Max version do you use, Gabe?

In the meanwhile I got bored and made Hotplate's, ignore the glass clipping through the taillights.
Now all I need to do is make suspension, interior, unibody and UVW's... damn.

 

I googled some pictures and it seems that wheelie pictures are the way to go. Also, found one proper! Without deck, but deck pictures can be found separately.

Edit: MOAR pics, hope this helps

 

I find it a lot less annoying than Blender. Way easier to use, nicer UI layout, and no crashes for me. A few times undo would completely stop working for no reason and I had to restart it, but it mostly works fine.

I do find 3d modelling itself annoying though, annoying enough that I stopped working on my car.
I might finish it sometime. Or maybe start something else. I'm really more interested in the n/b part :|

 

Aren't GPUs only capable of rendering triangles? So even if the mesh in the software is a mathematical solid, your graphics card is still rendering it as a polygonal mesh on your screen? Seems really weird that it still fucks it up when you export. Then again, converting anything to polys in any program is always a pain in the arse. I wonder if it's the same as NURBS are done in Maya... Because basically in theory, NURBS are mathematical surfaces, but they get rendered as triangles on the screen anyway because of the GPU thing... Plus, when you convert them to polys, it just asks you "how many edgeloops do you want lengthwise and how many widthwise on your surface"... Or is it like... It just doesn't allow you to add edges manually like it does in Sketchup(which is the only way in Sketchup to not get a screwed up mesh)? Ie just no support to polys before export, only during export?

Also, Maya does allow you to do a 3d line and then extrude a circle around it to make it a tube... Still, also doesn't allow the nice intersection stuff either afaik.

 

Slightly offtopic, but I couldn't ignore FSAE... Been a member of a group?
I'm used to Catia, looks a bit like SW.

 

I think 2011-2013 can. I can only save back to 2011 from 2014 which kind of sucks :/

 

Very nice, though the taillights do not go on for that long on the outer edge, nor do they gradually curve around, it's more of a sudden turn, like so:

Also note the gap between the lights and the body, it's actually rather complex and tricky to get right. You should model into the lights on yours, seeing as the body is fine, just the lights are a tad large.

Looking at the right light, the top and left side are fine, the bottom should come up a little and the right should come left a fair bit. The circles could be a tiny bit larger too, they basically fill the entire vertical space.