Duck and Cover

Hey... Incase you havn't been in the modelling forum, I am one of many people trying to build new sprites for Fallout Tactics. Unfortunately I am kind of new to the 3d thing... to make new sprites one must create a 3d model, animate it, and shoot it from a number of angles. All of the sprites in the game are made with 3d max, so anyone with that experiance could prove ultimately helpful.
If you want to help (please, please, please...) stop by the mapping and modelling forum and at least drop a line in the modelling thread there. Any help would be... uh... helpful.

lol, give me $3500 dollars to buy 3dsMAX and ill help... heheh

i might be able to help, i kinda suck, but i can make an ok model, mostly guns. i use MS3d, so that probubly doesnt work.

If you can render in it from diffrent angles, and possibly render diffrent layers, than it might work. If you can export to MAX that'd be awsome... I dunno... stop by the modeling forum, build something, and give it a shot.

what is the file extension on a 3dsmax model?

you know... *.something

heheh, i was looking for T-51b pictures, and i thought i found something really great (a mapper) but after i read it, i found out it had no importence

http://www.interplay.com/fallout/map.html

The max extensione are like this...

If it's release 3 or earlier then the extension is *.3ds

In release 4 I believe the extension is *.max

Hope that helps, I have 3DSMax, but I'm just starting to learn it. No it's not warez and it's not bought I am borrowing it from my graphics class at school. Just fyi 8)

Hope that helps, I have 3DSMax, but I'm just starting to learn it. No it's not warez and it's not bought I am borrowing it from my graphics class at school. Just fyi

'sok.... I just started a few days ago... and I suck already, but I'm trying... there are a million tutorials around anyway so if you really wanna figure it out, it's just inititave (sp, wtf?)...

heheh, i was looking for T-51b pictures, and i thought i found something really great (a mapper) but after i read it, i found out it had no importence

well... maybe of no importance, but it's kind of cool to see what the developers used for fallout and compare it to what we use for tactics.

im not that great of a modeller, but im good with vertexes and making faces from them.
more like lower poly, not that smooth FMV type modelling, thats too hard.
i stick to the Tri's and such.

i gotta post my fishy i made. lol

well.... can you make a raider face and kick it out as a mesh... like 3d max mesh (export it as a .MAX or .3ds) If you can I'll throw it on my metal armor guy and be finished... I suck at faces... never can seem to get them right.

Can you convert maybe some of the superheroes faces that are in the Net for that new game(I forget the name, you can import your heroes in it)? I think the meshes were on .max format, perhaps you could use it as a basis...

acutally I found a plugin to import md3s so I could import quake models, but that didn't seem to work. I'll have to look harder I guess.... But they wern't true MAX files, sometimes they were made in max, but i'm not sure of any proggie that uses max files directly.

i can only export 3dsMAX *.asc files. i think.

yea, if you can import that, then it might work

3ds Prj AI DWG DXF IGE IGS IGES SHP STL WRL and WRZ are the files I can import....WRL and WRZ are VRML, so if you can export or render VRML then we're good.

nope, sorry

You know I have this converter that converts stuff in most 3d formats(.max is missing but most other are there). I could send it to you if you're interested...

I could definitely use it.... that would mean that I could use strapon's stuff too... hell yeah... hook me up... and strapon, lets talk about getting that face once i've got the converter.

I pm'd you about it. I hope it works, the most basic formats are there.