in practice castle: modeling - textures - render

[Jelmer]

looking pretty good, regarding the textures, and scale of them, maybe you should decrease the tiling a little bit. The wood textures on the ladders need to be adjusted, try to change them so you don't get those nasty black seams, try rotating the uvmap a bit and see what happens. The model looks fine.
Another thing you should change i think is the terrain texture. In the second render the grass is way too big, i mean really way too big compared to the castle, adjust the tiling or use another texture. The noise map looks pretty good but the white and black part doesn't have texture yet, try to add some rock type texture there.
Keep going, you're doing fine, certainly for a user new to 3ds max.
another thing i spotted: you might want to adjust the scale of the wall a bit, i think it's a bit too high compared to the protective structure on tip, hmm try googling for some real castles that should help you... unfortunately i didn't do that in the tutorial which i regret afterwards but can't change that now, because the proportions i used in the tut aren't great for realism. The gate also looks a tad high to me.
Another note for the terrain: try to make a path from the castle entrance to increase the amount of realism.

[Motammad]

Originally Posted by Jelmer

hehe, brothers in arms, pretty cool game isn't it, I'm not sure about your programs crashing, could you post your pc specs? cpu, ram, video card?

yeah, BIA owns totally... one of my favourites (love how they made it TACTICAL unlike all those other fpshooters which are only supposed to be tactical but are NOT... except GR:AW)

My specs:

OS: Windows XP Pro Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 build 2600
Proc: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.06GHz
RAM: 512MB DDR
Graphics: Geforce FX5700
HDD: 120GB
Mainboard: Abit IS7-E2 motherboard

[himel]

I think This tutorial will help basic learners. I have completed the first part. But plz try to go slowly as all of us not from english lagnuage country. And plz describe loudly, i cant hear your voice clearly. Though it will help me to learn basic but i think the basic tuitorial idea i have given on request section will be more helpful. Thanks alot

[Jelmer]

thanks, i'll do a short tutorial soon, motammad, maybe it's the amount of RAM you have, but i can't be sure, if you want to upgrade anything in your computer you should certainly double the RAM, that might help...

[CU441ES]

yeah, ram is the key!! I have 512 meg and i really hate it, its sooooo slow when using a high poly scene.


And himel, theres such thing as a pause button and jelmers not from an english speaking country also try turning up the volume

[Mike04016]

Originally Posted by Motammad

yeah, BIA owns totally... one of my favourites (love how they made it TACTICAL unlike all those other fpshooters which are only supposed to be tactical but are NOT... except GR:AW)

My specs:

OS: Windows XP Pro Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 build 2600
Proc: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.06GHz
RAM: 512MB DDR
Graphics: Geforce FX5700
HDD: 120GB
Mainboard: Abit IS7-E2 motherboard

Your graphics card and and RAM are lagging far behind your processor.

[Ceryni]

Thanks Jelmer, ill work through those tips and re - post some SS's, wont be for a few weeks tho as i am leaving the castle for a bit and working on a face, not doing so bad at the moment now that really is a challenge.

This is it so far Faces all round :)

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yea see if u can get

RAM: 1024 DDR
Graphics: Geforce. series 6 + (im on 6800)

as basics that should sort you out for a while at least.

[Nekya]

Hi, just got a nub question. How do i get a texture from the internet? i went on the site that u say on the 4thpart ( when i need dirt texture ). i found one that i wanted, kinda similar to yours but when i try to save it ( save as ) i can only save it in jpeg and i dunno how i could do to open it with max...

Thx
Nekya

[Ceryni]

When selecting your Texture. do it using bitmap in Material Editor

First select a new slot
-click the little square next to "diffuse"
-select Bitmap from your menu and you will get a "load file" box
-select the texture you want and it will add it to your new material

Dont forget to set a UVW Map modifier ( for the walls select "Box" ) before you apply the texture so it looks accurate.

Just made this for you. hope it helps =)

[Nekya]

Thx Ceryni. that helped me