GMAX help Thread

ok, im new to modeling but i using gmax for practice and just wondering how do you smooth edges abs sorta bring them in. like on a box, bringing to Opposite ends closer to sorta almost make like a triangle?? with intersecting point???

Chamfer or Mesh Smooth modifier. Preferably the first one, if your model is still unfinished. Also make sure that the edges are connected/vertexes are weld, if you do that on several different meshes, which form one big one .

well its in squares. i just started learning how to model but its vareint of a marathon cruiser from halo. that kind of smoothing.

Edited by: ONISEC9

Create a square with more intersecting lines and manually do 1 half of the ship. Once your happy add the mirror modifier to the ship, giving you a perfectly even ship. If you still not happy change the model to be a poly and use smoothing groups on the selected faces. Dont ever use turbo smooth, never, ever, ever!

how do you the intersectin lines?? what u mean? you guys need use laymen terms cause this is a stretch for me . lol but i eager to learn

What you are talking about are basics even I understand, so please do us the favor and find yourself some introductory tutorials to 3Ds Max. If you don't know about vertex- and poly-modelling yet, there is no point in us explaining it to you. We can't teach you how to draw a picture either, if you have no idea about colors and shapes.
Look under Help in Max, perhaps there are even some tutorials, which came with the installation. Otherwise browse the web.

ONISEC9 wrote: how do you the intersectin lines?? what u mean? you guys need use laymen terms cause this is a stretch for me . lol but i eager to learn

When you create a box, click the edit tab and select how many line you want running up, down and across. As SinKing pointed out, tutorials need a presumed knowledge, if you dont understand anything I say (and they are laymen's terms, there really is no other way to explain it without creating a series of videos or in depth screenshots) then it is time to hit the books and maybe make something more simple first. A space ship? Try making a snail and see how well you are off.