More 3d fun.....

Its ten to ten on a Friday night (I was here since 2:30pm) and I’m sat in the smeaton building room 108 working on 3d studio max when my friends are all down the pub, or if not getting ready to go out for the evening…

I spent several hours earlier trying to get a box to cut into parts without going hollow etc…I realise that this is possible now as you can use the cap tool within the border part of the editable polly…although I wouldn’t know this if not for being shown that it was there….

So in the end it turned out far to complicated to make the banana peel into another object as it is one object its self with many segments it means that it could potentially be cut into parts but it would warp and look ugly and unnatural, and that using lofting to create a banana is fine so long as your not intending to have the skin on it….some information I found out a little to late. If I had to start all over again I realise that I could make a loft and then add several more shapes to it and texture them and then animate them one by one to peel off.

I find 3d studio max to be slightly un-user friendly…for instance they don’t have a way of cutting objects nicely and smoothly…they don’t have a history like on Photoshop where you can delete several states back and see where and when you did them. Also unless you have a super computer it seems to not want to handle the models you are trying to build…even if you make some objects hidden to speed it up and don’t add textures, it still goes incredibly slow.



Any way the new idea is that there will be a television, the sides will unfold to produce a banana- or maybe one object before the banana inside it….I took several pictures of my TV at home and manipulated the picture in Photoshop so that they could be used as textures using the multi sub feature again as I did with the banana.

To create the TV set I started with a box then changed the shapes of it slightly and then mesh smooth it and extrude certain parts and chamfer certain edges to try and make it look more realistic.


I have also started experimenting with camera angles and having the camera pan around the TV set…this seems to slow it down even more.

Maybe ill just work in the wire frame mode from now on as this will probably speed it up at least a little bit.