Make Island with 3Ds MAX and Combustion 20 STEPS

[Trueman 0]

This is my 20 STEPS 3Ds Max 8 and combustion island tutorial.

Make Island Tutorial

Piece of cake  

[adumb 0]

Oh My God.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Sweet, that's a awesome tut very easy to understand!

Btw someone just told me (not mentioning any names) that they will make a Dick Island...the Dick Island might come with a Vagina Island nearby.  

[blackjack-VS- 0]

great stuff man!! i guess will give a try on island making with this tutorial. i work with max 7.0 for modeling/texturizing at the moment. i cant install version 8.0 until i finish a college project i'm involved (my mates using version 7.0 to...), but i'll try it when i'm free.

[-TheOne- 0]

Woah, great stuff there! I'll definatley try it out.

[nephilim 0]

nice post...

but oxygen itself can output .ase files :P

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Few rant-ish, constructive-critisism-ish points :

I think using Combustion for the tutorial was a bad idea, it's completely overkill for this, Paint would have done just as good a job

Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop would be a far better bet (also a lot cheaper if I recall properly, isn't Combustion sold for Å2000~ ), as you would have stuff like burn, brushes, noise, more blur options etc (Only played around with Combustion for an hour or two, and disliked how it worked, so can't really say of those things were in it)

Also, you missed the bit that I found hard when playing around with island making, which was placing objects (buildings and fences and the likes..), same with acctualy getting the thing in-game (Even if you just provided a sample config, and a paragraph on what to change, and how to PBO it), also possibly missed is sorting terrain height, since the terrain will start at 0 height, where it should be under water (I can't remeber how it works, the water may start higher up, can't remeber to be honest)

It's a good start, but seems kinda incomplete? Still, it's one of the few island creation tutorials I've seen, and is something that's really needed

- Ben

[JdB 151]

3DS MAX and Combustion are more compatible since both programs are made by Discreet

[berghoff 11]

I used Photoshop (Elati Island) to create heightmap and then used Kegetys TGA2ASE tool for an .ASE file output to load into Visitor2 which for me is a bit easier.

But nice tutorial and very clear .

[Sennacherib 0]

@ May 20 2006,04:58)]great stuff man!! i guess will give a try on island making with this tutorial. i work with max 7.0 for modeling/texturizing at the moment. i cant install version 8.0 until i finish a college project i'm involved (my mates using version 7.0 to...), but i'll try it when i'm free.

that should work with 3dsmax 7 too. the differences between the 7 and the 8 aren't big