M-N-0N 0 Posted March 13, 2002 also i can remember max as a memory hogger ... and ifb ya ran outta mem it started to use virtual mem "Ya HDD space" one thing i hate about max .. tho i have not used max 4 so i dunno what it is like ... LW is minimal on crashes i have only had 2 lyester day ... that was cozz i hadnt rebootoed in several days and i had been modelling every day and i was doing a scene in the 250k area and mym system crashed the prog 2 times the 3rd time my system didnt wanna know about it hahaha and that crashed lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kegetys 2 Posted March 13, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Armourdave @ Mar. 12 2002,15:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">How does it compare in-terms of crashing? That seems to be my biggest complaint with 3dsmax - Near constant crashing, atleast 2 times per hour Is lightwave less prone to crashes?<span id='postcolor'> 3Dsmax should really be used under a WinNT based os (Nt4, w2k, xp). I remember when I used Win98 and 3dsmax, it crashed all the time... After I changed to w2k I didnt have many crashes anymore, still a few, but rather rarely. Win95 based OS's have poor memory management and 3dsmax does _alot_ of constant memory allocation and deallocation so I would guess thats why it crashes so much in them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 13, 2002 I changed texture sizes to match the bitmap and haven't had a crash for a good 5, 6 hours and I've been working on quite a high poly scene, over 150,000 polys (not for WinterMarch). Maybe that's sorted the problem =/ I hope so. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob 1 Posted March 13, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (M|N|0N @ Mar. 11 2002,18:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">umm hehe that gun is rendered in milkshape 3d by the skinner ... heheh what you see on that model is the actual skin =:s and yes LW has the better rendering system outta the 2 and max has a great animation sutio .... where LW hasnt realy ....<span id='postcolor'> i have constantly had troubles applying skins to models in milkshape! how do you do it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M-N-0N 0 Posted March 13, 2002 Rob you need to skinmesh the model ... and that means getting the model and laying it out flat ... not a pic of just the side and skinning ... but you pull evey face out till it is flat and you have todo it properly in milk to get the cords so it wraps the texter around the model properly .... i am not the guy to talk about how to mesh in milk ... i didmt get the chance tho i know abit about milk.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dawdler 0 Posted March 13, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Armourdave @ Mar. 13 2002,12:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I changed texture sizes to match the bitmap and haven't had a crash for a good 5, 6 hours and I've been working on quite a high poly scene, over 150,000 polys (not for WinterMarch). Maybe that's sorted the problem =/ I hope so.<span id='postcolor'> Lucky you Last time I made a high poly scene, it got kind of out of control, havent been able to open the file since, crashes Max every time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 13, 2002 Yep I'm now 95% sure that setting the texture to be the same size as the bitmap has sorted my crash problem. I spent most the day modelling a spitfire and not one crash  Dawdler: I fear that sort of thing happening Want me to try opening it and exporting to a different format? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hobo Sniper 0 Posted March 13, 2002 But sometimes my 3DS crashes even w/o textures... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slider131 0 Posted March 14, 2002 Dawdler, go into your 3dsmax/autoback folder and rename autobak#.bak to autobak#.max then you can reopen it in an uncorrupted state Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dawdler 0 Posted March 14, 2002 It is no problem, I dont need it anyway (Im not sure if I could find it on my harddrive). It was one of the first scenes I made, a nice landarea with water and a few trees and a nice village, with a man infront looking at it all. Guess it would have been best to not add a huge numbered meshsmooth to them all The tree looked nice though, kind of like stick with a lump of jelly on top, so thick in mesh view, it looked like a solid tree Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
