perhaps the best origins I've seen in my life

period.

period

It actually looks better than what I intended it to be.

Damn render.

dont worry bro. all the ladies will think youre pro

I agree to some degree. However, when you are receiving crits from the general public, these short, useless, and harsh crits are inevitable. Being the author of that work, it's really up to you to listen or not.

When I made my first few animations, most of my crits were "It sucks", "too robotic, make it smoother", "lacks movement" (Sadly, most of them were true :V). If someone doesn't tell you what to fix, then you either ask them or you figure out yourself.

LOL damn, well, if someone said something was too boxy then what does that mean? IT IS TOO BOXY, so what do you need to do to fix it? MAKE IT LESS BOXY. It isn't rocket science, that is perfectly valid crit.

Let me rephrase it for you people who don't understand the term boxy.

"The model in the 3d space which you your self have created out of vertices which are connected together using edges and those edges which make a face one 3+ edges are connected are creating too much of a BOX shape.

I would recomend that you change the shape of that model so that the faces do not create so much of a box like shape, I have even circled the areas where the boxiness is as you can't recognise a box".

Does that sounds better? It's funny, because all of that is the SAME FRIGGING thing as saying "It's boxy"... Some bright sparks don't seem to understand that thou. LOL. But hey, what do I know?

When telling someone that something is boxy, you could give suggestions on how to make it less boxy, =P this would probably help them, rather than make them mad at you.

Pretty obvious what you have to do to make it less boxy... make it less of a box shape... so chamfer, and play around. not spoon feeding people here! damn.

Maybe since you worked so hard, I should point out the negative. The origins are bad, because origins are a huge freaking deal11one Post a wire frame the polys look poorly distributed. It will look bad ingame, because there is a 100% chance someone will get it ingame.

oh wow okay so let me do a comparison of these two forms of crit.

1.


2.


first of all, 2 is filled with spelling errors, terrible grammar and apparent, elitist sarcasm in the first half. regardless, 2 obviously has more effort put into it than 1. this alone can makes the modeler feel like he's being taken seriously and not just brushed off. 2 also states there will be an image attached, with circled areas of what to fix, which gives the modeler a much better idea of what's wrong. the fact that a picture is attached can also provide the modeler with motivation. this doesn't mean, however, add a picture with snarky comments like "wow, kid, this is crap. lmao :L" and everything will be honkey doory, because doing so would be shooting down the modeler's motivation and making the one giving the crit feel like he's helping when all he's doing is being a sarcastic douche who feels like as long as he helps in some way he's got full reign to be a complete ass hole

so no it's not "the SAME FRIGGING thing"

Chamfer the edges of the dice. That should make nice corners and sides.

It's a tool you use while the edges are selected. F1 my friend.

Fail Juan, just fail. SlappyThePirate, he is obviously being sarcastic and attempting to be smart, when the "boxy" crit we are talking about quite obviously regard's an object which is not supposed to be boxy.

And HaloIsAHorribleGane, i can't even be arsed with you. kthnksbi

post pics of your own work.

Mafia Wars Explosive Dices......
:)

heh, of course you cant. I guess logic is just too overwhelming of a concept for you ;)

lol no, your too arrogant and cocky to understand my friend ;)

I fail to see how arrogance or cockiness has anything to do with one's ability to understand concepts.. that seems to be more along the lines of a person's intelligence

A person may refuse to understand anything because they are too arrogant or cocky. I believe that's linked to a mental disorder...

it's called narcissistic personality disorder, or excessive self-centeredness in english

symptoms include

Halo: Reach plasma rifle references:

I actually though Juan was fail at 3ds max, and was trying to give help. In retrospect, I'm glad I did.
1 Dice in halo would be, er, interesting.
2 It helps if we ignore the troll anyway (purposely or by accident)
Show some class; this is the internet.

nope. somehow, the trolls will make it my fault :)
seriously, tho, geared...:D

I Will remember this. :D

I thought you already knew how to use 3DSmax. or that might have been someone else.

LOL oh wow if this forum still supported it, this would now be my sig

E: fix'd

There are a lot of good tutorials up on the internet. Go search on Google if you need to.

For some starting guidelines;
Start off with a box.
Right click it and click edit poly.
With the box selected, go under the modifier tab, and you see a list of options, with vertex, edge, border, polygon, and element. Under each option, there are tools. Go play around with them :3.

Most awesome thing ever: shift+drag an edge.
Edited by ImBrokeRU on Jan 6, 2011 at 11:23 PM

I think you might be screwed dude

Triangles going diagonally through the box is a textbook case of processor failure. To fix this, you should buy a very high-powered, very expensive CPU. But before installing it, you must take pliers and bend EVERY SINGLE pin. Then you can install it into the socket in your motherboard. If it does not go in, press it down as hard as possible. Do not modify the pins in anyway. If necessary, use a hammer.

Before rebooting, you must NEVER use a heatsink or a fan. Disconnect all your fans and be sure to keep your computer in a very hot room, keeping the computer near curtains.

In that case:

When you create a box, you are basically creating 6 individual faces linked at the vertices and positioned together to form the box. Those faces are made up of triangles, the most simple 2d shape. So that diagonal line is basically just the two triangles creating that single face.

Juan, I think you are viewing it in wireframe mode, but I am not certain.

Nevermind, I just noticed you're using 3ds max...
Edited by d4rfnader on Jan 7, 2011 at 02:47 AM

I just figured that he tessellated it.

I'm still waiting for that moose gun.

idk, ignore the blatantly obvious clipping in the fingers:



I don't wanna re-render because it takes too long... need some dual SLIs or some ass like that.

maybe i should ditch the left hand entirely.
Edited by AGLion on Jan 7, 2011 at 08:28 AM