3DS version needed for Oblivion modding

[Razorwing]

Posted by MattRyan on ESF
The version of 3ds Max that we use (both character artists and world artists) is 5.1

So if you're like me and would like to try some modelling before the game is released, that's the version to go for I think, to be reasonably sure they release a 3DSM-to-nif exporter.

[Quentin Fortune]

Too bad, I got 5.0.0 ... not that I'm able to use it anyway besides making boxes ... or balls ... :rofl: ... and I slightly wonder when my friend wants it back. He let me borrow it for four to six weeks - that was more than a year ago ...

Maybe I should try it again ... one day

Greetings

Quentin

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by Quentin Fortune
Too bad, I got 5.0.0 ... not that I'm able to use it anyway besides making boxes ... or balls ... :rofl: ... and I slightly wonder when my friend wants it back. He let me borrow it for four to six weeks - that was more than a year ago ...

Maybe I should try it again ... one day

Greetings

Quentin

Judging by the exporters Bethesda released for Morrowind, any 5.x version would be supported I think. It has a very steep learning curve, or so I though when I started using it (and I haven't used it in eight months so I never got good at it), but I think it's meant that one starts out with a basic shape, like a box, then use various features to distort the original shape. So a long rectangle could be distorted and distorted until it became a staff. Don't take my word for it though

[noremorse]

That is much the way it works. I used it for a little while, and learned very little. The tutorials didn't help all that much.

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by NoRemorse
That is much the way it works. I used it for a little while, and learned very little. The tutorials didn't help all that much.

He he. Mm, 3D modelling was a helluva lot more complicated, and counter-intuitive, then I had imagined it to be. I think it was the program's fault. Back when I was a kid, and I mean 12-13 years old, I created a 3D shark using an amiga program, and it was a breeze to do. I had a step-by-step guide of course, but still, that program was much easier to use.