4.17.2010

bad mesh!


I've been revisiting some of my old 3ds Max projects, including this one, which I created back when I was still figuring out the program. What a mess!

In this animation, you may notice stuff that looks like gray/black flickering dirt. It's either a Mental Ray issue (i.e. a weird flicker that sometimes happens when you use a particular renderer) or a bad mesh issue. Or both!

Either way, DON'T PROBOOLEAN, PEOPLE!

...Or at least do it with discretion.



[3ds Max 2009]

at 12:48 AM

6 Comments.:

  1. I promise I will never, ever (knowingly) ProBoolean, even if I learn what that means!

    (And I liked the Blackboard tour, though it seems to me most people in this day and age with any proclivity to using Blackboard in the first place probably don't much need a tour. Which I guess speaks to the niceness of Blackboard. But I thought you did a nice job with it nonetheless. As usual. :)

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  2. This is what a ProBoolean is. You take random shape A, and intersect it with random shape B, and perform a ProBoolean, and are left with random shape A having a random-shape-B-shaped hole in it.

    The Blackboard thing is for work. The HIM department at my school is working towards a completely online environment (i.e. you can earn a degree in health information management from the comfort of your own home... in Montana). And there are a lot of learners who are either (1) not technologically adept, or (2) simply haven't used an online learning system like this before. We're especially thinking of "mature learners," but I know a lot of people my age who've gotten frustrated by the system, too.

    And--to top things off--they're switching from Blackboard 8 to Blackboard 9 in a few weeks. The two function pretty much the same, but they look completely different, and we don't want anyone freaking out.

    There will also be few smaller videos focusing on specific areas of Blackboard that seem to cause a lot of confusion among students (i.e. what are instructors getting the most 'heeeeeeeelp!' emails about?).

    Sooooo that's what that's about.

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