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Thank you for answering. No, its not protected. Some Fansof the game have maked a site where you can upload your track to. I think they use some program named 3D Max and Zmodelling, but i dont know how to use them. I think that even the readme or the tutorials is unreadable for me.

Not all 3d modelling softwares can export/save as all kinds of file types. Game developers also wanted to protect their game contents, so I don't think any of us have the ability to save that kind of file unless the person is using the exact same 3d modelling software as the game developer does (Granny3D is quite famous among the gaming industry, and those games will have .GR2 files which will never be able to opened by any other 3d modelling softwares).

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I've just made a new account on this site and my first question is about The files u use. I am playing a 3D game where u use .prm and .ace for making 3D Tracks. Right now i need some files to make a dessert Track, and I would just hear if any of you have time to make a model in one of thoose file types to me that has anything with a dessert to do...?

For example you could make some oasis, a hill, or some pyramids...

If you need to mape them to some .bmp's you can map them to xdessertj.bmp or xdesserth.bmp.

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Ok, so my teacher gave me a job today, and the job is finding brand-spanking-new computers for our DGA(digital graphics and animation class) which uses 3ds Max (we have vrs. 9 right now)

SO:
I was wondering if anyone out in cyberspace has any ideas on which computer modle or what should go into a computer for 3ds Max to run the fastest with rendertime and reactors(our current comps cant handle reactors so it exits anytime we use them ) ect.

PS:
price range is fairly high!


Well, it's just like any other app, The better the CPU the faster the rendering will go, i hear 3Ds max is especially effective with dual-cores. Visual aspects on the other hand, like how many polys you can have on screen while modeling is determined more by the video card, its kind of hard to say what you should get without understand what is your price range exactly and not to mention "fairly high" is pretty abstract. without knowing how much you can spend we can pretty much just hint you at what you need.

Processor: Dual core is a must these days, hell, go for a quad core if you can afford it, its not used by much these days but in a few years, who knows. I recommend AMD 64 x2 line of processors, they generally tend to be faster and more efficient than the equivalent Intel version, the number at the end of the processor name, i.e. 5000+ represents the power of an equivalent single core processor., not to say that a 2.6GHz dual core processor is the same as a 5.0GHz singe core but it will operate as smoothly as one.

Video card: im gonna go with telling you about Nvidia because to be honest i know nothing about ATI card.
Nvidia is named in the XXXX line, the first number is the generation, the second number is the range, low/mid/high, so basically an nvidia 8800 would be high range, while and 8600 would be mid range.

pick a range and than look through the cards that are avaliable in it, the Video card's RAM is important, but you also have to pay attention to the core and clock speeds, as a 256MB DDR3 going at 580MHz would beat a 560MB DDR2 going at 400MHz, on top of that if you buy a video card from a company like MSI you can get the Over clocked versions which are clocked through hardware so they go even faster than their default version.

well there are a lot of things i missed out, but i just realized i can tell you that basically the best PC for 3Ds Max is a Gaming rig, the both need the same thing for the same thing CPU for Rendering, VGA for Processing pixels/visuals, RAM for... everything else, but all in all, if you can find someone capable of doing it, you should pay a person to make a gaming/modeling/rendering rig for you rather than buying it complete, for example, the most expensive Alienware PC is Just Half it's full price if you assemble it yourself. so custom made is usually cheaper, not to mention better because you can skip on the useless stuff that the pc wont ever need.

This year, for the third time, SDT Institute Sezana in cooperation with the Portal Community CeSDT, Section for Screen, Pad and Digital Print and official sponsor McNeel Europe - Rhinoceros software, are holding a 3D modeling Contest this year also for visual communication. Success from first two years motivates us up to organize and even further upgrade competition for students and young professional also in 2008.

First two contests with central exhibitions of best 3D models at 3D Print Forum at FESPA Digital 2006 in Amsterdam and FESPA Berlin 2007, gained a lot of success among professional public and other visitors.

Current modeling contest Personalize your electric scooter! relates to scooter tuning. Electric scooter is environment friendly vehicle and alternative way of city transport.

The main goal is to introduce applicability of 3D technologies - of 3D scanning, 3D modeling and 3D printing to a wider public through creativity and knowledge of young people. This year the main topic of design projects is personalization of electric scooter.

Four Categories of SCOOTER TUNING:
1. Design of decals (2D labels)
2. Electric scooter as advertising media
3. Design new scooter’s body parts (3D CAD)
4. Design new scooter’s body (3D CAD)

There's no need to send physical samples of the work!

Deadlines:
March 4, 2008: Deadline for free registration
March 11, 2008: Deadline for sending/uploading submitted works


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Entry is free.

Participants are students or professionals born after January 1, 1978. Every entrant must be registered on contest website.

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Technical information are available (also for preparing files for 3D print) for every participant of the contest on organizer's FTP server and via e-mail make3D@all4print.net.

http://contest.all4print.net/