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Studio/Institution: Personal Genre: Commercial Interior Software: Max + Mental Ray Description: I haven't posted anything in a really long time so I thought I would post my latest project. I am still working on it so the quality is a little on the low side.

Can someone tell me how I convert a linked cad object to a editable mesh? I always thought you could right click and convert it but that doesn't seem to be working with objects that I am bringing in from cad. Thanks

Thanks Gary

Can no one help or is it the way I explained it?

Great job on the night shot.

I really like the outside shot but the palm leaves in the foreground are a little too intense.

I am finally getting a new computer at work and our IT guy is telling me that the 6core Intel Xeon (3.20GHz) will out preform the new I7's. Any thoughts and opinions?

I somehow hit a key or button and now when I go to open a file it asks me to enter the name of the file in the command bar ,instead of choosing from the normal dialogue box, to open the file and it seems that is the only way to open it. Any thoughts?

It has something to do with MR sun because I just tried turning it off and the message didn't come up.

I keep getting this message "Photon emission shader returned MiFALSE..Aborting photon tracing" any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

That's what I thought.

But shouldn't it render out the material I assigned to it?

I'm not sure I follow. When I import the 3ds file I was hoping that the materials that I applied to the car from the original file would be attached to the car when I import it as a 3ds file? For instance, I apply a car paint material to the model in the max file, export it as 3ds then import the 3ds into another max file and voila the paint material is automatically attached. I'm not sure if I am making any sense here I just thought this could be done.

I downloaded a max file for a car the other day complete with materials already applied and when I try to export it as 3ds it doesn't seem to keep the materials when I import it into another file it all shows up grey. I have been selecting the model and exporting the selected materials as a 3ds file. Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong? Thanks

O.k. so I have opened up the browser but I can't find where the helper tools are.