Jonny English Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I have to model a site and just wondered if anyone can give me any pointers as to how it can be achieved in Max / what tools are best to use, etc. (I have read the thread from viz) Hope you can help... Jonny English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 what type of landscaping? and how detailed do you need to be? how accurate do you need to be? if we know the answer to these questions we can advise further, as there are loads of landscaping methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hi Strat It's for an architectural visual. As it's a visual it doesn't need to be fantastically accurate but I do need to model the terrain, the roads, pavements, kerbs, and so on. Hope you can help, Jonny English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barbarash Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Well, while tis is a very broad question, I'll try to pin some stuff down for ya. I do all of my topology in CAD first, then bring them into Max/Viz and use the terrain tool. shapemerge and detach roads, curbs, sidewalks, water, etc. so each has it's own material (I hate multi-subs for big projects, I end up with 50 or some materials in each multi-sub and jst get confused...) Model any above ground structures as well as landscaping beds, trees, flowers, and such. Add in some people and cars and you're done. THat is after a lighting scheme. I use radiosity for outdoor scenes because of the huge amount of ram needed to process shadow maps in large organic scenes with shadow maps. Hmm... I guess the best way to go about this is for you to start out with what you know, and when you get stumped, either play around on your own or ask the boards. Thats what they're here for. Good luck and dont get discouraged, it took me a long long time before I could efficiently create an outdoor scene (and as a beginning Landscape Architect thats pretty much all I do...) and I'm still way behind where I'd like to be. David Barbarash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 Thanks for the reply David, Could you possibly post a couple of images to show me your work...I would be interested to see the results. Thanks, Jonny English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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