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Shifty's Projects - Experimental Trials-Lightcycle!
If you haven't viewed my thread before, then Thanks for looking now! There's quite a few different projects that have been talked about, or shown, on the next few pages!
I am new to 3D modeling, I have only been doing it for about 45 days (12-21-2011) now, and it's a great way to lose hours of your life. Please, take a minute to look at what's here, leave some feedback (good is good, negative is great as long as you explain what you think I did wrong!), and even request/suggest a new project.
Thanks to the people who are already posting feedback, I appreciate it!
EDIT: Video on page 2
EDIT: The renders start on post 10, the first 9 posts are about problems installing the program. Do yourself a favor and skip to post 10 unless you like reading my complaints.
Ok, maybe the wrong board to post this into, but here goes anyways.
I downloaded the demo software package for 3Ds Max 2012. First it didn't want to install at all saying it was missing a .cab, I burned the image to a disc and then it found the cab file.
Halfway through installing the program it just froze. I thought that maybe my PC was too old and weak to successfully install or run it.
Installed a 4 core AMD Phenom II CPU and then the program installed fine. When I start the program I have serious issues.
Namely the fact that re program never really starts. I keep getting an error 110 (licensing) and I can't for the life of me figure out why. It should be using the 30-Day demo license. It claims I don't have any license at all. After I click the Activate button the whole PC freezes for about 10 minutes and it throws up an error 20 code.
I scrounged through the AutoDesk website, and followed all the relevant tips, but I still get the same error and I feel like I am banging my head against a wall.
Help me, anyone.
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Re: Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
Play xbox
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Senior Community Manager
Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
I should be playing MW3.
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Re: Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
More people seem to prefere black ops.. me included.. survival rocks but online is not as good
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Senior Community Manager
Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
My online sucks anyways. Played about 1 1/2 hours of survival with vileDOMINATION. We made it to like wave 10 the first 2 tries and vile got an achievement for knifing that heavily armored/armed juggernaut guy while I kept his attention.
I need better interweb connectivity. 
Anyhow, I got 3ds Max installed and licensed, but now it hangs on initializing. I exceed every minimum requirement so I don't know why it hates me. Sad Dan.
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Re: Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
Yeah, Max has a lot of strange problems. Especially with the trial licenses. If you reinstall it or do something unusual, it might suddenly say that your trial period has expired. Not fun.
You could try temporarily disabling your AV software and make sure that you have at least a few gigabytes of free disk space on your OS partition.
Or you could use the 2011 version which seems to work much better anyway.
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Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
I have an older version of 3dsMax (2010 I think) but never got around to installing it, mainly because I was using an old ATI 9800 GPU chipset.
I have MOST av software disabled but Microsoft Security Essentials won't die no matter how I end the process or process tree, it just reinitializes itself.
I also make sure that I run the program with Administrator rights. I am currently reinstalling Win7 on a secondary drive with my older install on a drive sitting on my desk. I'm hoping that maybe a fresh install with only drivers added will see this thing up and running.
I will actually try the 2010 3Ds Max version first.
Edit: The drive I installed to before has 1Tb free space. The drive I will be installing to will have whatever is left after a clean install on a 2Tb disk.
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Re: Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
Wish I could help ya, I'm not too good on things like installing software and how to fix what is wrong with it.
If you have questions about how to use the program when you figure it out, I am fairly good with 3d max and Maya. Its been 5 or 6 years, but the programs couldnt have changed that much, right?
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Re: Massive Problems with 3Ds Max
Up and running.. I think.... Kinda.
I keep getting strange errors when I use the Bevel modifier that always result in the app crashing, with the project save failing as well.
Anyone know of any good video tutorial websites?
@jook13 - I had a copy that AutoDesk sent me (fully working and FREE!) in 2000. Let's just say that 12 years of program updates and changes makes me feel lost.
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