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glad you got it solved, and thanks for the bit of input :)

if you fix a problem yourself could you just describe how you did it in case anyone else has that problem :) for anyone who needs to know, it's the Snap feature, "S" is it's hotkey

sry, no idea then. it's the only thing i've ever come across. just stick with the smd import/export plugins i spose.

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/Half_Life_2_MDL_v37_Importer_V_09_Beta_for_3DS_Max_R6;24424 should work w/ max 8. no animation support though & haven't found a direct exporter yet

Probably the easiest way is to link all the object to a helper. to do this, go into the Create tab, and click the Helper button (tape measure icon). click the Point and create one wherever u want it to rotate at. then on the top panel (below file/edit/tools/etc), click the Select and Link button...

it doesn't use any naming conventions other than extensions (vtf, etc... obviously) when you export/save to smd it captures the name of the material applied to an id, and the id numbers applied to each polygon, you can do the math there :) .

by default max uses the "pivot center" of each object to rotate them individually in a selection group: if you change the pivot type (circled in red in pic) to the 2nd option (selection center) it'll rotate them all based on the average of all the objects' pivot points: secondly, you can...

rendermonkey & fx composer are ide's for programming hlsl (dx shaders) much like visual studio and all that noise. you program the shaders & it shows you the results in realtime & compiles them etc.

just figured you'd get better results in there. also, it's personal preference, but i would use ATI's rendermonkey over nvidia's fx composer

hlsl, that's all im saying, and this belongs in coding

and he's still not done with it -_-

ak47s eh?... not a very discreet spy

just an aside.. you need to include <string> to use the string classes, and <stdlib.h> for the system("Pause") function, among other things.

the smoothings groups, they buurn!

could you maybe post a pic of what it looks like now? i've never been able to get a decent chrome in hl myself

idd, and just fyi, under I think "edit vertex/geometry" u can select verts & click Remove. I really wish using make planar would let you select an edge/vert as a pivot :(

you could, but it's rubbish compared to xsi...

i love reading the first post, then skimming through the last couple to see how absurdly off topic threads go lol

... theres nothing wrong w/ milkshape. if you know what a vertex is & you don't apply every fkin face to 1 smoothing group like most do, it's a nice quick program. and afaik, i believe it has an exporter for hl2.

always one of my personal favorites, Milkeshape 3d: http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/