101 ways to tell that your using 3dsmax too much...

[bobi]

321) When you look at the river, and you can't see 70% of the river because of the Sun reflection, you got pissed off, because If you do that same river in some 3D app, you know the people would jump on your head with replies "Lower the reflection! Lower the reflection!"

[dranzer006]

322: you use classic theme in windows for better performance in rendering
323: when you buy a new cell phone instead of using it you start modeling it
324: if you don't have any thing to model you see some objects in your dream to model (happened with me)
225: you don't know how to use Excel,powerpoint,word
226: you have 3ds max open right now
227: you pray to god for better render output

[Kage]

Thats me, haha, except for the word/powerpoint/excel thing.

228:

You wish to do some compositing outside the 3D environment.
"I think I'd prefer that object there to render..."

229:

Even worse, if you actually try to move a tree, making it fall on you (polygons supposedly weigh nothing, and are only given a weight value...)
Wheres the movement gizmo when you really need it...

[Freespace-3DT]

226: you have 3ds max open right now

haha, you caught me!

230. When you move dishes through the viewport reaaaaally carefully to not drop them.

231. When both you and your coworker are working on the same scene on two computers, and you wonder why you can't see eachother in the scene.

( both of these true story from this week )

[noyb]

It's been posted before, but when using a jigsaw today - I actually reached for a ctrl-z... it didn't work :(

332: You start asking random people if you can borrow their computers for distributed rendering.

333: You actually think people will understand what you mean by distributed rendering.

[Wilbert]

334:
When brushing your teeth you suddenly stop and think; there's no mirror brush on x axis option and you have to manually brush the other half of your teeth to.

(Me last night after a long long session with mudbox...:crazy:)

[Freespace-3DT]

235: When shaving, you wonder why the mirror function doesn't work and shave your other half of the face.

236: You borrow RAM from everyone you know so that Mental Ray will finish calculating the Final Gather map faster.

[Psycho Mantis]

237:you take a walk with your girl in the nature, and she asks you, what you think, and if this isn´t feeling good. And you ran out of thinks to talk about, cause all you think is how to model your current project. But giving this answer, will definitevly cause some more trouble in your real life..

[BiG ToE-3DT]

238: You clearly see the seams. on everything.

[TekNeek]

239:
When you´re too focused on that damn crease in the middle of a misc. car, wanting to adjust the mirror axis on the symmetry modifier, to realize afterwards that you ran over a red light and almost pulverized your car on the backside of a Truck

[poopipe]

240: you can smell the crash coming 5 minutes away

[noyb]

235: When shaving, you wonder why the mirror function doesn't work and shave your other half of the face.



Did I miss something?


322: you use classic theme in windows for better performance in rendering
323: when you buy a new cell phone instead of using it you start modeling it
324: if you don't have any thing to model you see some objects in your dream to model (happened with me)
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225: you don't know how to use Excel,powerpoint,word
226: you have 3ds max open right now
227: you pray to god for better render output

[Freespace-3DT]

Great point, noyb! Therefore:

341: When you post on forums while working in max, screwing up the digits for the 101 ways thread.

[Robbert543]

342. When you look at any random object, and all you see is a wireframe. (my problem! anyone else?)
343. If you have at least five links to other projects by you in your threedy signture.
343. If you call your 3D models 'projects' -.-'

[Freespace-3DT]

Robbert, that's available for me too. I keep seeing topology and edge loops in all sorts of stuff.

343. When you think why certain things in real life should flicker, and yet they don't.

[noyb]

344: you try your hardest to make something look real so you don't have to make it in real life

345: when you take an ink-blot test, all you see is teapots

346: you try and shift-drag an edge...of plywood

347: you have a top poster award on 3dtotal forums :p

[Psycho Mantis]

348: you create every 2d graphic in max instead of illustrator. (me all the time. i love drawing splines)
349: you have a gameboy laying at your desk, to have fun during render time. (check!)
350: if your game boy is out of reach, you don´t bother watching a one hour render to complete, instead of doing something useful (?!?) in the household.

[Sathe]

351: when your me.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

352: when you have more golden eye awards then you do eyes.

[mon_stdnt]

352: when you have more golden eye awards then you do eyes.

lol I was going to say something like that. But hey he could be a freak!
just kidding, Sathe:)

[Sathe]

I'm a little spider, mission not accomplished yet.

[Freespace-3DT]

I'm a little spider, mission not accomplished yet.

Keep buildin' those awesome Hadron mechs, and you'll get so many golden eyes, Threedy will have to divide by zero.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

353: you find these (353!) jokes funny.

[Sathe]

Keep buildin' those awesome Hadron mechs, and you'll get so many golden eyes, Threedy will have to divide by zero.

OH SHI

[ross_coe]

OH SHI

is it just me, or do all those eyes, hammers and pyramids in your awards showcase panel look like something related to the free masons?

354. When you start suspecting Threedy patrons with lots of awards of being free masons
:p

[Robbert543]

355. When you always have all the answers to all the forum members' questions related to 3Ds.

[MStandar]

356. When you are watching a movie and start asking yourself if they used Reactor or not.

357. When you are taking a swim and you wonder how the hell they made that material.

[Psycho Mantis]

358. You say cleaning the dishes is easy , simply remove the "dirt map" by uncheking it. Your gf stands next to you and gives you the "wtf-look".

[inveni0]

359: You admire the SSS of your scrotum...while walking through the park.

[poopipe]

360 : when it's 2 in the morning and it suddenly dawns on you that you've been using it for 16 solid hours, you've missed 2 meals, drunk a bottle and a half of a lively south american red and haven't been for a pee since it got dark.

[Wilbert]

361: When you type your resume in 3d space with the text tool, than render it out in orthographic top view. Just because you can...

[Freespace-3DT]

359: You admire the SSS of your scrotum...while walking through the park.

H.O.W.?

362. You've adapted your bladder to pee only twice a day. Yeap! *pulls trousers up*

[Psycho Mantis]

you leave your pc alone two times a day? poor machine....

[Wilbert]

Hehe just use a bottle dude.:smug:

[BiG ToE-3DT]

364: when you get a call from a girl you "met" 9 months ago and she says, you are the father. Then you control Z the phone call.

[Sathe]

360 : when it's 2 in the morning and it suddenly dawns on you that you've been using it for 16 solid hours, you've missed 2 meals, drunk a bottle and a half of a lively south american red and haven't been for a pee since it got dark.

This sounds serious, seek help, seek help! lol

[Psycho Mantis]

363. you can control max almost completely with shortcuts, you learned by hard. but the washing machine with its 2 buttons is a miracle to you. you own it about 10 years btw.

[Robbert543]

364. If, in your Photobucket account, you have a subfolder which is called 'renders', in that one two more folders, respectively called 'High quality renders' and 'Test renders'.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

365: your playing a video game and you say, "Hey, I made that."

[Psycho Mantis]

366. after many years of maxin´ you wonde who put the spherify and turbosmooth modificator onto your body.

;)

[Kage]

Blaim the beer! Blaim the beer! :p

[THX Superman]

367. It takes you 5 years between posts, but you post here anyway.

[Edwiersma]

368)

You wonder why people are wearing glasses instead of decreasing the blur.

[newhere]

369: You animated a superhero punching threw a wall and then you tried to do it yourself.

[newhere]

370: You smell your computer to see if your character has Body Odor.

[newhere]

371: You wonder if one day when you finish making a character, will it get up and walk about on it's own.

[poopipe]

372 : when you carry UI settings round on a memory stick in your wallet in case you have to use somebody else's machine

that's quite embarassing

[Psycho Mantis]

thats what i have a stick with portable max for....:halo:

[noyb]

373: You make it into somebody's signature on a 3d forum ^^^

[Tiff]

374: You take your family out on a day trip, just so you can photograph some architectural details.

375: You start doing hand break turns and running red lights, just because you see a vehicle that would make a good project.

[Tiff]

376; Youre family and furniture are just scene assets.

[Psycho Mantis]

377. your girlfriend tells you its about time to get your body in shape. you open max and start modelling.

[Sathe]

378.
your girlfriend tells you its about time to get your body in shape.
you wake up and realise you have no girlfriend, it was a dream. you start modeling.

[Psycho Mantis]

:D :D :D

this has a "pro side" - you don´t have a real life that wastes your preciuos 3dtime.

[Tiff]

378: When you see that girl wearing a short skirt, and you want to reverse gravity.
379: When you hang the washing out on the line, and you simulate local.
380: When you say to your girl friend, to take an umbrella with her because its going to be heavy particle generation out there.

[Bracer]

When you look at someone with cloth and you sometimes think to yourself: "Now that is a very bad cloth simulation...."

[DigitalPutty]

382. You cant stand to do 2D. :)

[Tuss4]

383. when you see an ugly chick and when to start cutting and removing edges

[BiG ToE-3DT]

384: Modeling or sex? :roll:

.

[Psycho Mantis]

depends i´d say.....

[DigitalPutty]

385: When you make sound effects when pushing buttons. :P

[Psycho Mantis]

386.

Everytime i´m in the bathroom and see this - it drives me crazy.

[parleee]

Sheesh, your bathroom designer didn't know his topology...

[fiveways]

You know you've been using 3dsmax too much when you notice that EVERYTHING has a chamfered edge.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

388: When you can still remember the first version of max to come out

389: you used nurbs

340: you see more than one 3ds max icon on your desktop.

[Psycho Mantis]

390. you implemented custom scripts to start ANY other application within max, so you you dont have to minimze it to tray.

[noyb]

390. you implemented custom scripts to start ANY other application within max, so you you dont have to minimze it to tray.

I used to do that in high school because all of the software was locked except autocad and max for student accounts. Lock me out of the internet... bah, I showed them :evil:

<cough>geek</cough>

[Buzzy]

391: You believe that Z-up is the norm

[Perversonality]

392: you start looking at the Max SDK when you are bored and suddenly it's 4 hours later and you've started work on a new model format exporter

Yep, that's what I did yesterday... Yep... There is no hope...!

[Psycho Mantis]

393. you try and try and try to apply a gift wrap around your girlfriends present and fail miserably. the only way to keep you from kicking the present is to think what a breeze it would be to model the present, model the box, unwrap it, paint the texture in photoshop, apply the texture, light the scene and render in several passes, do a cloudy background or model a christmas tree including decoration (+ unwrap, photoshop, lighting) and compose all together in a nice final beauty shot.

life could be so easy.....

damn scissors, damn cellotape, damn ribbon....

[inveni0]

393. you try and try and try to apply a gift wrap around your girlfriends present and fail miserably. the only way to keep you from kicking the present is to think what a breeze it would be to model the present, model the box, unwrap it, paint the texture in photoshop, apply the texture, light the scene and render in several passes, do a cloudy background or model a christmas tree including decoration (+ unwrap, photoshop, lighting) and compose all together in a nice final beauty shot.

life could be so easy.....

damn scissors, damn cellotape, damn ribbon....

A while back I was doing lots of image editing in Photoshop, and every time I'd walk past a cracked wall or something else, I would have to consciously prevent myself from trying to use a cloning brush to fix it. It was the weirdest feeling in the world.

[TekNeek]

394: When you trying to sleep but can't 'cause you're too busy UV mapping your latest model, in your head..

395: When you're calculating how many 128 x 128 texture sheets it takes to fill up a 2048 x 2048 one (256 :dance:)..

yeah... couldn´t sleep last night, btw

[Sathe]

396: When your Carpal tunnel has its own public transportation system

[joeyarkenstat02]

393. When your girlfriend/wife tells you she is pregnant and you feel sorry for her because it is going to take her 9 months to model and rig a character.

[Robbert543]

394. When you use max' gizmo as your company logo (guilty..)

[poopipe]

395:
391: You believe that Z-up is the norm

when you chuckle at things like that

[Freespace-3DT]

396. You get a tattoo of a teapot on your arm

http://area.autodesk.com/userdata/fckdata/197/image/kenpimentel/teapot.jpg

[Tank[NL]]

397: when you see a tattoo of the teapot and notice the shape is slightly off and still think its pretty cool.

398: when you make the ctrl-z motion when messing up work around the house...

[Zlatovous]

399. When you can think only one reason for seeing your girlfriend naked. The only reason is that you want to do another anatomy study.

400. When you post to thread that was death for half of a year about how geeky you are

[Joseph Pomeisl]

...

400. When you post to thread that was death for half of a year about how geeky you are

my thoughts exactly

[inveni0]

401: When you start seeing wireframes everywhere you look, like some sort of Matrix code.

[Nukie]

402: When even your wife starts to point at teapots saying: "Look, they got it from that 3D program." (Happened to me today when sitting in the car. We drove by a hotel that has a teapot statue on the roof)

[Psycho Mantis]

403. You agree to go shopping at ikea - with one condition: you may model the whole catalogue first, and arrange it all in your 3d model of your house. Just to see how well it fits. :)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

404: When Porn no longer interest you.

[inveni0]

404: When Porn no longer interest you.

WHAT?!? ...I can't even comprehend such a statement...

[Perversonality]

405: When your 101 ways turns into more than 400 ways... :p

Yeah, but seriously, porn is still interesting because there are a lot of anatomical and shader issues to think about...

Guess that's 406 too then... ;)

[BiG ToE-3DT]

406: When animated porn is more interesting than real life porn.

[Zlatovous]

407: When you make your own animated porn with you as main actor.

408: When you make an animation of yourself watching your own animated porn, so you can please yourself while working.

[Robbert543]

409: When you make up stories about yourself making pornimations in 3D.

[Zlatovous]

Ok, you got me there, Robert :-)

[Tank[NL]]

410: when you look at a random object and wonder how the heck they made that awesome super real shader...

[Psycho Mantis]

411. You are disappointed after playing "sam and max hit the road" - because there was no max in it at all.

[Tank[NL]]

411. You are disappointed after playing "sam and max hit the road" - because there was no max in it at all.

D0h!

412: you know when you use max too often when it makes your day getting a good unwrap.

[Nukie]

413: When you search the internet for plugins you dont need, and after you installed some of them, you start looking for more plugins to make the ones you have downloaded before work even better.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

414: When, something wrongI think.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

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