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Song of the day: Andain - You once told me

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:29:24 GMT

BMW E30 Front Wing modeling - Part 2

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:36:19 GMT

I had some errors on the front wing, so here is the update:

From 3DS Max - E30

BMW E30 Front Wing modeling

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:31:51 GMT

The front wing is ready, so here it is:

From 3DS Max - E30

HOWTO: Remove texture in 3DS Max

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:19:48 GMT

Sometimes, after you assign a material to an object in 3DS Max, you want to go back to the wireframe color. Deleting the material from the material editor slot or assigning an empty material is not going to do the trick. Removing a material from an object is only possible through MAXScript. To do this you have to select your object object, open the MAXScript Listener (keyboard shortcut F11) and type:

$.material = NULL

If you want to check what material are you using on an object you simply type:

$.material

which will produce an output like this:

05 - Default:Car_Paint_Material__mi

See you later.

Modeling the BMW E30 M3

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:26:10 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I started to learn 3DS Max. Every time you start learning something, you should always, and I mean always:

Learn the very basics
Think of a project, and learn more when you are working on that project.

That being said, I chose to model my car in 3DS Max. Well, not really, because mine is not an M, but the M's body-kit is nicer.

The hood is ready, so here it is:

From 3DS Max - E30

Any feedback is welcome.

Coming next: front wing.

HelixBlog review

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:40:00 GMT

As I said a couple of days ago, I'm going to make a review about HelixBlog. Now, 2 days before the initial lauch, it's time for the review.

HelixBlog is a new blogging platform, written in Ruby, developed by Marius Stanciu, a 28 years old web developer. Unlike other blogging platforms, HelixBlog is a platform that gives new bloggers a really easy head-start to blogging due to it's very slick interface and some features that are available for other blogs only as plugins.

Unlike it's biggest competitor, Wordpress, HelixBlog incorporates by default some very handy features for new bloggers, such as spam protection, SEO, Markdown or Textile support, automatic pinging to Ping-o-matic, and those are few, considered to what features will be integrated in next versions. Let's be serios, it's version 0.1.0. Can someone tell me a piece of software which was complete at this version?

You may have seen, on many blogs, categories. Well, it's not something you will see here. HelixBlog uses only tags instead.

The biggest pro from my opinion is the very slick interface, which will be very handy for new bloggers. Unlike other blogging platforms, the admin interface is well organized and people new to blogging will find all they need right where they think it should be.

So, there are 2 more days until the official launch. Two more days until you'll have the first Web 3.0 experience.

Hello World

liviudm@liviudm.com (Liviu Damian) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:19:00 GMT

Hello, again!

After spending some time offline, I decided to get back to the online world, so this blog revived.

I must say I'm one of the very few lucky people to get the new HelixBlog before the official launch date, a very slick, evolved, blogging platform.

A review about HelixBlog will be available soon, so stay tuned!