I'm planning to compile a few tutorials "based on my experience with OpenZone". In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a mountainlike grassy hilly plains that is just a standard terrain model in 3d Studio Max 9 and has very low detail and no additional objects. (You can use 3ds max 7, 8 and 9 as their interface is fairly the same.)
For this tutorial you need the following:
3d Studio Max (7, 8 or 9) - In this tutorial, I use 9.
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3ds Max Terrain Basics I
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