thats awesome man, I've heard of a scatter tool that you can you to scatter little crap all across your floor, but I cant find it.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

Thanks, good idea on the scatter thing. I found scatter under compound objects (Max 2008) , I used it (conservatively)around the barrel and between the doors, but I didn't see an option for making the objects vary in size so I threw in a few manually placed objects. I also added a dirt map to the wall, door and floor.

I'm having a problem with the building behind the fence, it's supposed to be across an alley about the width of a car but it looks like its right up against the fence. Any suggestions on how to convey that this is a separate building more clearly?
A window maybe?

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Chris

I heard of applying a noise modifier to your scatter to randomly distort scale and stuff. +Jamie would know, he was telling me about it.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

The light coming from in there would help, but as your first impression is that its against the fence it looks really weird.

I think its because you cant see the floor past the fence, all that junk is in the way. Maybe reposition it, slightly, so that we get a bit of the floor coming through.

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

Per your suggestion I moved some stuff around to get a view past the fence, but no matter what I did it still looked weird. The more visible I made the alley the more distracting it was. So, as you can see in the update, I said screw the fence.

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Chris

It looks really great man. Looks real dirty

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Matt
http://theprophetmoses.deviantart.com

Yeh, nice and dirty, just how we like it here

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http://www.3dprevis.com

theres a cool tool called advanced painter for scattering stuff at scriptspot.com you can paint with a scatter object or multiple scatter objects with random rotations and offsets also paint splines onto a surface etc..not sure if theres a version for max 2008 yet.
also, download and install the blur scripts pack from scriptspot. theres some really handy stuff like a random transform script for instance. select a bunch of objects set it to rotate and scale and you have instant randomness. easier than writing it yourself..

If your not down with using scripts just go to maxscript>run script and find a script. open them in notepad to find out how they work.

links (if they work)

http://www.scriptspot.com/scripts/web_upload/Herman Saksono/advpainter_1.5.1.zip

and the blur scripts. I use these in max 9 but it says its for max 7??

http://www.neilblevins.com/blurscripts/blurscripts.htm

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Wow this looks real love it rate good thanks for sharing

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