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Well, this was interesting. Up to this point my park was mostly made up of a handful of boxes and half-tubes, but making seats required a huge increase in numbers of polygons. As I copied and pasted more and more seats, my computer started crashing like crazy.
So I can't make a fully realized 3-D park in Max alone. Instead, I made as few actual seats as I could get away with, and just copied images of them over and over with the magic of Photoshop. Then I dappled a whole bunch of coloured dots over top with the paintbrush tool to see if it would look like a crowd. You can see that cloning has created some problems in the upper right hand side that I didn't get around to fixing. Also, there are no steps in the aisles. But overall it looks OK I think.
I haven't tried to go back and refine it any further yet, because now I need to decide if it wouldn't just be easier to copy seating from actual photographs/renderings of real ballparks and use pieces of those for my seating areas. I mean, since I'm going to have to abandon rendering every single seat in 3-D anyway, that might be the best option, hmmmm.
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