Modeling a Character in 3DS Max, 2nd Edition

AUTHORIZED DIGRESSION: ORBB VS. CARMACK

When we were making Quake III: Arena, John Carmack —

co-founder, co-owner, and chief coder at id Software — found

Orbb very disturbing. The character just didn’t seem like it

should be running around in the Quake world firing rockets at

you. John Cash (a former programmer at id) relayed to me

one day that Orbb freaked Carmack out so much that he lost

games because of it. For a period of several days we all tested

this theory by chasing poor Carmack around on the tourna

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ment levels with the very disquieting and (apparently) creepy

Orbb.

FYI: FUNCTIONALITY OVER FORM I’m always experi

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menting with different ways to ...