Help on the "Organic modeling tutorial"

[ILoveDominika]

Hi everyone ,
I found that nice Tutorial here: http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/organic_modeling/
and did try it out ,but now I m stuck the problem is..

When I import the "PDS" picture into 3DS MAX8
it looks good in the preview ,
but when I got it assign to a "plane"
It looks very unsharp, like its low resolution , also the lines / squards I did draw
are not full to see only lil points of it.
but its not a LowRes picture and I took the same sizes as Eric,
I can t even clearly see
the squards I painted in the "PDS" on the MAX- plane to create the face on
so I can t go on .....

Is there a setting in 3DS Max 8 to make it look normal like in photoshop?

Or is my PC much to weak to show it clearly?
Don t laugh now my PC got:
Pentium4 3.2 G
Ram 1024
HD much enough
GFX Card ATI Radeon 9800XT

Do I need a hardcore Rendercard to see a simple image(PDS) or textures
clearly in 3DS MAX 8 ????

and got another question , are rendercards realy need-able when
rendering an artwork ,how would it look without such a card / with my gamer card?

and sry for my english

[minimus]

you computer is ok and will do fine for now....but if you want to have the bestgraphic card to render and all you would like to have a quadro fx card:)

but again...it will be imposible to play games on it.

so a good game card will do just fine to render and do god for game hehe.

and yes it is a settings in max that helps you make the picture inn the view port look better.

i use max9 but should be the same:

Go up to"customize" on the main tool bar at the topp.

then on the rool out go to the "preference" on the bottom

a new window opens and on the topp it's many options...pick "viewport"

when you look down on the site now you will see a button at the bottom that says "Configure drivers" hit it.

then a new window opens again. here is the settings you must to swich.

Bacground texture size: 512

Download texture size: "here you need to check the box" mach Bitmap as Closley as posible.

this is the the setings i use:)

feel free to change to the settings you need.
but anyway it is here you change the quality on the viewport.

[ILoveDominika]

Wooooohooooooo , yea thats it
I was in "Preference Settings" before but couldn t find there nothing
which could it make better ,never thought of open "Configure Driver".
It looks now very cute like in Photoshop.
Thanx alot Minimus now I can go on.

My rusty old ATIRadeon 9800XT on a AGP bridge will handel a rendering?
I will try that out when the results are ok, I think I won t buy a "rendercard"
or maybe later to do sum of my Artworks in 3D.