You need to render a rock surface and you just have a diffuse map. How to convert it in a useful displacement map?
Most of times you open the texture in photoshop and work it in order to get your displacement map. But often we just get really rought surfaces. How to improve it?
In this cases [...]

1) Can you model a robot like that?
2) Can you rig this model?
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(Warning: the following post’s related to 3ds Max, but is applicable to any software provides polygonal modeling)

Among the 3ds Max modifiers, there is one – EDIT POLY – that rather than a lot of parameters, in fact there’s a “world” behind: the world of the polygonal modeling!
Polygonal modeling (nurms)  is an approach for modeling objects by representing or [...]