Hey all,
I was watching a cool show tonight on the history channel that sparked my interest in 3d modeling again. It was a special on the German-made Ho 229, the flying wing jet the nazis made. To see if it was "stealthy" (by wwii standards), they built a 1:1 scale replica. The original was made out of wood, as was the copy. It was truly amazing to see the thing being built, and then finally completed.
Anyways, I thought I should take another stab at modeling. I've always had good 'spatial thinking', being able to imagine something in my mind in 3d, and draw/sketch it growing up. Awhile back when I tried out gmax, I failed pretty hard. mr. howdoimod's tuts helped a bit, but just as i got going they kind of stopped. At the time I wanted to make a very basic japanese pillbox (cube basically). Idk if its good or not, but in my head I wanted to make the object as if I were molding it out of clay; starting with the cube and carving away what I don't want. I'm not sure if that's the 'proper' way though.
I could grab 3dsmax, but I was wondering if there were any good tutorials to help get started using the dang thing...hopefully geared towards gaming.
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Might want to try 3d modeling again
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Re: Might want to try 3d modeling again
Just to get some ideas of the work flow this video is quite good.:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... FDF7962331
(The guy is a bit strange but thats okay .)
Also on this page you may find some good tutorials.
http://www.escalight.com/tutorials/3dsm ... art-1.html
More:
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/1
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-3ds-max-line/
http://adobeusersite.com/photoshop-blog ... o-tutorial
UVW Mapping:
http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html
Blueprints:
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/
Render:
http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/ ... s_max.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... FDF7962331
(The guy is a bit strange but thats okay .)
Also on this page you may find some good tutorials.
http://www.escalight.com/tutorials/3dsm ... art-1.html
More:
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/1
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-3ds-max-line/
http://adobeusersite.com/photoshop-blog ... o-tutorial
UVW Mapping:
http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html
Blueprints:
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/
Render:
http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/ ... s_max.html
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