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Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 20, 2003, 03:50:21 AM: This program is a bitch to learn, anyone know of any really good tutorial sites with easy info?

I\'m trying to design a car like Adans... Its not exactly looking like his...
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: videoholic on July 20, 2003, 04:06:02 AM: Well if you spent thousands of bucks on a program you can certainly afford a 25 buck training CD.. :)

http://www.the3dstudio.com/(l4zfou551ywwrrnydpegf3qr)/Default.aspx
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 20, 2003, 04:29:28 AM: Its called the trial version.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 20, 2003, 04:34:09 AM: sure it is......
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: videoholic on July 20, 2003, 08:01:57 AM: Well you can probably find training CDs where you got the trial. There are tons of them out there ;)
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Kurt Angle on July 20, 2003, 08:57:55 AM: I found these link\'s using google.

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tut3ds.asp

http://www.munkmotion.com/tutorials/nsx/1a.htm

http://www.3dm-mc.com/tutorials/car/

http://www.3dm-mc.com/tutorials/car2/
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 20, 2003, 09:36:12 AM: You won\'t use nothing better than a good tutorial book for the program.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 22, 2003, 08:48:55 AM: try http://www.cgtalk.com

great site, but some people\'s work makes me wanna give up!
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Luke on July 22, 2003, 12:16:05 PM: I\'m learning how to use 3dSM at ITT Tech!!!!

I\'m gettin\' learned on it.

yeeeeee haaaaaaw.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 22, 2003, 04:07:30 PM: I had already found that Munk Motion site, its an excellent tut and his work is amazing.

Im slowly getting there... What the hell is a spline???
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Knotter8 on July 23, 2003, 01:20:35 AM: Most commonly a Bezier curve. You can make Nurbs surface out of those. They are manipulated by their Control Vertices. But hey, I\'m a Maya and Cinema4D XL man. Not yet as good as Adan though... but i keep on practicing. Right now i\'m busy on a Tekki / Metal Gear kind of Mech and i\'m involved in creating SFX for a lowbudget horror movie.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Samwise on July 23, 2003, 01:21:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Knotter8
and i\'m involved in creating SFX for a lowbudget horror movie.
Hey, cool! Got any info? :)
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 23, 2003, 03:28:41 AM: my head hurts, 3D Studio Max is so hard to use, and its not very user friendly. I have accouple of 3DS models of some cars that I converted from Need For Speed, and I am trying to texture them, but its not working at all.

Im off to Borders tomorrow to buy myself a good tut book, anyone got any they could recommend?
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 23, 2003, 04:34:12 AM: The "inside 3D Studio Max" series are good, I\'ve owned a couple
of them.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735700850/qid=1058963540/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-4540044-0618219?v=glance&s=books

This one is for 4... but I think it will teach you the basics..
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Knotter8 on July 23, 2003, 05:18:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Samwise
Hey, cool! Got any info? :)

Hi
thanx for asking ;)
Basically, the movie is just in start-up phase with about
50 ppl involved. The website can be found here :

HorizonicaMovie (http://www.Horizonica.nl)

It\'s all in Dutch, but here\'s what it\'s about ; A mad scientist
whose sick ( and evil ) mother died, takes revenge on his
old collegue scientists. He gets in a fight with them and in
doing so he unleashes his secret weapon : a zombie virus
into the watersystem. Yes, I know it sounds very cheap RE
ripoff, but hey, I\'m not the one who wrote the script. :D
Here\'s some captures of the concept demo i made.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jurriaan.org%2Fcmm%2Fimages%2Fupload%2FHorizonicaConcept.jpg&hash=a99c4b9ba3165d83e4cd44daed1069d537ce8340)

I am also working on a Tekki / Metal Gear Solid ripoff mech robot.
Much kudos to ppl who make tech stuff on a regular basis becuz I find doing this rather tough :( Anyway, here\' s some
in-progress pics. ( Only the legs\' geometry is done until now ; the rest is place-holders. )

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jurriaan.org%2Fcmm%2Fimages%2Fupload%2FRobotTest19.jpg&hash=8123dc0770bc1e9a7db61c2b395a1501d9b17da9)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jurriaan.org%2Fcmm%2Fimages%2Fupload%2FRobotTest18.jpg&hash=64eb01d538812f57222892dccc2dd14ea84d5b82)
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 23, 2003, 07:05:16 AM: Wow Knotter, I love that look.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Knotter8 on July 23, 2003, 07:18:46 AM: Thanx for the compliment Adan ! imo it means alot coming from you becuz i really like that car you made recently. :worship:
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 23, 2003, 07:48:33 AM: Bah, only practice shit. I\'ve lost many projects BTW during the update.. I forgot to save a folder. Go on with that cellie look because it rocks dude.

Tip: don\'t render the black line in the scene, adjust the background to show only a degraded or blurry environment.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Kurt Angle on July 23, 2003, 08:00:44 AM: Some great looking pics in here, very Silent Hill.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 23, 2003, 04:40:44 PM: How do you render with that black horizon line? Everytime I render something its just a plain boring black background, with no shadows or anything at all. I can change the colour of the background, but I never get any shadows or nothing.

That looks amazing Knotter.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 23, 2003, 07:31:12 PM: Add some lights and check the "cast shadows" button, G.

Adjust the ambient light from the "environment" menu.

Damn!
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 24, 2003, 02:58:20 AM: That\'s right
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 24, 2003, 03:52:16 AM: Do I have to add a plane or something on the bottom though???

its not working.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Knotter8 on July 24, 2003, 04:04:04 AM: 2 Racer ; Yeah, you could use a poly plane for floor surface. Or you could use a "Floor-object" like i did in the mech pics. But that\'s the name for it in Cinema4D XL, I wouldn\'t know the equivalent in 3D Max.
But like Adan said, it don\'t look very nice in the background becuz my "Sky-object" is 255, 255, 255 in RGB just as the ground and the spotlight has limited reach, so it didn\'t lit it\'s background. Anyway, this isn\'t of course the final scene. It\'s just for testing.
Try to start simple with just 1 spotlight and 1 backlight ( ambient or distant light ) and fiddle around a bit with fall-off and decay on the spotlight. Goodluck. :thepimp:
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 24, 2003, 04:40:32 AM: I just bought "3D Studio Max 5 Bible" by Kelly Murdoch from Borders, so hopefully it\'ll teach me all I need to know.

Its 1106 pages so it had better bloody be good.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 24, 2003, 05:15:34 AM: Good book dude. Read, follow the tutorials, learn the base-knowledges, take notice of the tips and tricks and then read again. And remember that you will learn more practicing by yourself.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 24, 2003, 05:21:14 AM: I am beginning to get the hang of it, its gonna take awhile though.

Everytime I exit 3DS Max, my computer seems to go really chuggy for some reason, and its weird, because its not chuggy when the program is actually running. Like, I can have multiple windows open and even mp3 playing, and its fine, but close the program and even typeing takes awhile.

QUESTION - If you Spline model, for instance, half a car, on top, side and front, back, how do you then turn those splines into editable mesh?

I don\'t understand how that works.
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 24, 2003, 06:24:53 AM: I found that box modelling is much easier, especially if you\'re
doing vehicles...

attach the splines to the first one, in order, then check the modifier stack for "surface" I believe that\'s how you do it...

Like I said, I prefer to box model everything...
Title: Anyone know of any good 3D Studio Max 5 tutorial sites?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 24, 2003, 06:27:15 AM: check out here:

http://www.3dluvr.com/content/maxedout.php