Creating a Glade Using Grass-O-Matic Plugin
Foreword This lesson contains the detail view of glade creation process. The lesson is reckon on 3DStudioMax users and also is based on Grass-O-Matic plugin for 3DSMAX. The le...
Type : 3D Tutorials
Level : Professional
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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What is Gimbal Lock and why Does it Occur?
What is gimbal lock? Gimbal lock is the phenomenon of two rotational axis of an object pointing in the same direction. Simply put, it means your object won't rotate how you think it ought to rotate. Gimbal lock is frus...
Type : 3D Articles
Level : All levels
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Grass Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you the step by step process of the composition process. So please read carefully.
Type : 3D Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Low-poly grass and hair
To get started: the grass in figure 1 contains ten, the hair in figure 2 and 3 960 faces. So how do we achieve this? The answer is short and simple: alpha maps. All images where created by using an alpha map like the one shown in figure 4. (And the right geometry setup. ;) That's why the tuto....
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Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Halfwire Tutorial
Here is a tutorial an how to do a half wireframe picture using 3ds Max and photoshop.
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Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Hiding Objects During Animation
This tutorial covers how to properly hide an object during an animation. Hopefully you will learn the basics of using the Track view editor, a very powerful part of animating in 3d studio max and learn the ever needed tool of hiding an object at certain points during the animation. Lets begin!
Type : 3D Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Drawing the Human Hand
The hands, along with the face should recieve careful attention. for one thing, aside from the head, they are usually the only other exposed part of the body. Secondly, they are equally as expressive in gesture, emotion and action. ...
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Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Human Head
It's important that you take the time to walk through and complete the Understanding 3D Form tutorial before you're ready to take this next step. Anyone who thinks they are beyond the basics presented there is kidding themselves, myself included. No mat...
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Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Faking Sunlight
Or: making your light global without Global Illumination ;) Today we're going to talk about a easy-to-use technique also known as the "lightdome".
Type : 3D Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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Map Channels
Map Channels Step 1. - Reset 3D Studio Max Step 2. - Go to the Front View Step 3. - Go to the Create Panel and make a tube. Make Radius1 = 100, Radius2 = 80 and the Height = 60. This is the basic shape that we'll use for this tutorial. It's supposed to be a tire: we'll make a tire (wit.....
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Level : Experienced
Added : Jul 29, 2004
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