3dSmax day 1----2

[rsalonen]

Thats great that you've started with 3dsmax, the really fun part begins once you've learned more about the tools, materials and light.
Check this site for some good materials and light lessons
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/cg_education.htm

Myself is really new to 3dsmax too, so I've got allot to learn, bur if you visit the 3dsmax section of this forum you can get help with most stuff :)

Good luck and have fun!

[right eye]

3D Studio Max Fundamentals and 3D Studio Max Magic are pretty good resources. Fundamentals is more of a break-down bible and Magic is icing on the cake...

There are a lot of good resources on the web, but by finding CG talk, you're already on the right track

[Jeffg]

right eye - would you believe that I just pick up that book "3D Studio Max Fundamentals" today.. guess it was a good call. Thanks for the input


Veqtue - thanks for the site recommendation. I read a couple of tutorial and I'm excite to give em a try soon.


Keep the suggestions comming I need all the input I can get... I am sponge soaking up all this info....



Thanks guys..

:D

[CHRiTTeR]

I'm learning MAX also, for about (+/-) 4 months now...

I'm also looking for better techniques and ways to learn. Now I'm kinda like hmmmm, .., "what's that button?", *click*, 3damn, my scene is tottaly messed up now!!!".

But I believe that's the best way to learn it. Just see for yourself and learn out of your faults. Then when u think u got the basics of it and understand all the terms (don't know if this is eng.?), use the book. You'll learn much more, much faster!

[Jeffg]

WOW what a day yesterday. I learned alot. Spent about 7 hours after work on the PC learning. I went through about 300 pages in my book. I learn about most of the buttons, shape, and splines, even dabbled into animation a bit. (whew) there is so much to learn though. I learned about arry's and modifiers. I must say its very cool and I'm eger and excited to get better.

I got a couple quick question, granted this must be basic for most but remember this is day 3 for me.

1) After makeing a spline or line, what are steps to get that attached to another shape. The book kinda covered this but not to the detail I needed. Example of this would be; say I make a tree trunk and I want to attach a branch.

2) With a model or shape already made what are the step to draw a line off that model and what are the best views to do this in. Example of this would be last night I made a small space ship and when trying to draw in the fins on the side I had one heck of a time. What I ended up doing was drawing the line away from my model then placed an "extrude" modifier on it then just shoved it into the model so it looked like it was in the right place.

Maybe this is not the best way to model, if not please let me know. I open to anything anyone has to say. Thanks a million for everyone's help.

[pluMmet]

1. just remember that 3 or 4 verts make a poly so just make a space on your object (most likley with more than 4 verts so its a blank space in your object then place the object to be sowed in and 'attach' the objects to eachother and connect the splines to 'sow' it in... (that's about as simple as i can put it.)

2. sounds like polyobject is what you need in this case (if its not polyobject convert it to polyobject and play with extruding faces)...and also any poly can be 'cut' to get the shape you want to extrude...



g/l



'sTiLl tRyinG to pluMmet to ThE COre.'

[Jeffg]

pluMmet thanks for the tips I will try them after work today.

[tobalno3]

good that max pulled in another unfortunate being....sniff

it got me too.

just remember that when learning any 3d application its like learning 10 photoshops in one.

[jscott]

The book 3ds max 4 Media Animation is also very good. Nice realworld projects and complete explanations as if it were your job to complete the animation for the client or co-worker.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710597/qid=1014930642/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6307623-5063168

-jscott

[Lonewolf]

I'd also say read the inprogram help (F1), they have everything you could want to know about what certain buttons and functions do.

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