Resources : 3DSMax Tutorials by 3dimplant.com

[drunkirishmic]

looks like a good idea dude.

my only complaint was that on the first vid tut, the narrator had some trouble locating some of the tools. maybe script out the tuts and do some practice runs to get everything right.

but it does look good, i coulda used a site like this when i was starting out.

[dmak]

Thanks for the review. We contemplated revising the tutorials. However, at this stage, we are offering them for free, they teach important topics that can be extremely useful. Expect our next tutorials to be error free, or as close as we can manage.

Sign up the next time you get a chance so you can give us feedback on our more advanced tutorials!

Once again thanks for the reviews. We should have 2 or 3 more tutorials coming soon.

dmak
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[SuperMax]

Website looking good so far

Anychance of the videos being Downloadable?
Please??
Pretty Please???
Pretty Please with Cherries ontop??? :) :love:

its a major hassle for us 56k people wanting to watch the video again and we have to wait for the part we want to get buffered.:blush:

Keep the good work up and Give us more lollies :wavey:

[BigSerge]

and here are the titles so far as is on the site so check it out
go to www.3dimplant.com register for free and check out these tutorials for free

[dmak]

Supermax,
We're looking into a downloadable version so you don't have to wait for buffering. I'll post something once we get a little more organized with the tutorials. Over the course of the week we should have something for you and your 56k friends. I thought everyone had broadband by now.. silly me.

Dan
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[BigSerge]

MorphtIt session 2 added and session should be uploaded by later Tonight.


http://www.bigserge29.com/images/Tutorials.jpg

[BigSerge]

Final session for the morpher tutorial added

http://www.bigserge29.com/images/Tutorials2.jpg

[BigSerge]

Intro to UVMapping tutorial added

[BigSerge]

Maximizing your workflow session 2 added

[Dave Black]

BIG kudos to dmak and bigserge for setting all this up. Good looking out for the community. It's a big undertaking, and I applaud your efforts. If you need some extra bandwidth, or any help, let me know.

-3DZ

:D

[BigSerge]

Thank you very much 3DZealot I definately appreciate the props :) Hope as many members appreciate us doing so as you do. We also appeciate your offer and will catch up with you on it :)

PS-Basic tips prior to skinning being compressed and should be up for viewing soon


LPCG (love, Peace and, Chicken Grease)

[BigSerge]

Tips before you skin it tutorial added.

[dmak]

Thanks Z, I appreciate the good words. BigSerge, altruizine and myself are working pretty hard to make a decent site here.

If anyone has any comments, suggestions or would like to join our crew please feel free to ask, or email one of us.

Also if you have requests for textures, specific tutorials or any other 3d resources go ahead and ask.. never hurts. :)

I want to thank all the members who've signed up and are using the site, please keep checking back as we are constantly updating it, and will soon have a few interesting features for the community section I think people will find useful.

contact info:
jfernsler@3dimplant.com - altruizine (texture specialist)
dmak@3dimplant.com - me, Dan (webmaster/3d artist)
sergioedma@3dimplant.com - bigserge (tutorial expert)

Thanks!
Dan
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[Raideen]

To Dmak and BigSerge:
These tuts are nice and answer some questions I had keep up the good work.

:thumbsup:

[jbrophy]

Looks great

It looks like you guys know quite a lot about the program :)

[jbrophy]

Edit: Not sure why it posetd twice

[BigSerge]

Well thank you very Raideen and Jbrophy the positive feedback is a great assurance and motivation for me to keep on going with this and also that you Raideen have learned something new is even a better one:). I want to let you guys know that the latest tutorial has been added. It's on how to use either the wire parameters method or the reactor controller for some automated motion in a Rig without getting too technical just using what you got.


Enjoy the tutorials and hope you learn something new folks

LPCG (Love, Peace, & Chicken Grease)

[BigSerge]

Well folks I must finish prepare and pack up for Siggraph so I will be out they will not be any new tuts from me untill I return but, you should definately keep an eye out for my man Dmak as he may be adding a few.


LPCG


PS- you may also get a tutorial or 2 from a Secret player/member. That is all I can say for now :) and that ya'll know his handle already.:applause:

[BigSerge]

Am currently at the San Diego convention Center :) as I write this up want to let ya'll know that the site was down and is now back up so if you missed out then go on back and gain some free knowledge if you need it:)


LPCG

[tonygib]

Hay, thats pretty cool and I am now a member, but like someone said, really need a proper download link for the tut's, which can resume if possible, for us limited dial-up users.

thanks

[newb3e]

hey
nice tutorail but i would like to see some modeling tutorials like patch nurmbs & spline modeling ... plz do some

[Ajaciedwt]

Great tutorials,I already watched some, but I prefer to download it at my hd, takes a while to buffer it. I also wanna reqeust some modeling tutorials dunno if its possible :rolleyes:
I can see its a site with potential :applause:

greetz

[dmak]

We should have all the tutorials ready in a downloadable format within this week. I'll post again when they're available.

As for requesting tutorials, please do so! We'd prefer to put tutorials out that we know people want.

Thanks for your interest and keep the comments/suggestions coming.

dmak
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[mrwilt]

Nice site! Just registered. I did notice a typo in the tutorial section. You spelled "Length" - "Legnth" at the bottom of all the tutorial descriptions. Just thought you'd like to know.

[BigSerge]

Well now Siggraph was one heck of a week I must say and I manage to get my hungry fingers in Max 6 for a bit. I had a smile on my face the entire time :) well for those who have registered at 3dimplant.com I strongly suggest that you check up on the site frequently cause they will be some new goodies as far as tutorials goes coming up in the near future.



LPCG

[PiledotNET]

Very nice Serge!

I will be checking for updates. :thumbsup:

And tnks for the video tutorials, they are great, specially the Morpher and Reactor and Wire Controller :thumbsup:

[ivo D]

great site,reallty coool , BRAVO!!:beer: :thumbsup:

[::r|[o::]

Great content, keep up the good work!!! :buttrock:

[BigSerge]

Thanks guys if you're happy than rest ashure I am :)

[dmak]

Macro Recorder Tutorial Added!

Learn how to use the Macro Recorder to automate time consuming processes.
legnth: 12:20

http://www.3dimplant.com/tutorials.php

dan
www.3dimplant.com

[ilka]

Excellent resources!!
Thanx alot for the tutorials!
:beer:

[Cararan]

Great for the 3ds max user base need more like them. Thanks Alot :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[BigSerge]

Nothing but

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease coming from the BigSerge for those kind words :)

[ivo D]

does videos rock!!

could you guys make a video.. of a character with moprhs and bones..

how to combine them in movement and so on? :D

but eej 2 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: up

[SuperMax]

Hey BigSerge ad Dmak. *kisses for you both* :love:

hehehe

BigSerge, you mentioned you played or saw Max6 in action at Siggraph, What were you impressions of it?


;)

[ilka]

Once again thanx for the great tutorials :beer:

1 Question, I saw one of your model in the 'Skinning' tutorial which was one hell of a good model, okey here is the question - I was wondering if you are going to make any modeling tutorials?

Excuse my English :blush:

[dmak]

Yes, we have plans to cover many more topics. Please check back to the site regularly as we are constantly updating it, and we'll surely post our new tutorial announcements in this thread. Thanks for your comments, greatly appreciated!

Dan
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[BigSerge]

and don't forget to keep checking back for downloadable format of the tutorials:)

LPCG
Serge

[BigSerge]

Sorry about that Supermax a bit of delayed response on your question

"BigSerge, you mentioned you played or saw Max6 in action at Siggraph, What were you impressions of it?"


My impression of it is just too sweet particle flow flowing at my finger tips finally brings Max to a sweet particle system upgrade. Seeing it at work online is one thing but getting to use it for a bit really makes you feel it's strenght and ease of use.
Bottom line is all you see on Discrets page about it are truelly great, and good greef especially the mental inclusion as the TV or film Italian Mob would say (Foget abou IT) :)

I just can't wait for it

[dmak]

2 New tutorials available (www.3dimplant.com/tutorials.php)!

Hand Rigging - Part 1
Learn how to setup a hand rig using the wire parameters and extra controllers.
legnth: 15:20

Hand Rigging - Part 2
Learn how to setup a hand rig using the wire parameters and extra controllers.
legnth: 15:41

dmak
dmak@3dimplant.com
www.3dimplant.com

[ivo D]

nice tutorial !:D

hope i can put it in my human ik rig somehow.. dont know how.. but hope so.. caus i cant controll the fingers there:(

[dvornik]

Excellent stuff. Thanks a lot.

One question on the morpher - what was the point in creating the spline from the edgeloop? Why not directly link mesh vertices on the edgeloop to dummies?

[BigSerge]

Thanks Folks we greatly appreciate the props from you all as much as you appreciate the tutorials from us. Dvornik sorry about that, that's a question that most have after watching the morph tutorials and I need to put a please read txt file with it. Okay the reason for the edge loop spline cage link to the dummy's first instead of going directly to to the surface is because the more linked X-Form Dummy Objects you have hooked up to a sub/soft-selection on your object the slower max will get (not much real-time) feedback you'll get. so, the Idea is that with this set up, you can hide the geometry and using that edgeloop spline cage, you can see pretty smooth real-time feedback as if you were to draw your character out (smiling, ferrowing, snearing etc...) then bake into the surface and save selected. I dunno about you guys but I sue as heck don't like lag when I'm working so I try to find some work arounds :) Hope that helps.

Love, Peace, and Chiken Grease
Serge

[dvornik]

Makes sense. Once again, very informative. Can't wait for more. Like that UV editing you've mentioned :). Would be great to see something complex unwrapped.

The best thing is that many techniques that look complicated when you read about them are demonstrated in a very straightforward way that makes sense in production. Great macro recorder tutorial.

[Hexodam]

just saw this thread and wow, just an amazing contribution, just yes amazing :)

keep it up:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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