Photoshop .3ds files


#1

Hello,
I am 100% new to .3ds files and 3D rendering in general. I watched this video last night about how you can use .3ds files in Adobe Photoshop, and you can also animate it. I thought this would be helpful in the short films I make so I started digging around for some free .3ds files. Only problem is I don’t really know how to open them correctly in Photoshop I guess. I have opened two different files, each having a .3ds extension, but when I open it in Photoshop, one just showed me the wire framing I guess and not the finished version (didn’t get that). The other opened the actual object (which was a C5 Cargo plane) but the object itself was all white with no detail. So what am I doing wrong here? I know when you want to install “brushes” in Photoshop you must go and find the “presets” file in Adobe through my computer, is what I have to do with .3ds files or is it something completely different. I’m so lost, like I said totally new to all this. Thanks for any help, or video link of a tutorial.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.


#2

I think this link helps you to find something.
//youtu.be/_zr5qodhGyk

Best of Luck


#3

Photoshop is about the worst tool to start animating 3d files. You would be far better off learning a 3d package, and animate in that.