MAX 101 - Video Series

#21

These are absolutly amazing, thank you very much for your hard work.

#22

Hello !

I’d like give another possible solution to Aquila’s problem with importing Jpeg files. You could open your jpeg in Photoshop and check that your jpeg image is not saved in CMYK mode since Max only works with RGB based image files when importing.
To get rid of that you simply need to change image mode to RGB within Photoshop or else and save it again efore trying to import it in Max.

Well it could be something else, but maybe it helps.

Cheers !

PS : Sorry for my bad english…

#23

Ha safe05.

Thanks for the great VTMs on max, I’m about to work though a few tonight. I’m into game modeling, I.E. for UT2007 so if you have any other TuTs that would help let me no.

PS As UT2007 uses normal maps I could do with a VTM on this, my normals look flat and dirty. Anyway thanks man I’m sure there’s a few things I still could learn in these…

#24

Good tip Velvet Dragon, I completely forgot about that.

Pixelgen: Have a look at my resource site (http://forums.ego-farms.com) there are tutorials for organic modeling, normal maps, some digital painting, etc. Have fun! :slight_smile:

#25

just a bump to let others know a few more tutorials have been posted including ones on:

  • animation (keyframing, constraints, controllers)
  • wired parameters
  • render-to-texture

http://forums.ego-farms.com/

#26

HI

Very good videos and a help to me and my students.

01 around the world is the link corupt as I only get 316k download and not 7mb and it say’s not a valid movie file.

Thanks for all your hard work

Regards

Bob Morgan
Subject Leader CAD
Colchester Institute

#27

happy to help. :slight_smile: You might want to try downloading again, or right-click and saving it to your computer since it works for me.

#28

Added several more 101 tutorials bringing the count to 32 in this series. There are many more tutorials in other sections as well. Enjoy!

http://forums.ego-farms.com

#29

Added a few more tutorials among others in more specific (project oriented) areas. See original post for full list.

http://forums.ego-farms.com

#30

Tnx for the tuts…haven’t checked them out yet (will do that first thing tomorrow) but i already installed quicktime just so i would be able to watch it (normally my allegiance lays to mediaplayer so switching sides means allot :D) but one tiny question: Are these tutorials good for people with older versions, or will i - halfway through each tut - discover that a certain button doesn’t exist making me go all catatonic? So i have 3ds max 6 instead of 3ds max 8. I kinda bought an older cheap version…an upgrade or buying a new version would force me in not eating for months…so that wasn’t an option :stuck_out_tongue:

#31

thanks for checking them out. :slight_smile: The 101 series should transfer well into the older versions, but those with associated files are saved for v7. So, you may run into some problems there. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Cheers

E.

#32

For those of you that haven’t checked out Eric’s great site, you’re missing out!

You should also download and install the FREE VLC player to watch these vids. Much better than Quicktime IMO.

grab it here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Eric unselfishly donates a lot of time/effort and also has just released 3 or 4 more videos in the last week alone.
The one series on using splines to model a face is awesome.

p.s.
I love that site!
AKA-Hooper.

#33

Hey :stuck_out_tongue: Very busy with watching (and memorising :wink: ) your awesome tuts, yet i’ve run into a tiny problem. As i have mentioned before i use 3ds max 6 and in the seventh 101 tutorial which covers polygons and the edit poly function. Well ‘edit poly’ cannot be found in my modifier list…i kinda tried to use ‘edit mesh’ because you also have those vertices and face options etc. but at a certain point when you get deeper into those edit poly functions i can’t continue…could this function be found under a different name or should i just ignore it (or will i miss some hefty important basics if i do so)

Tnx allot :stuck_out_tongue: and euhm sorry to steal several minutes of your life :smiley:

#34

Thanks for the plug, Hooper. :wink:

As for an EditPoly equivalent in v6…not really. You can get some of the same functionality from an old set of scripts which I think was called MeshTools. Unfortunately, most of the options in EditPoly were added in v7.

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/meshtools

#35

Ahhh k, tnx, very much appreciate the dedication you put into this.

Ooh and btw, when I try to open the file used in the render tutorial I get some ‘missing dlls’ error…does this mean i’m missing a certain plug-in? :stuck_out_tongue: or is it plainly because i’m using inferior software? Or because the universe is conspiring against me? All very valid reasons, really.

#36

Happy to give something back. :smiley: The missing DLLs are a nasty little bug that occurs when using custom renderers on older versions of Max. I use Brazil for many of my renderings and it got stuck deep in the file. Just click through it and you’ll be fine.

#37

K tnx for the feedback.

By the way. There seems to be a problem with tutorial 15 (UV-coordinates or something like that is the title) When i try to open it there comes an error (all the other tuts work perfectly fine so i don’t think i’m doing something wrong :wink: )

#38

What error are you seeing? Worked fine over here.

#39

#15 worked fine for me. I’m about to start #17! w00t! I love these dang things! Everything I can see and it’s all the same on my screen and I feel that I’ve already learned more just doing these than I did when I spent a year at UAT. Then again, the past few days I’ve dedicated about 6 hours a day doing these tutorials and playing around with the program.

Might also add that the UVW Map puzzle was getting frustrating after a few mins! But I got it. :smiley:

#40

Hmm strange…i’ll try to download it again in the morning…it was some error said like…

ERROR -2041 or something like that…can’t really check right now, it’s on another computer -.- this one is too slow to run Max and the one which can run Max isn’t connected to our prescious world wide web.

Anyway, I love these tutorials too…i really like learning Max…yet the more time i spend learning it the more I start to sence that I’ll like err…never be skilled enough to do what everyone else here is doing, lol :stuck_out_tongue: