Late Update

I have done a few things since i last updated my blog such as: Unwrapping a 'complex object' as well as a basic object, Using the UVW Modifier, using the material editor to create different maps, such as maps with bump, as well as learning how to tile these map and using multi-sub object, as well as basic maps with things like Dent, Falloff or just adding my own basic texture, and lastly we have learnt about different lighting within the scene and how to use them effectively.

Teapot

For the lighting i just used a Teapot and added different lighting into the scene to show how they are used and what effect they give. Below are pictures of these.

Mapping

Using the material editor we learned about the Bump map and how it's used to add detail that looks 3D using our own created bump map, below is a sphere with a map i created using different maps and textures playing around with them, i first found a water texture on the internet and had to edit it within photoshop to make it so that it tiled and repeated easily without error, after this i applied it to the materials diffuse as a bitmap then added a bump and just used the wave material to make it look a bit more detailed and more like water then finally added a reflection map as a raytrace material to make it glimmer slightly and below is the outcome of the render.

Tiled water texture I used.

Dice/ Multi-sub Object

We also learned of multi-sub object, to demonstrate this i created a basic box and added a different texture to each side to make it look like a dice, and played around with the ID's of the different bitmaps within it so the right numbers were opposite each other such as 5 being on the opposite side of the dice to 2. below is a render of the dice. I tried adding a chamfer to the edges of the box to make it look less sharp but this made the map apply to the chamfered edges as well as on the correct sides themselves, this is easily fixed by changed the ID's of the polygons created by the chamfer to that of the plain materials within the multi-sub object, although i did not do this because it was not really necessary for a basic object.

UVW, Complex & Basic

Lastly i learned about UVW Mapping, and applied this to 2 different objects, a simple box shape and a more complex house object with a chimney. Mapping the box was fairly simple as the UV Template was a simple unfolded box but the house however was more complicated as i had to play around with the UVW and re-size the different size to make them all the right ratios to each-other so the texture came out clean and so it was easy to apply within Photoshop, the outcome as well as the templates and the textures applied to the templates for the box and the house are below.



3D Update 06/03/13

Today i finished 2 of my objects, i changed what i was

going to do and ended up creating a bow and an arrow

 using different techniques ive learned over the past few

 weeks, below is a render of my 5 objects in 1 scene.

3DS Objects Update

Currently i have finished 3 Of my objects and i am in the process

of creating my 4th, i learned about the modifier tool 'FFD' which helped

 alot when it came to making my battleaxe, bending the blade was alot easier,

 it would have made making my katana quite a bit easier if i had known 

about this modifier previously, Some of the techniques ive used making 

my Mace and Battleaxe are things such as loft being the main one, used 

to create the handle, the scale tool was used and i used the compound 

object: Scatter, to create the mace head itself. Below are pictures of

my objects so far.

Half Way Point

We're currently half way through our project in which we

 have to create 6 different objects and i haven't made much 

progress, i'm still creating my first object the Katana and have

 been having some issues making the blade and issues with the Boolean
tool, i sorted the Boolean out and finished the hand-guard but im having
 the blade issues at the moment which will hopefully be resolved soon.
I hope to finish my first object today and do some
 work at home to create some of the others and
 get the project finished for the deadline.

3D Modelling Proposal

The Brief For this project I have been asked to create 6 different objects based off a theme I choose, the deadline is the 27th so I have 3 Sessions, 4 weeks to do my objects and overall there isn’t much of a constraint on the time we get to make it as we can do as much as we like in our free time as well as college time.

My response to the brief      For the project I’m going to be creating 6 different weapons.

Skills and Styles      To create the objects I am going to be using several different skills and techniques we have learned over the past few weeks, those being different types of modeling within 3DS Max such as Box modeling, spline, loft etc. I will try to use as many different methods to create my objects as possible.

Resources & Assets      To make my objects I will be using the Program 3DS max and using the internet to get inspiration and ideas.

Legal Restrictions      I can’t claim somebody else’s work as my own.

How I will measure success      If my object looks like the item I was trying to create or close to it then I would consider my project to be a success.

 

 

 

Chamfer/Smooth

 

Using edit poly on a cylinder we created a
tap and then smoothed it using the meshsmooth
modifier, doing this created a messy tap with huge
curves, not very eye catching, to fix it we chamfered
the corners we wanted to have small curves just
slightly, this locks the distance it smooths making it
cleaner and smoother.using chamfer is a great way
to control theway mesh smooth smooths the object
.After this we also learned how to control the smooth
more by using groups, so they dont smooth together
in 1 blob, on the right is a picture of whats 
meant to be a game joystick, created using
 the group smoothing.
 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Soft Selection/Displace

 

Displace

Today we learned about Displace and Soft Selection,

 displace is great for creating landscapes really quickly, to

 do so you have to create a jpeg file in black and white, the white

on the picture would be where the land rises and the black

being the lower land, and the greys in between being

different levels of height darker being lower

 and lighter being higher.

 

 

Soft Selection

 

After displace we started using Soft Selection within the

edit poly menu, this is great for editting objects making bubbles

 and such, i created an aeroplane after this and you can see where

ive used soft selection on the main tube creating

 the cockpit and the back of the plane and on the

engines underneath the wings.

 



Cheese And Plug, 

More Boolean.

After learning more about Boolean & Pro Boolean for 3D 

Objects i created a plug socket and a blog of cheese, to 

create these objects i used a combination of techniques ive 

learned over the past few weeks of 3D, to use the Boolean 

tool you get to objects and overlap them, there are several 

different options within Boolean, you can choose whether

 to Subtract, Intersect or Union. the main ones i used were 

the union to combine 2 or more objects together and the 

subtract, which is how i got the holes for the cheese, placing 

spheres around the face of the cheese and subracting 

them and the overlapping parts. For the plug i used

 several different objects, placing them in the right place 

was a pain but i enjoyed shaping and creating them

 overall.

Shapes Created Using 

Boolean & Splines

Below are some of the shapes i 

created using a combination of tools 

such as boolean spline extrude and some 

more in the edit poly menu, i had some 

trouble creating several objects but 

managed to do a few aswell as some 

random building/room plans.

Loft And Splines.

To begin with we followed a tutorial not knowing what we were doing and ended up creating a screwdriver, we were told of how the process worked and left to create our own lofted shape, i chose to make hooks hook. the way the Loft tool works is that you select the spline shape you have created and make several spline shapes, these are the shapes that are going to be placed along the loft to give it a 3d shape, start out with a line and make several shapes of different sizes and place them on selected areas of your line with the loft tool and it begins to make the shape 3D 0 is the beginning of the path shape (the line) and 100 is the end as its measured by the percentage. Below are pictures of the objects i created (Screwdriver and Hook) after learning about the loft tool.

House In 3DS

Creating A House in 3DS Max.

To begin with we created a simple box 

shape and through the use of edit poly, created

 a lot of polygons within the box shape I created 

my house which can be viewed below, some new tools I

used to create this were things such as the Slice

 Tool and the Cut tool, i also used most of 

the tools i used to create my table 

and chair.

Table and Chair.

Another basic creation after being taught 

about a few more basic tools and things such 

as edit poly and using the effects 

within that option, rendered 

out in grey scale.

Learning To Use 3DS Max!

Introduction to my blog!

This is a blog that will be used to track my 
progress learning to use 3DS Max.

To begin with we were shown the basics 

of 3DS Max such as things like some of the tools and 
other basics and then we were left to create a quick basic 
character using the little knowledge of 3DS Max that we 
had. here is a picture of my result, isn't he cool!