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!