Cry Engine 3 Tutorial - 3ds Max Custom Models and Textures

yamahaalex37

I know most of the users on this forum are experienced, but just in case any beginners come looking for help. I would also appreciate any crit from experienced users. If you like the videos please take a second to visit our site. More tutorials, active discussion, contests and free prizes at our website, www.justmakegames.com. Thanks.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl92y4c9SLk[/ame]

yamahaalex37

Since there are lots of experienced people in this forum, I would REALLY appreciate it if somone could review my tutorial.

To be honest, when I exported my model in the tutorial you can see I had an error in the engine. When I went to place my model, everything worked fine except I could not get rid of the "No Surface Texture" when shooting my model (yes I know to apply surface materials). After I went back in the editor, I kind of just re-double check everything, and then it worked fine so I didn't mention it in the video. Hopefully this video does not translate to errors for users IF you do have 3ds max, or can tell from watching the video, maybe you can let me know. Thanks!!

EzMeow

Geom entity are for interactive entities with physical value, for any "basic" object it should be bring into the level as a brush.
That said, most of your tutorial was mostly a 3dsmax than a cryEngine tutorial, quite confusing.
And then last but not least...why are you doing a tutorial if you are not even sure of the topic you are trying to cover? O.o

yamahaalex37

EzMeow wrote: »

Geom entity are for interactive entities with physical value, for any "basic" object it should be bring into the level as a brush.
That said, most of your tutorial was mostly a 3dsmax than a cryEngine tutorial, quite confusing.
And then last but not least...why are you doing a tutorial if you are not even sure of the topic you are trying to cover? O.o

Yeah unfortunately I know a lot of people asking for the tutorial are beginners, and I put the annotation so that anyone who models can easily skip that part.

I might not be an expert but I can do this, so why can't I shouldn't I share what I learn? Especially when there is one tutorial for this at the moment and it is long and confusing. Making a video can take hours and since people were asking for the video and I could not find anything wrong I decided to re-take it.

ParoXum

I don't think that's what EzMeow meant at all. I see no problem in trying to help others.


But when helping people you want to give them the right info. As simple as that really.

yamahaalex37

Yes, I'm sorry I didn't mean to get defensive.

When I got the error, I just double checked my work and the error was gone, and I didn't really do anything... so I guess will just have to wait and see when more beginners try the tutorial.

yamahaalex37

EzMeow you were right it was stupid to release the video since I was unsure. Also, it was stupid to have that much 3ds modeling in the tutorial, it was confusing. I remade the video and simplified everything, and made sure everything worked perfect.

I just really wanted to make this video, because when I went to find a 3ds tutorial the only one was 3 parts long so over half an hour, and a bit confusing. This video is 6 minutes long and hopefully will help beginners.