Can anyone give advice on modeling a leather or linen wrap, around the grip of a gun or sword? Working on this low tech sci-fi gun in 3ds max: The wrap around the grip is the one area I'm not sure I can model. I have 3ds Max and Zbrush.
looks like he's importing illustrator paths and turning them into polygons. I'm pretty sure most major 3d packages can import paths from illustrator in one way or another. if you can't do that you can always create a guide that you can trace within your 3d package.
Quick way to make diamond shaped subD grating in less than a minute. Note this will only work in 3DS max 2010+ because of graphite modeling tools. I created the image for simplicity's sake, however this was originally posted here http://designreform.net/2009/04/3ds-max-2010-topology-tools-on-an-edit-poly-modifier/