So I've been modeling Tachikoma here and encountered some problem. Thing is, I'm trying to get proportions as close to the original model as possible. The shape required me to create multiple holes in different places and as I don't have much experience with 3ds Max overall, using ProBoolean seemed like a good idea to me…
One of my lab assignments is to use 3Ds Max's MaxScript to model a snowflake. Here is the supposedly outcome of this model. You'll find details here: https://github.com/Seneca-GAM536/Wiki/wiki/Lab-9 As mentioned above, I am to model this snowflake (minus the wirecolors) using MaxScript with quaternions (No eular rotation).…
I have been using 3ds Max for some time now, and I am getting a little annoyed at the small things that trip up my workflow. I used blender 2.6 for a while and loved the spacebar command search and all of its shortcuts. I had a tough time setting up anything similar in max that would work in all sub-object modes. For now,…
@Przerywnik apologies if that was the impression given, so to be clear your query was totally legit by the way. Additionally these types of objects are typically cast (via mold) due too engineered CNC specific tasks they're designed too perforn under load in certain environments hence the additional 'gusset' for extra…
Hey guys, back from Holiday now so more 3D. :) Working on Yoda's high council chair. Had a flick through the past few pages because what you guys have been discussing is pretty relevant to the topology here. As you can see in the wireframe shot, I've started with a 16 sided cylinder to make the base shape, then I've used…
There are various ways to do that, but they all consist in the end on model the mesh and then move it on place. The first consist in aligning the whole scene to the normal direction of a planar face in the model, in this case the one you have select will work fine. This will give you the ability to look at the like it was…
There are still times where I use the stack. I just collapse it once I'm at a point with whatever model I am working on where I am either altogether finished, or where simply adding more modifiers to the stack just adds to clutter and mess when previous stacks I no longer need. There are plenty of times when the stack is…
@tatertots I was planning on going through the weekly hard surface modeling challenge from 2014 (though I'm no where near prepared and instead decided to first go through all of Frank's detailed posts here). What you talk about with N-Gons and bevels to create the topology and join them up, I'm getting a good understand of…
Oo oo, i know this one @Dklang, first one definitely make a tileable texture. 2nd, quite possibly one of the most aggravating things ever. Off the top of my head I have 3 solutions; 1)go in and work the the topology itself, get the loop to travel back around the top of the surface rather than ever touching its side, or…
Hello everyone, I hadn't noticed this discussion post until now! I'm struggling with 3d modeling in general, I'm not sure where I should be improving. I wanna model but when I'm on it, there are a lot of questions that come into my mind. I do experiment, but there are more especific questions such as: Once i've added the…