I don't know if you plan on doing any modular building in your levels, but Digital tutors recently put up a good tutorial on how to approach it. http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=857
Hi, i'm currently on my 3rd (And best attempt thus far) to learn modelling, started with Softimage a while back, failed, tried maya a while after that, also failed; Now i've moved on to 3ds Max and feel comfortable with the interface, can make basic shapes and such. I want to learn to model to improve my level design…
Here you go mate http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/ http://eat3d.com/ These two are the best if you want to spend a bit of money, I reccoment Eric Maslowski's 3DS Max 101. This is Eric's Forum from his website with a bunch of free videos that are really helpfull (all from the paid dvd) :…