Thanks man! I managed to make a UV map but, resizing the UV faces was an utter night mare and seemed very uncontrollable and then when I went to save the map out so I can create my own texture, it only saves as a UVW file instead of something I can open in photoshop. 3ds max is getting very frustrating.
Press J to get rid of the weird white box around the object. If you want to learn ZBrush without buying it/ don't to be naughty just for training. Check out Sculptris =) . To render your UVW map press open uv editor, go to your tools. Right at the bottom is render template. Oh also give this tute a go it is FANTASTIC to…
Nice link Dubzski, I'll check it out too hehe To render UVWs, it's like Dubzski said. As for reshaping UV faces, I think that's what Tools>Relax is for =) You can find that in the UV Editor window (to open that window, put a "Unwrap UVW" modifier to the object you wanna make its UVs). Relax has some options too, and when…
So I made a UV map of my pen and textured it....buuuuut, when I render it it looks like this; so my questions are; how do I get that lovely grey background in my render? how come my render is showing the wireframe? why is my texture all washed out like someone's pushed down the opacity? Usually google would help but, I'm…
I'm using my free digital tutors account to learn some basics. I made a screw! 3DS Max no longer seems as scary! Since it's taken me from before 12 and it's 5pm now, I'm gonna give it a rest and tomorrow try make a pen on my desk to see if what I learned today sunk in. Still don't know how to texture in 3DS max though.…