3DS max

Hey there,

I was wondering if some people here have some experience with creating models. I recently started out, and I could use some help with some things. (I'm using 3ds max 2012)

Here are some of my models.



I didnt finish this because it was sooo bugged.


This is my current "project". Its the ANPRC 148.




I'm having trouble adding the buttons in the top part. I can't seem to get it done, or else its just lines everywhere.
Some pointers would be great

thats some clever shiz man, i do video and audio editing but never gone for 3d, no idea where to start

Mugs, eh? Seems everyone starts with mugs.



These are a couple of things I did at uni in Pro/DESKTOP.

I have it a as a student licence. I've had about 1 hour intro and almost made the front of a plane but then time was up. I really need to get into ittoo because I need it for my games but I never take the time to do them.

Xazper wrote:I have it a as a student licence. I've had about 1 hour intro and almost made the front of a plane but then time was up. I really need to get into ittoo because I need it for my games but I never take the time to do them.

Mate, i have the student license aswell, its free, full version and 100% legit. Sign up at their site for it, and you'll be able to get it

Lol, that sentence almost looks like an internet scam

deadly how can you not tell me that you use 3dsmax, you know I need modellers

Deadly is a very modest guy, if you dont ask he aint telling.

I have some finished models like SCAR-H , M16 , GLOCK but it's been long since last modeled someting .

BXV-[Tr] wrote:I have some finished models like SCAR-H , M16 , GLOCK but it's been long since last modeled someting .

I'd love to see them

Do you have any clue how i could get those buttons in there?

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f388-pr-bf2-community-modding/98983-request-statics-stuff.html

please check this out, we really need the help

Looks really interesting and I would love to create something for you guys. I am still a bit of a beginner I'm afraid. If you want I'll try and make some stuff for you guys, but I have no clue on how to get the best "performance" and stuff like that from an object. I also have pretty much no idea about those UV textures someone was talking about.

H.sta wrote:deadly how can you not tell me that you use 3dsmax, you know I need modellers

Never used 3dsMax. I mode those bits in Pro/DESKTOP a few years ago, so I don't really feel I can "model".

Yay, I figured out how to make the buttons on the AN/PRC! It wasn't hard at all, I cant believe I didnt think of that before.. lolol

Anyhoo, keep posting here, maybe I'll have little updates here about the model progress

In a nut shell, how do you make the stuff? Hand drawn? Give coords? Render photos?

Basically what I do is I create a 'plane' which I then paste a reference photo to. Then I create a second plane and I draw over the reference photo.

Which basically makes it look from this:

To this:


And then in the mean time I also add depth etc.

hmmmm, i like new toys... to the internet!!

I couldn't find the others kerre , i'll post em up as soon as i find them all . This is the only one that i could find :

Wow, that looks pretty good. Looks like you've got some experience

How did you get the guardrail (if it is called that way.. anyhoo, the round thing you hold when shooting ) so round? Along with the barrel

you guys should really look around the PR forums, we really need modellers

yeah come on guys, wouldn't you want to say in game every time some picked up your model "I did that, oh i have told you that before lol"

i can make models, only from a different generation, scratch built scale models for railway stuff etc you guys that have the ability to do this stuff are very lucky (remember i didn't even have comps at school in my day hehe)

you should all make use of it and like Sta says PR is screaming out for this kinda thing, get busy people !!

kerrermanisNL wrote:Wow, that looks pretty good. Looks like you've got some experience

How did you get the guardrail (if it is called that way.. anyhoo, the round thing you hold when shooting ) so round? Along with the barrel

It's basically a cylinder , you create a cylinder first then start shaping it up depending on the actual model itself , same thing goes with barrel as well .

How do you attach it to the rest of the gun then? :/

Edit : misundrestood the question

It's easy really , you first model the thing you want to with whatever the geometrical shape then click the actual model itself , find attach which is in the modify panel , click and then click on the shape which you created just before . That's all . There is also a way where you can group 'em , that doesn't combine them compeletely but group them to do that , you select both of the models click on the group popdown menu and click group , that groups them , you can break it up later if you want to .

yeah come on guys, wouldn't you want to say in game every time some
picked up your model "I did that, oh i have told you that before lol"

i
can make models, only from a different generation, scratch built scale
models for railway stuff etc you guys that have the ability to do this
stuff are very lucky (remember i didn't even have comps at school in my
day hehe)

you should all make use of it and like Sta says PR is screaming out for this kinda thing, get busy people !!

Well speed , to be honest i don't find myself as a senior modeller as of yet , at least not at a level where i can model for games . Game modelling requires a lot of time and skill , which i lack em both . Need to improve my skills to be able to step into that world .

you could atleast give a simple static a shot

yes absolutely Sta, think, the next time your on a PR map how many vBf2 stuff is still actually there, if you start with some thing as simple as a bin or a gate or door it would all add to the ever increasing uniqueness and win of PR.

BX you cant get expert at anything without going through the beginner, getting there and competent stages, that goes for every single walk of life, show willing and you'll be surprised how many people will help.

there is a great thread on PR forums about someone creating a garage, read that thread and look at how many people are willing to help, you wont be alone for long as long as you're prepared to show willing.

same goes for the rest of the posters here, Deadly i could make that flange in real life, it would take a lathe, a jig borer and then the perimeter holes would need to be indexed either on a mill or back in the lathe, yes a black art to most if you will, which is how this stuff here makes me feel !! would love to be creative digitally but i really think i missed the boat so all the best to those that can.

Wahay, since school is getting less stressy I decided to go and pick up modeling again. Been following the Beretta 9000 tutorial and it's turning out pretty good, I've got the main stuff finished, now I just need to touch up all the little details

Here's what I've got so far:

I feel a bit bad about the barrel, it's really too small, maybe I'll go and edit that a bit.
Let me know what you think!

-edit
Here's a more "animated" screenshot.

I really need some stuff modelled for the Norwegian Faction, would you be interested in helping us?

Cool beans!

Haha, yes I would! You were allready talking about it earlier in this thread and I even visited the norwegian statics thread on the PR forums before. I won't be able to start anything to fast now though(I've still got a couple of school projects going at the moment, but after that I'm free to do some stuff).

I'll have to install 3ds max9 though, that's the one that works best with BF2 right?

Am a random guy in a random house i live in a random street, my car is random my phone is random the world that turns is random. the moon the stars the planets above are all random. My next door inveigher is random this word i just typed is random.


Are you random ?

yeah, you need 3dsmax 9 (not 2009)

I will see what project might be good for you, what do you want to make the most, vehicle, gun, kit geometris?

also I believe Scotty might be trippin'

H.sta wrote:yeah, you need 3dsmax 9 (not 2009)

Yeah I read that

H.sta wrote:

I will see what project might be good for you, what do you want to make the most, vehicle, gun, kit geometris?

Haha, I'll make anything really! Just be "aware" that I'm really new to this, in addition that it'll probaply take some time for me to make it, I could use some tips on optimization and such. But I guess I'll be able to figure that out on the PR forums. (btw. kit geometris is like texturing and stuff right? Just wanna say that I really don't have any experience at all at doing that.. Do want to learn how to texture though )

H.sta wrote:
also I believe Scotty might be trippin'

Yes.

you will get help o the PR forums yes, as long as the post is made in the community modding section, can you texture aswell?

H.sta wrote:can you texture aswell?

hehe, edited my last post. No I can't texture, but I do want to learn how to though. I'm planning on texturing that beretta 9000 aswell. Should be fun

cylinder->beavel/extrude and repeat and repeat.
Hsta...could give u a hand on modelling but only after i finish my current map

sounds good ZerO

Can i do anything H

I will see if I can find anything you are good at

Little update

Not sure how to render correctly yet, this is just a screenshot..
Anyhoo, I'm pretty much done now, only need to "optimize" it and apply smooth groups

there are some really good tips on rendering somewher on the PR forums, I remember seeing them once a while back

but yeah, looks great, good work man

rendering is the easy part..texturing and UV mapping are a pain in za ass

Yay, finnaly finished it! Now complete with smooth groups (there are some smoothing errors, but you can't really see them here ) I believe tri-count is around 2250.
I'm very pleased with the end result because I think it really looks good Next step would be to texture it.

Looks great, allthough you might want to hollow out the barrel

and a texture is great for your portfolio

you have to work around areas within red square...that extruded portion under the barrel doesnt look so good...also the barrel needs to be a bit longer, hollowed and perhaps beveled(or, of course you can make the muzzle round, but it will cost you some poly's and tri-count) to give it that natural look

Thanks for the tips, I'll try and work on that, but I don't see what's bad about the "extruded" portion onder the barrel (it's really there and it's another "barrel" or something like that)

Didnt even think about hollowing the barrel so I'll definitly do that And maybe I'll make it a bit more "high poly" up there, basically it was meant to be in a game so that's why those points arent really that detailed. (not that im planning to put it in a game)

kerrermanisNL wrote:Hey there,

I was wondering if some people here have some experience with creating models. I recently started out, and I could use some help with some things. (I'm using 3ds max 2012)

Here are some of my models.



I didnt finish this because it was sooo bugged.


This is my current "project". Its the ANPRC 148.




I'm having trouble adding the buttons in the top part. I can't seem to get it done, or else its just lines everywhere.
Some pointers would be great

there are 2 ways for buttons:
1. you have a poly for every button and you extrude them a little
2. create the buttons separately and you weld them to the surface

Theere are 2 ways to have depth: one is by texturing, other is by model: texturing will cost you time, model will cost you tri-count and time. Depends what you need that model for: if bf2/arma 2, ill go for texturing, if its for show off, well, model will always be the good looking way.



wait a minute, are u talking about the knobs on the top? just create 2 cylinders with no segment height between top and bottom and weld them to top model.
PS. Are your laptop batteries dead??

Hehe, never mind that! I allready figured out a way to make them, guess I forgot how to put it in there/here. Thanks for the advice anyway!

here is a really good render tutorial if you need it:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/2156-multi-platform-clay-wip-renders.html

H.sta wrote:here is a really good render tutorial if you need it:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/2156-multi-platform-clay-wip-renders.html

Hey thanks for the link Sta! But I allready used Z-Trooper his rendering method (in the beretta 9000 one at least ), which I think looks great. But I'll remember that if I'd ever want to make a clay render, because it does look a bit different (and a different kind of nice )

(linky to Z-Trooper his tut. http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f189-modding-tutorials/55803-toms-3dsmax-tutorial-thread-image-heavy.html )