My first attempt at making 3D.

[BlueSaiyan]

Yay. The ball has a real star in the center and the ball is see-through like glass. (You can see the "S" in Saiyan behind it)... but I wish I could figure out how to get it shinier without making the star inside of it lose it's color.




Anyways, I'm happy for now.

 

[RobiZ]

In which application did you make this ?

 

[BlueSaiyan]

3DS max

 

[RobiZ]

You can make it shinier by increasing specular (or what is it called in 3d max?) intensity of object.

 

[BlueSaiyan]

i did, but... i guess what i wanted was an extremely shiny almost transparent metal looking shell.. i guess maybe a dragonball should have more than one layer, or maybe i need to render in HD but then the star INSIDE the ball always seemed to lose its red color inside of the ball.. still new to lots of stuff here.

 

[RobiZ]

The most important thing in 3dmax and pretty much in any 3d rendering/modeling app is to experiment till you get your result...

 

[BlueSaiyan]

i shall there is much to learn.

 

[BlueSaiyan]

My first attempt at modeling a 3D head... hahaha.

 

[BlueSaiyan]

Sonic Updated! I played with vertex's a bit more and made a new face in photoshop, but now I have new questions.... I had to tile the face to get it to fit correctly... Is there some other way? Because as you can see, the spikes on the back of his head are showing his face.

Is there some method of math using the amount of polygons in 3DS, and correlating that to the amount of Polygons in Photshop? Or, what about their height/widths?

 

[RobiZ]

Sonic Updated! I played with vertex's a bit more and made a new face in photoshop, but now I have new questions.... I had to tile the face to get it to fit correctly... Is there some other way? Because as you can see, the spikes on the back of his head are showing his face.

Is there some method of math using the amount of polygons in 3DS, and correlating that to the amount of Polygons in Photshop? Or, what about their height/widths?


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To map a texture on model , you have to :

1)Make a UV map of the model (It is possible in 3d max)
2)export the UV map
3)Add texture to the UV map in photoshop or other image editing software
4)import the UV map into 3d max
5)Set models Texture to UV map type(or something like that)
6)apply the UV map to the Model

It should appear correctly.
UV map basically lays out the whole model on one plane so you can apply the texture correctly.

 

[BlueSaiyan]

To map a texture on model , you have to :

1)Make a UV map of the model (It is possible in 3d max)
2)export the UV map
3)Add texture to the UV map in photoshop or other image editing software
4)import the UV map into 3d max
5)Set models Texture to UV map type(or something like that)
6)apply the UV map to the Model

It should appear correctly.
UV map basically lays out the whole model on one plane so you can apply the texture correctly.

OMG you make it sound so simple! This gives me hope.

edit: i found this amazing tutorial, thanks to you!! Thanks!! Check it out if u want to... I have it Favorited now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn4q-onOzBs

 

[RobiZ]

Also here's a website : http://cgcookie.com/max/category/tutorials/

There are more like advanced tutorials, but maybe there are some for beginners, take a look. ( Only don't rush into the photorealistic tutorials, first things first.)

 

[BlueSaiyan]

Sweet... Man, now that I know how to UVW Unwrap, how the hell do I wrap!? lol.

 

[RobiZ]

Sweet... Man, now that I know how to UVW Unwrap, how the hell do I wrap!? lol.

Basically you make the UV map the texture of the object and make the texture orientation to UV map (as long as i remember) (Also try to check out some other tutorials on texturing)

 

[Reading Rainbow]

My first attempt at modeling a 3D head... hahaha.


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ROFL that is AWESOME. It's world's beyond what I can do 8(

 

[BlueSaiyan]

I'm getting better at this! ... Not sure why there's a triangle missing from the tip, because it's not in my Viewport... I did take a polygon out of there earlier, but.... Oh well! Check the progress ;-)

 

[BlueSaiyan]

What's up with THIS? Can someone tell me why this bump map is not working?



edit: I figured it out... there weren't enough pixels in my bump map.

 

[RobiZ]

Usually bump maps work like this : The bump map takes the bright and dark spots and make them differ in the depth, so you can't make a bump map with only one color (except if you assign a cloud texture to it and make it invisible)

 

[BlueSaiyan]

Usually bump maps work like this : The bump map takes the bright and dark spots and make them differ in the depth, so you can't make a bump map with only one color (except if you assign a cloud texture to it and make it invisible)

According to google, it only makes it APPEAR different in depth.... The map seen above had white and black and some grey in the middle and low pixel count in photoshop... so I took out the grey and changed the pixels to 1920x1080 and it seems better now...

 

[BlueSaiyan]

I could have added the little red rectangle to this, and made better textures, and made the glass transparent, but I thought I'd just throw this out there as a preview... So far so good for my first DBZ item? I put a custom bump map on the black piece to make it look like Headphone Cushion material.



And here's the item i modeled it after.