| 09-04-2007, 07:06 AM | #1 | |
Introduction Hello, in this tutorial i will teach you how to make a simple shelter like this: We will be using stuff that makes the rest of you modeling career a lot less painfull. And after we make it i will tell you better ways to do some of the things we did. Required Tools Gmax Thats it. What to do. In Create (you should be in here by defaut) click on cylinder Now create one in the perspective view point window that looks like a platform Now go to Edit>Clone and click on clone Now click OK Now click on the four way arrow sign in the top toolbar Now click on the "Z" that is extrooding from the model And drag up until the clone (copy) is at the same level as mine Now, in the Top viewpoint (by default its in the top left hand cornor of your screen) create one cylinder in the most left hand side of the circle that is showing in the Top Viewpoint, and make it about one 100th the size the the main cycliner. Click once, now drag up, watching the perspective viewpoint and stop draging when you see that it is at the same level as the roof. Now click on the Arc Rotate button in the bottom right hand cornor of the screen Now click once on the perspective viewpoint Now click in the center and drag it what ever way you want. Notic that when this happens it changes the angle you view the model at.Inspect your model to see if the long pole like cylinder could be raised or lowered. If required, do it. Now on the top view point select the pole like cylinder. Clone it and drag the clones so that by the end it looks like this. (you need to clone it more then once) Now were going to add a cone like roof. To do this click on cone then make sure Auto Grid is selected. Now in the top viewpoint click on the center on the Biggest circle and drag until the cone has the same Radius as the Biggest cylinder circle thing. Now looking in the perspective view but not moving your mouse. Move you mouse directly up and then after about 7 cm of movement click then go down until in the perspective view the cone has closed. Now click on the cone, and change Height Segments to 1 because the more segments there are in a model the larger file size it is do this for the rest of the model Always do this unless you need to edit the mesh of a model A Better View Than Perspective - User Perspective is good, unless you want to zoom on a part of the model apart from the center To get a view with the pros of perspective and the pros of Top, left bottom etc right click on the perspective lable go to views then click on User Now, right click on user then click on Smooth+Highlights Your model now looks like this: Note that you can use Arc Rotate on the User view as well another reason to use User, as said by TDR: Quote:
Earlier in this tutorial i told you to use autogrid to place a cone onto a cylinder, that was just to show you autogrid, the better way to do it would have been to use Extrude. To use extrude first delete the cylinder that is under the cone so its like this: Then go to Modify > Modifier List and click on Edit Mesh Select Edge Now zoom in on the top cone of the model in the top viewpoint and select the entire bottom row of verticies Now in edit geometry click on Extrude and change the number next to it to 5 Now Click Enter. Your model now looks like this: Thats How You Use Extrude A Better Tool Then Clone - Array For the sake of teaching you Array im going to delete the clones of the cylinder and im going to re-clone them a different way, Array. To use array first delete the clones of the long cylinder then select the original one Now move it to the center of the model and go to Tools>Array Change Array Dimentions - Count - 1D to four And Click OK Now this does the same thing as clone but creates for then one clone |
| 09-07-2007, 01:43 AM | #2 |
Introduction Hello, in this tutorial you will learn how to add a texture to your model. Required Tools Gmax Metal Texture attached to the bottom of the post, save it to your harddrive. Thats it How to apply the texture For the sake of this tutorial ill be using a model from my previous tutorial "Modeling With Gmax - Novice - Making A Simple Shelter" but it doesnt matter what you use, if you would like to use the model i am using i have attached it to the post in a .zip file. Now to get down to it, click on the Material Editor in the top right cornor of the screen. This comes up Click on new, select standard then click ok The material editor now looks like this. Change the name to metal texture Now in Blinn Basic Parameters click on the box next to Diffuse This comes up click on Bitmap and click ok. A popup box appears, navigate to where you saved wood texture, select metal texture and click ok. Click show map in viewpoint In the perspective viewpoint select what ever part of your model that you want a texture on Now, back in the Material Editor click Apply And the texture appears on whatever part of your model you have selected! You have now skinned your model, congrats  Now, so that the skin will actually appear on your model in wc3 we're going to have to do some mdl editing Export your model using my other tutorial Export From Gmax then before you convert it to MDX (in other words while its still .mdl) open it in notepad You'll see some text like this: Code:
Version {
FormatVersion 800,
}
Model "" {
NumGeosets 10,
NumBones 1,
BlendTime 150,
MinimumExtent { -99.1217, -98.8234, 0.402162 },
MaximumExtent { 100.878, 98.1381, 120.633 },
BoundsRadius 185.364,
}
Textures 1 {
Bitmap {
Image "",
ReplaceableId 1,
}
}
Materials 1 {
Material {
Layer {
FilterMode None,
static TextureID 0,
}
}
//and so onCode:
Image "", Code:
Image "skinname.tga", Code:
Image "skinname.blp", Wc3 doesnt recognize other image types, so those are your 2 options. Now you can convert it to .mdx and now you've skinned your model :D REMEMBER to make sure that your skin has the same dimentions in height as it does in width, so dont have a skin with 312 pixels by 212 pixels otherwise someparts of your model will be black. REMEMBER that wc3 has a different way of skinning models then GMAX does |
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