Modeling tip and tricks

Some basic modeling tip and tricks by Per128

Gold Material

In this tutorial you will learn how to make realistic Gold Material in 3ds max using simple technique with 4 easy steps.

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays!

Normal Mapping & Unwrapping

• Introduction to Normal Mapping by Andrei Ichim (online tutorial).
• See also -- Unwrapping Techniques, free video tutorial (47.5 MB / 28.5 mins) by Retardedmonkey from Game-Artist.net [ Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Mirror 3, Mirror 4, Mirror 5 ]

Volume Lighting

Easy trick for more realistic look (by cg-world.org).

9 years of ScriptSpot

Christopher Grant, ScriptSpot Admin, inform us so this is the 9th year since ScriptSpot was created. Also he ask us for any kind of ideas about a major site refresh.

Read/post into forum topic

Rotation dependent on color

I found an interesting question in ScriptSpot forum and i spend a little time to help him out. More details and my explanation you can find in the forum topic. So instead of rewrite my post i'll just mark about.

The question is how to rotate array of objects by Y axis according to theirs wirecolor, where they have random grayscale color and rotation must be in interval between 0 and 90 degrees. And there is my script for:

for i in selection do
( -- assign random grayscale color
    i.wirecolor.r = random 0 255
    i.wirecolor.g = i.wirecolor.b = i.wirecolor.r
    -- test result to Listener (optional)
    print i.wirecolor
    -- handle variables to achieve rotation b/n 0 and 90 deg.
    perc = (i.wirecolor.r as float) / 255
    ang = 90 * perc
    -- finaly rotate them
    doRotate = rotate i ang y_axis
) -- thats all :)

    -- and test scene result here:

Pseudo-tutorial

Well, the original full title say:

"Creating a simple realistic looking scene using simple objects" by Okii Shirow

LoL... this "tutorial" is written to promote some commercial products but only pretentious title, sounding more like a wish than realization, finally from this pseudo-tutorial you will learn absolutely nothing. Even "realistic looking scene" result in the title promises is missing at the end. So this is definitely not a tutorial, but this is also an very very bad unfortunate ad.