3ds Max: Gun Modeling For Dummies

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:14 am

File, Import then it is somthing like autodesk 3ds, then import it.

mopopo · Post by **mopopo** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:35 am

what does milkshape do? i have my pistol model

but what do i do with it? how do i texture?

mopopo · Post by **mopopo** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:55 am

sorry bad link heres pistol http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96/mopopo/pistol.bmp

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:40 pm

(to Katarn) Wow man, you have skill!
I can only model guns based of other models (I can't make them from scratch), but then again all I have is Milkshape... I made a really primitive Brute shot once though, for Vice City...

Monkey Joe · Post by **Monkey Joe** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:12 pm

KantTouchThis wrote:Great im stuck again....I know im a noob but what do I have to right click? Which left veiwport?
4. Right-click on the left viewport name and click "smooth with highlights". The reference picture should appear in the left viewport.
I dont know where to right click?!?

Thats how far I am and I cant figure out where to right click!

Can someone help please. Help a noob out...

Yeah, I'm having a similar problem...Whenever I apply the bitmap to the material editor, the little white and blue colored cube doesn't apper.

venomai · Post by **venomai** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:50 pm

Nice models.

http://tutorials.moddb.com/16/ <<<<-the only plane modeling tutorial i can find

I've recently started downloading these (big downloads, but they are worth it) and they have been extremely helpful. He even makes a few mistakes (accidentally) that seem common, and explains how to fix them easily.

Where do you find high quality side views of your weapons for references? I've been using Google and http://world.guns.ru/main-e.htm but for some weapons I've had a lot of trouble finding big pictures that aren't on a strange angle. Any other suggestions?

Also, I've got a nice M4A1 pic I want to put in to 3DS max as a reference for modeling. I've tried a couple different reference setup methods (including the one you've mentioned) to try and get this working, but every time it keeps resizing it. I'm nearly positive my size is correct (unless its showing me a different size?), and I've tried testing other references in the same scene and they all work perfectly. As you can see from the screenshot below, the bigger image is the one I'm having trouble with.
http://img221.echo.cx/img221/7905/3dsmaxhelp36hp.jpg

I think the problem is because of the size, its large so it gets zoomed out to fit the window while viewing. But the image in the viewports is horrible quality, even compared to that of the zoomed out image when viewing. When viewing in max it zooms to 1:2 size ratio instead of 1:1. See below; this is just after pressing the "view" button in Material Editor (I've zoomed to 1:1 using the mousewheel, but it originally starts at 1:2)
http://img221.echo.cx/img221/50/3dsmaxhelp26cl.jpg

And here is my material editor.
http://img221.echo.cx/my.php?image=3dsmaxhelp11jm.gif

Hopefully you know how to fix this, so far its the only time I've had problems with setting up references. It would be a great reference - if it would ever work!

Thanks for the links and nice tips/tutorials, Kartan!

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:30 pm

Could you also add a detailed tut for gmax texturing (of a model)?

chihiro · Post by **chihiro** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:29 am

i can tell you how to model low quality weapons in z modeler. simple. make objects, shift them, rotate them and all that until it looks a bit like a weapon. high quality, use create-surface-flat and make surfaces for every bit of detail and use the tube object for the barrel.

realistic · Post by **realistic** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:24 pm

awesome tutorial!

ledhedgn · Post by **ledhedgn** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:21 am

can some one tell me how to get the picture quality a lot better in the viewports, cuase my refrence pic keeps one getting pixleated (not smooth) and when i rotate my camera thing, it morphs the picture around, anyone no how to fix this?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:11 am

left klick on the perspective or viewport letters and choose "fix texture"

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:10 am

NICE BUMP J00 NOOB THIS WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 3 STICKIES!!! j/k lol

ledhedgn · Post by **ledhedgn** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:48 pm

thanks, but is texture correction the same, cause thats the only thing i see

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:52 pm

Son't make the box so big

Armoured-Fury · Post by **Armoured-Fury** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:51 pm

I agree.. Don't make it so big, dude..

A. Fury

sgtbotley · Post by **sgtbotley** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:49 am

hey Katarn, could u bring out your own version of tutorial for this type of modelling (im actually begging you), this is a sick way of modelling, but im having trouble downloading the other tutorial, so if you are up for it , could u bring out your own video tut for this

omnixshadow · Post by **omnixshadow** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:43 am

that battle rifle looking thing is awsome

and a pistol with a silencer would be cool

gh057ofchurch · Post by **gh057ofchurch** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:00 pm

Burnination wrote:hey..i have a rendering video that oldFaq made for me...if you want it...

sure i could use that

TommyBoi · Post by **TommyBoi** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:30 pm

I want to do the tutorial, but the render.max link is broken! can someone post another link?

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:23 pm

Ok whenever I download the plane modeling tutorial and try to open it with winrar, it says the file is either unkown or damaged. It is a .rar obviously so it isnt an unknown file, ive even saved it as a different name and tried.
I uninstalled, deleted, redownloaded and re-installed winRar and still, it won't open.

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