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First Off, I would request that this thread be made stickey, as it will come in handy to alot of people.

Here are 2 links that I cane across, one of which contains mesh and textures for you to use to try it all out.


Applying Textures accuratley

Azteching

Go nuts, I hope this comes in handy for you all.

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cool cheers mate

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No problem amn, Still waiting for a stickey setting *Twiddles thumbs*

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Yeah this will come in handy - I have been looking for a good tutorial like this ........cheers peggy :

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I could have done with this before I started the Power & Judgement Class :> Oh well, maybe next time.

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here are some st fonts to use as well

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This is excellent stuff! I was gritting my teeth together on how i would do this. Im just starting out modelling, so the scifi-art.com is really helpful, and i already knew about the aztech method. Cheers mate for posting it!

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Where can you get a trial version for 3DSMax?

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I don't know if there is a trail version, i might be wrong. Hope you find a copy Max is great to work with.

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erm i think you should edit that quick as discussion of illegal things like kazaa is forbidden

brex pm me if you have a averagely high connection i can help with your problem

edit good good very quickly corrected

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a trail is nothing to do with kazaa u can get a trail of 3dsmax 6 on www.discreet.com hope that helps u but u wil need to ask somone with 3dsmax 3 to convert for u

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helpful link

http://www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials.htm

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thanks tim_scott for the fonts, i really needed those.
and thanks for the links everyone, it helps the newbie modelers

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this will really help, now all i need to know is how to build ships lol

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Though mostly for high poly modelers (some low poly tutorials there) a great site is http://www.3dtotal.com if you want to learn the basics. Also, check out the Dawnstar thread, I posted the original textures in PSD format to provide you with an example.

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I've recently added a tutorial to Scifi-meshes.com with regards to texturing.
It's an enhancement of one I wrote for Half-Life modelling a few years back. It's designed to teach how to texture hi-res models using bitmaps instead of procedural textures and whilst it uses a high-res model and some of MAX's settings that are irrelevant to BC, it's pretty much the same principle as is commonly used to texture game models. Some tips on 'weathering' textures and creating decals is also included.
The site host converted my HTML to PDF so you'll need Adobe Acrobat reader to view the tutorial.

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/tuts/pdf/NEW_texturing201.pdf

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working through the barrier of different max versions makes it near impossible to understand what that first tutorial is talking!! its just plain weird!
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shininess is not on max 6 though i think i found it!

an this:

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click the Sub-Object button under the modifier panel, rotate the gizmo -90 degrees on the Z axis in the bottom viewport. Use the Scale and Move tools to center and fit the gizmo to the nacelle

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Would anyone be terribly bothered if I wrote up a new tutorial for Aztecing? The Sci-Fi Art one is a little outdated, and blaXXer introduced me to another aztecing method. I'm not exactly sticking to both of them, but am using elements of both, and if it works out, I'd like to write up a new tutorials for beginners.

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ChiefBrex wrote:

Would anyone be terribly bothered if I wrote up a new tutorial for Aztecing? The Sci-Fi Art one is a little outdated, and blaXXer introduced me to another aztecing method. I'm not exactly sticking to both of them, but am using elements of both, and if it works out, I'd like to write up a new tutorials for beginners.

Would be great.

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Okay. Well, the process needs a little refinement first. Once I've done that, then I'll type up a tutorial on here with pics and such. Hopefully BCU will have fixed the picture posting bug that crept up a few days ago.

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ChiefBrex wrote:

Would anyone be terribly bothered if I wrote up a new tutorial for Aztecing? The Sci-Fi Art one is a little outdated, and blaXXer introduced me to another aztecing method. I'm not exactly sticking to both of them, but am using elements of both, and if it works out, I'd like to write up a new tutorials for beginners.

Always looking for new and easier ways to texture, would be a great help!!

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Interesting really

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how do you add glows then because the link doesnt work and i cant find an alternative anywhere else.thnx.

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