Looks great - now place it into a setting to achieve true realism.

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Thats great for your first try.

The only thing I can mention is that instead of applying the material to the whole object (and get the woodgrain continuing across all the panels) isolate the individual faces and make a couple of differently oriented wood materials, so that the grain goes in the correct direction for the panel. Also to give it a little variety.

Thanks for posting. Looking forward to seeing more work from you Scott.

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so you mean like add the same textures but apply it to different polgonas at a time not just all over the object

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Yeah, kind of, and what you can do with the different textures is you can rotate the bitmaps differently for each one that has to go in a different direction, just use trial and error until it looks right.

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thanks for the comments gregwhitworth i have done the scene that you suggested i agree it looks so much better here is the screenshot of the scene with the crates in

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Hi scott, Looking good, try fiddling with the scaling of your texture bitmaps too, if you increase the tiling it will scale the texture down and you will find a balance that fits the size of your model.

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Looks like something I did when I started too

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You should also pay attention to the more minor details of you textures, for example the grain of the wood will generally go in the same direction of the planks and should look more like indivudual pieces of wood. Are you familiar with the UVW map modifier?

It's great that you posted some work though, that way we can help you more effectively.

Keep up the good work.

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thanks for you comments again i really appreciate the comments i am gonig to try and put the textures on sepratly to make it all go the same was

no i dont no anything about uv mapping thanks

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um... what is up with the ginner? Other than that it looks pretty good - but the lighting could use some work.

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greg that scene you have created looks amazing here is one that i adjusted with the textures i would like to use uv mapping but dont now how to do it.

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@scott

"greg that scene you have created looks amazing"

What?

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I would apply the materials in this way. Isolate each of the faces with a line through it and create a material (they can even be all based on the same wood texture) that aligns the grain of the wood with the direction of the line.

New material
Add a texture to the diffuse slot in the Maps rolldown
Should come up with the tiling and angle options
Play with those and create one for each different plank of wood you need.

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Oh yes i understand thanks ever so much for you help

I took in to note about the uvw mapping and here is what i come up with on a different model

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This model is trash...

Haha, sorry for the pun.

Looking good man, the textures seem to fit the model alright. Done well.

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thankyou very much can i ask you a question what you will proberly now the answer to how do you create like hightlight on a box here is what i mean by highlights.

The line in the middel of the box i just cant create things like that thanks in advance

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Firstly hello and welcome to the forums. I think you are refering to the lighting in this scene. It is quite simple you have to create a light object in max and position it so that it lights you scene in the way you want. Light in max is much like light in the real world minus the ability to turn of shadows . if your unsure how to use lights in max have a look in the manual (F1). You will also find that many people including myself use software renders not included with max to render our final images. I would recomend using vray or mental ray but for the moment just have a play with the default max lights and renderer. Hope this helps enjoy.

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thank you for you advice whats the difference between vray light and just defeult lighting

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Well thats a little hard to explain, does anyone else feel like explaining this because I really can not be botherd ... the theory behind lighting and rendering is quite complex and not something I feel I can explain in a forum post. I would recomend doing a google search for vray you will see some examples of what it can do. Keep in mind that mental ray comes with max and thier is some documentation on it also. I like vray however because it is far faster and more versitile than mental ray. Anyways im blabing...

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In short I find vRay light to look alot more realistic and has more options to tweak.

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yeh, agreed - better quality more advanced options, therefore more flexibility.

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yer i understand what you are saying you cant explain it all in one post i will do a search thanks for the advice.

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yer i understand what you are saying you cant explain it all in one post i will do a search thanks for the advice.

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i know eveybody isd thinking i am a pain lol i was just wondering if someone could do a quick screenshot of where i can find the Simcloth modifier plz because i want to make a bed sheet thanks

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go to the modifier stack dropdown thingy and press the S key untill you find it. There is also reactor cloth and i think another one simply called cloth. Isn't simcloth a plug in?

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Yep, it's a third party plugin. You can get it here:
[Link to www.maxplugins.de]
(for max 9 there are other versions there as well)

Otherwise you can use max cloth which is in your modifier stack drop down under "cloth"

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I kind of dig max cloth it takes some tweaking but if you get it right it's better than sim cloth.

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thanks for the help

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No probs, it's good to have another active member.

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It's looking good Scott - keep it up. Check out my chess wip - and give me some tips - MY CHESS KNIGHT NEEDS SOME WORK - so any advice would be great. Thanks buddy - and I look forward to seeing more work of yours.

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thankyou i will take a look and give you some tips if i can i am having a lot of problems with my 3ds max when i smooth things it just turns it in to a different object and i cant get any modelling done can you help or anyone thanks

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I'll make a short tute how to stop this

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1. start out with a box in editable poly
2. inset the faces
3. use the cut tool to square off the corners into quads
4. use CTRL+Backspace to delete the diagonals
5. apply turbo smooth

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Wow scott - we seem to be in the same place here. By the way is that you in the scuba gear?

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yer its me in scuba gear lol i have been doing it about 1 year now i am off to do my advance in june at menorca

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Wow this has worked thankyou so much you are a star i have been thinking i had changed a setting i was getting worried thanks for the time for the tutorial and the time to reply

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No worries. Its the method that Jamie originally taught me so he should get some credit too.

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thanks to you both great help i can now stop worrying and start creating

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HEY! Where is my thank you - I have helped you about 0% on this project - but I inserted sardonic remarks every 3 or 4th post - give me some credit. JK. LOL.

It is looking really good - and I bookmarked this page for that tut Varnished Otter -

Ciao (Makes me feel french - not sure if that is a good thing or not?),

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sorry man i dont mean to offend you

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Don't worry, I think he's joking. And greg, pretty sure ciao is Italian.

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oh okay then sorry i have not been on in ages its jut that i have not got internet at home i have to use it form college

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Here is a light switch that i moddeled took me a few attempt to get it how i wanted it hope you like it.

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yeh, keep up the good work, you'll learn more by doing lots of little things like the light switch than you will by getting bogged down on longer projects. 1 small crit, it looks like the screws on the left switch aren't aligned properly - the right screw is closer to the switch than the left screw. If you want to get them even, align them to the switch then move one of them out, taking note of how far you move it and then move the other one the same amount in the opposite direction. Sorry if I'm stating the bleeding obvious.

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thanks for the reply i really apprecaite the feedback i will have to re align it thanks

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Hi can I see the mesh please? Theres some kind of weirdness going on on the surface of the actual switch mech. See how its clearly divided into tri's. Not sure if theres an extra edge there that can be removed to smooth it out.

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yer there is an exter edge i cut it in the middle so that i could rotate it up i will have to pst the mesh tommorow cause i am at college and they have not got 3ds max or i will post it later it would be great if i could smooth that bit out cause tis reallu annoying thanks for the comments really appreciated

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Here is the light switch in wireframe

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i am so sorry to ask many questions but i am having trouble with Vray lighting i cant find it when i click in the enviroment and then on the bit at the side where it says none i go down the list and cant find itanywhere is vray a plugin or a map or something cause i am really stuck in this one thanks for your help.

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Yes vRay is an extension for max. You need to install it.

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Dude,

First of all - I was definitely joking - my 3d max skills are low - I wouldn't even begin to expect a thank you.

Second - your switches look good. Are there materials applied to them yet? Because if there are both the plastic and the screws need more shine.

And - Steve Marting - thanks for the correction - I don't want to sound stupid

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Ah, Greg, it's actually Steve Martin, not Steve Marting.
Sorry, couldn't help myself, I'm a bit of a prick.

Scott, that's an odd crease in your switch, the mesh looks pretty good but there's a definate crease there. Odd.

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Steve Martin yer there is a crease because i cut the polygon in half so that i could rotate it
I think that your websites are very good what sort of websites do you do cause i make websites to using css and html.

Greg yer there is materials on it but i was trying to use uvw mapping but i always have trouble selecting the polygons example: i will selct the back polygons and then when i select the front polygons the back ones unselect.

VarnishedOtter thanks for that i will have to install it

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This may sound really silly and you can tell me to get lost if you want lol i was just wondering you could tell me some basic items to create sort of like a little assignment please cause i seem to work better when someone has told me to create it.

My aim in 3ds max is to be able to create interiors designs such as living rooms building if i can get to that stage i will be really pleased.
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I totally understand this, and guess what, I asked the same thing when I was starting.

Going through my old stuff I did:

- a standup mirror (the type which have a frame and stand on the floor)

- a PC case

- a wine bottle and wine glass

- a toolbox with
--- hammer
--- wrench
--- wheel brace
--- screwdriver
--- socket wrench

- a gas cylinder

- a bridge

- a simple helicopter

- a space ship

- a mech

By that time you should be getting pretty good. Just work on building small objects because making a room is easy, its adding in all the little objects to make it look real and used thats the trick, and if you can model objects you'll be fine.

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You might want to start a new thread too, this one is getting kinda long and laggy.

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lol what a coicedence i will have a go at sum of these object you have put down i am prety sure i can create the wine bottle and the glass but i will do my best thanks for the reply really appreciated and yeri think i could do a room just not the little things inside.

The trouble with me when i am moddeling i have not got a clue what shape to start with when modeling. do you know for the toolbox items did you use an image to work from or a blueprint.

1 more thing i struggle getting good textures i have been on 3dextra that okay but i need some really realistic textures

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here is the link for the carry on this thread

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Hi everyone Im a new member and ive used other programmes such as multimedia flash but i want to use 3D studio max can anyone please help me as im into "human animations so if anyone can help plz can you try and contact me antonio_kranium_c@hotmail.com

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