what for a modeling probram is the best

[spil778]

im will try to start to modeling but what is the best program to modeling?
or what you use?

 

[LiOneSS]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f276/warcraft-modelers-must-have-7414/

 

[spil778]

can i use someone of them to mac you know that?

 

[mokkil123]

buy 3ds max its only 35000kr get it now!!! get it now! now! NOW!

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Thats 7000$ ca.

 

[skrab]

buy 3ds max its only 35000kr get it now!!! get it now! now! NOW!

don't be stupid


spil778 you can download 3Ds Max 2009 (30 days trial version) from this site
Autodesk - Autodesk 3ds Max - Product Trial

than google some basic tutorials for 3Dsmax
when you learn the basics than you will be ready to start modeling for warcraft 3

 

[spil778]

Thank that will i try

 

[Avator]

Yea, I've tried finding a proper 3Ds Max tutorial on youtube... 90% of all of them is a car crashing into a pile of boxes, where the person who made that tutorial only shows what to check, uncheck and select, but you have no idea what it actually does...

I'd like to use 3Ds Max if MilkShape doesn't let me convert to a Wc3 file...


PS: Could anyone refer me to a site that explains some modelling terms? I mean the usual tutorials are talking about Mesh and other terms, but if I got no idea what it is, I don't think I'll be able to make something decent...

 

[skrab]

When you learn the basic modeling techniques it won't be a problem to follow that tutorial from youtube :/
Also good video 3D tutorials show you everything even the guy is telling you what to do. But you know :/ good tutorials cost money

the guys at 3D Total - The cg artists home page have some good free tutorials
where you can really learn something

 

[Avator]

Well that's my problem: I don't have basic modelling techniques. I want to learn how to model properly, but tutorials generally presume you know the basics of modelling, like the terms. I don't know any of this. Everyone learned these kind of stuff from something or someone, so I'd like to learn it too.

 

[skrab]

Well that's my problem: I don't have basic modeling techniques. I want to learn how to model properly, but tutorials generally presume you know the basics of modeling, like the terms. I don't know any of this. Everyone learned these kind of stuff from something or someone, so I'd like to learn it too.

start with tutorials inside the 3Ds Max

 

[Avator]

I'm familiar with those tutorials... They take 2 hours of your time and give you block shaped eyes and a dizzy look on your face in return...

 

[skrab]

I'm familiar with those tutorials... They take 2 hours of your time and give you block shaped eyes and a dizzy look on your face in return...

because you started with modeling characters :/
start with basic shapes, buildings, small doodads, space ships (there is a good tutorial in 3Ds Max5)...

 

[Avator]

Ok, I will take a look at that when I'm home. Hopefully it'll be of use.

Autodesk tutorials are long, slow and inaccurate by default...



EDIT: I've tried to follow the tower tutorial, but it really got some big crap in it! So far I wasn't able to select anything of the tower with the Control Points thing, and now that stupid thing tells me to select the middle polygon on a roof that ain't there!
I'm absolutely sure that the last thing is not my fault, because it's in the second part of the tutorial and you can start off from that part with a file that already did everything in the first part. The only thing you do in part 2 before having to select this invisible polygon is isolate a Mullion of the tower, so there's no way this is my fault.

And this tutorial is just like all Autodesk tutorials I was talking about: After hours of work, you can't repeat anything you've just wasted your time on, because most of the stuff are useless options that only confuse and there are loads of options of which you've got no idea what they're supposed to do. All it says is 'Check this box' and 'Set that value to x'...