modeling

[DoomChimera]

hi, i'm new to modeling so can anyone point me in the direction of some tools and tutorials (man i sould like a nOOb:( )

[legameboy]

search for MilkShape on google. anbd then search for tututiols, i hope that helps

[KingNacho]

http://www.discreet.com . Go to their product page and get the free version of GMax. It's a 20 MB download. It's very easy to use if you follow the tutorials that you can download along with it. This was my first model after having it for one day:

http://www.geocities.com/darthnacho69/wipyodasaber.jpg (Drag Into Address Bar)

Modelling it wasn't very hard. But I'm dying on the Skinmapping.

[DoomChimera]

thanks, 20 mb is a little heafty on my nice 56k but its the middle of the night, hope no one trys to call:D

[BradFu]

Hey KingNacho, one thing about your Yoda saber - the 'shield' peice that sticks up on the emmitter isn't connected all the way across, it's actually connected only in the middle. Hard to explain. Something like this:

| /---------
| |
|[|
| |
| \______

If that makes any sense :) If it doesn't, I'll do a little sketch of it :)

BradFu!

[aL BeasTie]

links to gmax tutorials and lightsaber tutorials here
- www.jk2models.cjb.net