Course
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Creating a Secondary Game Vehicle in 3ds Max
In this 3ds Max tutorial, we'll model and texture a detailed secondary vehicle. Software required 3ds Max 2013.
What you'll learn
In this 3ds Max tutorial, we'll model and texture a detailed secondary vehicle. We'll start by looking at how to build a high poly vehicle from blueprints. Once our high poly model is finished, we'll modify it to build our final in-game asset. By the end of this 3ds Max training, you'll have a thorough understanding of the tools and techniques used to create secondary game vehicles. Software required 3ds Max 2013.
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
0mins
Creating a Secondary Game Vehicle in 3ds Max: Part 1
206mins
- Breaking Object Out into Material Ids 9m
- Setting up Project Preferences and Creating Image Planes 9m
- Setting up Blueprint and Layer Creation 5m
- Customizing Hot Keys for 3ds Max 10m
- Creating Front Left Area and Wheel Well 10m
- Continuing the Front Left Area 5m
- Modeling the Middle Left Side 3m
- Modeling the Left Back Side 7m
- Finishing the Left Back Area 9m
- Modeling Out the Back Door Area 10m
- Adding a Turbosmooth Modifier to Our Mesh 9m
- Modeling Front Hood Area 9m
- Modeling the Back Bumper 9m
- Finishing the Back Bumper 9m
- Adjusting the Back Bumper 8m
- Adjusting the Model's Body 6m
- Modeling the Front Bumper 7m
- Detailing the Front Bumper 10m
- Capping Off the Bottom 8m
- Making Adjustments to Front of Vehicle 7m
- Modeling the Headlight Housing 10m
- Detailing the Headlight Housing 8m
- Adding Thickness to the Headlight Housing 9m
- Finishing up the Headlight Housing 4m
- Creating the Vehicle's Grill 5m
- Finishing the Grill 7m
- Adjusting the Body and Grill 4m
Creating a Secondary Game Vehicle in 3ds Max: Part 2
254mins
- Creating Door Handle Object 9m
- Copying Door Handle to Back Area 9m
- Creating Back Door Handle from Cloned Object 10m
- Adjusting Door Handles 9m
- Modeling the Side View Mirror 10m
- Detailing the Side View Mirror 4m
- Finalizing the Side View Mirror 6m
- Attaching Side View Mirror 5m
- Modeling the Antennae 10m
- Checking Our Model 10m
- Building the Support Object for Side View Mirror 10m
- Adding the Side View Mirror Base 4m
- Modeling the Gas Cap 9m
- Managing Our Scene 10m
- Using Layer Manager to Manage Scene 8m
- Creating Front Area Glass 10m
- Modeling the Windshield 10m
- Adjusting the Windshield 8m
- Adding in the Back Windows 10m
- Finishing the Back Area 10m
- Creating the Wheels 9m
- Finishing the Wheels 8m
- Adding a Chassis Object 9m
- Creating the Muffler and Windshield Wipers 10m
- Finishing and Positioning the Windshield Wipers 10m
- Adding Interior Objects Including a Steering Wheel 8m
- Finishing the Steering Wheel 10m
- Tweaking Our Model 10m
- Creating the Roof Rack and Pipes 9m
Creating a Secondary Game Vehicle in 3ds Max: Part 3
216mins
- Adding Pipes to Roof Rack 11m
- Assigning Brake Light Materials 9m
- Cleaning up Model Edges 7m
- Duplicating Model to Create Low Poly Version 10m
- Detailing the Front of the High Poly Model 10m
- Detailing the Back Area 9m
- Adjusting the Back Bumper Area 9m
- Finalizing Back Door Area 6m
- Adding Details to the Side of Our Model 6m
- Creating the Door Seam 10m
- Finishing up the Door Seams 10m
- Finalizing Detailed High Poly Model 9m
- Creating Low Poly Tires 8m
- Unwrapping the Low Polygon Tires 9m
- Creating and Unwrapping the Low Poly Front Bumper 10m
- Optimizing the Headlight Housing 10m
- Unwrapping the Headlight Housing 8m
- Finishing the Headlight Housing 10m
- Unwrapping the Hood 6m
- Unwrapping the Front Area 10m
- Creating Low Poly Door Handle 9m
- Optimizing Low Poly Side View Mirror 10m
- Unwrapping Side View Mirror 10m
- Creating the Low Polygon Body 10m
Creating a Secondary Game Vehicle in 3ds Max: Part 4
319mins
- Refining the Body 10m
- Unwrapping the Body 5m
- Continuing to Unwrap the Body 5m
- Unwrapping the Window Trim and Interior Trim 7m
- Detaching and Optimizing Interior Objects 10m
- Finishing the Interior Objects 10m
- Unwrapping Windows and Pipes 10m
- Finalizing the Pipes 9m
- Unwrapping the Roof Rack 9m
- Optimizing the Back Bumper 5m
- Unwrapping the Back Bumper 6m
- Optimizing the Back Door Handle 10m
- Finalizing the Back Door Handle 7m
- Unwrapping Back Door Area of Vehicle 10m
- Finishing the Back Door Area 6m
- Unwrapping the Exhaust Object 7m
- Unwrapping the Wipers 9m
- Unwrapping the Antenna 6m
- Cleaning up Our Scene 10m
- Optimizing the Material Id 6m
- Packing Our UVs 10m
- Continuing to Pack Our UVs 10m
- Finalizing UV Packing 11m
- Looking into Bake Settings 10m
- Setting up Our Object for Baking 10m
- Adjusting Our Projecting Cage 9m
- Going Over Normal Map and Color Id Map in Photoshop 7m
- Cleaning up Maps 9m
- Creating Our Textures 9m
- Loading All Our Maps and Models in Ddo 10m
- Assigning Materials Based on Id Map 8m
- Rendering Out Maps 8m
- Adding Decal to Diffuse Map 5m
- Setting up Materials for Render in Mental Ray 10m
- Assigning Materials for Render 6m
- Adding a Ground Plane and Lighting System 10m
- Adding Our Normal Map 10m
- Adjusting Our Final Render 10m
About the author
Chidi is a 3D Environment Artist that has worked in the games industry for eleven plus years. He graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in 2003 and has worked on various videogame consoles since. He has worked on the Forza Motorsport series since Forza 2 and has worked on various platforms from the PSP to the Xbox One. Chidi’s passions are modeling and texturing with strong emphasis on lighting. He’s worked with Mental Ray and also freelances as a graphic designer as well.