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27th October 2006, 10:34 AM | #1 |
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Please help me with this whole thing!
I am new to the Graphics designing, and I need a lot of help. I am planning to make a trailer for school, and I have a mentor right now from this Culinary Arts College, but I haven't seen my mentor yet, and I need some help from you guys right now to be ahead when I see him/her. I am making two chinese girls fighting and flying around the stage(Like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon a little bit), and one character has a black see through veil.
Okay the thing is, I need to know how to make these of the following -Female heads, hair, and bodies -Landscape -Clothes -The veil for one of them and -Details of the characters(Light, Shade, hair movements) |
27th October 2006, 02:35 PM | #2 |
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Re: Please help me with this whole thing!
I suggest you get fluent in the terminology of 3D modeling. Learn about what a viewport is, how to navigate, learn what a primitive object is, what a vertice is, what a surface is, what an edge is, what a normal is, what a material is, basic properties of objects and how to manipulate them...
Then learn about the ways to use the features. So, your #1 job now is to go to the ac3d.org/downloads page and get the User Manual. It's pretty well written, not that initimidating, and fairly complete. Only after you understand the basics of 3D modeling do you have any hope of quickly coming to terms with creating objects as diverse as characters, landscapes and planning for animation/production. If you're planning to animate these characters, you will need another program to do that: AC3D doesn't handle any animation.
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1st November 2006, 09:58 AM | #3 |
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Re: Please help me with this whole thing!
Oh ok. Right now, I am modeling one of my characters, and am doing the steps on that one post, and there could be a lot of problems by the way, like this one. I just added my box, and how to you adjust the vertexes.
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1st November 2006, 10:13 AM | #4 |
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Re: Please help me with this whole thing!
Quick answer:
You have to be in Vertex mode to select or adjust vertices (as opposed to entire objects). Also, you need to be sure that Vertices are set to display in your ortho windows. Orth menu > Vertices. And also 3D menu > Vertices Make sure "Vertices" is checked in each of those menus. Once in Vertex mode, click on any one vertice in an ortho window to select it, or drag a box across a group of them to select groups. Similarly, hold down the Shift key and click/drag on selected vertices to deselect them. Watch your ortho views carefully when selecting; sometimes clicking on one vertex in a view may select several other vertices "behind" it. Watch your orthos views and the red bounding box that describes the dimensions of any selection. If you're trying to select one vertice on one side of your model, but the red box is describing a much larger area, you've inadvertently selected more vertices than you thought. More important: slooooooow doooooooown. You have to know how to navigate around the program and get familiar with how this kind of software works before you can really get to grips with creating anything. Get the .pdf manual from the Downloads page of www.ac3d.org. Take a few hours to read the manual while you poke around the program. This will save you a LOT of aggravation in the long run. AC3D is really easy to use, but not if you don't understand even the basics. I strongly suggest you learn the simplest things before you try to create something and get in over your head.
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1st November 2006, 10:52 AM | #5 |
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Re: Please help me with this whole thing!
I'm sorry about that. I thought it was just videos, you can look at the tutorials in .pdf as well?
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1st November 2006, 10:54 AM | #6 |
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Re: Please help me with this whole thing!
Oh, never mind about the tutorial thing.
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