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Forum Rules
- If you do not follow these rules your thread will be deleted or closed. And you will be reminded to read the rules.

- Search before starting a topic. Most topics made have a similar one on the same page. Please look for similar posts before posting yours. I cannot stress this point enough. Please follow this rule

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Thanks to Warped Minds for drawing these up.

Ultimate Guide to 3D Software
emtilt put this together to help some people out. It lists 3D freeware. Check it out at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/512417

Video Tutorials
http://www.3dbuzz.com

Buzz's teaching style is easy to understand yet informative.

Current VTMs available at 3dbuzz:
1. 3DSMax Issue #1
2. 3DSMax Issue #2
3. Maya Issue #1
4. Maya Issue #2
5. PHP and MySQL Issue #1
6. Photoshop 7 Issue #1
7. XSI VTM #1
8. *NEW* QUAKE 3 Game Design VTM
9. *NEW* UT2003 Game Design VTM

Coming Soon/Or in the works:
1. Lightwave VTM
2. Possibly Combustion VTM

The amount of members have grown extremely fast, (a couple of hundreds, maybe even thousands new members a day!) so the chance of getting them by mail wouldn't be very big... But if you have broadband then you could go to the site and download some of the VTM's.

Thanks to darthy for all the links and whatnot.

A4D's 4 Steps to Success

Many questions/requests of tutorials have been repeated over and over here, so instead of wasting TF's sweet space, Ill help you get what you need in four simple steps:

Check the stickies. - Many tutorials that you will probably need will be in one of the stickies/important posts in this forum.

Search TutorialForums - Its right there in your face. Use the "Search" feature on top of the page, theres a possibility that the question you ask has been asked for before.

Search DeviantArt - Most of the tutorials in our stickies came from DeviantArt. I'm sure that you will find everything you need there.

Search Google - Google = GOD. Simple as that.

If all fails, post here for it.

- A4D

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Last edited by Adobe4Dummies, March 18th, 2004 09:33 AM (Edited 1 times)

Ah yes and I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, PLEASE name your threads with more relevence to the subject matter! "3DSM HELP!" is not a good thread title. For example, if you have a question about the Edit mesh modifier, name your thread "3dsm: Edit Mesh" or something like that.

Thanks.

Also, (edited in by nykoelle)
Batman's FAQ

3dsm
If you have lost your Movie/Rotate/Scale transform (otherwise known as the Transform Gizmo). Click on X on your keyboard.

If your object disappears when you move/rotate the scene click the O key. This toggles the Adaptive Degradation.

To save your render as a jpg/gif/png/etc look in the upper left hand corner of the render window for a little floppy disk icon.

All
To make those swirvy spikey shiny random images that you see on just about EVERY design site look at the TUTORIALS/TEXTURES sticky.

To get a transparent background save it as a png. Make sure you make it RGB 24 bit after you hit the save button. (note: it won't be transparent in the render window but it will be in PS)

Last edited by nykoelle, May 26th, 2004 09:44 AM (Edited 1 times)