RTW Modelling Video Tutorials 1-5 Released

[Halie Satanus]

Prof, this would be great also if offered as a single download. The hassle of downloading many files is a little irritating, I'd prefer to just start a download, take a bath, and install it. I'll be sure to comment once I finish watching it.

Prof isn't on line anymore. (not even as part of the forth age), it would be impossible to have them as a single download, as the files are to big,

As for the forth part, well it's become a bit of a holy grail, some say it existed, others say it was just a dream, and yet dreams can be found in the hearts of men, or as we call it the mod workshop

[Halie Satanus]

Well i can help a bit, as will Lusted, Spirit of rob will show up at some point so will tfighterpilot Pubilis Player one Goscinio and a bunch of others, Uv mapping is the fun part, i know it's frustrating when you don't know how but belive me it get's easier, so what part are you stuck at exactly.

Oh and what image editor are you useing?

[Windseller]

oh first thanks a lot that you heard my crying in the darkness :laughing:
well i use photoshop and i dont have ANY clue about uv mapping

[Halie Satanus]

Ok i'm at work now so i can get to into this strait away, so until later look though these, if you havn't already, and when you get stuck just come back and ask, it's easier if you have a specific question. and most of all don't give up.

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=44451
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=54542
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=50461

[Windseller]

well its nice that you took some time to help me with my problem but all these tutorials are not that what i was looking for
i already found them before my only problem is to make the uvw mapping for the textures so and for giving up i just gotta say i never give up until the situation seems hopeless :laughing:

[Halie Satanus]

Ok i've got a few minuets so, you've added the uv modifier and selected the figure and edit. a window has come up ,at the left of the window is a drop down menu. select the path of the texture and it will appear in the window.

Then you need to work out which is the default texture for the unit, as some have three tga's so have photoshop open at the same time.

make a slight alteration to a texture save it, go back to max (in the uv window) click the texture back to chequred pattern and then back to the texture path, if you can see the change you made that's the default.

now the default isn't always the one the game uses, but we'll get back to that when we need to.

Ok you checking out my mod so i'll carry on for a while, when you know which one is the default you can edit it in photoshop, i'm assuming you know about skinning, anything you change you can save and view in max strait away.

If you wish to move sections of the texture around, common for weapons and shields, the best way to do this is to edit it in ps first, say if you want to have a non symetrical shield, when you have your new shield in your texture and youve saved it, go back to max and select the shield, go to the uv widow, along the bottom panal you can see three small grids, click on the one furthest right, now at the top of the window select mapping, normal mapping, and in the pop up window select top/bottom, in the uv window you should now have two grids, one is the top of the shield, and the other the bottom, now just position them, you'll have to work out the tools for doing this but its pretty simple,

I'll put up a couple of screen shot's when i get home, hopefully others will do the same inlcuding you, to share the knowagle of the great mystery's of 3D Max

i hope this is clear enough, it should get you started at least.




Oh and this will seem hopeless many times before your happy with it :laughing:
what did you think of my mod by the way :wink: :laughing:

[Goscinio]

Thought I'd drop in to give you Prof's fourth tutorial. I had it on my computer, so I uploaded it to MegaUpload. Be warned however that it's still not perfect, as the screen will freeze at 19 min or so. It'll be a great help however, especially for beginners. And if this isn't clear enough, you can always ask here, and HS will without a doubt answer. :wink:

Prof's fourth tutorial

[Windseller]

@HS wow thank you that was quite useful i didnt know that it is that easy to do the mapping :original: and now i had success with the mapping maybe i might show you some screens when the models are finished?
btw your mod looks awesome especially the screens with the black background. looking forward to it

@Goscino WOW mega thanks thats awesome well i didnt know that this video really exists.
that was the reason why i posted in this thread just because of the uv mapping so i hope you did not only help me with this

thank you both you are totally awesome :laughing:

[Halie Satanus]

Yes i do have a big S on my chest, but only when the missus is out :laughing:

post your images here, and maybe some tips on what you did or how you did it, this thread really could do with livening up. :wink:

[Goscinio]

By the way, if you want, I can also upload prof's fifth tutorial, in which he's giving you simple and basic skinning tips, which is always helpful :wink:

[Halie Satanus]

By the way, if you want, I can also upload prof's fifth tutorial, in which he's giving you simple and basic skinning tips, which is always helpful :wink:

that would be Very

[mac89]

Ive gotten the first 3 tutorials a long time ago but didnt know of the excistence of these ones, can you please upload the 5th tutorial somewhere else!

Many thanks~!

[Halie Satanus]

Oh yeh, i've done this before, (forgotten that a link to five is further back in this thread) :laughing:

http://files.filefront.com/fifth_mp4.../fileinfo.html

[mac89]

i tried this but it has no public servers.

[Halie Satanus]

Hmm sorry about that, it says from the 24 april it's down(the site) for a couple of days so it might come back, or hopefully Goscinio will upload it to somewhere.

[Goscinio]

Sorry it took so long, it takes a while for me to upload to MegaUpload, but here it [finally] is:

Prof's Fifth Tutorial

Good luck!

[mac89]

Thank you very much!

EDIT do buildings require UV mapping aswell? probably yes

[Windseller]

whaaaaat???
somehow the fourth video doesnt really work
but i only need one last thing to know: how can i make the uvw mapping on the new helmet in the tutorial? because i did a helmet in a similar way and now dunno how to make the mapping for it .

[Halie Satanus]

whaaaaat???
somehow the fourth video doesn't really work
but i only need one last thing to know: how can i make the uvw mapping on the new helmet in the tutorial? because i did a helmet in a similar way and now dunno how to make the mapping for it .

It's the same as for the shield, you select the figure( right click and select top level, click on figure) now things get a bit complicated, in the modifier stack skin is at the top, now i'm going off the top of my head here, you have to add a uv to the stack, when you've done this click on every part of the helmet on the model, it should all show as red, now in the uv window the areas you've selected should be red as well, right click and select break, this will detach the uv map parts of the helmet from the rest of the head. then as with the shield
select normal mapping but now you want left and right, this should give you the two halves of the helmet, now it gets fiddly but you just need to fit them to your texture, I've never really had to do this so maybe there's an easier way. it might be better if you put up a screen shot of your model and the texture so we can see what your trying to do. there's to much to learn without being specific





When you've edited the texture and your happy with it you have to put the skin mod at the top of the stack, now if you haven't already you have to weight the verticles, this is where your going to start screaming like a little girl and banging your head off the wall.

[Windseller]

woah thank you very much hs that was very useful and helped me a lot but to exactly paint the helmet i would need to unwrap the uvw not only create a perspective view wich you might see in the picture


hehe maybe you might recognize that im a wc3 freak :laughing: