Ballistic Shield: Day 1 – Modeling

Ballistic Shield: Day 1 – Modeling

on Sep 27th 2011 with 19 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series 'Ballistic Shield'

In this tutorial we’ll Model, UVMap and Texture a high poly Ballistic Shield in 3d Studio Max 2012. Throughout the project we’ll make extensive use of many of Max’s built in modeling tools and modifiers to create the shield. Once we have the high-res model constructed, we’ll go through a manual optimization process to significantly reduce the poly count before moving onto uvmapping and texturing in Days 2 & 3.

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Part 5

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Ben is one half (literally) of the editor duo here at Cgtuts+. Ben has over eight years of experience in the computer graphics field and although he's primarily a hard surface modeler, he's also experienced in the fields of uvmapping, texturing, lighting and rendering. He has authored many tutorials and training materials focused on 3d Studio Max and hard surface modeling. You can check out Ben's website at bentateonline.com to see more of his work.  

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Discussion 19 Comments

  1. Iani Stoianov says:
    September 27, 2011 at 4:02 am

    Niceee :) Is there going to be a mapping and texturing part ?

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  2. tyh says:
    September 27, 2011 at 8:44 am

    I love u and ur brother because of your amzing tutorials~~~ thank u~~ great teachers

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  3. ArtMand says:
    September 27, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Always you rock with the video tutors thanks for this man!!! :D

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  4. Henrique Lopes says:
    September 27, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Good one!!
    Any chance you can make a mapping and texturing part, more specificaly how to create difuse, specular, and specially the normal map (baked one).

    Thanks

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  5. Mihail says:
    September 27, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    Is so cool and so easy to follow
    Thanks a lot.
    I’ve made mine in Blender, following this tutorial:))
    I got the same question as Iani Stoyanov. Is there going to be a mapping and texturing part?

    Once again i thank you .

    love cg.tutsplus :)

    Reply
  6. Dan Warner says:
    September 27, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    Great simple tut for noobs like me hehe. Thanks Ben… The Tate Tuts are always my favs
    btw yes guys he said at the end of Day 1 he would be mapping it in Day 2

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  7. Gavin says:
    September 28, 2011 at 7:58 am

    Great tutorials as per usual.

    I seem to get this problem a lot, when I try to download the file it just loads in a new window? Is this something I am doing wrong or have set up wrong?

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  8. Ben says:
    September 28, 2011 at 10:40 am

    Great tutorial, as always. Finding it very easy to speed through (thanks in large part to your and your brother’s other tutorials!), but still enjoying the practice and picking up some new things.

    Looking forward to the texturing part, as it looks like you’ve achieved a really precise/clean finish, which I usually have trouble with.

    Thanks!

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  9. me says:
    October 15, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Where’s the UV Mapping & Texturing part? :C

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    • Ben Tate says:
      October 19, 2011 at 1:05 am
      Author

      Hey Man,

      The UVMapping part should be up on site by the end of this week. And I’m hoping to get the Texturing section up the following week :)

      Ben

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  10. Akhi says:
    October 18, 2011 at 9:14 am

    how to change from the slate material editor to the normal

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    • Ben Tate says:
      October 19, 2011 at 1:03 am
      Author

      Hey Akhi,

      Go to the “Modes” menu in the top left corner of the Slate material editor and choose “Compact Material Editor…”. You can change back to the Slate Editor anytime by following the same process and choosing “Slate Material Editor”.

      Cheers,
      Ben

      Reply
  11. derek says:
    October 21, 2011 at 12:09 am

    is there a way to download the video for this tut. when i click on download, it opens another tab and starts playing the video

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    • Ben Tate says:
      October 21, 2011 at 4:12 am
      Author

      Hey Derek,

      If you right click on the “Part” link and go to “Save Link As…” it should let you save the video to your hard drive :)

      Cheers!
      Ben

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  12. Dethling says:
    November 2, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    Your tutorials are awesome, thanks for it.
    Only think which is a little bit anoying are your loud mouse-clicks :)

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  13. Coin-goD says:
    December 5, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Why do you optimize the model like that? Isn’t it easier to just remove the TurboSmooth modifiers and edit the low-poly mesh?

    That’s what I’m doing.

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  14. Coin-goD says:
    December 5, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    Nevermind, looks like this is not for games. :P (Your optimized mesh looks high-poly for games)

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  15. Zaya says:
    December 12, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Thank you very much !! Finally done with all 5 videos. Learned so much new things since im a beginnerXD and it was really easy to understand tutorial. Please do more tutorial If you have time.

    Gotta texture the shield now^^

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  16. mizero blaise says:
    April 2, 2012 at 6:19 am

    i realy like your teaching lesson.
    it realy well done.

    ps:french guy ^^

    Reply

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