Building The Caterpillar 797 In 3D Studio Max – Creating The Tires, Rims, Cabin And Bridge

Building The Caterpillar 797 In 3D Studio Max – Creating The Tires, Rims, Cabin And Bridge

on May 1st 2012 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Building The CAT 797B

Today we’re kicking off an awesome new tutorial series by Sasa Posloncec where you’ll learn how to model the ridiculously huge Caterpillar 797B mining dump truck. Spanning three parts this series will give you an in-depth look at what it takes to create a fully realized vehicle model in 3D Studio Max using blueprints and photo reference. As Sasa walks you through the creation of each part, you’ll learn how to work with Max’s Edit Poly modifier, spline tools and much more!

The first part in the series will cover creating the trucks detailed tires and rims, as well as the cabin, engine cover, front bumper, splashboard and bridge. Get started after the jump!

Additional Files/ Plugins:

Part 1: Modeling The Tires

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Note: click the ‘Monitor’ icon to view tutorial in full-screen HD.

Part 2: Modeling The Rims

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Part 3: Building The Cabin

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Part 4: Modeling The Engine Cover

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Part 5: Creating The Front Bumper, Splashboard And Bridge

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  • jokayo

    thanks ; I like this type of tutorials

    • Goncalo Palma

      Can you tell me how to download the tutorials ??

      Thanks

  • marco

    Hola feliz por que soy seguidor de este gran amigo que se desprende fasilmente de sus trabajos y nos hace estar pendientes de loque sigue ya estube en en otros tutoriales de verdad que mis mejores deceos de mucha felisidad y prosperidad amigo mis vendiciones de verdad grasias por tu aporte
    Amigo en nombre de eta gran comunidad las gracias por tu aporte

  • danile

    would someone do this in maya…pleaes

  • apg51sa

    Thank you for sharing this tutorial I like how you expose

  • Goncalo Palma

    Dear Friends

    I usualy see this great turorials that i have learn many things with you, But unfortunately by these days i cannot download the tutorials that i kept to see them lately when i make the models in 3ds max. Can anyone tell me how can i download the video tutorials. A few months ago i just make “save target as ” in the “part 1 … etc..” then i chose the local that the video will be placed. But now i can´t do these. Can anyone help me.

    Thanks to All

    • http://www.christateonline.com Chris Tate

      Hey Goncalo,

      We haven’t changed anything on the back end, so you should still be able to download each video by right clicking on the title and choosing “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…”

      I just tested it myself and it seems to be working, are you receiving a specific error when you try?

      Cheers!
      Chris

      • Goncalo Palma

        Hello Chris

        Thank you for your call.

        Lately when i do ” save target as ” i usualy been direct to a file that the name is quit right and is a mp4 file that i see well , but now i receive a file called ” Potatono-OOPViews677.mp4″ and the file is only 37 kb intead of 150 mb for exemple. But these file name apears in all 3g tuts files. Every file that i download have this fie name. Other thing is, if i click in video i receive a messege that i have to see the video with BLIP.COM player . I wiil try to resolve this if i could.

        I ask if there was another way to receive these files like a link for exemple.

        Thank you very much i Realy Like your Work and your brother too.

  • Saeed TIOUAL

    Hello Sasha,

    I hope, I can be clear enghout, you are awesome man keep it coming ;).
    Special thanks for the TATE familly ;) Love and respect

  • http://kovac.dyndns-ip.com Anze

    For downloading videos just click on a title of video. A download popup shows and then just click save.
    Works for me :D

    Greets !
    Anze

  • hossam

    really amazing tut i like it so much :)

  • Dan

    What is the total poly count of the model? I think if you didn’t subdivide all the pieces on the mesh, and you had it all textured, it would’ve been nice with a lower poly-count…

    • Saša Poslončec
      Author

      Polys : 3 970 329
      Verts : 2 008 752

  • Coki

    now u can transform this beast.
    keep up the good work man.
    can u make tut for some robot or car.

  • Antoine
  • Graham

    Downloading video is not working for me too

  • http://www.christateonline.com Chris Tate
    Staff

    Hey guys,

    Sorry to hear some of you are still having a problem downloading the videos! Honestly I have no idea why it seems to be working for some of you, but not for others. Over the past six months we’ve been having a number of issues with our videos streaming from Blip.

    They should be accessible (and downloadable) by everyone, but obviously that’s not the case. So I’ll see if we can get some direct download links up asap for anyone who needs them, while we try to get the problem sorted out!

    Cheers,
    Chris

  • DT
  • http://www.christateonline.com Chris Tate
    Staff

    @Antoine & @DT

    Thanks for pointing this out! We take plagiarism very seriously, and while this is a 3D Studio Max tutorial and the one on Digital Tutors is for Maya, I agree they are very similar in appearance.

    However the author’s are working with different software packages and Caterpillar models (the 797B vs the 789C) so it’s clearly not a case where the author has directly copied the tutorial.

    As far as the workflow and techniques being used in this tutorial. I can say based on my own experience, that they are standard hard surface modeling techniques that can be found in numerous free tutorials online. So it would be impossible for us to say for certain where and when the author learned these techniques, but we would like to give him the benefit of the doubt.

    Chris

  • Saša Poslončec
    Author

    @Antoine & @DT

    I really dont know what to say, I really did my best to make this tutorial. First of all on Digital Tutors web site there is no modeling process (just short review how author made some patrs). And second you can pay for tutorial on Digital Tutors or you can learn here how to make that truck for free. Or you can illegally download (what some of you maybe did) DT tutorial and learn in that way. Its your choice. I hope that i helped to some people to learn something for free and thats my goal here.

  • Mel

    Thanks for this tutorial. Its great to see another vehicle tutorial which has a good level of details and great step by step teaching. Awesome!!

  • http://www.christateonline.com Chris Tate
    Staff

    Hey guys,

    If anyone is still having trouble downloading the videos (using the links above,) here are some direct links to download each video. (Right click > Save Target/Link As…)

    Sorry again for the inconvenience, and I Hope you enjoy them ;)
    Cheers,
    Chris

    Part 1: Modeling The Tires:
    http://cgtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/385_Max_CAT797_Pt1/CAT_797_PT1_1.mp4

    Part 2: Modeling The Rims:
    http://cgtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/385_Max_CAT797_Pt1/CAT_797_PT1_2.mp4

    Part 3: Building The Cabin:
    http://cgtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/385_Max_CAT797_Pt1/CAT_797_PT1_3.mp4

    Part 4: Modeling The Engine Cover:
    http://cgtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/385_Max_CAT797_Pt1/CAT_797_PT1_4.mp4

    Part 5: Creating The Front Bumper, Splashboard And Bridge:
    http://cgtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/385_Max_CAT797_Pt1/CAT_797_PT1_5.mp4

  • theep

    THanks great 1