Model a High Poly Airframe Missile Launcher in 3ds Max – Day 1

on Jan 13th 2010 with 79 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: 3ds Max
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Completion Time: 40 minutes
This entry is part 7 of 12 in the Best of 3D Studio Max – Part 1 Session
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This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher

In this six hour long, intermediate/ advanced level tutorial you will learn to model a high poly RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher step by step. You will learn to use many of 3ds Max’s poly and spline modeling tools, while keeping the model as light weight and simplified as possible, and only using subdivision in the areas that require it.

This tutorial is Day 1 in a series – Go to Day 2, or Day 3.

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You can find the reference images and schematic blueprints here: http://www.bentateonline.com/CGTuts/Airframe_Launcher_Reference.zip

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This tutorial is Day 1 in a series – Go to Day 2, or Day 3.

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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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  1. miki says:
    August 14, 2010 at 9:43 am

    great great great thanks:-)))))

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  2. Phuong says:
    October 26, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Hi, I’m having some problem that’s preventing me from going any further >”<. I'm at the part where you say to use the cut tool to cut into the plane (27:10 in your 2nd video). I tried that but it won't let me cut in the middle of the plane. when I tried, some cuts just appeared from the corner right of the plane and went all the way to the nearest vertex from where I tried to make a cut. I can't even cut straight from one edge to another. All the strange cuts will appear where I don't want them to.

    I created another plane and changed to edit poly without doing all the connecting and it's still doing that. I do not have snap toggle on. I tried going into vertex then edge and using the cut tool there, still no luck. I switched the viewports around, nope =(.

    Can I get some help with that please?

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  3. CybranM says:
    March 22, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Awsesome tutorial, this helped me alot, thx :D

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  4. josh says:
    May 9, 2011 at 6:42 am

    it says this episode is unavailable. you guys should make it available

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  5. josh says:
    May 9, 2011 at 6:43 am

    hi it says sorry unable to play this episode. you guys should make it work.

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    • Chris Tate says:
      May 9, 2011 at 7:53 am
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      Hey Josh,

      All four videos seem to be working fine. Can you give it another try? It might have just been a glitch with Blip (which hosts our videos). It happens sometimes :)

      Cheers,
      Chris

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  6. Reza says:
    August 14, 2011 at 4:16 am

    absolutely Amazing . You are Incredible Ben . Thanks for another great tutorial .

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