Quick Tip: Create And Set Up Blueprints In 3D Studio Max Using Photoshop

Quick Tip: Create And Set Up Blueprints In 3D Studio Max Using Photoshop

on Mar 8th 2012 with 11 comments
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Correctly setting up blueprints so they’re usable in your modeling work-flow can be a frustrating task to say the least, but in today’s Quick Tip you’ll learn how to do just that. Sasa Posloncec will show you the best place to find and download blueprints, how to correctly separate, scale and align them using Photoshop and how to get them up and running inside 3D Studio Max. Get started after the jump!

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I am 24 years old and I come from Croatia. I am a Professional bachelor in applied informatics and I finished Information technology in business application on Faculty of organiation and informatics Varazdin (University of Zagreb.) I have been in the 3D world for 5 years and Cgtuts helped me a lot in my learning, so I hope that I will help someone to learn something from my tutorials.  

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  • http://www.jonmcarter.com Jon C

    Thanks for this quick tip. I have done this blueprint lineup before but have always had a problem with it not lining up just right, will try this and hope for the best. Thanks again!

  • Flapjack

    Very nice !!!

  • http://godsofart.com S3bY

    Very nice, Sasa! I always encountered problems with the alignment of the blueprints!

  • Elie

    Very helpful.

    Thank you so much.

  • Cava

    Another one?………

    • Sasa Posloncec
      Author

      Coming soon…. xD

  • Bojan

    Sasa, could you please a tutorial for lining up image planes in Maya? I am really frustrated.
    Pozz od Makedonija.

  • Coda

    Thx for Tip.
    But author doesn’t show what to to, if Blueprints do not match 100%
    In this case he was lucky the files fit.
    Would be more useful, to explain with Blueprints that don’t match, which is usually the case..

  • http://nourelislam.bravehost.com ani

    you tutorial was amazing man we hope you show us more lessons in 3ds max

    and the most important is to take fun

  • Saad

    Please Also Put The BluePrint On Site With Tutorial Page Now In This Page There Is No BluePrints So How Can We Do The Practice With Out BluePrints Please Do The Full Things…

  • Paul

    This guy is unbearably slow in Photoshop. Who goes to Edit>Transform>Scale?? Just press CTRL + T