3ds texturing tutorial

[keltos01]

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/texture_stealth/
quite well made !


http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/..._stealth/2.php

[keltos01]

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/unwrap_uvw_mapping/

[keltos01]

following the first tutorial on the page I have assigned 10 ids to my tower and basic colors as to be able to separate them visually :



now the hard part : texturing !

[keltos01]

it took a while but with patience and determination I got to replace all the plain colors by uvmapped textures...
here it is finally : the Jyunsen B coning tower textured:



now the hard one : the hull....

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

I find texturing in Lightwave so much easier that 3DS Max. I use Photoshop, Illustrator also. I'm using 3DS Max to model some u-boats and this may come in handy. I see you used triangulated your mesh. What type of smoothing method did you use- multi or super?

[keltos01]

I'm not all that good with 3ds, I followed the first tutorial to the letter...




btw how do you merge the tubes of the gato and another mesh ? I need them empty as well of course ! I pasted the tubes to the position where they should be on the JB boat, and now I'm stuck !!!