It’s been a little under a month since my last post on 3D modeling. At the time, we had learned about primitives and some about subobjects. Since then, we have learned a lot more. After the blog post, we began learning about other modifiers besides the edit poly modifier. In one activity we used modifiers like the taper, noise and mesh smooth modifier to create mushrooms and rocks. The ultimate goal of the activity was to create a scene with mushrooms, flowers and rocks. The mushrooms and rocks weren’t hard to make, but the same cannot be said about the flowers. My first flower took a while, but the second one took even longer. For some reason, one pedal refused to work with the array tool. I thought it was problem with the program, and later the computer, but, after wasting a whole day, I found making a new pedal fixed the issue. This helped teach me how temperamental 3DS Max can be when being used on a computer that isn’t necessarily equipped to handle it.
After learning more about modifiers, we worked with splines a little. I found splines weren’t very difficult to work with, and weren’t very different from what we had done before. After splines, we began working with materials. It took me a little while to get the hang of the material editor. I was a little confused at first, but once I figured the material editor out, I was able to get the activities involving it done fairly quickly. In my last 3D modeling post I discussed how I had enjoyed 3D modeling though I wasn’t used to it. I have grown to enjoy it more and more as I have gotten more used to it and learned more about it.
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A few weeks ago, we began working with 3D modeling. We have been working in 3DS Max, a program that, until now, I was unfamiliar with. Before this class, my experience with 3-D modeling was fairly limited. I hadn't ever found it particularly interesting, and I wasn’t really looking forward to learning about it. My first creation was a simple snowman made of primitives. After that, I created another simple model with primitives, and then I began learning about modeling with subobjects. My first subobject model was simple- it was a rudimentary tank. I then moved on to more complex subobject models- a cartoon head and a spaceship. So far, I have enjoyed 3D modeling, though I have struggled a bit.The first problem I faced when using 3DS Max was getting used to the interface. It was the first non-Adobe program we have used this year. That, coupled with the fact that it is also the first 3D program we are using this year, the interface is very different from anything I have used before. It took a few days to get used to it, and I still have a lot to learn. A lot of the problems I have had come from a lack of experience with the controls. While I don’t tend to make a lot of mistakes, when I do, I generally have trouble fixing them. I tend to struggle with finding out what I’ve done wrong, and often have to go back several steps to fix my model. Still, it isn’t very problematic on the whole, and now I have adapted pretty well to the new program.
While I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it, I have enjoyed what I’ve done with 3D modeling. I look forward to doing more in the future.
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