WTF BARETTA 9000?!

[FreedomFighter7]

I just, finally, tried downloading the Baretta 9000 modeling tutorial and its not working. The first video, really ticked me off, made me load like 5 different pages and jump through a bunch of hoops to get to just the fucking file. Its 5.7 mbs in total size, and it downloaded in less than a minute. My connection is never that fast!! I tried opening it in winRAR and it says that the archive is either in an unknown format or damaged!!

WTF is wrong!! I tried another file some time ago from that tutorial and got a broken link! Can someone link me to proper download? I'm a bit wary of watching a 4 hour video, which has put me off for trying it for months now, the one try when the link was broken didn't help and I've only now just tried to download it.

[Rob Oplawar]

this kid is going places

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Snaf will probably have an orgasm when he sees this thread.

[annihilation]

If you want I can upload it to 4shared or make it a torrent if you want.
You're also going to need better codecs if you havn't already.

[SnaFuBAR]

PM me your AIM. If I've got the original video intact, I'll send it to you, short of that I'll just teach you myself.

E: i don't have the video but explaining how to do what's in the video is relatively simple. PM me your aim sn and i'll teach you soon.

E2: i'll also teach you a better setup than the video tut.

E3: seriously i won't flame you don't be scared.

[Llama Juice]

Hey snaf, why the fuck weren't you this open to helping noobs when I started modeling? :P

[SnaFuBAR]

lol

[Corndogman]

Woah, am I reading this right? lol.

[FreedomFighter7]

Thx for the offer Snaf, but I don't have 3ds max, I have Blender. I was thinking I would learn some general stuff from the video that might be cross program. I don't have Aim either, I have Xfire.

[Gwunty]

that was not a good idea bro

[Dwood]

I've uploaded the first movie to Youtube

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[DEElekgolo]

sup (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16796)

[legionaire45]

I think I posted it somewhere in the studio resources thread itself - it was on filefront and I think there was a copy hosted on moddb as well.

Also @ Lllama - Snaf was that helpful, you just had to AIM him.

Most people tend to be.

[t3h m00kz]

Thx for the offer Snaf, but I don't have 3ds max, I have Blender.

blender's the shit as far as free 3D programs go, did my first modeling in that program because it was the only one I knew of at the time that was compatible with Quake, though I'm sure Max is too. Modeled a pretty low-poly M6D and imported it in. So satisfying when I got it in.

If you want to stick with free programs though, there's GMax, it's basically a 3DS Max clone. Though, if you're wanting to stick with Blender there's no problem with that either, to each their own.

[FreedomFighter7]

Yep, Blender is a great program! I might want to make mods and model nice, so I might get max. Gmax was the first modeling program that I used and made models with. I did what ever newbie does when he doesn't know much about modeling, I arranged primitives. I made a pretty ugly Mech that I drew with planes. I just rotated and placed to form the faces of the Mech.

This story amuses me these days. I don't like Gmax, it takes way to long to model something. There are no hotkeys, and using the mouse for everything is annoying, time consuming, and exhausting. Not to mention the various problems with how you model with it. Is 3ds max any different?

I get soooooooo bored of modeling. I want to learn how to texture, draw, and paint in a computer (photoshop, Gimp (what I have), paintshop pro, etc.) that seems like it might be more fun. I used to love modeling but I just don't find any pleasure in it anymore. Same with drawing, I'm never happy with what I've drawn and I can't imagine anything to draw. I'm so jealous of other people's drawings and wonder why I can't perform that well. I can draw almost any shape, the real challenge is seeing it in my mind.

That racer445 tutorial doesn't show video when I run it, just audio. Do I need a codec?

PS: you guys are really helpful!

[kid908]

Yep, Blender is a great program! I might want to make mods and model nice, so I might get max. Gmax was the first modeling program that I used and made models with. I did what ever newbie does when he doesn't know much about modeling, I arranged primitives. I made a pretty ugly Mech that I drew with planes. I just rotated and placed to form the faces of the Mech.

This story amuses me these days. I don't like Gmax, it takes way to long to model something. There are no hotkeys, and using the mouse for everything is annoying, time consuming, and exhausting. Not to mention the various problems with how you model with it. Is 3ds max any different?

I get soooooooo bored of modeling. I want to learn how to texture, draw, and paint in a computer (photoshop, Gimp (what I have), paintshop pro, etc.) that seems like it might be more fun. I used to love modeling but I just don't find any pleasure in it anymore. Same with drawing, I'm never happy with what I've drawn and I can't imagine anything to draw. I'm so jealous of other people's drawings and wonder why I can't perform that well. I can draw almost any shape, the real challenge is seeing it in my mind.

That racer445 tutorial doesn't show video when I run it, just audio. Do I need a codec?

PS: you guys are really helpful!

Yes everyone starts off like that. It's pretty much fundamental to learning basic skills. The other one I've come across is creating predefine library of lego blocks and using the duplicate tool, rearrange them into models.

Modeling shouldn't be a rushed job, it should be properly done, like any other form of art. There are hotkeys, you just don't set them. Every hotkey in 3ds max and gmax are user defined. There are some pre-programmed hotkeys (not many), but you can change those any time. Modeling should be time consuming and a mouse is the best tool you can have in a 3d modeling program. You should always have 1 hand on the keyboard and one hand on a tablet or mouse. You only get problems if you do it incorrectly. Most of the stuff you see here are done in 3ds max, this is a hint that 3dsm and gmax are the same. Gmax was the free version of max 3? (I think it was that version). Autodesk no longer support it, but turbosquid picked it up. Gmax is Exactly the same as 3ds max, but 3ds max is not the same as Gmax. Gmax lacks an intergrated render engine, and several tools of 3dsmax, but for game mod development purposes, it works fine.

You lack inspiration. That's all I can say. Get out more. Draw your inspiration from what you like and nature.

Yes you need either divX or Xvid (I forgot which one it uses), but get both. You'll most likely need them down the road.


E: Modeling projects can take anywhere from a few hours to several years (depending on if you're by yourself or on a team, level of detail of the model, time per week spent on the project, and procrastination)

[Corndogman]

Get the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) and that should have all the codecs you'll ever need for most things.

[Ganon]

VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)