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just came across this..a compehensive (if probably a bit outdated) tutorial/tools/reference list.

http://www.jaquays.com/gameart/model_resources.html

Found a site with a lot of plane blueprints. There are far too few planes modelled! Not really tutorials, but I thought starting a thread for it would be stupid.


http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html

http://www.gmodcentral.com/mirror/akg/index(7).htm

The "creating a prop" video tut saved my life.
Shows modeling, uv maping, texturing, and exporting.

rewKe wrote:Superb collection there, just downloaded the first video from the weapon one and it said the file was corrupt

a bit of topic here but if ya get one of those ya can always try the video player of this site: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

anyways nice list and bookmarked it

updated with one new link, dead links removed.

thank you dude for the links!

Even more blueprints here:

http://www.the-blueprints.com/

Very good site.

I found an incredible weapon modeling tutorial that covers making a handgun model, texturing it, and animating it for use in a source game; I'm about halfway through it and it's fucking incredible, running you through everything. Here are some links:


Part 1:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/7665/mod ... ck-weapon/

Part 2:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/7833/cre ... or-source/

Part 3:
http://www.moddb.com/games/61/half-life ... rce-part-3

Highly recommended for anyone looking to learn or brush up on weapons modeling.

added:

Recovering Detailed NormalMaps from Photo Textures
The Power of the High Pass Filter
Photoshop Blending modes explained
Creating a Rope Texture
Tiling Complex Patterns

Added:

3DS Max Pelt Mapping

http://www.hull-breach.com/Talon/temp/n ... iniTut.jpg

A mini tutorial I wrote on creating height based normal maps.

Added ancient-pig's mesh deformation guide

Added: Normalmaps for the Technical Game Modeler by Ariel Chai

Added: Creating more accurate height-based normalmaps by James O'hare
(image linked from imageshack.us so it doesn't rape your bandwidth)

huhu.

the "iwannamap"-link is down

greetz
duke