3D Artist #35 Online Supplement

3D Artist magazine issue #35 Online Supplement

Published January, 1999, 28 pages.
Issue status: 3DA#35 went to press in January and mailed on 16 February. It will be in some North American outlets until mid-May, later overseas. [Order This Issue!]
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Cover The cover image is by Steve Sherer of Sherer Digital Animation, Inc. using 3D Studio Max r2.5 based on a model begun with 3DS r4 for DOS. This is his fifth cover for 3D Artist. In his full Cover Story, the artist stresses his use of low-polygon-count modeling, and tells about the process of texture mapping his Abraham Lincoln figure.

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3D for Historical Re-Creation

	12	Cover Story by Steve Sherer	Info about how Abraham Lincoln on this issue's cover was modeled and mapped. (0.92 page)

	12	Re-creating Historical Aircraft by Michael Ash	Using book and plastic model resources together to create your own original 3D aircraft models in LightWave, with some pointers about background reference images. (1.34 pages)

	14	Re-creating an Undersea Rescue by Rick Fernandes	Showing how the U.S. submarine Squalus sank in 1939, and how most of its crew was saved in the first-ever rescue of its kind, demonstrated with trueSpace 2 for the Discovery Channel. (2 pages)

	16	Proportional Modeling by Rick Fernandes	An easy way to work from old drawings and blueprints to get models that are proportionally correct, shown using trueSpace and CorelDraw to re-create the Andrea Doria sinking for the Discovery Channel. (0.6 page)

	16	Further Submarine Accident Re-creations by Rick Fernandes	A note about the author's nuclear submarine accident re-creations done with trueSpace 4 for the Discovery Channel's "On The Inside" series. (0.4 page)
Great Variety of How-To's

	4	3D Lashing, A by Barbara Del Duco	Threading laces and making an ersatz knot in RDS 5. (0.5 page)

	6	TrueSpace Facial Animation by Jon Winchester	Morphing comes to trueSpace 4 with the Space Time Morph plug-in. (1.14 pages)

	8	LightWave Bones by Mitch Butler	How to get control over LightWave bones' area of influence. (1 page)

	10	HyperVoxels: Fun with blobs by David Hopkins	How to use LightWave HyperVoxels to do a flying logo. (2 pages)

	17	Modeling Clothing by Mike Caputo	How to clothe a figure in AM98. (1 page)

	20	Vizaneering by Gary Dohanish	A major collection of tips for, and observations about, 3DS Viz r2, with a focus on AEC useage. (1.7 pages) See Errata.

	21	3DS Viz Add-Ons by Gary Dohanish	3DS Max and Viz plug-ins RealPeople (2D people and tree stand-ins that almost act 3D) and SmoothMove Panorama (VR camera). (0.7 page)

	22	Working with RealPeople by Doug King	How to get better tree shadows, and how to go about creating your own RealPeople stand-in objects, but watch those vertical camera moves. (0.5 page)

	23	Three Books for 3DS Max r2 by Doug King	Reviews of Teach Yourself 3D Studio in 14 Days, 3D Studio Max Applied Release 2.0, and 3D Studio Max 2 Effects Magic. (0.5 page) See Errata.

	24	Smoke & Clouds by Aaron Shi	When the author needed to create smoke that both casts and receives shadows, the PyroCluster 3DS Max Environoment and Post plug-in proved to be the answer. (0.6 page)

	24	Cheap Tricks by Trevor H. Booth	Some workable free solutions for skeletal deformation and working with bipeds in 3DS Max r2+ without Character Studio or BonesPro. (0.7 page)

	28	Unwrap Unwrapped by Eun Kyeong Anna Hennequet	A great basic technique for texture creation for 3DS Max r1 and r2 using the free Unwrap plug-in, especially useful for painting human faces. (1 page) This article also pertains to 3DS DOS. See Errata.
Re:Poser A section of tips for storytellers learning to work with Poser 3+.

	18	Poser Park by Donald Schnader	Why and how to break up Poser 3 animations into multiple segments, each with its own file, to create longer, more complex stories. (1 page) [supplement]

	19	Poser Parts by Cecilia Ziemer	Some notes about using Organica, RDS, and 3DS Max, as well as Poser itself for modeling, and especially pointing out the importance of the free PHI Builder utility. (0.65 page) See Errata.

	19	Ballzac al 'shroom by Cecilia Ziemer	Practicing elementary Poser figure creation and manipulation, demonstrated with a Wonderlandish scene consisting of a mushroom, hookah, and caterpillar that all begin as simple ballzacs. (0.34 page)
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Errata & additional info:
Page 19: (1) There is a mistake in Roy Rigg's URL, and, depending on your ISP, you may need to use a fuller URL, anyway: personalweb.edge.net/~fur/. (2) The reference to the Poser updater should be to Poser 3.0.1, not 3.1.
Page 21: The update Kinetix has posted that may fix a big problem with 3DS Viz r2 is a DLL for walls; however, it is not the wall.dll, but rather the amodeler.dll.
Page 23: (1) The URL in the Certified Training Services ad is missing ".com." When we checked it on 14 March, we found that the correct URL wasn't working either, that the www.3dviz.com site is down for overhaul. For now, you can call 248/488-0588 or E-mail to <aerodata@3dviz.com>. (2) There is a mistake in the conclusion of the review of Advanstar's 3D Studio Max Applied Release 2.0 book, which the author reviewed favorably but denounced for coming with a CD-ROM that he thought required an authorization code to access. That criticism should have been replaced instead with this editor's comment: The book purchaser may be misled to believe that the accompanying CD-ROM can be accessed only by first getting an authorization code from Advanstar. The book's files are actually fully accessable and authorization is only needed to get at ten additional tutorials on that CD. The reviewer and 3D Artist apologize for taking the CD's instructions literally and so missing this major point.
Page 28: The article about the Unwrap plug-in for 3DS Max r1 and r2 also is useful for 3DS DOS, as there is an IPAS version that can be downloaded from Peter Watje's site at www.max3dstuff.com/ipas.html.

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