Often, creating a hard surface model can be a bit tedious as well as being unfamiliar and intimidating. To create a better workflow, one needs to know and understand the advantages of using as many shortcuts as possible so that one isn't spending an overly long amount of time creating meshes. A smart workflow can become your best friend as well as something you'll use throughout your career. Shortcut hotkeys are an integral component of working smart, not hard. Understanding metholodies helps you to understand when best to use shortcuts and how to use them effeciently. There are tools hidden in 3DS Max that help facilitate the speed at which you can model and the Dreadnought Modeling Series is designed to help you access them. Using such tools as symmetry can help the artist visual how the whole mesh is looking while literally only working on a single half of the model. Swift loop is another extremely handy tool to use to help easily add edgeloops into the meshes. By creating custom shortcut hotkeys that the artist designs for themselves is a boon to the workflow in creating a solid design and, ultimately, a proper mesh.

In this series of lessons, we'll talk about the topology of models. The topology or arrangement of edges plays an important role in modeling for several reasons.

Develop games using cutting-edge game design software and run them on a state-of-the-art 3D game engine. The Unreal Engine has won the “Best Game Engine” award several times from various organizations, including the Develop Industry Excellence Awards and Game Developer Magazine.

Java developers face many challenges: complex distributed systems, high expectations for responsiveness and performance, and more users and data than ever before. Reactive programming offers a solution.

Companies like Facebook, use React Native to create native mobile apps—with native performance—for a variety of platforms. You too can harness the power of React Native to build your own native projects, using javascript and the familiar React.js framework. This course provides a complete introduction, starting with using the React Native command-line interface (CLI) to create a new project.

In this update, we'll look at the important new features and enhancements added to V-Ray 3.5 and 3.6. This update covers the following features and enhancements:

The CINEMA 4D XPresso Course course covers the fundamentals of the XPresso Module of CINEMA 4D which is a node-based visual scripting language. This course covers XPresso Editor and different nodes under the XPresso and MoGraph classes and takes you step-by-step through the whole process of building node networks in XPresso Editor. Numerous examples are used to show the functioning of the nodes.

X-Particles 4 is a stellar addition to Cinema 4D, allowing artists to quickly and easily create finely rendered fluid simulations, dynamics, and collisions. This course gets you started with this powerful plugin. Join Andy Needham as he walks through the Emitter interface, and shows how to use modifiers to change the look and behavior of particles. Andy demonstrates how to create visible particles, make fluid and fire simulations, and render your work. He also covers additional ways to sculpt particles, and shares helpful tips for enhancing your workflow.

From swords to axes, fireballs to massive AOE attacks, players have come to expect a wide array of weapons and effects from their games. In this course, Swords and Shovels: Combat System, you will learn the skills you need to create and implement a scalable and extensible combat framework for use in your Unity games. First, you will explore the elements and history of combat in role playing games.