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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
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Cell Phone: Part 14 (texturing 3)

Christopher Tyler Jun, 18th 2013 0 Comments
This texturing component, which is geared towards beginners, shows how to take data from a Photoshop file and move it over to Design 3D, creating several materials which are stacked. It specifically looks at the Stencil channel. This is in preparation for the tutorial which shows how to create key overlays for the actual phone rendering.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Considering bitmap resolution when exporting to Collada

Christopher Tyler Jun, 11th 2013 0 Comments
This texturing tutorial shows an approach to maximizing bitmap resolution for objects that are going to be exported to Collada format (for use in something like Apple's iBook Author). This tutorial specifically shows how to work with an imposed bitmap resolution limit of 1024x1024 pixels.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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FUNDAMENTALS: Design 3D Basics for Users New to 3D

Christopher Tyler Jun, 6th 2013 3 Comments
This is a series of introductory lectures and tutorials for those new to 3D and Design3D version 7. Topics include the nature of X, Y, and Z axes, view manipulation, palettes, the nature of polygons, active grids, constraints, normals, the origin, working with cameras and lights and more.
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