Thank you for linking me to this tutorial. This is the information I was looking for! Great information, clearly explained for a beginner. Good job! I look forward to as many of your tutorial videos as you will release. You really make learning 3ds Max a lot easier.
Wish I could. Don't have access to Max anymore. Somebody from Autodesk actually contacted me and offered to give me free access to the software so I could make more videos, but about halfway through the process I just got a bunch of dead air :( Max is just so expensive, I can't justify spending the money just to make tutorials. Getting a license and making more videos is one of my Patreon goals, but it's far off
I could understand if he just didn't teach the shortcuts, but if he truly didn't know them then I would doubt he has ever professionally worked in the software (which is scary if he is teaching a Uni class). Other than that, I'm glad I could help :)
@@ZachHixsonTutorials He is really bad at explaining stuff, he always expects you to know everything. The shortcuts I am talking about are the camera ones, he always uses the buttons on the bottom right corner to move the camera. My colleges think he knows what hes doing but he probably used a different program before. He indeed does amazing models in just a couple of minutes , so I suppose he knows what he is doing.
@@ContasYT Yeah, sometimes teachers come from different backgrounds and when they become a professor they are suddenly forced to teach outside their comfort zone. I've had a few fantastic teachers that found themselves in similar situations.
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Honestly from someone like me who came from a different country without any background in 3D modeling, it has been a real pain to deal with his personality and the way he talks to everyone.
@@ContasYT Yeah, that's just Uni man. In a similar class myself where the teacher is probably the worst I've ever had by far, but not really much you can do. On the right path tho, looking elsewhere and teaching yourself what they can't. All you can really do at this point I guess
Not exactly what I meant, but the cube was a bad example. I was referring to more complex shapes such as toruses, stairs, UV/Icospheres (changing the segments after the fact), and similar objects, where it's more difficult to change things later on.
Great video bruh, just started using 3D max and your tutorials where easy enough to understand. One thing tho, is that the latest 3D max your using cos mine seems different to yours.
No, it's the 2016 version. I haven't used 3ds max in about a year. Are the differences anything major? I may be working with Autodesk soon to make more videos in the newest version.
Software like 3DS max, Maya, Modo, C4D, and Blender are great for modeling pretty much anything you can imagine! The only situation in which one of these programs would not work would be if you needed something physically accurate to the real world with very precise measurements like 3D printing parts, or designing something for physical manufacturing, instead I would recommend software like Autodesk Inventor, or SolidWorkds
Hey nice tut. but for the record blender totally does have the features you mentioned around 4:30. If you have an object (Say a cube) press 'n' to open the transform panel then you can change the objects dimensions under the dimensions subheading.
+Ducenarius I already had this discussion with somebody else. Please correct me if I am wrong (I really wish I was wrong), but while you can technically edit things like width and scale, what I was mainly focused on was other parameters like subdivisions, and special controls such as stair count. I admit, immediately using a cube to demonstrate this was not the best idea lol, but I tried to also demonstrate it on the stairs and torus knot.
+Zach Hixson i'm switching to 3ds from blender.. mainly because i'm autocad user and i don't like blender's "special" logic regarding navigation and selection.. also python.. but from what i have seen, you can do non destructive modifications in blender using modifiers.. but yeah.. 3ds works better for me..
anis shmith it makes sense, so much about 3D modeling is a feel thing, but what's wrong with blender using python? I've been a blender user for close to 6 years now and have never come across the need to use it. (I have used it, but never NEEDED to).
4:08 is incorrect. I have used Blender for years and it has always been perfectly capable of changing object dimensions once the object has been created. There is no such thing as objects being automatically 'locked' to dimensions. It is normally one of the first things taught in tutorials. I understand if you personally think that 3ds max is better than Blender, but it isn't right to criticise a donation-based foundation of things that are completely untrue. You can't expect free and open source software to match up to a $1500 piece of software made by many highly trained and skilled people.
Not exactly, with blender you can still control scale and rotation (Like you said) but if you where to place down an object like a torus, click off, move it around, then click back on and try to change the number of loops etc you'd be unable to with the N menu. You'd still be able to control scale and rotation sure. Objects within 3ds stay 'editable' until you click 'make mesh' or something along those lines.
I think this is talking about a number of vertices to an object or the dimensions of an object All I can think of is if you create a circle and say that you want it to be created from 30 points it will lock the object to this if you un-select the object. Otherwise, it might be mentioning the fact blender only stretches the object and its faces through scaling instead of adding new faces while changing the dimension of the shape.
@@hydraulichydra8363 blender user here also. We can't decide which program is the best but back to the main topic, in Blender if you click off the torus then some of the torus's properties won't be editable anymore. Still, blender fit me better than 3ds max. But who knows right? Many even learn Ps and Maya Blender 3DS Max and C4D at once for their final product so here I am today! Just stop arguing about "which is the best" like what those kids did with Fortnite and Pubg, just pls, be mature a little bit.
Hi Zach; my name is Mike Maxson and I teach 3D Computer Modeling and Animation in High School here in North Carolina. I love your tutorial videos, they are really well done and done in a way that my High School kids understand better than any of the commercial stuff out there. Do you have your 3ds Max Basics Pt. 2? I don't see it in your video list.
Michael Maxson I did, I just didn't label it part 2 for some reason. The link is in the description. It's always really cool hearing that my videos are being used to teach people :)
I'm trying to learn how to use 3Ds max and this video has been very helpful to understand the program, will you be posting anything new about 3ds soon? Is it possible for you to make a car modeling tutorial?
I would love to make more 3ds max tutorials, however I no longer have access to max. Autodesk contacted me a few months back to try and get me access to make more content, but about halfway through the process it just switched to dead air :(
Wow, that's sad to hear, your tutorials are the best I have found yet on the internet. Hopefully you'll get to be able to use 3DS Max soon, it looks like a great program!
Hey one question, my screen just stopped showing all of the views, they literally look like an empty space, I tried closing and opening the app but it doesn't work for some reason. Is it an issue that can be solved or did I just screw up everything?
lol, it came from when I used to share a family computer. As a programmer I programmed a few... interesting programs that I didn't want anyone to accidentally run and screw up our computer. Overtime it just kind of became the folder where I stuff all my programming projects, and when I got my own computer, I just copied it over. There are actually 4 sub folders "Folder of Death" > "Do not Open!!!" > "Seriously, I swear it's not porn" > "Just ask me and Ill show you" > and "Don't Click On anything!" XD
Thank you. I have a basic question, is there a way to type in parameters like lenght, height etc. for an object ( in this case a box) before or while creating an object? Otherwise it seems like a double work for me, first, I have to create an object and then edit dimensions?
So i have 4D, Maya, 3ds and Hudini. What one i should use. My personal reason for all those programs is to choose between movie 3D scene creation and game makeing for future. But now i would like to mostly Make Realistlic wall destruction. Explosions, House collapses, plane crashes and etc. What can you advise about that?
If you are doing a lot of simulation effects, definitely go Houdini. Pretty much all 3D software can achieve realistic models, but Houdini is the only one out of all of those that comes with a ton of great simulation tools for what you want (however while the Mantra render is good, I would still get another renderer like Vray later on). It's also tons cheaper than any of the other software. Free for learning (some restrictions), $75 for educational (less restrictions, but still restrictive), and $299 for indie licence (fully featured, but only if you make less than $100k a year using the software).
I got a question - I know that Cinema 4D, when you're rotating an object, you can hold Shift, which makes the object rotate every 10 degrees ( 10,20,30,ect.) Is there a similar hotkey in Max?
In 3ds max it is called "Angle snap" and it is a toggle button on the top of the screen (looks like a red magnet with an angle next to it). You can also turn it on and off by pressing "A" by default, as well as right-clicking on the button to set the snap settings
Perhaps I didn't phrase it as clearly as I should have. In 3DS Max a primitive such as a torus can be adjusted parematically until it is converted to a mesh. In Blender such an object can only be adjusted until it is deselected or moved, in which case it is converted to a mesh and no longer adjustable
+J Morgan I actually really like blender, and will use it over 3ds max any day. Actually, the only reason I open 3ds is to learn it in order to make tutorials.
cool. yeah I'm actually between switching between 3ds max, maya and blender. I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of blender. But Max and Maya look to be the route to go down if I want a job.
+Zach Hixson I agree, as I said in another comment, personally I think they both have their good and bad features, I tend to swap between them depending on what I want from a project because there are some things Blender does really well and there are some things Max does well. Also, although most companies will look for experience and qualifications with Max, there's quite a few companies switching over to modified versions of Blender now, especially in the advertising market, there's a lot of TV advert animations out there that were done in Blender now.
haunteddiary I used to be 100% against using max, as more of a principle thing, but since I got it for free through my old teacher, I have recently started to like it more, especially when it comes to hard surface modeling
Thank you for linking me to this tutorial. This is the information I was looking for! Great information, clearly explained for a beginner. Good job! I look forward to as many of your tutorial videos as you will release. You really make learning 3ds Max a lot easier.
Very good, clear, concise and insightful content delivered at an excellent pace. Well done.
Best timing ever! I just got 3DS Max.
+Spy_Guy13 Part 2 should be up next week, so stay tuned
Hey man, great work with the video! You really helped a new beginner today, thanks!
Great video man, you explain everything so well
Thank you so much for this video. Please continue making tutorials, you're an awesome teacher
Wish I could. Don't have access to Max anymore. Somebody from Autodesk actually contacted me and offered to give me free access to the software so I could make more videos, but about halfway through the process I just got a bunch of dead air :(
Max is just so expensive, I can't justify spending the money just to make tutorials. Getting a license and making more videos is one of my Patreon goals, but it's far off
This is my first time seeing your video and I already love also I'm gonna learn 3ds max just from you
Cool! I hope you really enjoy the only 2 other 3DS Max videos I have on my channel :)
Great tutorials. Thanks!
very informative . I like this stuff!
Thank You, this was a very good intro to the interface.
You helped me more with this 15 minute video than my professor at uni during almost 3 months. He doesn't even know the shortcuts...
I could understand if he just didn't teach the shortcuts, but if he truly didn't know them then I would doubt he has ever professionally worked in the software (which is scary if he is teaching a Uni class).
Other than that, I'm glad I could help :)
@@ZachHixsonTutorials He is really bad at explaining stuff, he always expects you to know everything. The shortcuts I am talking about are the camera ones, he always uses the buttons on the bottom right corner to move the camera. My colleges think he knows what hes doing but he probably used a different program before. He indeed does amazing models in just a couple of minutes , so I suppose he knows what he is doing.
@@ContasYT Yeah, sometimes teachers come from different backgrounds and when they become a professor they are suddenly forced to teach outside their comfort zone. I've had a few fantastic teachers that found themselves in similar situations.
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Honestly from someone like me who came from a different country without any background in 3D modeling, it has been a real pain to deal with his personality and the way he talks to everyone.
@@ContasYT Yeah, that's just Uni man. In a similar class myself where the teacher is probably the worst I've ever had by far, but not really much you can do.
On the right path tho, looking elsewhere and teaching yourself what they can't. All you can really do at this point I guess
nice, clear and helpful tutorial! thumbs up!
Very helpful for a beginner :D helped me a lot already
that was really nice!
Awesome dude, please upload more 3ds tutorials!
Working on a large blender series ATM, but I plan on doing a lot of 3ds videos after I finish
Blender definitely has that feature, just press tab to go into the edit mode, then you can select vertices and change the width and such.
Not exactly what I meant, but the cube was a bad example. I was referring to more complex shapes such as toruses, stairs, UV/Icospheres (changing the segments after the fact), and similar objects, where it's more difficult to change things later on.
Great video bruh, just started using 3D max and your tutorials where easy enough to understand. One thing tho, is that the latest 3D max your using cos mine seems different to yours.
No, it's the 2016 version. I haven't used 3ds max in about a year. Are the differences anything major? I may be working with Autodesk soon to make more videos in the newest version.
Yeah there is few minor difference, I'm using the 2017 version
Great tutorial. Cheers.
nice video! this helped me alot
Great video man! btw what kind microphone do you use for recording?
Glad you found it helpful. I use an AT2020 USB, however I was thinking about switching to the XLR version as I need a mixer anyways.
Very helpful!! Thanks a lot..
Can you tell is this good software for car modeling?
Software like 3DS max, Maya, Modo, C4D, and Blender are great for modeling pretty much anything you can imagine!
The only situation in which one of these programs would not work would be if you needed something physically accurate to the real world with very precise measurements like 3D printing parts, or designing something for physical manufacturing, instead I would recommend software like Autodesk Inventor, or SolidWorkds
thank you very much!!
Hey nice tut. but for the record blender totally does have the features you mentioned around 4:30. If you have an object (Say a cube) press 'n' to open the transform panel then you can change the objects dimensions under the dimensions subheading.
+Ducenarius I already had this discussion with somebody else. Please correct me if I am wrong (I really wish I was wrong), but while you can technically edit things like width and scale, what I was mainly focused on was other parameters like subdivisions, and special controls such as stair count. I admit, immediately using a cube to demonstrate this was not the best idea lol, but I tried to also demonstrate it on the stairs and torus knot.
+Zach Hixson i'm switching to 3ds from blender.. mainly because i'm autocad user and i don't like blender's "special" logic regarding navigation and selection.. also python..
but from what i have seen, you can do non destructive modifications in blender using modifiers..
but yeah.. 3ds works better for me..
anis shmith it makes sense, so much about 3D modeling is a feel thing, but what's wrong with blender using python? I've been a blender user for close to 6 years now and have never come across the need to use it. (I have used it, but never NEEDED to).
4:08 is incorrect. I have used Blender for years and it has always been perfectly capable of changing object dimensions once the object has been created. There is no such thing as objects being automatically 'locked' to dimensions. It is normally one of the first things taught in tutorials. I understand if you personally think that 3ds max is better than Blender, but it isn't right to criticise a donation-based foundation of things that are completely untrue. You can't expect free and open source software to match up to a $1500 piece of software made by many highly trained and skilled people.
Not exactly, with blender you can still control scale and rotation (Like you said) but if you where to place down an object like a torus, click off, move it around, then click back on and try to change the number of loops etc you'd be unable to with the N menu. You'd still be able to control scale and rotation sure.
Objects within 3ds stay 'editable' until you click 'make mesh' or something along those lines.
I think this is talking about a number of vertices to an object or the dimensions of an object All I can think of is if you create a circle and say that you want it to be created from 30 points it will lock the object to this if you un-select the object. Otherwise, it might be mentioning the fact blender only stretches the object and its faces through scaling instead of adding new faces while changing the dimension of the shape.
Exactly, I used a horrible example in the video, should have done it for the steps or the torus knot instead of a dumb cube :/
Lol Blender beats the hell out of 3ds max wtf
@@hydraulichydra8363 blender user here also. We can't decide which program is the best but back to the main topic, in Blender if you click off the torus then some of the torus's properties won't be editable anymore. Still, blender fit me better than 3ds max. But who knows right? Many even learn Ps and Maya Blender 3DS Max and C4D at once for their final product so here I am today! Just stop arguing about "which is the best" like what those kids did with Fortnite and Pubg, just pls, be mature a little bit.
Hi Zach; my name is Mike Maxson and I teach 3D Computer Modeling and Animation in High School here in North Carolina. I love your tutorial videos, they are really well done and done in a way that my High School kids understand better than any of the commercial stuff out there. Do you have your 3ds Max Basics Pt. 2? I don't see it in your video list.
Michael Maxson I did, I just didn't label it part 2 for some reason. The link is in the description.
It's always really cool hearing that my videos are being used to teach people :)
Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, I didn't see that in the comments. Even at 47 I'm getting old and I need you young guys around to help me out.
I'm trying to learn how to use 3Ds max and this video has been very helpful to understand the program, will you be posting anything new about 3ds soon? Is it possible for you to make a car modeling tutorial?
I would love to make more 3ds max tutorials, however I no longer have access to max. Autodesk contacted me a few months back to try and get me access to make more content, but about halfway through the process it just switched to dead air :(
Wow, that's sad to hear, your tutorials are the best I have found yet on the internet. Hopefully you'll get to be able to use 3DS Max soon, it looks like a great program!
It's one of my Patreon goals, so hopefully it will be reached at some point
Hey one question, my screen just stopped showing all of the views, they literally look like an empty space, I tried closing and opening the app but it doesn't work for some reason. Is it an issue that can be solved or did I just screw up everything?
By "Empty Space" do you mean they are 100% blank, or can you still see the grid and viewcube?
Very nice video but I have one question: What's the "Folder of Death"? xD
lol, it came from when I used to share a family computer. As a programmer I programmed a few... interesting programs that I didn't want anyone to accidentally run and screw up our computer. Overtime it just kind of became the folder where I stuff all my programming projects, and when I got my own computer, I just copied it over.
There are actually 4 sub folders "Folder of Death" > "Do not Open!!!" > "Seriously, I swear it's not porn" > "Just ask me and Ill show you" > and "Don't Click On anything!" XD
I instantly assumed it was a porn folder xD But I like the idea of naming a folder "folder of death". xD
Keep up the good work! Loving your tutorials!
Thank you. I have a basic question, is there a way to type in parameters like lenght, height etc. for an object ( in this case a box) before or while creating an object? Otherwise it seems like a double work for me, first, I have to create an object and then edit dimensions?
As far as I know you can't do it before, however you can afterwords by altering the properties in the modify tab (I show this at 3:45)
THANKS A LOT, REALLY.
So i have 4D, Maya, 3ds and Hudini. What one i should use. My personal reason for all those programs is to choose between movie 3D scene creation and game makeing for future. But now i would like to mostly Make Realistlic wall destruction. Explosions, House collapses, plane crashes and etc. What can you advise about that?
If you are doing a lot of simulation effects, definitely go Houdini.
Pretty much all 3D software can achieve realistic models, but Houdini is the only one out of all of those that comes with a ton of great simulation tools for what you want (however while the Mantra render is good, I would still get another renderer like Vray later on).
It's also tons cheaper than any of the other software. Free for learning (some restrictions), $75 for educational (less restrictions, but still restrictive), and $299 for indie licence (fully featured, but only if you make less than $100k a year using the software).
I got a question - I know that Cinema 4D, when you're rotating an object, you can hold Shift, which makes the object rotate every 10 degrees ( 10,20,30,ect.) Is there a similar hotkey in Max?
In 3ds max it is called "Angle snap" and it is a toggle button on the top of the screen (looks like a red magnet with an angle next to it).
You can also turn it on and off by pressing "A" by default, as well as right-clicking on the button to set the snap settings
4:08 there are SOME things which are not changeable. However, there are very easy workarounds. Also dimensions are not one of them.
When you say they are "not changeable," do you mean that they are grayed out, or missing all together?
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Notice me senpai!!
With blender you are fully capable of editing any shape or mesh you create. At no point does it become "locked"
Perhaps I didn't phrase it as clearly as I should have. In 3DS Max a primitive such as a torus can be adjusted parematically until it is converted to a mesh. In Blender such an object can only be adjusted until it is deselected or moved, in which case it is converted to a mesh and no longer adjustable
thnx
lol 4:07.. I guess you dont like blender?
great tutorial!
+J Morgan I actually really like blender, and will use it over 3ds max any day. Actually, the only reason I open 3ds is to learn it in order to make tutorials.
cool.
yeah I'm actually between switching between 3ds max, maya and blender.
I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of blender.
But Max and Maya look to be the route to go down if I want a job.
J Morgan Yeah, definitely if you want a job in the industry, however in the meantime if you want a job doing freelance blender is the way to go
+Zach Hixson I agree, as I said in another comment, personally I think they both have their good and bad features, I tend to swap between them depending on what I want from a project because there are some things Blender does really well and there are some things Max does well. Also, although most companies will look for experience and qualifications with Max, there's quite a few companies switching over to modified versions of Blender now, especially in the advertising market, there's a lot of TV advert animations out there that were done in Blender now.
haunteddiary I used to be 100% against using max, as more of a principle thing, but since I got it for free through my old teacher, I have recently started to like it more, especially when it comes to hard surface modeling
dude, scaling is in blender, do your research