Links:Tutorials

Links

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Texturing & Making graphic

• HowTo:Make texture maps
• Interesting texture tutorial for ship hull - General
• Download a Texturing Tutorial
• Good tutorial on howto creating high details maps for ships - Photoshop
• Bare metal texturing tutorial
• Dos and Donts for Texturing
• Ship texturing tutorial - Anim8or
• Tutorials for Gimp
  • Gimp - Tutorials Pointer Page
  • How to make a texture pattern
  • GUG (Gimp User Group) Tutorials - Here is the rest of the Tuts listed below
    • Neon Scanlines
    • the Scott Effect
    • Marble
• Tutorials for Photoshop
  • Grid
  • Gateway Portal
  • Liquid Plasmid
  • Nebula
• Specific Tutorials
  • Fire
    • Realistic Fire - Photoshop
    • Fire animation - Blender
    • Flames animation - Blender
    • Thread about fire animation in the forum
    • Fire - Gimp
  • Lightning
    • Lightning - Photoshop
    • Lightning - Gimp
  • Metal
    • Metal - Gimp
    • Chrome pipes - Gimp
    • Rusty Textures ;-) - Gimp
    • Brushed Metal - Gimp - As used in Dualitys Howto.
    • The Metal Effect - Photoshop
  • Glow/Lights/Nebulas/...
    • HowTo:Add Engine Glow
    • Twirl Effect - Photoshop
    • http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html - by Greg Martin
• Eki's LW surfaces - Photoshop - See also [Eki's Homepage|http://www.kolumbus.fi/erkki.halkka/index.html]
• ap3d.com:BetterSpace
  • 09 Modelling Image Maps
  • 10 Painting Custom Image Maps
  • 11 Dirtying-Up and Adding Battle Damage

Modeling

• Making the canopy
• http://www.geocities.com/paulthepuzzles/aardvarks.html - Wings3D - tutorials, notes and general information - by PuzzledPaul
• Thread in the Wings3D CGTalk Forum - Wings3D
• another thread, from ezboard, with many tutors - Wings3D
• Many tutorials on creating ships, and some textures
• Modeling Tuts by Major
• VS-Forum -> "Ship Designing" - VS-Forum thread about how people design their ships.
• Comments about greebling by Staffan Norling = Adding detail to your models.
• ap3d.com:BetterSpace (double entry)
  • Beginners' Ship-Building Tutorial (part 1), (part 2), (part 3)
  • Adding Detail to Spaceships (Part1) , (Part2), (Part3)

Generating space backgrounds

• http://www.hades-studios.com/starfield (starfield)
• http://www.ap3d.com/betterspace/ (same, with a nebula)
• http://www.hi.is/~nonnib/3dtut22.htm (galaxy)
• http://www.hi.is/~nonnib/3d.htm (shockwave, nice for suns s with asteroids belts inbackgrounds)
• http://www.epicsoftware.com/3dinteractive/2m.htm (starfield with nebula)

Sound & Voices

• general advices on sound processing

Others

• Blender Handbook - Blender
• Panoramic Image Conversion with HDR Shop - HDR Shop - a tutorial howto make sphere/cubic maps
• Converting AC3D Files into OpenGL Source Code.
• Building VRML Worlds: Covert File Formats
• Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music - How numbers are used in (ancient) architectural structurs and more.

See also

• Links:Graphic Applications
• HowTo:Make texture maps