Monday Movie #27: Placing Rivets

| www.MrBluesummers.com | In this Monday Movie I'll show you four techniques for placing rivets onto your models! We'll run the spectrum from hand-placing them, to using the spacing tool.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• 3dsMax
• 3d studio max
• modeling
• spacing tool
• align tool
• normal align
• rivets

[zaxthedax]

thanks for this tutorial, mr bluesummers :) got a question: what program/codec do u use for screen capturing? i got snagit but it cant record bigger resolution than 500x500 on divx :S

[GuyBluesummers]

I use CamStudio with their proprietary lossless codec. It's a free program that's...just so great. The only down-side, as you can tell, is that on Vista it borks the cursor.

[ncshuriken]

This is cool man, it tought me some cool new techniques. I just wish it was possible to do this kind of thing for game modelling (where it has to be 1 closed mesh with nothing intersecting). Things seem to so much more confusing when everything has to be a single object, and attaching them doesn't work cos you still get intersecting elements.

[lariat1997]

Thank you for your videos, they are very intuitive, which are GREAT for video tutorials.  Again, great job!

[MiranDMC]

Yeha! Place these tits everywhere :D

[KoeniggseggCCX]

Yeah!!! Very helpful man.

tnx a lot!!!!!

[RossHildick3D]

subscribed

[bassamradi52]

its really helpfull

thx alot

[bharatkumargupta]

thanks for the tut,pressing the shift key while converting poly selection to edge will only select the outline edges and not the interiors,also when u aligned the rivet to the cylinder using the align tool u can also align it left with respect to z and not just moving the rivet to penetrate it,

and there are lots of ways in which we can rivet the given object

hey if u please make tut on different rollout menus within the spacing tool,like the free centre and so on options,thats typical!

[robinmitra1]

Thanks man! ur tutes are practical n awesome

[zaxthedax]

thanks alot.

BTW the latest release doesnt screw the vista cursor for me. update if you feel like :)