9/30 IMD I - Animation and Linking in 3DS Max

Story time (juice box not included)

Basic Animation in 3D Studio Max

1. One second of time is divided into how many steps?

2. What are these steps called?

3. What button turns on the animation feature of 3DS max?

4. What are the three steps for basic animation in 3DS max?

5. What are the dots called that are created on the timeline?

6. Can you move and delete the dots on the timeline?

7. Is the preview real time?

8. How do you add more frames to your animation?

9. How do you display a selected area of your timeline?

10. How do you open the curve editor?

11. What is the curve editor?

12. how do you adjust keyframes?

13. How do you unlink Bezier handles?

Basic Hierarchical Linking

14. What does hierarchical mean?

15. How do you change the pivot point for a shape or group?

16. How do you link two shapes together?

9-29 IMD I - Packet work DUE TODAY!

It's good to be back!

1. Please prepeare the work you completed while I was gone. Render the following images:

Gear ( last_first_gear.jpg )

tbar (the other shape on the gear page) ( last_first_tbar.jpg )

2 views of the castle shapes ( last_first_cs1.jpg , last_first_cs2.jpg )

4 views of your "on your own" assignment ( last_first_oyo1.jpg, last_first_oyo2.jpg, ...)

This is a total of 8 rendered images

Save as the file names above and copy and paste to students/dropbox/imdI/ss2

Please refer to your previous notes on how to render and copy paste files to dropbox

9/24 – 9/26 IMD I Construction time again!

1. Model the sample shapes from the packet, work on one page each day so they are complete for Monday. Save your work!

(sample files are saved in students/public/fitzer/IMD1/subplan.ppt)

2. Choose one of the following “on your own” assignments.

Castle Redux – You’ve learned powerful new tools to build a powerful new castle. Build a new fortress and add textures (flickr.com is a great place to look for stone walls and other cool materials)

CityScape – Build a city from an existing skyline or create one from your imagination. You’ll need to create quite a few buildings to make it look good! Try creating your own textures. What type of structures will we find in your city, office buildings, apartment buildings, parking garages, houses, etc.

9/22 IMD I – Bitmap Textures and Raytraced Reflection

Construct the picture frame

1. What does the polygon sub object button look like?

2. What does the ignore backfacing option do?

3. What is the difference between moving and extruding selected polygons?

Creating a bitmap texture

4. What do you select to add a bitmap texture to material?

5. Describe the steps to make a bitmap texture

UVW map

6. What is a UVW map

7. How do you apply a UVW map to a shape?

Raytraced Reflection

8. Describe the steps for adding a raytraced reflection to a material

9/19 IMD I – MAX QUIZ and Basic Texture

Max QUIZ – I hope you studied!

Basic Textures Lecture

Now that we’ve learned how to create simple shapes in max it’s time to add some simple texture.

73. How do you open the material editor?

74. What is ambient light?

75. What is diffuse light?

76. What is specular light?

77. How do you control the color of a texture?

78. How do you make a texture transparent?

79. How do you make a texture faceted (like a disco ball)

80. How do you make a texture wire frame (there are 2 steps to this question)

81. How do you make a texture self luminous?

82. How do you make a texture look shinny and reflective?

83. What are two ways to attach a material to an object?

3rd hour: Save a copy of your SRC project and add simple textures render a descriptive view and save in your folder. If you have time try building creating different versions with different color schemes.

9/18 IMD I – Cameras and Rendering Continued

Use the information from yesterday to render 4 camera views of your model

Use Photoshop to combine the images in a 1024x768 image add your name in the corner.

This project is due today.

Submitting your work:

Save a copy of your photoshop file as a jpeg

Name the file lastname_firstname.jpg
Example fitzer_franz.jpg

copy and paste the file to students/dropbox/fitzer/IMDI/SRC


open my computer icon on the desktop

drop the top dialog box and select you login folder right click on the file and select copy

drop the top dialog box again and select the student drive and the appropriate drop box file.

9/12 IMD I - SRC and Internet History

Continue with your SRC project.

Answer the following questions from the three videos in class:

1. How long has the internet been in existence?

2. When was radio invented?

3. When was tv invented?

4. How is radar related to the internet?

5. Who did the us government hire to research decentralizing radar communication?

6. How did they complete this task?

7. After the work with decentralizing radar station information, what university was asked to continue developing the technology?

8. What was their program called?

9. What geographic region did the radar monitor?

10. What is ARPANET

11. How many computers were attached to this network in 1969?

12. Why was ARPANET so valuable?

13. Who is Tim Berners Lee and what did he do?

13a. What problem did he want to solve?

14. Where did he work?

15. How many host computers on the internet in 1989?

16. What US representative made the internet available for public use?


History of Dig. Com.

1. When was the first email sent

2. When were the first packets sent on the ARPANET

3. When were mailing lists first introduced?

4. What is a BBS

5. What were BBS’s used for?

6. Who programmed the first BBS and when?

7. When was usenet introduced?

8. Usenet was a precursor to what technology we use today?

9. What is a MUD

10. When was the first emoticon used and what was it?

11. What is minitel and why is it related to online chat?

12. Who invented wikipedia?

13. What percentage of Americans are connected to the internet?

14. What did newscorp pay for myspace?




1. What is a I D TEN T error?

9-11 IMD I - SRC Continued

Continue working on your SRC project. Remember to work on small detials!

DUE TODAY: SRC sketch and resource images.

9/7 IMD I – Constructing Simple Shapes (continued)

Use time in lab to complete as many of the simple shape drawings as possible.

USE YOUR NOTES! STUDY YOUR NOTES!

You will have a test next week over all of the 3DS material we have covered.

DUE TODAY: Simple Shapes Drawing

9/5 IMD I – Constructing Simple Shapes

Continue working on the simple shapes packet. Pay attention to the small details and make sure you match proportion of the shapes.

Keep your notes out as you work and try to use all of the tools and techniques we have talked about in lecture.

I will be giving a test over the 3DS Max Notes in a week, make sure you spend some time each day reviewing your notes. You will need to answer questions and demonstrate techniques using 3DS.

I will be collecting this assignment on Monday.

9/4 IMD I – 3DS Creating Simple Models

Warm-up: Login and launch 3DS and create a stack of 7 primitive shapes

In Class: Build the simple shapes from the handouts; try to make them look exactly like the illustrations.

Take notes on the lecture / demonstration and answer the following questions:

1. How do you copy a shape?

2. What is the difference between a copy and an instance?

How will scaling a shape affect an instance?

How will changing the height, width, and length affect an instance?

3. How do you group shapes?

4. What is the difference between ungroup, open, and explode?

5. How do you make a selection set?

6. How can you change primitive shapes with the modify menu?

7. How do you select multiple shapes?

As a Group: Commonalities and Uniquities activity.

Are you ahead of the curve? Try working on this “above and beyond” assignment:

Create one or more of the following models, use your imagination to add detail:

Create a snowman (thanks to Harley for the idea!)

Build a simple house or building

9/3 IMD I - 3D Studio Max 2009 Navigation

Goodmorning!

WE HAVE SOFTWARE!!!!

Please find a seat in the FRONT of the Class!

Grab a pair of headphones and a 3DS max navigation handout on the way in.

Login and open 3D studio Max 2009.

Watch and take notes on the first two learning 3d studio max videos ]

Answer the questions using your notes.

When you’ve completed the navigation handout work on the simple shapes puzzles, save your work to your login folder.


Navigation handout:

3DS MAX 2009 navigation control basics Name _____________________

Watch the essential skills movies 1 and 2 and use your notes to answer the following questions.

How do you maximize a viewport?

What is a viewcube?

How do you open the steering wheels?

How do you close the steering wheels?

How do you display wireframe mode?

How do you display wireframe edges?

How do you open the quad menu?

How do you activate the move tool with the keyboard?

How do you activate the rotate tool with the keyboard?

How do you activate the scale tool with the keyboard?

How do you constrain movement to a specific axis?

How do you constrain movement to two axes?

How do you pan the current window with your mouse?

How do you zoom the current view with your mouse?

How do you move an object exactly 10 units on the x axis?

How do you constrain rotation to 5 degree increments?

How do you use a spinner?

How do you use the keyboard to select the top view?

How do you use the keyboard to select the front view?

How do you use the keyboard to select the left view?

How do you arc rotate a view with keyboard and mouse?