Thursday 16 September 2010

How to make a landscape

1. Open Photoshop and 3ds max.
2. Open a new Photoshop doc set detentions 512x512 and a resolution at 72.
3. make your back ground Black and using the brush tool pick a light gray and start to make your landscape then pick a lighter gray and go over the bits u want higher on your landscape keep doing this until u are happy.
4. When u r happy with it save as jpeg.
5. Make a plane set your faces to 100 or more depending on the size of your landscape.
6. Put a displace modifier onto the plane.
7. where is says bitmap on the drop down menu click and then find your texture map into it.
8. All you have to do then is up the strengh up to how much u want it.

Wednesday 15 September 2010

First render "Train"

This is no where near completed but thought it would be a good idea to upload pics as i am creating it to show my progress