:) Might add that to the description, cheers!

bump

+hollow_ mind Thanks for pointing it out! Yes in retrospective definitely something I should have mentioned.

danke papa

love you too man

thanks!!

@@ChamferZone you can pin the comment so that it doesn't disappear :)

+gerbilho Happy to read that. Thank you too!

+Lorenz Christoffers Danke Lorenz. Mehr tutorials dieses Jahr! :)

+DDman465 Thank you! That is awesome to read! Yes that was really something I wanted to avoid like the plague. I made the grenade tutorial here in the middle of creating the AKM tutorial which I released last week. The reason for that was that I wanted to have a free tutorial out before I release the "big" one that I charge for. So long story short.. it was a learning process to not say uhhs and umms and having already completed several chapters of the AKM at that point I was able to record that here without saying it due to practice. However.. going back then to the first recordings of the AKM tutorial I noticed that I have these uhhhs in there all over the place which I couldn't stand at all. So I decided to delete all speech audio on the modeling chapters and talk all over it again. Certainly was worth it. There may still be a few uhhs in the unwrapping chapter of the AKM but it was not so bad that it would have been worth to re-record the whole audio on it :) Next tutorial is hopefully completly free of it haha. Thanks DDman !

+Chamfer Zone Oh there's nothing wrong with a few uhhs and umms. Sometimes it's just ridiculous, however. What could be explained in the first 5 minutes of your video takes an hour for most of the other users/videos on youtube. Your vocal volume is great too. I was very surprised and relieved at the quality you provide, and that makes me put confidence in your teaching ability. So thank YOU for setting this up for us. Already looking at your premium tutorials.

+DDman465 Thanks again for your feedback, very encouraging to read! I'll make sure to keep that up, next time with a better microphone even :-)

Hello ComboKing, glad if it helps and is easy to understand! Hope it goes well with the grenade for you.

ChamferZone I'm done with Grenade modelling, only the thing remaining is texturing and rendering. Thanks!

+Sideburn Jim Danke jimbo ! :D

haha thanks man, yeah I know it's a lot of things to wrap the head around with all that. But it's worth to pull through it. It will become more clear when you ran through it once.

ChamferZone : One can only hope. Anyway, it's a share joy to watch you work. Almost like watching Bob Ross painting :)

+braaanaaa Thank you, I appreciate your feedback and greetings back from Toronto! :)

+Piotr Stańczyk Thank you Piotr! I am working on the next tutorial every spare minute I got and I am also thrilled to have it released. It's going to be the most indepth tutorial I ever created and it's in the final polishing phase: release very soon! Cheers Tim!

I wish I could watch some of your other tutorials but they cost money ;(

Check out his new Mech tutorial. It's super cool.

Thanks for watching it Amed, glad it helps people!

+Chamfer Zone Thanks for the heads up ;)

+Αλέξανδρος Κεράσι Hi Αλέξανδρος, please have a look to the answers that were given to GameChanger about this question, if you scroll down here in the comment section. Noakesy and Geworg Hovhannisyan did an excellent job answering it. Cheers, Tim :)

+Chamfer Zone God bless you!

+Chamfer Zone Headus uv layout dose this all for you right? Just wondering. Great tut by the way, gonna help alot with my future plans xD

+THEbookie Glad you like it :) For tutorials I avoid using any third party plugins for 3dsmax which cost money but of course anyone can follow the unwrapping part with their own tools.

+Tom Mertens Thank you Tom! I am glad you like it. I'll definitely keep it up :)

Thanks Easton, yes the workflow is pretty much common nowadays and R6:Siege uses the same software that I use in my tutorials :) Btw. love that game, all I play since it came out.

ChamferZone Same here! Sometimes I really like to just walk around and look at textures and think of how they're made, offline of course lol

+Spencer Clough Thanks Spencer, glad it helped! :)

Hello Narendra, I appreciate it very much! Let me know how it goes and in case of questions feel free to sign up at forum.chamferzone.com :)

+Mario Ans Thanks mate! As of last week my newest tutorial is out :) You can watch the chapter trailer of it here on my youtube channel. Cheers!

Hi Theo! Glad to hear it! Yes I think the grenade made for an excellent object for a short and free tutorial. I have a hard time coming up with ideas for a similar (short) tutorial.

Hey Gary, awesome to read and much appreciated! New tutorial almost done and also a free part for KZfaq about making portfolio ready renders. Can't wait to release it finally.

Hello PhenixSys, thank you very much. I am glad to read that. I know I don't have a lot of vids out yet but more to come for sure :) Thanks for subbing.

As they say, every little helps :)

+hallugenetic wie klein die welt doch ist :D !

Wolf, hilf mir mal, wer warst du noch mal?

"Reset XForm: transformation und skalierung zurücksetzen du kannst schon englisch oder"

You probably left the edge constraint on

Hi Roy, just see your message here. Haha thanks man, and yeah... times are hard sometimes. Been there as well before I started my video game career. I'm sure it'll get better for you too. Either way thanks for watching my tuts! Glad you enjoy them!

Hello Jose, glad you like it and more tutorials coming!

+xCONDOGZz Thank you ! :) Will do mate.

+Maarten Mtr Glad you liked it Maarten! Thanks!

+Melissa Bogani Hi Melissa, thanks for your feedback! You could try to download the tutorial from gumroad and watch it on your media player which might result in an overall louder audio hopefully. That said, I know that the audio is not the best.. when I recorded this tutorial here I didn't own a good microphone yet. Future tutorials will all be recorded with my new Blue Yeti microphone which will dramatically improve the quality.

+DukeDark Danke, werd ich machen!

Hi ConTii! Hmm, that sucks.. I am not sure why that is the case to be honest. Did you assign the smoothing groups the same way I did? I would double check that. Worst case if you don't mind you can upload me your scene somewhere and I will take a look. Send it to me through facebook.com/chamferzone please. Cheers.

Ok, done, thanks a lot.

I have that problem too...(Solved) I just found the solution. You need to have autosmooth on that element except these poligons ybex.com/d/7hxnbse9l2gik4kwxggrztv05t24f6d755xllujc.html

same thing happened to me

me too :(

+Saulman It seems the axis for my lower circle isn't directly centred, probably what's causing the problem. Any ideas?

+Saulman AHHHHHHH, It worked. Apparantly if you move the cylinder at all after placing it, that will mess up your array later down the line, had no idea that would happen. But I fixed it by rebuilding the cylinder and not moving it once it was in position. I assumed moving the whole thing to meet the guidelines would be a good decision, but apparently not haha.

+Saulman Hi Saulman, sorry for the late reply (I got a lot on my plate this week). I am glad you figured it out! Yes, this part got a few people before you stuck. It's indeed all about the pivot placement :-)

+ChamferZone No problemo! :D Thanks for the reply anyway, loving the tutorials, majorly helpful!

Hello Ken, thank you very much for watching. Glad you like it!

+Paddy 4444 Hi Paddy, sorry sometimes some comments slip through the radar. It may not be a handgun but my AKM tutorial is now out and comes with a beginners chapter in 3DS Max. Cheers! :)

Hello Orin, really sorry about the late reply. Slight distortions are always there when you unwrap. It's nearly impossible to not have it. As long as it won't result in a super ugly noticeable thing later on the texture it's no problem. Often you have to unwrap the UV shells as one big piece and that is only working if you take some minor stretching into account. It certainly won't mess up your texture later on. That is why it's good to apply a checker pattern texture while we unwrap because it sort of gives you a preview of how the stretching looks like.

Hi Efendi! Thank you very much for your feedback. Yes my next free tutorial is almost out and I got that feedback a lot about the grenade tutorial. Next one I try to be more clear about which actions I use. Cheers, Tim :)

Hello Codex, sorry for the late reply. Uhhh I don't see me capping anything there at that mark? Do you still have that issue?

Hey Baxter, thanks for your comment! I think though that you confuse low poly with high poly. There is not a single ngon in the highpoly due to turbosmooth which quadifies everything. As for the lowpoly, yes there are ngons in there. Have a look at this topic and video I made regarding that :) forum.chamferzone.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9

thanks for the video. Now, I got it! I wish I had a job like you do...

Not actual "fucking" teacher tho

+Alejandro Montes Thank you too! Glad you you like it.

+Samuel Fisher Glad you figured it out Samuel!

@@ChamferZone I haven't figured it out yet :P, i dont have any constraint yet it seams to form like a triangle

Hello MsMrFreaky.. hmmm well you can watch my UV unwrapping special here on youtube. Maybe it helps!

Thanks, will check it soon!

lol i'm using 2018 and was having a hard time too. Idk about the plane being black but to make it transparent is Alt + X key. That's how I got mines transparent. I'm really late responding to your comment though so you probably already got it by now.

About the back of the plane is always black because you have only 1 default light and don't set lights to follow camera angles. You have to set to 2 default lights and tick the check box "lights follow camera angle" in the per-view preference.

+Imperator Geroldus Hi Imperator :-) Danke, die Sache mit den Ngons wir immer wieder gefragt. Es spielt keine Rolle ob wir die haben oder nicht. Ab dem Moment wo du dein Objekt in die Engine importierst wird es sowieso trianguliert. Von daher ist alles was zählt ob wir ein highpoly model haben das gut aussieht und ohne "pinching". Es ist schon gut quads da zu haben wo Kurven sind um das zu verhindern, sobald es aber offene, glatte Flächen sind spielt es keine Rolle. Also bottom line: Solange unsere Geometrie gut aussieht kannst du dich darauf verlassen dass der Bake auch gut sein wird und dass ist wirklich alles was zählt wie es letztendlich im Spiel erscheint.

+ChamferZone Vielen Dank für die Info - das weiß ich sehr zu schätzen! Ich hab' mir bisher immer einen abgebrochen, Ngons usw. zu vermeiden ... =) Eine Frage zum Verständnis - die Normal-Map ist ja im Grunde eine Bump-Map für Details in Höhe/Tiefe - Geometrie kann ich damit aber nicht zB glätten oder runden, oder?

+ChamferZone Danke für die Antwort! Die frage hab ich mich auch gestellt. Kann ich dann davon ausgehen, dass dies allerdings nur für Game gilt, da das Engine die triangulierung ü;bernimmt und nicht, z.B. für animation direkt im Maya oder 3dsMax? Im übrigens kenne ich mich leider mit die Basics von Game modeling nicht ganz so aus. Hast du da Ratschläge für gute Tutorials?

Hi Imperator, tut mir echt leid, ich hab nicht gesehen dass da noch eine Frage war bis gerade jetzt. Die Normal Map bewirkt im Grunde genommen nur dass man die Illusion von Tiefe hat. Die Rundungen und edges die wir im highpoly haben werden auf diese map rein projeziert und auf dem lowpoly sieht das dann realistisch aus und gaukelt Tiefe vor die eigentlich nur 2D ist. Kennst du ja sicherlich wenn man in Spielen näher ran geht und dann erstaunt ist dass alles "flach" ist was gerade noch volumen hatte. :) Es ist alles eine Frage wie nah man ran geht. @Lala: Es ist wirklich egal mit den ngons, die einzige Frage ist. Sieht es gut aus oder nicht? Solange du keine komischen Artefakte siehst ist alles im klaren Bereich, das gilt sowohl für game engines wie auch im rendering Bereich. Ähm was tutorials angeht kann ich als tutorial creator natürlich erstmal meine empfehlen :-) Die haben vielen Leuten bereits geholfen. Ansonsten würde ich einfach mal bei polycount reinschauen, da wird ständig über tutorials geredet.

ChamferZone Kein Ding - ich denke, du hast genug zu tun, als das du sofort auf jeden Frage antworten kannst - daher bin ich dankbar, dass du dir überhaupt die Zeit nimmst. Was die Normal-Maps bewirken bzw. wozu sie genutzt werden, hat sich mir schon grundsätzlich erschlossen, allerdings fehlt mir irgendwie noch ein Gefühl, wie groß die Differenz zwischen Low - und Highpoly-Modell sein darf. Da bleibt mir wohl nur üben, ... =)