3D studio max

In the lesson we used 3D studio max and learned how to do the basics by making three different shapes which all started from a square.

To start it all up we had to go onto customize - Unit setup and set it the scale you want, we then went onto the create icon  and create a box shape, and then click on the move transform tool and but the width, height, and length into the measurement that you need (20x20x20).

Once you have the box go onto the modify icon and click on the drop down menu and select edit mesh. Then where it says realistic on the section that shows the box in its 3D form left click it and select edged faces, then select the polygon icon in the selection bit and then select extrude which allows you to pull sections out of the original box, do this until it creates a 3D plus symbol.

Select the move transform tool and adjust it to the X,Y,Z of the box to what you want (30x0x10) and click one of the faces of the 3D plus shape then select the vertex icon in the selection box. Then do the move transform tool again and adjust it what you need again (-30x0x10) and select one of the faces on the top wire face.

Copy the shape that you have made by holding the left mouse button and then shift.

Once you have copied the shape select on of the copies and the select and uniform tool selecting one of the faces and making sure it is on the vertex icon and that it starts to look like a pyramid forming where one of the box's are then select wield and change the selected and target section into what you need. (10.0cm and 4 pixels) this should make it look like a spikey spinning top. Once yo have done that copy and paste the shape.

With the second copied and pasted shape go onto the selection section and make sure nothing is selected, than click on the drop down menu underneath the section the that says box. and select turbo smooth and put the iterations to what you want (2) this should smooth it out and make it rounded.

After all that render  them and save them as a JPG.

After that we added colour which we did by selecting render,  material editor, then compact material editor, we then selected a shape changed that ambient to the colour we wanted and then assign the colour to the shape we wanted repeat this for the over shapes.