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Jpetersj has started a tutorial named "We shall build a static scenery building with 3D Crafter Pro".
Please post any question or comments here, and not in the tutorial thread itself.

Thank you jpetersj!

Nice start, but can you not tile images in Crafter? You should be able to create the same building with only 10 polys (including roof), instead of the 64 polys (sides) you have in your screens.

FWIW, Jasc was bought out by Corel almost 10 years ago.

Why not keep it one face and tile the texture?

Update:
@Hack, yes you can tile in 3DC.

Darn, JP, that is one sweet tutorial! Nice work!

Unless he addresses the issue of tiling textures, anyone following the tutorial to the letter will wind up with objects containing too many polys. Not a big deal for one-offs, but fill a scene and the count goes up quickly.

@JP: While I applaud your effort to write a detailed and thorough tutorial, I respectively suggest that you become more proficient with 3DC before possibly leading others down the wrong path.

I'll explain.

Tiling a texture is quite easy, Here's how:

1. Paint the texture onto the face you want to tile.

2. Click the Operation Adjust tool (the one with two curly arrows, 4th button down on the right hand side tool bar)

3. Click on the face you've just painted.

4. Holding down the left mouse button on the scale adjustment gizmo (the darker grey triangle in the bottom right hand corner of the view screen), slide it about (left, right, up or down) to squeeze or stretch the texture. If you stretch it enough, it will begin to repeat (tile) itself.

Hope that helps,

Mike

Hack wrote:Unless he addresses the issue of tiling textures, anyone following the tutorial to the letter will wind up with objects containing too many polys. Not a big deal for one-offs, but fill a scene and the count goes up quickly.

@JP: While I applaud your effort to write a detailed and thorough tutorial, I respectively suggest that you become more proficient with 3DC before possibly leading others down the wrong path.

Will do.

Can someone remove the tutorial for now. Or at least until later when I can re-write it?

jpetersjr wrote:

Hack wrote:Unless he addresses the issue of tiling textures, anyone following the tutorial to the letter will wind up with objects containing too many polys. Not a big deal for one-offs, but fill a scene and the count goes up quickly.

@JP: While I applaud your effort to write a detailed and thorough tutorial, I respectively suggest that you become more proficient with 3DC before possibly leading others down the wrong path.

Will do.

Can someone remove the tutorial for now. Or at least until later when I can re-write it?

Nope.

That tip on how to tile texture from mrennie is a diamond! I never knew it could be done that way.