Hands On Milkshape

Contents

Background

• 3D Concepts and Terminology
• Working With Coordinates
• Modelling Ideas and Terminology
• Lighting
• Texturing
• Animation

Basic Controls

• Getting Started with Milkshape
• Start-Up Screen Layout
• Window Layout Controls
• Displaying Viewport Captions and Other Details
• Setting a Viewport's Perspective
• Viewing Options

Basic Constructs and Operations

• Creating Vertices and Faces
• Moving Vertices
• Moving Edges
• Moving Faces
• Scaling Edges and Faces
• Rotating Edges and Faces
• Creating A Multi-Facetted Model

Primitives

• The Box
• The Sphere
• The Cylinder
• The Plane
• The Geosphere
• Using a Primitive's Parameters to Create New Shapes
• Extended Primitives
• 3D Text

Reshaping Meshes

• Manipulating Primitives
• Combining Edit Operations
• The Vertex Menu Options
• Modelling a Fin

Extrusion

• Measured Extrusion
• Freehand Extrusion
• Looped Extrusion
• Scaled Extrusion
• Null Extrusion
• Indenting Extrusion
• Edge Extrusion

Additional Tools

• Show Model Statistics
• Edit Shortcuts
• Positioning Tools
• Clean
• DirectX Mesh Tools
• Height Map Generator
• Lathe
• Model Information
• Mirror All
• Smooth Edges
• Selection Editor
• Stretch and Squish
• Terrain Generator
• Array
• Model Cleaner
• FatBoy
• Scale All

Groups

• Mesh Groups
• Smoothing Groups

Creating Models

• Dumbbells
• Dining Chair
• A Piggy Bank
• A 70s Chair
• Padding the Dining Chair
• A Ray Gun
• A Derelict Cottage
• Tracing an Image
• Creating Rooms
• A Spitfire

Texturing

• Reflective Effects
• Using an Image in a Material
• Transparency within an Image
• Image Mapping - Dealing with Seams
• Using Mesh Groups to Control Texture Mapping
• The Texture Coordinate Editor
• How a Material is Mapped to an Object
• Using UVMApper
• The Tile Texture Mapper Tool
• Sphere Mapping

Animation

• Joints and Bones
• Skeletons and Rigging
• Animation Controls in Milkshape
• Keyframes and Moving an Object
• Animating a Desklamp
• Animating a Biped
• Weighted Vertices
• The Scale Animation Tool
• The Reverse Animation Tool
• The Explode Tool

Exporting Models

• Exporting in DirectX format
• Using a Model in DarkBASIC Professional