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I do most of my modeling in AutoCAD working for an architecture firm so I don't have much experience with the other software. We have 3DS Max at the office that we use for rendering, camera setup, etc but I don't model in it.

I'm trying to create a bedroom furniture set. I can do all the pieces easily because it's straight, flat wood or curving wood. The one thing I can't do is make the matress and flowing sheets/blankets for the bed. Pillows would be good too. Anybody have any good tutorials on how to create sheets/blankets around the hard geometry of the bedframe and matress? Thanks.

I would never use Acad for this, I would suggest that you start learning basic modeling in MAX (I don't know anything about modeling in MAX!!!)
The other way to do this is to use a small modeling program that you find easy. I suggest MoI 3d (Version 1 is out....). Great NURBS tool with obj and 3ds export.

I use Blender's cloth simulation system, which runs on soft bodies, to get fast results for bed linen.


Moi3d will probably give you best results all round though, nice organic modeling app.

Displacement, either in a 3d app and applied to a mesh for use in MXST, or MXST's displacement, will give best results for duvets.

Tim.

I'd say since you have access to max, search through the installed tutorials that come with the software.

Here is a curtain tutorial by Scott Onstott. It's video (39mb), so it takes a bit to load. He goes over the Garment Maker and Cloth modifiers.
http://www.scottonstott.com/vodcast/Episode015.html

Here is a quick video tutorial about cloth, nothing indepth, but it shows you possibilities:
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/tips ... dex/cloth/

Here is a tutorial for making throw pillows with editable polys. I used this method to make a pillow form for doing cloth sims.
http://www.todddaniele.com/Tutorial-lesson03.htm

I just started learning this last month.


Hope this helps.

Thanks for the input. I guess I wasn't clear in my original post. I'm NOT going to use AutoCAD for the curvy items, I was hoping to learn 3DS for that. Some of y'all figured that out though, thanks.

Frances, good links. The one on the pillow tutorial didn't come through though. Could you repost it?

Thanks. By the way, nice looking pillow, but did I notice it in a folder entitled "Fryrender?" That's herocy here.

misterasset wrote:Thanks for the input. I guess I wasn't clear in my original post. I'm NOT going to use AutoCAD for the curvy items, I was hoping to learn 3DS for that. Some of y'all figured that out though, thanks.

Frances, good links. The one on the pillow tutorial didn't come through though. Could you repost it?

Thanks. By the way, nice looking pillow, but did I notice it in a folder entitled "Fryrender?" That's herocy here.

Sorry about the link! I've added it.

About the pillow, it's the cloth that makes it nice. I've hot-linked it from my personal webspace because my business one blows.

I should also mention that Max has a painting tool for editable polys that is pretty cool. You set up your brush control and paint surface deformations all around. I have Max 9.