Lathe, make vases in seconds.

Lathe modifier is a simple tool in 3Ds Max to make objects like vases and bottle. Start by drawing the shape of the vase with a line, the line tool can be found at the shapes menu.


After that, in the object modifier list, select the Lathe modifier. And your line will turn into a cylindrical object, with options to customize your cylindrical object from how many degrees to Lathe and how many segments in the objects. It's really simple to make mugs and vases with the tool,


A simple way to do it is to make an object by tracing the lines under an image.

We are required to find 3 videos and animate our footsteps by following it, so we need to search through YouTube video to get some examples. There are a lot of unique examples, some too funny and some too stiff. Here are the examples that I've chosen.


Double bounce walk cycle - Fallout Scout by Ferhod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuPie0obEU


Character animation example (walk cycle): Confident Strut by Lee Caller
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsTz3k_GvA


Walking Cycle Demo by SpiderWave
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFQ_Jjz8U8

Biped system is a very helpful tool in 3Ds Max, it is in simple term easiest way to make a skeleton compared to Autodesk Maya.


First of all, going to the Create panel, click on systems and biped. There are multiple options on the body type like Skeleton Male Female and Classic, usually choosing skeleton is fine, but male and female brings more customizations. Once dragging out the biped, we can customize how much joints we want them to have. For example, neck links, spine links, how many fingers and much more.



The biped system is very flexible to animate and there are easier ways to animate, at the motion panel which is near the create panel, there are figure mode and footstep mode. Figure mode is to adjust the biped to set key for it and animate. Footstep mode is a simple way to animate walking, running and even jumping.


Footstep mode is usually animated by modifying the placement of the footsteps, you can set from how many footsteps to how the footsteps rotate. That is pretty much what I have learned.

This post is for a new trimester, let's make this post simple, I'm sure there are lots of explanation and history about surround sound, but at the end, what's important is to understand the concept.

A lot of people were curious about what's the point one means, it actually has a meaning for it, and it's used in many of Surround Sound standards. One of it the most common Dolby Surround 7.1 is shown below,