Loco and Car making tutorials ?

[Suren57]

Hello guy,
is there any loco or car making tutorials for trainz available ???,
i want video tutorials , is there any ???,
which should cover section like
creating using gmax, 3d max
exporting to Trainz,
how to config the item (config file)
etc...

please help,
Thank you

 

[BLACKWATCH]

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=3345&highlight=tutorials

 

[Johnk]

Just about every gMax tutorial including the ones Blackwatch mentioned can be found here. Unlike the forum link, each listing describes exactly what the tutorial does:

Link

The rest of the site is just as interesting so I suggest you spend some time there. It's there for people like yourself.

Here are a few movies. They're not what you want but they might help:

Box by Josh E Harvey
Handrail by Josh
Wheel animation by Josh

If the links don't work, please let me know. I have no way of testing them at present. Also, please bookmark the links because I haven't listed them in the Directory yet.

Enjoy

 

[johnwhelan]

Hello guy,
is there any loco or car making tutorials for trainz available ???,
i want video tutorials , is there any ???,
which should cover section like
creating using gmax, 3d max
exporting to Trainz,
how to config the item (config file)
etc...

please help,
Thank you

Have a think about how much cash you have available. 3DS is expensive but there are a number of commercial video tutorials available. However they will not teach you specifics about creating for Trainz. This is a general problem with tutorials and books they often cover bits that you don't specifically need in great detail because the author knows about them.

Blender has a number of video tutorials available but we only use a subset of Blender to create for Trainz. The suggested approach would be to start with the basic wikibook Trainz tutorial then go onto the Paul Hobb's Blender tutorials the link is on the wikibook page.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Tutorial_for_Blender#Newcomers_start_here

Before starting to create in GMAX please read through Paul Hobb's first Blender tutorial, then if you still wish to use GMAX set GMAX up using Paul Hobb's GMAX tutorial one.

One person managed to build a steam loco as their first model, this is rare. All the products have a learning curve and it can be quite steep so start with something simple such as a reskin first, then a house before tackling a loco or wagon.

The thread mentioned by BLACKWATCH is a good collection but the problem is often knowing where to start and the level of knowledge that the tutorial creator assumes. Also some refer to older versions of the software.

Cheerio John