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Castlemania Stage Seven – Progress Review(2)
We’ve been moving along quickly learning how to master 3DVIA Shape and have reached a point where a review of what we’ve covered so far would be appropriate. This review will be useful as a quick-reference guide to help you find the videos, tools and tips that have been helpful along the way. The model [...]
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Castlemania Stage Six – The King’s Changes
Add Flags! The king has approved the castle plans and has required numerous changes to make it just the way he wants it. The first thing he wants is flags. It’s his kingdom, and he wants everyone to know it! Flags and pennants are important symbols and identification markers. Early on, tomy suggested that we [...]
Virtual Real Estate Powered by 3DVIA Studio
Have you ever had to choose your future real estate investment based only on a simple 2D plan and a few rendered pictures? Then you know how difficult it is to imagine what it will eventually look like. Together with Explorimmo, a leading online real estate marketplace in France, 3DVIA has made future real estate come [...]
Castlemania Stage Five: The King Approves the Plans
The big day has arrived. The king is surveying the castle plans and town for the first time. He and the master engineer will review the drawings for the castle and then walk around the castle plan, which has been marked out in full size. The master engineer will record the king’s changes and then [...]
Tips & Tricks – 3DVIA Shape Mini-Tutorials
Here are direct links to 34 basic 3DVIA Shape mini-tutorial videos. After the link to the video is a link to a starter model that may help you follow along with the video. Nothing fancy, just the list. Dig in and have fun! 1 How to Box Select – Here is a link to the [...]
Castlemania Stage Four: The King is Coming!
The king is coming! It’s time to get everything as ready as it can be. The town and its defenses are growing stronger every day, but the king’s approval is necessary before real work can get started on the castle itself. The main defensive ditch and berm for the Town Wall has been completed, and [...]
Castlemania Stage Three: More Land and the Castle Plan
Castlemania Stage Three is broken into two big sections; one about adding more land/terrain, and another about drawing your castle floor plan. Both steps are easy and there are many ways of accomplishing the goal, so bring your imagination and let’s get moving. You can see our castle requires more land than just what the [...]
Castlemania Stage Two: The Big Picture
In the Stage One article, we introduced our Castlemania Series about mastering 3DVIA Shape and building an incredible castle at the same time. This time we’re going to cover some 3DVIA Shape basics you really need to know about, and one method of making the terrain that will help your castle become a safe place to live [...]
Tips & tricks for building complex 3D models: Featuring 3DVIA Modeling Community Member “smike”
The 3DVIA Modeling Community has many highly qualified modelers who demonstrate various ways to create model geometry and textures. One of the best is smike, who has been a 3DVIA Featured Artist, had his work included in 3DVIA’s Best of the Best 2011-2010-2009, as well as numerous 3DVIA Top 10 3D models posts. Smike’s work [...]
Create a Custom iPhone or iPad App in Minutes to Market and Promote Your Content
As a start, you can view an example 3DVIA Live Marketing App HERE. Talking with many 3DVIA users over the past year, one topic has repeatedly come up. People love the 3DVIA Mobile Apps for the iPhone and iPad, but want to know how they can create a customized version. Materials Needed: A 3DVIA user [...]
Castlemania Stage One: The Journey to Mastering 3DVIA Shape Begins
Welcome to Castlemania: a bi-weekly tutorial series designed to turn any 3DVIA Shape modeler into an expert. Castlemania will cover how to use all of the tools available in 3DVIA Shape while you build an amazing castle model step-by-step. Each tutorial will highlight different tools with examples and links to videos that show how the [...]
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