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Tips & Tricks 
User Submitted Tutorial: Building a Car in 3DVIA Shape(8)
User Shodiq38, from Indonesia, created a full sports car using 3DVIA Shape. We asked if he would create a “how-to” video for the model, and he impressed us with this video, which highlights how easy a car can be built in 3DVIA Shape. Shodiq showed us some great tips-and-tricks that we were [...]
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Cliff’s Clips – Texturing Fundamentals
One of the best ways to create realistic 3D models is by incorporating good textures. Textures can make a model more realistic by adding details that would be hard to model in as geometry. This is a tutorial on the basics of texture mapping.
This video details the texturing functions within 3DVIA Shape, but these fundamentals [...]
Enhance Any Map with 3DVIA Shape for Maps
With the introduction of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and maps comes 3DVIA Shape for Maps. It’s basically 3DVIA Shape with some navigation tools, but it can really add some excitement to your maps, and a great way to display any building models. You can build your own models, or use any public model from [...]
3DVIA Announcement: Now supporting COLLADA .dae Downloads
An exciting announcement from 3DVIA: We now support Collada’s DAE format for our library of 3D models. Watch this Cliff’s Clips video on 3DVIA.tv to see how this will benefit you:
The process is very simple: ANY model in ANY format you upload to 3DVIA.com gets automatically converted into a DAE file as well as a [...]
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