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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
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Disco Ball

Rodrigo Duarte Nov, 5th 2012 9 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Lighting, CX Modeling, CX Rendering, CX Texturing

Using a sphere and the Polygon Modeler, we can whip up a disco ball in no time. With a couple spotlights and caustics rendering the results are quite good.

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Quick Soccer Ball

Rodrigo Duarte Nov, 3rd 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Modeling, CX Version 7 Specific, New in CX Version 7

Soccer balls can be created really quickly starting from an icosahedron using the polygon modeller. We will show how.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Creating an Icosahedron

Rodrigo Duarte Oct, 31st 2012 0 Comments

CX Intermediate, CX Modeling, Design 3D CX

Icosahedrons are Platonic Solids of 20 faces. We will create an Icosahedron from a dodecahedron.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Creating an Octahedron

Rodrigo Duarte Oct, 31st 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Modeling, Design 3D CX, Design 3D SE, SE Beginner, SE Modeling

The Octahedron is the Platonic Solid that has eight faces. We will learn to create an octahedron with a sphere as our starting object.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Agua Derramada Rápida – Español

Rodrigo Duarte Oct, 30th 2012 0 Comments

CX Spanish Tutorials, CX Texturing

Este tutorial Enseña a hacer agua derramada. Utilizaremos Photoshop para crear una textura de agua derramada y la aplicaremos sobre un rectángulo 2D. Este rectángulo lo podemos aplicar sobre cualquier superficie que necesitemos. También en inglés / Also in English.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Creating a Tetrahedron

Rodrigo Duarte Oct, 29th 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Modeling

The Tetrahedron is the simplest of the Platonic Solids. We will learn how to create one using equilateral triangles and the Snap Tool.

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Disco Ball

Quick Soccer Ball

Creating an Icosahedron

Creating an Octahedron

Agua Derramada Rápida – Español

Creating a Tetrahedron