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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

PROJECT COMPONENT: Preparing a Design3D Project for iBooks Author and the iPad iBooks Reader

Christopher Tyler Mar, 7th 2012 2 Comments
This tutorial shows you how to take a previous project for a 9 volt battery (starts here) and prepare the model for use in iBooks Author (Apple's free application for creating iBooks for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch - get it here). The tutorial walks you through various aspects of the preparation processing, including geometry refinement/optimization, camera usage, material issues and testing.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

PROJECT COMPONENT: Material setup for the glue gun

Christopher Tyler Mar, 1st 2012 0 Comments
This texturing tutorial demonstrates the thought process and approach to setting up various types of materials using the glue gun scene as an example file. It shows how to categorize materials based on certain general properties. This is useful in figuring out how to configure parameters in the materials dialog.
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by Julie Applegate:

Creating 3D objects for iBooks

Julie Applegate Feb, 24th 2012 0 Comments
Now you can add 3D to your iBooks projects. You’ll need a Mac, Apple’s new iBooks Author application (free from the Mac App Store) and the latest version of Design 3D CX, CXi or SE. You may have used Strata tools in the past to add 3D to PDF documents and web pages. This gives you a way to add 3D to iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch documents. So now you can show off your 3D skills everywhere!
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