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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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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
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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 Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Project Component: Texturing and Rendering a Bar Stool

Christopher Tyler Dec, 7th 2011 7 Comments
This tutorial textures and renders a modern bar stool type object. This includes setting up the environment, the materials of the bar stool (metals, anisotropy, glossy wood texture) and setting up glow panels for use in lighting. This is a follow up tutorial to the modeling of the bar stool.
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