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Many mesh library producers offer free samples online or on their CD-
ROMs for you to use and evaluate. Look at their web sites (listed in
Appendix D) for more information. In addition, a fair amount of public
domain 3D objects of all quality levels are available though the Internet or
in online providers' libraries.
Intermediate Modeling Tutorials
Topics covered:
Using Deform Modifiers
Creating Bevels
Editing Mesh
Using Booleans
Completing the Model
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Using a basic medieval
suit of armor, variations
were made by adding
or subtracting mesh
details. Image by Mark
Giambruno & Laura
Hainke/Mondo Media
for Zork:Nemesis
1996 Activision.
The tutorials in this section are intermediate in difficulty and assume that you
have developed enough familiarity with the basic tools to determine the best
approach for constructing some of these objects.Therefore, some of the
instructions are more general.
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