It happens @ 1:07 timing. Basically, you simply go to Scene tab and pull your model on the Sphere there. It links them together.

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm really grateful for your support. God bless you too!

I'm glad you liked it! Stay tuned for more!

Hello there! Thanks for joining, indeed!=)

@@Art-Teeves can you show weight painting someday if you know how to . this channel is a hidden gem.

@@maxgordon3194 I plan to make a flexible character with some fabric parts and animate it one day but before that I still want to create some more robots, a hangar of some sort, an overlay for this very channel and a bigger scene. So.. step by step=) Thank you for your kind words!

@@Art-Teeves keep working buddy it's an inspiration to see good work like this

Thanks for watching and your kind words :)

That's great to hear! Robots are cool - don't be too hard on yourself; everyone starts somewhere and I'm sure you'll improve in no time. I'm glad you're finding my videos helpful. I'll upload Substance Painter video of this model within a week (first there will be an unwrapping one). Keep an eye out!

@@Art-Teeves sure thanks

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoy my videos. I'll keep them coming. God bless you too!

I normally upload 1-2 vids a week, so I think it is coming next Monday=)

@@Art-Teeves thank you

@@Mohamed_Gamal-G You are welcome! Actually, my mistake, it is already out=)

Hey there! Thanks so much for your kind words and the suggestion! Definitely keep an eye out for bigger and more complex scenes in future tutorials (I'm thinking UE4 or Blender for assembly and rendering). Thanks again for your support!

Glad to hear that! There will be more!:)

Thanks for watching and the kind comment! Happy creating!

Thanks for the kind comment! Your support means a lot.

Awesome! I'm really happy you found it useful.

Thanks so much for watching and the kind words!

Really warms my heart - thanks for watching!

Glad to share it :D Lofts are probably the easiest and the most convenient tool Max has for stylized modeling.

It depends on your goals, the engine and the game itself. And obviously the PC. If we are running the game on a computer from 90s, it will surely crash. Yet, using it multiple times on a modern PC will only result in a slight FPS drop. Back in 2005, what was considered low-poly might have tens, hundreds or few thousands of polygons. Today's "low poly" assets can push that limit to 80,000 or even 100,000 depending on the context. This flower, with its ~20k polygons, wouldn't be suitable for densely populating a vast landscape. However, it's perfect for individual placement as a quest item or an herb for gathering. While not ideal for massive outdoor scenes, low-poly assets like this flower are great for most indie projects that prioritize aesthetics over extreme optimization.

I'd also add that the range of 10,000 - 50,000 triangles is common for many low-poly assets, especially objects the player interacts with (our flower fits in this range perfectly), while some might still consider a range of 50-100k tris "low-poly" depending on the context (obviously it's pushing the limits for some platforms).

That's fantastic to hear! I'm so glad my videos are helping you out!=)

Hey there! So happy to hear this format is helpful for you. I'm working on some new videos in this style, so stay tuned! =)

Thanks so much! I'm glad you found them helpful. =)

it is my pleasure!=)

Well, I never cut out any elements of the video that stand out of simple topology editing. All vital parts of the process are present in the video. Basically, all I do is combine some lofts with automated retopology and then merge elements into a single piece by using ProBoolean. Hopefully, I'll record more vids of structure modeling that won't be edited at all. If you got some particular questions about modeling particular elements - I'll gladly try and answer them!

Heheh, loft possibilities continue to impress after all these years. I mean, who needs sculpting when we have cylinders?:D

maybe I will - in time - but I prefer stylized and really enjoy it=)

Thank you!=)

Aww!=) Thank you for your kind words and a sub!

Maybe some day. I prefer to take my time and model something that I want at the moment - currently I really enjoy making simple robots, I may want to do a couple more before I proceed to next topic=)

Thank you!=) Eventually I'll start making even more detailed step-by-step videos covering texturing process. Still learning to edit them=)

Thank you!=)

Thanks!=) Sure, message me @ [email protected]

Heya! Seeing your kind words under so many videos always brightens my day =) Thanks!

take care :) and take your time.

Thank you for your kind words!

@@Art-Teeves want to ask something. So i use Cloth modifier, just say i use a plane as fabric and it fall around a cylinder, so the fabric will 'hanging' arounf the cylinder. When i use 'simulate local', the fabric fall down on the cylinder, but somehow there is like invinsible area around the cylinder that prevent the fabric touch the cylinder

@@ninjaugal3832, Mhm, I think there can be many things causing it, but I'd try to change Units scale to mm if it isn't set to it already and also check if I have a decent polycount of the "cloth" object.

Sure. I'm still thinking on the format. I'll keep uploading short videos with commentary, but maybe I'll add another channel where I'll post full videos without comments and with little to no editing.

Thank you for your kind words! Indeed, its not SubD ready and lacks optimization + unwrapping is absolutely basic. If I was going for a flawless bake, i'd give it way more polygons on modeling phase and then went for some kind of decimate/proOptimizer + would use auto retopo to my advantage to speed up the process. Also I'd model it in t-pose and copy one arm (make UVs overlap). Since I'm not going for a flawless shading here and since I'm also fine with its polycount, I just won't bake HP to LP here at all, using some modified SP mats like it is. Again, if I was going for mobile optimization, I'd start off from central cylinder, retopologize it to something symmetrical that would have a high amount of polygons and extrude the cylinder, thus getting a somewhat proper result. I would later use autoretopo and go for T-pose as I've mentioned before + I'd add some kind of decimate to my LP model. I guess, that would reduce the polycount to something around 1k. There's almost a limitless potential for polyshing models and I try to show the easiest way to get pipeline working for indie projects - something that I struggled to find myself a few years ago=)

If I recall correctly, there shall be some kind of a download option for you. Some people mention this problem on forums: forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/retopology-tools-for-3dsmax-2021/td-p/11893626. Actually, I'm absolutely sure that autoretopo is available for 2021. There was also an official guide: help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/FRA/?guid=GUID-26EEB159-F77B-486D-AE02-CFFB128219B3

@@Art-Teeves oh wow! Okey, I will try to check it. Because I was looking for retopology in modifier list.

@@ninjaugal3832 Best of luck! Once you've installed it, it will appear in that list.

Thank you for your kind words=)

Yes, indeed, I should've left that part in the video. I've used ProBoolean tool and then picked few iterations of auto retopology. Then I applied symmetry 2 times, so that all sides became even.

@@Art-Teeves because I'm still learning, sometimes when creating an object I feel confused, how to make a hole round shape on something like box surface that have square shape polygon. It's kinda easy to made that Using boolean/proboolean, but I don't know how to fix the weird topology that left behind after boolean/proboolean. Thank you for your tutorial, I'm still learning and your video help a lot

@@ninjaugal3832 I'm glad to be of help=) Basically, automated retopology really makes things easy when you start with it (later on it gets harder and harder to utilize it properly). You can still split model into several parts, that are connected on flat surfaces, then you can retopologize all elements separately. When you weld them together, topology doesn't matter that much on flat surface since it doesn't influence shading. The manual workaround is to create a "circle" around the hole you've cut, that basically mimics its flow. Each circle you create shall "dissolve" into the flow of the model. The trick is to stop thinking in strict shapes, but start thinking in some kind of a "flow" logic. Just remember to move your vertices with edge constraint enabled=)

Thank you for your kind words!=) I'll do my best to create more!

Thank you for your kind words and sub=) I'll keep posting similar videos.

@@Art-Teeves take your time, if I have free time, I use ur video as guide and make same thing like you. It's quite few, I found 3ds max tutorial guide in KZbin (mostly dominated by blender now).

Indeed. I made this channel because I didn't find many videos of stylized modeling in Max myself, especially when I was an absolute beginner. So I wanted to share my experience and findings here.

Thank you! You keep me motivated =D