My top 6 MagicaVoxel tips | 3D city illustration build

[@benjaminsuazo6157]

I just use magicavoxel casually but these tips helped a lot!

[@MegWayne]

Team casual! I'm glad!

[@sacredweb333]

You have incredible media skills, these videos have excellent production. Thanks alot for your advice and the video.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad it helps!

[@sacredweb333]

@@MegWayne I have the program but i haven't used it much. I will try and make a substantial creation w the program. Goxel is a interesting software as well and might be an interesting point for another video.

[@ektelion]

This was extremely eye-opening and useful, thank you!

[@doc_noki]

Thanks a lot for the tips Meg !

[@MonsVids]

please make more magicavoxel videos, really love your works

[@MegWayne]

I probably won’t :( It was fun to play around with but the fact that it’s more of a playground tool rather than a professional one makes it a bit wasteful to spend any more time on. (Yet obviously super impressive coming from one single developer) I’m more likely to cover C4D in the future.

[@toni3124]

Please make more Videos. I love all your Illustration Videos

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! It's not what I do the most right now but I'll try to remember to record!

[@toni3124]

Do what you want. I love them all. But i like the Illustration videos the most

[@yaserbahzad2591]

thanks a lot for sharing, really nice tips

[@MegWayne]

Thank you for commenting! Can't wait to catch'em all

[@yaserbahzad2591]

sure, so Meg, can you like make a small tutorial designing something simple with voxels, like a small building, city or anything for that matter. just want to see the workflow using Majcavoxel. it doesn't have to be something complex, will progress later hopefully :)

[@MegWayne]

I'm kinda showing this in the Neon City one. I don't have a specific workflow, although the world aspect to move objects around is draaaastically easier, it's the first time I build something since the release. But it's very much like going in there and just start making things. I'll think about being more progress based in the next one, if I have another project coming with MagicaVoxel.

[@stevezpj]

Great video. I would love to have a "hide selected voxels" feature in MagicaVoxel as I like to model the outside of a building and then go back and do the inside (at least, this is what I would do if I was using something like 3DS Max) but, like your tip on when to texture, in MagicaVoxel you would have to delete voxels to reach the inside again. Right now I am getting around it by using CTRL-X to remove them and hoping I don't need to copy anything inside the building because I then bring the voxels back with CTRL-V :D from now on, though I am going to have to model the insides before doing the full outside of the buildings.

[@MegWayne]

I know that's definitely missing. At the same time, it's one developer so I feel like it's massively amazing already. It might come out in future releases though. I guess it can be hacked by having a part of the building being a different object, so that you can move it and "so back inside". Or even better, if the building is symmetrical, only build half and duplicate rotate. #thelazycrew

[@stevezpj]

​@@MegWayne I agree that the developer has done an amazing job so far. Currently I am creating a load of duplicate objects on different layers, hollowing out some buildings to concentrate on the inside, leaving the outside on different objects. I'm very new to the software so a little confused by the world editor interface, though. Finding it a little fiddly but I should really just watch a load of tutorial videos rather than trying to work it all out through messing around :)

[@unarei]

You can use a separate layer for interiors and then you can hide the building walls and work on the interior without risking losing the walls.

[@DutchVikingGuy21]

Good tips but how do you create such a big working area? How do you go beyond those 126x126x126???

[@MegWayne]

Try typing in a bigger number by double clicking on it. I haven’t used MV in a year or two so it may have changed in newer versions. Hope this helps!

[@PointlessGamer_xD]

The newer versions allow upto 256 256 256 but you can have multiple objects

[@ScottThigpen]

hey there, always enjoy your stuff thanks for posting :)

[@MegWayne]

Thank you Scott!

[@andreojuegosyestrategia1266]

Hello, thanks for the tips, I want to start doing vocal art, do you recommend an iPad app for it? Thank you

[@MegWayne]

I don't think there's an app for iOS/iPadOS so unless you used it as a secondary screen for a macOS device (not sure how/if it would work well though) I think it's better to stick with a computer.

[@andreojuegosyestrategia1266]

@@MegWayne Thank you for reply, there are a couple of iOS apps there but not sure if they are worth buying. I am looking to do simply things. Btw can you export the things you create in MagicalVoxel to obj or stl? I am looking to do voxel for 3D print.

[@PointlessGamer_xD]

@@andreojuegosyestrategia1266 yeah you can export to obj but not stl

[@dxleted_arii6470]

This is a beautiful piece! May I ask how you did the glowing "cars"?

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! So it's a bloc of glass material with some magenta at the bottom set on emission in the render panel!

[@etaydiks580]

Amazing art, really blown away, starting with Magicavoxel, any recommendation for learning resources/courses etc to jumpstart my voxel love?

[@MegWayne]

I'd say just start building, that's all I did personally. It's pretty straightforward :)

[@etaydiks580]

@@MegWayne Yeah, now playing with it for a couple of hours, I see what you mean haha, amazing though.

[@sync5492]

Hey meg, great video! Could you maybe release a color palette? Keep it up.

[@MegWayne]

What would that look like? Just a vox file?

[@sync5492]

@@MegWayne I think it would be a (png) or (pal) file.

[@MarcelZeboHommes]

@@sync5492 check out coolers.co for easy palettes

[@vuletuan1353]

I wondered that you have relations with batman, do it right>? Ms. Wayne

[@bjja264]

Hello! i stumbled into your your channel, this video was quite helpful, i was wondering if you could do a similar video about textures, lightning, and emission materials, i'm struggling to get a good metalic textures/ emission materials.

[@MegWayne]

I don't really have tips on that honestly, it's really trial and error :/ It's unlikely that I'll be doing more MagicaVoxel work in the future since it's not really work appropriate. So C4D is more likely. It's a great tool for illustrative work though.

[@we64ukgame15]

Wow

[@julienkopoin]

very usefull :D

[@MegWayne]

Thank you!! I'm glad!

[@LiQing33]

thanks

[@jimrocky]

how do i install this apps on mac?

[@MegWayne]

You can download it from Ephtracy's website :)

[@verstrahlt1907]

nice work and fine explanation... but I am just barely monitoring what is going on w/ the program, because you are such a lovely distraction.

[@MegWayne]

I'll make sure to cover up and grow a beard in the future so people can learn.

[@verstrahlt1907]

@@MegWayne a beard would be an intense turn-off; it looks ugly and prehistoric even on males. It is someones own fault, if he gets easily distracted... Do not bother about the audience - make your video as you wish.

[@NutyRiver]

:)

[@redboycaptures]

Nice tutorial but whats the point of this music?, its actually quite distracting

[@PointlessGamer_xD]

the music is fine there is worse then this