1: Open photoshop and draw some damn shapes.



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2: Make things a little interesting...



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3: Copy and paste everything and paste it into a new alpha layer.



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4: Press and hold ctrl and click on the alpha layer so it is selected like so.



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5: Click the paths tab and click "Make work path" from the drop list.



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6: Go to file>export>paths to illustrator and save the .ai file anywhere you can remember.



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7: Open 3ds max and go to file>import. And select the .ai file we recently selected



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8: The import options are pretty strait forward here.



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9: And now we have the paths in 3ds max as splines that can be extruded, and used when modeling.



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10: Be creative!



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Cool I hadn't thought of doing this way before. Thanks for the tut.

Would it be possible or usefull to make some sticky for tutorials? like a subforum per 3d tool with all tutorials ? like all tuts for 3dsmax , alltuts for photoshop etc?

great tut anyway

Originally Posted by NAIMA

Would it be possible or usefull to make some sticky for tutorials? like a subforum per 3d tool with all tutorials ? like all tuts for 3dsmax , alltuts for photoshop etc?

great tut anyway

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=36177

You can rearrange that thread if you like to consolidate it all into 1 post, I'm sure a mod will edit the main post for you if you did

Good stuff! never knew this thnx for sharing

Oh cool, I never really thought of that, thanks!
Works just as well in Maya, although the default option sets the scale to zero.

Nice! Thanks for the Tut

Cool tip DEElekgolo, thanks!

Good tip. I never knew photoshop can get such clean vector results from 2d, I always use a dedicated vector app. Can you show the control points in the final result? Are there parameters to tweak the processing? Did you make all those designs for halo? ;)

Was going great until the end when you used just plain 'extrude' instead of 'Bevel Profile'.

does it work for other version of max like 2009

Onionhead_o: Yes, I'm not sure how far back max support has had for ai file types, but this technique has been around for a long time.

Nice tutorial DEElekgolo!

Thats sweet. Will use it for sure.

Awesome, thanks, just what I was looking for.

Perna, here's a pic of the control points.

That's very clean. I suppose it's based on the code in Illustrator, which makes sense. Nice! Vector editing's always been one of my beloved secret weapons, it's good to know I can do quick stuff in photoshop now and not have to fire up a whole other app