Any Secret 3dsMax Stair & Railing Tutorial

[mayorgreener 37]

I saw many vids in YouTube but they are too confusing.

 

Do you Batters have any secret tutorial for 3dsMax Stair & Railing which is easy & simple. I am a newbie, I am still learning the basics of 3dsMax.

 

 

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Not sure which part is confusing you, its pretty straight forward, albeit a bit painful. Hope this helps...

 

For Stairs:

After navigating to Create>Stair, select the stair type you want. Lets say Straight Stair.

 

Refer to picture:

1. Click at position 1, hold button and drag mouse to position 2, then release***.
2. Drag mouse to position 3, left click and release.
3. Drag mouse to position 4, left click and release.

That's your stair made.

 

***Make sure you don't release at position 1. That's probably where its most easy to go wrong.

 

Then you can just play with the parameters to see what they do.

 

Railings are even easier.

 

After navigating to Create>AEC Extended>Railing

 

Refer picture:

1. Click at position 1, hold button and drag mouse to position 2, then release.
2. Drag mouse to position 3, left click and release.

That's it. Then you can just play with the parameters. The trickiest part (but not tricky at all) is if you want to increase the number of posts/ pickets, or change their position, you need to click those little square icons in each of sections, they open up a dialog you can play with more settings in there.

 

 

Hope this helps. No idea if there are tutorials on this, but once you get past the initial drag and release, then you don't really need a tutorial you should be able to work the rest out.

 

Let me know if you need clarification on any of this.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

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[mayorgreener 37]

Thank you ReddonQuixote

 

Wow that easy thing.. I didn't found that on any YT video. 

 

I came up with this using only the stair option. what I was looking for those iron grill type hand rails or railings. 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12360312/simcity_screenshots/stairs_basic.jpg

 

Anyway I will stick with what I have now.

 

I also saw your Files. Why don't you make some tuts for us Atleast few ones like victorian buildings 

 

OK Thank you Wrecks. I didn't knew about that.

 

Thank you