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Welcome to the Tutorials Section of ap3d.com

This is a constantly evolving area, with a number of tutorial series for your viewing pleasure.

BetterSpace

This set of tutorials will take you through a whole range of techniques and tips to help you get your computer-generated space scenes looking their best.

Included in this tutorial set are instructions for building a decent starfield, a nice technique for painting nebulae, various methods for adding detail to your objects with geometry and texture, and a look at lighting for your scenes.

Build your own Whitestar tutorial

This long-running tutorial series takes you step-by-step through the processes involved in building your own version of the Whitestar from Babylon 5, using spline-modelling techniques in Lightwave Modeler.

Half-wire rendering tutorial

This short tutorial gives you an insight into how to create the half-shaded, half-wireframe images that appear throughout this site.

These tutorials are fairly graphics-intensive, and some may not display correctly at display resolutions less than 1024x768.

For users with smaller display resolutions, you may want to view the tutorials without the ap3d.com surround. To do this, click here. To restore the surrounding frameset, click here.


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