The Official Collection of 3DMM/Modding Tutorials
 

This is new, modern age, 3dmm/v3dmm/7gen/modding tutorial thread.
With the recent rise in mods and modding, some very helpful people have made some great new tutorials - and there's some old ones lost in the depths.

This is not a manual for 3dmm, but will contain some more advanced techniques and tricks of the trade.

This will be the new OFFICIAL list and replace the old, outdated tutorials thread.

Technical Issues [Troubleshooting]

• Please Refer to the FAQ
• Video Guides to 3dmm Installation and Expansion Setup
• Running 3dmm on Linux using WINE

3dmm Techniques [Tips and Tricks]

• Making a Quality Movie [General Advice]
• Font Mods Reference Guide [Scroll Down]
• Grabbing a Screenshot of your Movie [For Release on 3dmm.com]
• Cigarette Smoke [Using Coil Font Mod]
• Animating with a Cartoon Flare
• The Blended Sky ("bbbbbbbbb" effect) [Wackydings]

3dmm Utilities [How to Use the Toolset]

• Remove unused mods before release (IMPORTANT!!!)
• Shortnames and Expansions [PLEASE READ]
• 7gen For Dummier [Parents - Links Below]
• Make a Solid Colour Scene [7GEN]
• Importing an OBJ to be a Prop [7GEN]
• Importing an MD2 to be an Actor [7GEN]
• Create Textures for 3D Words [7GEN]
• Create 2D Scenes [7GEN]
• Actor Extractor [Exporting Default 3dmm Actors for Modding [7GEN]]
• 3dmmAP Scripting

Advanced Modding [Creation, Editing, Techniques]

• How to Create Cell-Shaded Models for 3dmm
• Extracting Models from N64 Roms
• Re-Assigning Textures [Default Actor Texturing - BMDL Re-Assigning]
• Creating Global Gradient Lighting [For AVI Recording Only - Do NOT Distribute as v3dmm]
• Breaking Apart a Default Actor into an ACTOR FONT for Advanced Animation
• Advanced Actor Creation [Covers Animating and Combining Textures]
• Texture Quality Control [When Importing with 7GEN]
• Ripping Models from Various Game Engines (Video Collection)
  

I am still collecting Tutorials and for some of the outdated ones I will probably go back, rewrite them, and remake the broken images, repost, and relink. This is a growing list and I will continually make changes and update it.

So, what is that is BUILD 3D scene maker?

Yeah I was trying to find my tutorials I made, but then realize Travis never finished the BUILD>VPX tool. So getting BUILD maps into 3dmm is kind of a process, I don't think enough of a demand for it really.

I might write up how to import Half Life maps, since it's the same process really.

not really a step by step tutorial tutorial, but this might be helpful for anyone curious about importing motion capture animation into 3dmm

http://www.3dmm.com/showpost.php?p=608496&postcount=22

Will there be a section of 3DMM Pencil++ 2 tutorials on this for font making/BMDL exporting? Cause It would be rather intresting to do o. :D

At this point? Probably not.

Oh yeah, there already is one. (Check the tutorial Megathread)

Are there any tutorials on creating a 3D Words font? :confused

There's no real official way of creating 3D fonts, unfortunately. Most 3D fonts use the Superdings font as a base, but even then you have to manually change ID's and such other things.

As stated above, it's really complicated. And if it's not done properly, it can cause conflicts.

this thread of the Collection of 3DMM/Modding Tutorials are great:) & useful:) for people like me! & everyone else & even guests!:) but?! i think we need to add more Tutorials to this thread:) because not many people & guests are going to find some new & old Tutorials:( & notice them somewhere else on this site well they will unless if they search them but i think its too much work for them to find them really:( so to make this easier for them & for everyone else i think that maybe i should add my Tutorials & some other peoples Tutorials to this thread because its useful & plus so that everyone knowns where they are & plus evil ash you can update this thread if you want so here are the threads that might be useful for this thread:)

My Tutorials

Can Anyone Make Mods or Models Like These?!
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=37784

How Did Molotov Make That Sam Hain Model?!
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=37941

The Quake 2 Modles That Are Broken On PlanetQuake.
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=38047

How Can i Put Md2 Models Into V3dmm?!
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?p=857987

hello i'm new to this site & i got a problem with 7gen on windows 7
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=37009

trying to turn The Disney's ToonTown Models From The Pc Game into quake 2 models
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=39663

trying to get 2 quake 2 actor models cringe and mrfrost in v3dmm
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?p=945675

how to 3dmm video Tutorials
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51423

how?! to rip models?! & stuff?! from games?! & things?!
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51501

Other People's Tutorials

Actors Holding Props
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=52036

Moving all objects in the current frame
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=52033

The Very Basics Of 7gen - NOOBS PLEASE READ - aka 7gen For Dummies
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=17767

Simulated Physics in 3DMM
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51119

Something (kinda a riddle for you)
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51453

Running 3DMM in 1080p
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51759

Fix "Oops!"-Error on 64-bit Windows
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=43645

How would one go about extracting an actor with it's skeleton?
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51897

"Model has a texture that is not powers of 2"
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51668

[Utility] Actor Extractor for 3DMM
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51269

[Utility] VMM Cleaner
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51498

[Utility] Chunk Extractor v2.0.0.1
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=50392

How to animate with shapes (spheres and cubes)?
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=51914

7gen 0.7 - new release
http://3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=48786

Read this when making a prop (or actor)
www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=50536

Release - 3DMM Paletterizer (0.4)
http://3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=45936

3DMM/V3DMM: A GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS! MAKING MOVIES
http://3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=46416

SUPERDINGS Final Version Released (for real)
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=11678

How to Utilize Scene-Specific PALETTES
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=3846

v3DMM Font Letter Maps
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=18787

Adding new costumes in Pencil
http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?p=455254

so yeah that's it i hope that helps anyone?! who doesn't know how to use 3dmm really but i am always here to help people:) if they get stuck so yeah so good luck:)

Thanks for adding those!

Nice, I have been curious about this. Thanks for posting and sticking. Hopefully I have some time to look through this.

Awesome, thanks Funny Bones! I'll QC them and edit the first post.

Edit: I've added ones that are still relevant and actually tutorials. Thanks!

Hey, could someone make a Canadian Pacific SD40-2 for 3dmm? I would be very appreciated.

how do i make an actor hold props

You can't. You have to animate the actor and then move the prop they're holding frame by frame to match where the hand is.

Unless you model the character with the item in hand, kinda like a "Henry effect".

Why was this unstickied? I had to go to the Wayback Machine just to find the link to this.

It's not unstickied for me.

Thank's to everyone who posted a tutorial..
I'd sure love a v3dmm full video-course or at least a book, that'd be absolutely epic!

I was considering on making some videos explaining advanced 3dmm techniques. If I knew someone would actually watch it, then I'd be up for it.

do it

That would be so helpful, I'd gratefully appreciate it! Learning some user tricks for modelling or camera work would be absolutely amazing...
Maybe you could also teach us how to use some of the utilities out there?
http://www.3dmmstudio.co.uk/utilities.php
:anime

wheres dat 3D Scene using BUILD tutorial