wu can be one meter one feet or any arbitrary measurement you want.Īnd yes Wings can use the TDM textures but afaik only the diffuse the normal map and the specular map, aren't rendered in the real time viewport (you can use them if you render using YafaRay tho).Ībout tuts i recommend the Wings3D youtube channel and the next link for text tutorials. Wings 3D was my first 3D modeling software so i have some experience with it, so i can give you some advice if needed, it has gained some new tools and functionality ever since i stopped using (i think more than 10 years ago) but i think the basics are still the same.įrom my last time using it this is what i learned about it, so take this with a grain of salt.ġ - Wings 3D has one of the best Box modeling workflows in existence bar none, payed tools like Silo, Modo, and even free ones like Blender copied stuff wings3D add long ago.Ģ - Wings 3D is very hotkey and right mouse button context based so has almost no buttons or visual aids in the modeling viewport, for example it lacks a translate/rotate/Scale 3D gismo.ģ - Wings 3D is not good has a high polygon modeler so no zbrush like million polys sculpting, it has sculpting functionality but is best used to massage the geometry than to sculpt small details.Ĥ - Wings 3D ALWAYS produces closed models (almost like brushes) so no single face planes or plane modeling (even tho it has a plane object but is a double face object with one face hidden using the 'hole' material)ĥ - If you want to give holes to your models or delete faces you need to assign the *hole material, it deletes the face only at export time and just hides it in wings3D viewport (if you want you can unhide it).Ħ - Wings 3D has a very nice autoUV/unwrap tool (same one used on old 4.x versions of Blender) but lacks a pack uv function so prepare yourself to arrange the UV's in the 0-1 space by hand (if you want no overlap).ħ - Afaik Wings 3D can texture geometry like Darkradiant (using a special texturing mode) but is very cumbersome and not very user friendly like on DarkRadiant.Ĩ - Wings lacks a grid system like DarkRadiant (is not a level editor tho), but it can replicate it using its static grid and the hotkey based magnet system, with small and large steps.ĩ - The wings 3D measuring system is based on its own unit the.

Wings 3d tutorial