Design of indonesian: 3DS MAX Modeling a Bedroom Suite: Tutorial for Beginners Tutorial (continous)

Step One

First we need reference pictures to help us in choosing the right furniture. I almost always go to Ikea when I need inspiration for these types of models. Here is the bed I have chosen. It is quite simple to model but has lots of things to do.

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Step Two

First let’s start on the headboard. In the front viewport create a rectangle shape (Create > Shapes > Rectangle). Drag it out like below. Now right click it and select ‘Convert to…….Editable Spline’. Turn on the 3d snap button (circled red), right click the rectangle again, and this time choose ‘Refine’. Click twice in the middle of the rectangle to make two extra vertices.

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Step Three

That done right click anywhere to deselect the refine button. Now area select the two new vertices and drag them upwards. I also narrowed the rectangle a little. Press ‘1’ on the keyboard to deselect the vertex mode and from the modifier list choose ‘Extrude’.

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Step Four

In the top viewport extrude the rectangle by around 40,0cm or whatever you think is better.

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Step Five

Now right click and choose ‘Convert to….Editable Poly’. CRTL+R to rotate the viewport. Hit ‘2’ on the keyboard to enter Edge mode. CRTL + select all the edges along to sides.

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Step Six

With the edges still selected, click the Chamfer button and drag the edges a little.

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Step Seven

Back in the front viewport, hold the SHIFT key and drag down a little to make a copy. When the copy dialogue box appears, make sure you have ‘copy’ selected.

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Step Eight

Hit ‘1’ to enter vertex mode and CRTL + select all the lower vertices. Drag them downwards then right click and choose ‘Scale’. Scale the vertices along the Y axis to make a straight line.

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Step Nine

Now create a box (Create > Standard Primitives > Box) and drag it out in the front viewport. Position it correctly and convert it to an editable poly. On edge mode, CRTL + select the four edges and chamfer them.

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Step Ten

In the top view, SHIFT + drag to copy and position correctly. Create a circle (Create > Shapes > Circle) in the front viewport along with a rectangle. Give the rectangle slightly curved corners.

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Step Eleven

Convert the rectangle to an editable spline and hit ‘Attach’. Now click the circle to make one shape. Hit ‘3’ for the spline mode and select the rectangle again. Scroll down the right hand options until you find ‘Boolean’. Click it then click the circle. If they don’t become one complete shape you may have to move them slightly.

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Step Twelve

Hit ‘3’ again to exit the sub-object mode and click the modifier list. From there choose ‘Lathe’. Change degrees to 180 and segments to 32. SHIFT drag to copy and reposition.

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Step Thirteen

The rest of the bed frame to made of the same objects copied and in some cases, modified a little.

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Step Fourteen

The mattress is simply a box converted to an editable poly with the edges chamfered twice.

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Step Fifteen

We now need a couple of pillows. This is where it can get complicated. Start with a box with 6 length segments, 5 width segments and 2 height segments. Create it in the top viewport then CRTL+R to rotate the viewport and position it correctly.

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Step Sixteen

Convert it to an editable poly. Now in the left viewport area select these vertices (using CRTL to multi select). Scale them out a little and also move them downwards.

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Step Seventeen

Do the same in the front viewport.

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Step Eighteen

Exit the vertex sub-object mode and add a Meshsmooth modifier from the modifier list. Give it 2 iterations for a smoother finish.

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Step Nineteen

It still needs a more irregular surface. Turn on the show end result button (circled red) and go back to vertex sub-object mode. If you expand the ‘Soft selection’ panel and check ‘Use Soft selection’, you can affect other vertices by moving just one. Change the value of the falloff to get different results. This is where you just have to experiment by moving vertices and seeing what works best.

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Step Twenty

SHIFT + drag to make a copy, then tweak the vertices to make the new pillow slightly different.

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Step Twenty One

The quilt we can make in exactly the same way as the pillows. The only difference here is that we make it much thinner and we only make half of it. The other half we can copy later.

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Step Twenty Two

When you are more or less happy with the results, delete the meshsmooth modifier and CRTL select all the polys in the side we are going to copy and delete them.

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Step Twenty Three

In the top viewport, use the Mirror tool (circled red) to make a copy. Make sure you have the right Mirror Axis (in this case it’s X).

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Step Twenty Four

Attach the two objects and area select the middle vertices (here there are 32). Hit the weld button and there should then be 16. If there isn’t, try scaling the vertices along the X axis.

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Step Twenty Five

Add the mesh smooth modifier again and you will probably have to tweak the vertices again.

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Step Twenty Six

That’s the bed finished, and it was probably the most difficult. The next piece of furniture are two bed side cabinets. I am not going to go into great detail as they are made in exactly the same way as the bed frame. Here’s the reference image.

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Step Twenty Seven

The side made from a rectangle then extruded, chamfered, etc.

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Step Twenty Eight

Remember to chamfer the edges you will see in the final render and not the ones you won’t see.

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Step Twenty Nine

The drawer is made from a copy of one of the shelves (so it doesn’t open) and scaled along the Y axis. The handle is just a cylinder scaled and chamfered.