tyre Tutorial (can any one host it on there site?)

ok ive decided to write a tutorial on making a car tyre here it is

Set up.
Open blender and delete the default plane spit screen by right clicking the line between the 3D window and the buttons panel and selecting split area.
have the first window in front view by pressing 1 on the number pad and have te second window in side view by pressing 3 on the number pad (you must have num lock on
Step.1
Create a circle with 18 vertices by pressing space-add-mesh-circle-vertices 18.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/volkofsky/tuttyre1.jpg
picture.1

step.2
Now select all the vertices by pressing the A key and extrude them by pressing the E key the resize them by pressing the S key and adjust so it matches with picture No.2.(if this does not work press a again and redo the step)

Step 3
Select the outer ring and extrude again til it fits with the next image

Step 4
Repeat that procedure for steps 4,5,6,7 & 8

Making the thread

Step 1
press space-add-mesh-cube by toggling with rotation “R” extrusion “E” and size “S”
match your cube with the one in the following picture

Repeat that process and make various different shapeslike it the following pictures

Put them together and you should get something like this

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/volkofsky/tuttyre13.jpg

now put the thread and the tyre together and you will get this

Now for a tricky bit. Make sure the 3d cursor is in the very middle of the tyre (you can do this by aligning the cursor with the purple dot)
press F9 and go to the mesh tools
turn degr: from 90 to 360
turn spin: to 44
and spin dup:to 1
now in side view (so you can see the tyre like this O
press spin dup
you should get this

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/volkofsky/tuttyre15.jpg

now just duplicate it by pressing shift-D
and mirror it by pressing space-tranzform-mirror-local x
now itl look like this
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/volkofsky/tuttyre16.jpg

yay your finished well done [/img]

Put it in html and send it to me.

thanks alot but i decided i would make my own little website but if you could put it wherever id be happy heres the link to the web page http://www.freewebs.com/volkofsky/

thanks alot but i decided i would make my own little website but if you could put it wherever id be happy heres the link to the web page http://www.freewebs.com/volkofsky/

And pretty please compress those images. I’m on dialup and they’ve been loading for ten minutes now.

hm, the last pics didn’t load. maybe a bandwidth issue. looked good from what i saw though. compression would be nice though.

your site doesn’t work: http://www.freewebs.com/volkofsky/

I can host it with unlimited bandwidth at my college.

you could send your tutorial to www.itsagthing.net

and let let mrfreak convert it to a pdf;if you register as a member you can post attachments to allow members to download your blends and tutorials…
membership is free and tutorials are welcome

let me know if thats ok im the head admin

Thanks for sharing!

GABO