Here a list of useful tutorials on the internet, so people that aren't familiar with new techniques can find out here. They don't need to be hosted on-site, if you find anything that might help everyone post it here!

If you're the author of some tutorial and don't want it posted here, write me an email

Modelling
Application	Link	Description	Author
Basics
-	Basics of texture unwrapping	Explains how UV Unwrapping works	Robby Frank
-	Smoothing groups in 3D Max	Explanation on how smoothing groups work in 3dmax	Ben Mathis
-	Working with modular sets	This tutorial explains, without being indeep, how to model with modularity in mind.	Philip Klevestav
-	Normal maps guide	I've written tutorials explaining the process of creating, editing, and applying normal maps. I hope you enjoy them	Ben Cloward
Environment
- Modo	Stone tutorial	Tutorial about creating a little rock asset, covering modelling, sculpting and texturing.	Pedro Amorim
-	Generic tiling rock brick walls	This is a short writeup of how we can create high quality tiling meshes in a short ammount of time. In this tutorial i will explain a method where it takes just a few hours maximum to create this in an efficient way. The same techniques can be used of course for other types of assets.	Bram Eulaers
- Maya	Rock modelling	Two-part workflow video about modelling, sculpting and texturing a rock asset.	Jacob Christopher
-	Modelling lowpoly trees	technique for making low/med poly trees for games	Jeramy Cooke
-	3dsmax Environment Modeling #1 Procedural Stone	This technique delivers a very believable result and is absolutely non destructive. Once set up, you can easily modify the results, only by changing the mappingoffsets in the first "cellular" displacement map.	sascha henrichs
Vehicles
-	Creating a Next-Gen Video Game Hot Rod: the Complete Workflow	In this tutorial you will follow professional CG artist and teacher Laurens Corijn as he creates a high quality, next-gen, normal mapped Hot Rod for realtime use.	Laurens Corijn
Weapons
-	AK Tutorial	This free DVD length tutorial covers the complete creation of a modern weapon, the AK74U, using 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and Marmoset.	Racer445
Sub-D Modelling
-	An Introduction to Subdivision (High-Poly) Modeling Tools and Techniques	In this tutorial, you will learn the very basics of subdivision modeling, used to make highpoly models to bake high detail in normal maps and textures for a lowpoly model.	Racer445
-	MODELING HI / LOW POLY MODELS FOR NEXT-GEN GAMES	I'll be delving into what you need to do, modeling-wise, to really bring out those details in the generated normal map, the hows and why's, what works and what doesn't. I’ll be using my Daedalus HK model for examples.	Joao Costa

Texturing
Application	Link	Description	Author
Texture making
-	Hand paint metal textures	Useful tutorial about painting metal textures.	Racer445
-	Basic Normal maps rules	Translating Visual Depth.	Chris Holden
-	Tiling textures in Uncharted 2	here is a quick rundown of the process i use...	Behrooz Roozbeh
-	MATERIALS IN GENERAL	step by step tutorials including a lot of hints and tricks I use when creating such materials... wood, metal, rocks..	Philip Klevestav
UV Mapping

Animation
Application	Link	Description	Author

Programming
Application	Link	Description	Author

Feel free to post in this topic more tutorials following the following pattern and i will add them

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Awesome tutorials, thanks!

Ira Krakow ought to have a spot there. He teaches Blender over at his own site, but it seems to be having trouble. However, his youtube is http://www.youtube.com/user/irakrakow

I have more, but I'll need to sort my bookmarks for the really quality stuff, ira is good for blender.

Nice list man, also nice forum tables.

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low poly trees: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost ... ostcount=9

paroxum: cliff tutorial?

brian's favourite rock tutorial http://saschahenrichs.blogspot.com/2010 ... ing-1.html

I drop these here, need to sort them in the tutorial someday. if anyone feels like doing it, awesome


This is a copypaste from the Mapcore.net forums post done by [HP] answering to some guy's problems need to read them all and see what is good and put them at the top!

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I found a toturial about basic UV mapping:

http://guerrillacg.org/home/3d-texturin ... uv-mapping

tought it might help

That video isnt based on a single program, and is done completely different in real life. What's the use of it? xD

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hmm i dont know

I love this series, especially for showing people new to topology, their topology video is excellent. Very important series, thank you for reminding.

added 3 new tutorials, sorted it. still need to add a few others

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Modular game environment advice:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2 ... _fast_.php

More modular advice, this time focused on UnrealED, but the same principals apply for other engines:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/WorkflowAndModularity.html

Topic on Polycount about making rocks and cliffs. Some of the cliffs advice is really good.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50160

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Conqueror of the polygon.

Thanks a lot i was searching for this for very long time, actually i recently join this forum and i hope got lot of such useful information in future.

Making a particle explosion effect

Some links from Uncharted 2 development, zbrush stuff:

Uncharted 2 tiled textures normal maps

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