Tyre « Objects « 3ds-Max Tutorials

1. studiovarna.com » 3dsmax tyre modelling tutorial    studiovarna.com

First thing you will have to do is a Plane on the top view port. Your plane will have 1 length segment and 9 width segments. It will look like this:

2. Tyre Modelling    3dtotal.com

3. Car Tyres | 3D Tutorials    webdesign.org

Modeling car tyres is a polygon eating exercise (you end up with quite a few in the end), but definately worth it if you want to make a realistic looking car: using bump maps for threads is a bit too obvious.

4. Making A Car Tyre | 3D Tutorials    webdesign.org

BANG!! there you go a nice car tyre with chunky tread, different patterns can be found online and by scaling the NULL OBJECT you can make the tread stick out more or less etc...Also the amount of duplicates must be experimented with to get the kind of tread spacing you want ;-))

5. Making a Complete Tyre | 3D Tutorials    webdesign.org

6. Polygon Modeling: Car Tyres | 3D Tutorials    webdesign.org

Modeling car tyres is a polygon eating exercise (you end up with quite a few in the end), but definitely worth it if you want to make a realistic looking car: using bump maps for threads is a bit too obvious.