First, Open Wings 3D:

• Click on the windows start Menu
• Go to "All Programs"
• Go to "Wings 3D"
• Click on "Wings 3D"

Make sure the Camera works the right way:

• Click on the "Edit" menu
• Click on "Preferences..."
• Click on the tab called Camera
• In the "Camera Mode" box, click on Maya - if it won't let you click on Maya, then click on Blender
• Click the Ok button.

Make a Shape

• Click on the "Geometry" window
• Now right-click anywhere in the "Geometry" window.
• Choose any one of the shapes from the window that pops up (everything after grid is not a shape)

Modify the Shape

• First, choose how you want to modify the shape - you can modify the whole shape, some of its faces, some of its edges, or some of its vertecies
• To choose how you want to modify the shape, click on one of the red pyrimids at the top of the "Geometry" window
• Then select, either the whole shape, or the parts of the shape that you want to modify
• When the shape is selected, it will turn red. If you want to deselect everything, hit the space bar button on your keyboard.
• Once you have something selected, right-click anywhere in the "Geometry" window.
• Just experiment with these options until you get what you want.


• Everything after this (until saving and exporting) is optional - just do the things your want to do.

Prepare a Shape to have a texture mapped to it (like putting a face on the shape, or a wizard robe)

• First, Select the entire shape.
• Then, right-click anywhere in the "Geometry" window.
• Select UV Mapping > and then Direct
• Now go to the new window that appeard on the right
• right-click in the new window and then click on Segment By > and then click on Feature Detection
• Now, right-click in the new window and then click on Continue > and then click on Unfolding
• Now you should have your shape unfolded, sitting on top of the alphabet pattern
• Now, Close this new window (don't close the program, just close the new window)

Make sure the "Outliner" Window is Open:

• Click on the "Window" menu.
• Click on "Outliner"

Create a Material:

• Click in the "Geometry" window
• Press the space bar to make sure everything is deselected
• Now right-click
• Click on Material...
• Give it the name you want


• Then click "Ok", and experiment with the settings in the window that pops up until the material looks the way you want it to.

If you want to have a texture on the shape, you'll need to import an image:

• Click on the "File" menu.
• Click on "Import Image..."
• Next to the thing that says Look In: Find the folder that has your name on it (like the "Mr. Wyrick" folder, except your name isn't Mr. Wyrick)
• Double click on the "videoGameDev" folder
• Double Click on the "learn3D" folder
• Double Click on the "scenes" folder
• Double click on the image file that you want (make sure it is a jpeg or jpg file, because those are the only files that the game will read)

Put the image onto the material you made

• Click on the name of the image you imported in the "Outliner" window.
• Now click and drag the image name up to the material that you made
• When the box pops up, Click on the word "Diffuse" - you'll have to click it twice.

Assign the material to the shape you made earlier

• Now Click on the shape in the "Geometry" window.
• Make sure you have the whole shape selected (there should be a white box around the right-most red pyrimid)
• In the "Outliner Window", click on the name of the material that you created earlier
• Now, right-click on it.
• Click on "Assign to Selection"
• Hit the space bar on your keyboard to deselect everything.
• The material should now be on the shape

If the texture isn't facing the right way on the shape, then

• First, Select the entire shape.
• Then, right-click anywhere in the "Geometry" window.
• Select UV Mapping > and then Direct
• Now go to the new window that appeard on the right
• You can select and deselect the unfolded parts of your shape in this window.
• And if you righ-click, you can move, scale, and rotate the unfolded parts so that they have the sections of the texture mapped onto them that you want.
• When you are done, just close this window (the one on the right - not the whole program).

• Go to the "File" menu
• Click "Save As..."
• Make sure you have your folder (the one with your name on it) selected in the space next to Save in:
• Give it the file name you want
• Click the "Save" button

• Go to the "File" menu
• Click "Export >"
• Click "VRML 2.0"
• When the export box pops up:
  • Next to the thing that says Look In: Find the folder that has your name on it (like the "Mr. Wyrick" folder, except your name isn't Mr. Wyrick)
  • Double click on the "videoGameDev" folder
  • Double Click on the "learn3D" folder
  • Double Click on the "scenes" folder
• Next to File name: there should be a name like what you saved it as - this is the name you will see in the "Object Selector" window when you are making a level.
• Now click the "Save" button.