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Title: She's my cherry pie
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 12, 2003, 12:49:20 am: (http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/freighter.jpg)

Big-ass freighter.Possibly, the ugliest ship I've ever done- which sucks, because I like all the individual parts, separate from each other. Word to the wise, kids- never start modeling a ship unless you have a good idea of what the whole thing's supposed to look like in the end.

Also, never go above a million polys. Can fit that much more detail in, but when it comes to rendering, takes ten to fifteen minutes to move, select, or edit one thing. Ugh. I'm going to bed.

(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/F2.jpg)
A little detail shot.
Title: She's my cherry pie
Post by: Fetty on January 12, 2003, 04:32:45 am: from what i can see in the darkness it looks awesome :)
Title: Re: She's my cherry pie
Post by: Nico on January 12, 2003, 07:04:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX

Also, never go above a million polys. Can fit that much more detail in, but when it comes to rendering, takes ten to fifteen minutes to move, select, or edit one thing.

tell me about it:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/ott/renders/eisenhowerwip6.jpg) thanks god you can hide the details in the viewports with greeble, I tried with them shown, was terrible ( btw, about 1 500 000 polys on this one ).
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Post by: an0n on January 12, 2003, 07:34:21 am: Why don't you just hide things. I'm sure MAX allows you to selectively ignore objects from viewports. Keep an object list open and just hide everything that's inactive.
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Post by: Anaz on January 12, 2003, 08:40:43 am: :eek2: :eek2: @ venom & stryke

Ugly ships rock!
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Post by: Nico on January 12, 2003, 08:44:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Why don't you just hide things. I'm sure MAX allows you to selectively ignore objects from viewports. Keep an object list open and just hide everything that's inactive.

that's what I do :p

analazon: mine's a station, not a ship.
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Post by: an0n on January 12, 2003, 10:18:27 am: Speaking of MAX, I think mine just died permenantly and took half of my processor with it.

Note to MAXers: When Greeble'ing, ALWAYS make sure you deleted that extra 0 in the density box.

I accidentally set it to 100 on a 144 poly plane. Poor, poor processor.
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Post by: gevatter Lars on January 12, 2003, 11:08:14 am: Allow me one question..what is greebling?
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Post by: kode on January 12, 2003, 11:37:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by gevatter Lars
Allow me one question..what is greebling?

small thingies on the hulls of models, for example satellite dishes, pipelines, etcetera.
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Post by: gevatter Lars on January 12, 2003, 11:49:15 am: Is there a plug in or something that makes such things for you or did you make them all step by step?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 12, 2003, 12:34:29 pm: Me, I made mine. Venom used the Greeble plugin for MAX, which puts in "random" squares over a mesh. It's generally not recommended, apparently, because it's fairly obvious when something used the plugin.

And you don't get anything other than cubes.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 12, 2003, 12:38:02 pm: Fetty: you can see pretty much all of it. It actually just ends at those big support bars, because I didn't know what to add below it and at any rate it was going too slow to do much by that point.

1.6 mil, something like that. And unfinished, too- most of that's the detailing on the cargo pallets and some of the side support.

Woulda been pretty cool if it worked at a decent speed. I got these little functional loading cranes on the bottom and everything.
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Post by: gevatter Lars on January 12, 2003, 02:33:37 pm: Since I don't know how to make a plugin myself would you provide/release your selfmade plugin StrykeIX???
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 12, 2003, 02:34:52 pm: 1. I meant, I make my own greebles. The scaffold and such were mesh models I DXFed and archived for future use. And since I use a program none of you all have, it wouldn't do a lot of good, anyway.;)
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Post by: gevatter Lars on January 12, 2003, 02:39:55 pm: What program do you use that you think nobody else use it.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 12, 2003, 02:45:59 pm: Ray Dream Studio.
Title: She's my cherry pie
Post by: Nico on January 12, 2003, 03:05:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
Me, I made mine. Venom used the Greeble plugin for MAX, which puts in "random" squares over a mesh. It's generally not recommended, apparently, because it's fairly obvious when something used the plugin.

And you don't get anything other than cubes.

There's other shapes than cubes, but there's still not enough randomness. Anyway, for that mesh it did exactly what I wanted so it's fine.
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Post by: Setekh on January 13, 2003, 04:44:37 am: Hey Stryke, is that first pic the whole freighter, or is it sitting in a dry-dock? It doesn't look too bad... has it got any guns? :D

Oh, and Venom, the station's nice. I haven't said I liked a station since B4. :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 13, 2003, 04:51:02 pm: Such as it is, it's the whole one. I guess the lower struts are there for docking purposes or something, though I'll have to figure out how- if it lands on those, it'd probably obstruct the loading cranes I have on the bottom. And no, it's unarmed- if necessary, an escort can be included (it'd reasonably tough), but there'd be little need, most of the time.