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Offline Grey Wolf

That's rather impressive, especially for an early version. I wish I had the tools to do something like that, considering how long that would take to do in Blender....
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I basically made a number of half spheres, stretched and tapered where necessary, and arranged using JM's as a reference.

It was actually quite easy to make the buldges since most of them have the same shape, just different orientation. Thank god for cut and paste.

 

Offline KARMA

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sorry but no:)
mostly because with 2 high poly lods out of 4 lods, it'd mean to have an unbalanced LODs succession.  

BTW, it's really a nice start, but I give you a suggestion for when you work on blubby models:
Consider the main body of the ship. Look at the ventral area: it has a very wide angle, it's almost flat. You don't need more than..say 4 edges on the trasversal section for this area.
The borders instead have a narrow angle, they are more curved, and need (proportionally) more edges. 6 Edges should be enough.
That's a total of 20 edges for the trasversal section. Want to oversmooth? go for 24 if your pcount isn't already too high.
This mean to not only deform a sphere or a rounded cylinder, but also to control the edge density, smoothing only where needed.
I don't know how many edges you used (but to have 20 k you probably used a lot of them)
It also seem from your pic that the longitude of the various elements is more rounded (proportionally) than the latitude (the number of trasversal elements).
But I may be wrong because it's hard to judge a rounded model with smooth shadings from a perspective view.

 
Ok Homeone is gonna take MUCH more work than I expected. I'm still focused on my Trek conversions. Would you folks like my current conversion of JM's Homeone? Maybe it will be of some use to you folks. Or does someone have it already?

I'm gonna keep working on my version of Homeone but it will be second on my priority list. It is a favorite of mine so its definitly gonna be a WIP.

 

Offline KARMA

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ok, no hurry for homeone.
meanwhile we may use that JM model, if it's good (never really looked at it) and if JM will give us permission.
Don't post the link, give me it with a p.m
thanks:)

  

Offline Setekh

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Making some good progress there, Omni. Keep it up. :):yes:
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