[Knight Templar]

Are you using max?

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


There's not much to say about it. It's just this cruisery bombery thing. There's nothing really good or bad about it, it's just boring.

Perhaps, then, you could give the man some idea's to help make it less boring?

[Woolie Wool]

Add details. Extrusions, recesses, dishes, whatever. Just break up those dull flat spaces.

[adwight]

No, I'm using Truespace 3.2.... Smooth would be a nice thing to learn...

[Baron MacDoblin]

Hand it to me and I'll add some curves.

[adwight]

Alright here it is.  Thank you for your help.

[Baron MacDoblin]

Here's a bit of what I did...

[TopAce]

Did you make it with 'Smooth Quad Divide'?

[Nifelheim]

hmmm, adwight's version lacked a bit of detail. I like what Baron MacDoblin did, and if textured good it could be excellent!

[TopAce]

Typically, this is the stage of a model, where the modeller has to realize his UV co-ordinates are wrong, and several textures are not visible.

[Baron MacDoblin]

Originally posted by TopAce
Did you make it with 'Smooth Quad Divide'?

I... don't have the slightest idea what that is I mostly chamfered the edges here and there, with a bit of tesselation ... is that what you mean?

[TopAce]

It is located in the toolbar of TrueSpace. Next to the 'Plugins icon'

[Lynx]

Actually 'smooth quad divide' is the worst thing that could happen to most models:p
I've got not a single model that looked better after the process.

BTW Bob that looks cool, Would make a good torpedo gunship. Now slap some cool individual textures on it. I don't want such a cool model to be befallen by the tiling disease.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Lynx
Actually 'smooth quad divide' is the worst thing that could happen to most models:p

It is merely a subjective opinion, isn't it?

[Taristin]

That's definately not SQD'd... SQD would round it off. It only works on *Some* Vasudan ships. And only if you do it just right...

[TopAce]

It worked every time I clicked on it.
Or do you mean something else?

[Taristin]

I mean the effect doesn't suit the model nine times out of ten. The best effects are usually only on Vasudan ships, and even then, most don't look good.

[TopAce]

That's also good for increasing the polycount. For those who go for the numbers.

[StratComm]

yeah...  as if anyone would want to up the polycount without adding detail...

[adwight]

Whoa man, that looks way better, I gotta learn gmax better, if I can do that to models...