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Offline mikhael

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on: June 29, 2005, 07:42:25 pm
David Brin wrote a story about a man transported into a world in which the laws of nature were oddly skewed. In essence, the more something was used for a given purpose, the better it became for that purpose. Peasants would walk around all day wearing the finest clothing, in order that it might become finer. It was called "The Practice Effect"

I'm suffering quite the opposite. I've gone so long without even looking at Lightwave, that I can't model anything. I'm quite at a loss. Help me HLP-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope! Inspire me to model something.:nervous:
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Reply #1 on: June 29, 2005, 07:51:04 pm


:nervous: :p
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Reply #2 on: June 29, 2005, 08:06:38 pm
open one of your old models and start greebleing it, it'll take you about a week to remember how to turn the peddls with your feet, but it'll come back.

that's what I do, when I need to get back into the game.
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Reply #3 on: June 29, 2005, 09:45:56 pm
Hm.  What if you optimized existing models for a while?  That should tide you over until you started getting ideas.  TVWP is in a situation right now where we need somebody to do just that. ;)
 

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Reply #4 on: June 29, 2005, 10:06:18 pm
You know, Bob, that's what I started tooing tonight: poking at old models. It was just ugly. I was giving some serious thought to pulling out some of my old Truespace models and revamping them from scratch in Lightwave.

Goob, PM me. Let me know what you need.
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Reply #5 on: June 29, 2005, 10:39:42 pm
welcome back, mik, how long are going to stay this time?
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Reply #6 on: June 30, 2005, 12:54:19 am
How about doing some more models for the 158th?
 

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Reply #7 on: June 30, 2005, 06:04:18 am
Mik! Model an "uberized" (but not necessicarily large) Shivan Comm Node for the FSU. :D That way ugly won't matter - it's Shivan! :p
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Reply #8 on: June 30, 2005, 04:06:34 pm
I'm always here. I just don't speak much, Lib, and I don't even look at the politics and religion and evolution discussions. I just kind of lurk.

Spicious, my problem is I can't model anything new right now. If I do make anything new, the 158th pretty much always gets first refusal anyway.

I'm not terribly interested in doing highpoly versions of existing vessels. The Comm Node is an interesting idea, but considering [V] just threw together some rotating shapes in the first place, what would be the point?
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Reply #9 on: June 30, 2005, 04:47:24 pm
The point would be.... *sends PM*
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #10 on: June 30, 2005, 06:59:02 pm
How about doing something with these?
 

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Reply #11 on: June 30, 2005, 07:56:41 pm
Damn. I'd forgotten about that CENSORED. I can't even bear to look at some of the other stuff at the beginning of that thread. The thing at the end though, I'm afraid might be gone. Lots of my Freespace stuff was lost in that last drive implosion. :(
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Reply #12 on: June 30, 2005, 08:12:13 pm
:( That's a shame, a lot of that stuff is great.
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Reply #13 on: June 30, 2005, 08:14:26 pm
Yeah, I just went through all my dvd backups. Every last one of them is from a year BEFORE those models, or from about three months AFTER those models.
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Reply #14 on: June 30, 2005, 08:32:59 pm
and this is why I always post progress models.
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Reply #15 on: June 30, 2005, 09:48:47 pm
Well if nothing else, I've got some inspiration now. Some of that stuff I can do better than I did previously.
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Reply #16 on: June 30, 2005, 11:52:58 pm
My hard drive exploded about a week ago. And all my most recent backups are still in ^&*(@#% Vancouver. I have absolutely nothing to work with anymore.
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Reply #17 on: July 01, 2005, 12:55:14 am
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David Brin wrote a story about a man transported into a world in which the laws of nature were oddly skewed. In essence, the more something was used for a given purpose, the better it became for that purpose. Peasants would walk around all day wearing the finest clothing, in order that it might become finer. It was called "The Practice Effect"

I'm suffering quite the opposite. I've gone so long without even looking at Lightwave, that I can't model anything. I'm quite at a loss. Help me HLP-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope! Inspire me to model something.:nervous:



You could always model some Hi-Poly FS2 stuff. Like a Hatshepsut, pretty much all the Vasudan fighters, the Shivan ships, those all need to be hi-polied.
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Reply #18 on: July 01, 2005, 08:10:01 pm
Yeah. I've got half finished hipoly versions of FS2 stuff all over the place (remember the Herc? I've also got a Medusa that I never finished. And, I think a... um... I don't remember what that other one is called. Its an interceptor thing I think. Perseus or some such?). I don't really like doing hipoly versions of the canon stuff. Everyone complains that I'm not following the textures, blah blah blah. It was okay with the Mjolnir, since it was obviously a complete throwaway model in the first place.
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Reply #19 on: July 01, 2005, 09:30:24 pm
you should see what they said about my Deimos and Orion. people all screaming "AHHH you added detail to it!!!"
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