[Singh]

That you won't kill me for being absolutely sucky at this

Anyways, i decided to open up Metasequoia and try my hand at, well....i think I'll let the horrid pictures explain it:




It's supposed to be the 'top' part of a fighter, containing the canopy and tail section respectively. I tried to initially model everything from a simple cube; i.e. bevelling and generaly moving points around. I just gave up and started from a simpler plane instead. I managed to get the top fine, so now I have to create the wings and the other stuff seperately.

I know its complete crap compared to what's out there...but, well, its my first time manipulating polygons in any fashion that has succeeded in making the shape I desire.

[karajorma]

Metasequoia? New one on me.

Nice to see you taking your first steps into the modelling world away from DOGA though

Hmmm. May have to add this link to the FAQ. What formats can you export in? Something that is usable by PCS or at least 3D exploration?

[WeatherOp]

Go, Singh, Go.

[Col. Fishguts]

Not bad for a first try.

*Shudders upon remembering his own first pokes at modeling*

[Singh]

ok. looks Like I just found the mesh smoothing and a few other functions....in other words time to play!

The only problem is that I cant find the sub-divide fucntion. I wish to add more details to the cockpit area, like braces and consoles, but unless I can somehow subdivide those polys, its going to be troublesome, to say the least.

I've also added some wings to it

[Col. Fishguts]

Now that's massive overkill with the polycount on the wings.

[Black Wolf]

Indeed. You could kill probably 90% of those polies and have all but the same geometry.

[Singh]

true. But I was hoping to use those extra polygons to give a few more details later on.

Besides, the jaggedness of the wings initially was way too much, and I wanted to smoothen out the edges a bit - but mesh smoothing doesn't really care whether its just the selected parts you want smoothed or the entire object.

[Black Wolf]

Smoothing he mesh can be done far more efficiently with far fewer polies if you use somoothgroups. I don't know, however, if your particular 3d proggy would support them - presumably it would if it has any kind of render capabilities.

[Mefustae]

*Cough* Valkyrie *Cough*

...Still, a good model ...

[Galemp]

If you run an Optomize command on that it should significantly reduce the polies on the flat areas, while preserving them on the curves.