[Axem]

I dunno if you would want my model. There's a few parts that changed for the better, but I don't think it matches well with the rest of the ship. A lot of the Moscow has large exaggerated detail sections, while I was trying to put in finer detail. I'm that finding a waste of time since you won't notice it 99% of the time.

[Fearless Leader]

well, 99% of the time people dont was "WOW" and pass out from the awesomeness of a ship. And I think that is what we are going for, the best everyone has to offer. Trust me Axem, they want you your model 

[Hellstryker]

I'll do some work on it. You want it triangulated or no?

[Azhren]

What's the progress on the modelling now? I cant model to save my life, but am interested in how it may turn out

Azhren

[Colonol Dekker]

Have you had a yet?


If so disregard,

Are there restrictions on the model? Any rules and regs, like each person has a poly cap to what they can add for instance?


Because i'd quite like to add to it, but i can't UV map to save my life.............literally.

[colecampbell666]

No restrictions, except that you shouldn't change the whole model to suit your tastes. Add your own style, don't take other's away.

That's pretty much it.

[bizzybody]

Calling Anita Blake! Anita Blake to the forum! We have a thread that needs raised!

*bump*

Did anyone ever finish this ship?

[blowfish]

No, I don't think so.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'd forgotten about this
I might add some bits and bobs.

[blowfish]

I think its already got enough greebles.  It needs some turrets now.

[Colonol Dekker]

A turret you say? I'll see what i have knocking about. I need to dl it first.

[Topgun]

I bet this thing will never be uv'ed. nobody likes to uv map.

[Colonol Dekker]

There's no such thing as bad practice. .
I'll attempt it at the weekend in fact

McEdit with Chips---


Can't fins a working link so someone has to tell me where it is..

[bizzybody]

Heh, my former ISP still hasn't deleted my web-stuff. http://members.aceweb.com/gregg1/Moscow6.zip and http://members.aceweb.com/gregg1/Moscow7b.zip

[Water]

Heh, my former ISP still hasn't deleted my web-stuff. http://members.aceweb.com/gregg1/Moscow6.zip and http://members.aceweb.com/gregg1/Moscow7b.zip

Could you check your 7b version. It sorta looks like you were going to do some boolian stuff and then didn't.
Ignore the red plane, was just checking for lost faces.

[bizzybody]

What'd you load that into? It looks and works fine in trueSpace 6.6. There aren't any missing faces, I fixed some and an unconnected vertex or two on the version I first downloaded. (Read up-thread a ways.)

One issue I have noticed with other apps importing .cob format is recessed areas where the edge is perfectly co-planar with a face and the vertexes aren't connected by edges. Then you get the recessed areas treated as a sub-object *inside* another object. LithUnwrap and Ultimate Unwrap will booger things up with such models. The fix is simply to add some edges in the right places then scoot the verts .001 one way or another so any further boolean operations won't remove those edges.

I can't upload to where those zips are because I canceled that ISP account in February, they just haven't got 'round to deleting my site yet.

[Water]

What'd you load that into? It looks and works fine in trueSpace 6.6. There aren't any missing faces, I fixed some and an unconnected vertex or two on the version I first downloaded. (Read up-thread a ways.)

One issue I have noticed with other apps importing .cob format is recessed areas where the edge is perfectly co-planar with a face and the vertexes aren't connected by edges. Then you get the recessed areas treated as a sub-object *inside* another object. LithUnwrap and Ultimate Unwrap will booger things up with such models. The fix is simply to add some edges in the right places then scoot the verts .001 one way or another so any further boolean operations won't remove those edges.

Well both Blender and AccuTrans have the same problem. Add LithUnwrap and Ultimate Unwrap and you have four pieces of software in agreement. Unfortunately Truespace 3.2 didn't agree, and since it's a Truespace format it wins.

Thanks for the info and we have a solution.
In Truespace hit the triangulate button then save.  Blender and AccuTrans are happy again.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Well both Blender and AccuTrans have the same problem. Add LithUnwrap and Ultimate Unwrap and you have four pieces of software in agreement. Unfortunately Truespace 3.2 didn't agree, and since it's a Truespace format it wins.

Actually this is just TS being retarded once again. It's not got anything to do with the format, and it's just that TS can't figure out what to do with untriangulated ring shaped faces that it hasn't just created itself. All it involves is TS giving the ring shaped face a 'secret' triangulation so the renderer can draw it - where the edges aren't visible in edit mode or anywhere else.

If TS first creates the ring face it gives it a good guess as to how to 'secretly' triangulate it which usually means you won't see the effect, but when you import a model with a ring face it probably just picks where to do the edges based on vertex order, giving no regard to the actual shape of the face. When you triangulate, TS actually thinks about it a bit and tends to get it right. ish.

[Flipside]

Can Blender not triangulate the model before export? I know it doesn't look as 'clean' but I always tend to create the mesh using non-tri's, create the UVMap, then triangulate the model before export (though, admittedly, that is in Lightwave, not Blender). Seems to work pretty well for me.

[Vasudan Admiral]

If it's been built well, there should be very little to no difference in the surfaces of a terran ship like this triangulated or not, which is probably why I didn't last time I exported.

Triangulating is just select all, ctrl+t though.