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Title: I'm at it again....
Post by: Centurus on March 15, 2008, 09:14:34 am
I'm still trying to learn to mesh.  And I'm making some progress.  Lint pointed me in the direction of a tutorial that at first was nearly impossible for me to understand, but now I'm slowly understanding it.

However, after a few sessions with Mudd and TUS, although I'm still no where near the level I need to be in order to do an entire ship, at the very least I know how to use splines to make a saucer.

Here's some images of what I've got so far.  The saucer stands at 3,520 polys, chopped down from a little over 7k.  And the polys were chopped from the rim alone.  Still more poly chopping to do.

Title: Re: I'm at it again....
Post by: Kreeargh on March 15, 2008, 02:11:27 pm
Looks good so far  :thumbsup:
If your looking for real low poly but yet trying to keep the roundness try welding verts in areas that dont need smoothenss, like any flat plain .
Title: Re: I'm at it again....
Post by: Centurus on March 15, 2008, 04:20:09 pm
Looks good so far  :thumbsup:
If your looking for real low poly but yet trying to keep the roundness try welding verts in areas that dont need smoothenss, like any flat plain .

Exactly what I'm doing with the rim.  I've done 3 other splines before this one, and noticed that if I have a rounded edge rim, there tends to be a bunch of small polys packed in close.  That's the case with this saucer here.

Before I decided to get some sleep this morning, I had managed to hack off more polys to get it down to roughly 2500, and I'm still not done yet.
Title: Re: I'm at it again....
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 17, 2008, 08:53:50 am
My god you've done it !!!!! An Orange frizzbie for our game  :laugh: j/k. Great start indeed
Title: Re: I'm at it again....
Post by: Centurus on March 17, 2008, 09:18:31 am
My god you've done it !!!!! An Orange frizzbie for our game  :laugh: j/k. Great start indeed

 :laugh: :laugh:

Ahhh, but it's a special frisbee!!!  Especially when I put phasers on her.  MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Title: Re: I'm at it again....
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 18, 2008, 08:06:47 am
My god you've done it !!!!! An Orange frizzbie for our game  :laugh: j/k. Great start indeed

 :laugh: :laugh:

Ahhh, but it's a special frisbee!!!  Especially when I put phasers on her.  MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Nice, some whammo for the Whammie (gotta luv the puns)  :laugh:
Title: HOLY THREAD REVIVALS, BATMAN!!!
Post by: Centurus on August 08, 2008, 04:16:17 am
It's been a while since I've really done anything in terms of trying to make something from scratch in MAX.

I've recently made a small breakthrough that I'm somewhat happy with, and actually look good. 

I made my first pylons.

Progress in me learning to mesh is slow, but at least there is some progress.

Here's a render of me first pylons.