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November 10th, 2005, 09:55 AM
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Warrior
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Working on my model again
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November 10th, 2005, 10:06 AM
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These are great images.....I wish you the best of luck with continueing to work on her.....please continue to post pictures as she develops........
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November 10th, 2005, 10:26 AM
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Clunky Man In Suit
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Wow, coming along nicely!
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November 10th, 2005, 10:50 AM
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Wow! Cool and chunky!
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November 10th, 2005, 11:30 AM
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Looking good Westy! You've come far on the detailing.
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November 10th, 2005, 01:10 PM
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Westy,
This is looking pretty good.
Do you have any before an after shots showing the progress?
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November 10th, 2005, 04:32 PM
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Looks good Westy.
Say what program are you using?
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November 11th, 2005, 05:42 AM
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Thank you all for the kind comments, appreciated
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Originally Posted by TwoBrainedCylon
Do you have any before an after shots showing the progress?
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Kind of...I didn't actually think ahead and intend to do this, but my hard drive is littered with them.
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Originally Posted by Titon
Say what program are you using?
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AutoCAD ...not ur typical modeling program, I actually started this project by using 3dStudio, but the model quickly became both too big and too complex so I started it over in AutoCAD...It's got a great a great ACIS solid modeler. I don't have to worry about polygons, and AutoCAD is pretty optimized for huge complex projects. Occasionally I export it into MAX and that's when I pretty much get to pick how many polygons I want it to have. The still pictures I posted here I rendered in AutoCAD...it's not the best renderer, but combined with a bit of Photoshop touching up, and I guess it looks ok for now. Hope this answers your question Titon.
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November 11th, 2005, 05:53 AM
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If you don't mind, I'd like to see the beginning (or as close as possible) shot to compare with where you're at now.
Sandy
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November 11th, 2005, 10:31 AM
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Ok, I might even have a very early version of the actual model still. I'll look around for it and see what I have. If not, I'll post some old pics and make some new pics matching as close as I can the angles and whatnot.
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November 12th, 2005, 05:38 PM
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WOW, this is really cool. I love those close-ups, that is some pretty awesome detail work. What do you still have left to do? are you going to make another pass over the hull and add more detail to it?
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p.s. hey westy, you from Rockland . . . .? I used to live down on the Cape
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November 12th, 2005, 08:52 PM
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Colonial Story Teller
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November 14th, 2005, 01:51 AM
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Great work .. pete .. the big G flys again ..
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November 16th, 2005, 09:32 PM
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A couple more new ones (Sandy, I'll do those before and after pics as soon as I replace and update the ones on mortalstorm.com with newer stuff).
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November 16th, 2005, 11:54 PM
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AutoCAD! I never would have guessed!
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November 17th, 2005, 02:31 AM
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Simply gorgeous!
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November 17th, 2005, 03:13 AM
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I'm working on my model again and thought it was time to make some new pics of her, here goes:
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November 17th, 2005, 04:15 AM
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Jaw droppingly amazing, Westy! Well done!!!
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November 18th, 2005, 02:12 AM
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Man I hope to see that in Lightwave someday ...awesome work westy
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November 18th, 2005, 10:00 AM
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Warrior
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Quote:
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Man I hope to see that in Lightwave someday ...awesome work westy
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Heh....that's funny, I just installed Lightwave.
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November 18th, 2005, 10:03 AM
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very nice , but dare i ask.... how many pollies?
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November 18th, 2005, 11:13 PM
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It depends on how much detail you want. AutoCAD is a bit different from say Lightwave or 3D Studio in that in those programs, objects are represented by a mesh of polygons but in AutoCAD objects are described by parameters only. If you want every little teeny detail I modeled, then I there are currently about 3.6 million polys when translated from AutoCAD to 3D Studio. That number can be adjusted to any value you want depending on the LOD you want simply by adjusting a few simple textbox values in 3D Studio's import dialog.
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November 19th, 2005, 05:14 AM
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Westy....................
It looks very cool!
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November 21st, 2005, 08:48 PM
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This is really cool stuff. Hope to see even more.
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November 25th, 2005, 06:19 PM
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Warrior
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This time I made a movie....it's here:
http://www.mortalstorm.com/movies/opening_sequence.avi
It's 40 megs though, so I'd save it to your computer first...
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November 26th, 2005, 12:16 AM
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Hmm, it seems I have to buy a codec to watch this!
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November 26th, 2005, 03:12 AM
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Westy.......great surprise to wake up tos ee you'd done this !
I really like what you've made here....especially the shot of all the battlestars together.....
Unfortunately, my playback is slightly jerky....slight stop/starts of a fraction of a second, and they are different with each playback......
I hope you will take animating your model further.....this was great to see....it would be fantastic to see this shot lead into seeing her in action.....
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November 26th, 2005, 03:25 AM
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Clunky Man In Suit
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Wow, very impressive the model is coming along nicely. Really enjoyed the Saga opening as a first animation for this model.
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November 26th, 2005, 09:47 AM
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Warrior
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Stupid codecs! I'll play around with other ones and see what I can figure out. I'll post a note here if I can fix that problem. Also, I noticed I screwed up something in the first part. I'll fix that and repost it soon.
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November 26th, 2005, 10:03 AM
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Westy....I'm pleased your continueing to work on this, perhaps it will also help with the jerkiness I experienced....
I hope you will develop this into a fanfilm ? Have you made any other ships in AutoCAD ? I like the unique look you've given this model, I really do......
Looking forwards to the repost.......
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