3D modeling in general

[NineLine]

I do have need for a chair and table in one of my missions :)

 

Lets start off with a chair and after maybe a table and Ill take it from there!

 

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[cichlidfan]

I do have need for a chair and table in one of my missions :)

 

One of these days, we will have a ready room and it will need furniture. This will be a useful skill set. ;)

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Got the chair done.

 

I cant find out how to add edges so that I can add more detail to the chair like bends. Once I add the edges I know what to do I am just missing that step.

 

Any help would be great.

 

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[Druid_]

Only use Blender myself and to be honest as its freeware there are a great many tutorials out there.

 

Here's my chair

 

[-Rudel-]

HAWG63: Watch a couple vids from this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/user/crackincgi/videos?view=0&flow=grid

 

He's modeling a Bf-109, but has some great pointers to help modeling airplanes. He's a bit soft spoken, which makes the vids a bit dull, but he knows his stuff.

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Thanks guys,

 

Druid... You really blew me out of the water there! LOL. (feel shame)

 

BACK TO WORK!

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Well learned a great deal today.

 

That demo is intense. Well paced and fairly accurate. I hit a snag creating my first rib but Im bashing on.

 

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[joey45]

Thanks Rudel

[KillarZ]

This is my very first model that I've stated in early July. Well technically, it is my second, I started with too many polys on my first which ultimately led me to restarting. It took me about a week or two to get this far. Unfortunately I accidently welded too many vertices together and now the intake is messed up. This discouraged me to stop working on it for a while. I want to get back to work on it but I have to figure out a way to fix this problem. I'm not asking for your help but if anyone has any constructive advice on what I should fix or what I should do feel free to share.

[joey45]

Stop using meshsmooth/turbosmooth.

[KillarZ]

Stop using meshsmooth/turbosmooth.

 

Thanks, what other ways are available for smoothing out mesh. Also after reading through some of your thread.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=41425&page=15

 

It really made me rethink my techniques on 3d modeling. I just wanted to ask for others opinions, Am I on the right track? Should I restart my model after looking through more tutorials to get create a better more smooth and clean model? In this model I just took a cylinder and started to reshape it into what I have now. Is this a good way to model. Also Right now every thing is one object. Should I have had different groups for the wings, fuselage, intakes, etc.? And last, using the symmetry modifier should I get in the habit of modeling with out it?

[JaNk0]

Hey KillarZ

The big boys will probably correct me on this but I try to get nice, defined, basic shape of the airplane which is more or less a low poly airplane. My secret is to make the job as easy as possible while creating the model, smaller number of vertices, so that I don't have more work set out for me than necessary. When you finish your model, then you can apply the turbosmooth to see your High-poly aircraft but until you reach that stage just work with editable poly, with small amount of vertices. Best advice I can give you ;)

[SkateZilla]

Thanks, what other ways are available for smoothing out mesh. Also after reading through some of your thread.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=41425&page=15

 

It really made me rethink my techniques on 3d modeling. I just wanted to ask for others opinions, Am I on the right track? Should I restart my model after looking through more tutorials to get create a better more smooth and clean model? In this model I just took a cylinder and started to reshape it into what I have now. Is this a good way to model. Also Right now every thing is one object. Should I have had different groups for the wings, fuselage, intakes, etc.? And last, using the symmetry modifier should I get in the habit of modeling with out it?

 

Delete the Meshsmooth Modifier.

 

go back to Editable Poly, expand, select polygon editing,

 

highlight the entire mesh (CTRL+A)

 

go to smoothing, click "Clear All", then Click Auto and it will smooth it out nicely.

[karambiatos]

also when you are putting down modifiers you do symmetry then turbosmooth for example, also you should use turbosmooth since you cannot move vertices with it, with meshsmooth you can sometimes edit something only to notice youve done it in meshsmooth, now you need to do it all over again.

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Hey guys I need a hand here. Im going through the amazing tutorial by CrackinCGI and im stumped here.

 

Ive loaded my images and in the bottom right hand corner you can see Ive created the Helpers or Formers for the fuselage. Now When I carry them to the Fuse they don't add up! This is my problem. Now I thought the width and height of the different reference pages was the issue but in his tutorial it doesn't seem to be the case.

 

Any ideas and thanks for your time and help.

 

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[NineLine]

Dont add up as in they are a different size than your drawings?

[-Rudel-]

Ditto...

 

Sometimes you need to make adjustments. The drawings are not official, so there may be variations among the different drawings.

[NineLine]

Ditto...

 

Sometimes you need to make adjustments. The drawings are not official, so there may be variations among the different drawings.

 

What he said... most drawings on the web are very hit and miss, dont get hung up on slight variations and such...

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

OK,

 

Well I took the one page that had all sides and formers and ribs on it. I put that into photoshop and created single pics of the front, side and top and exported to desktop then 3ds.

 

I then entered the entire page into 3ds after making it too a bitmap file and they don't lign up. That's why I was thinking the width and height were off cause each pic is different.

 

Or is this a case of find a different pic and start all over again.

 

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[NineLine]

I always make the images the same size in PS lay them overtop of each other to make sure they line up, most of these are scans from books and can really be distorted...

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Sith thanks a lot.

 

Looks like ill start over again but a valuable lesson is learned.

 

When making these pics can you tell me how I make them all the same size.

 

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[NineLine]

Well this is what I do, not sure about everyone else, but I put each drawing on its own layer in Photoshop, set the layer to multiply, then just resize, skew, or whatever to get them lined up the best I can.

 

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Great,

 

I worked with this and it worked out well. Also adjusting the height and width from one pic to the next before inserting into 3ds.

 

At the end of the day I cant seem to find any great blueprints with ribs and formers or helpers. Ill have to keep diging.

 

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[karambiatos]

Great,

 

I worked with this and it worked out well. Also adjusting the height and width from one pic to the next before inserting into 3ds.

 

At the end of the day I cant seem to find any great blueprints with ribs and formers or helpers. Ill have to keep diging.

 

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shamely if you want the good stuff you need to search in russian

 

check here

http://airwar.ru/

http://airwar.ru/other/draw_fw.html

[RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING]

Hey thanks!

 

This site is gold. Totally worth the time searching through every link cause I cant speak a word of Russian.

 

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