The Nadesico A

Bryan K · 11 Apr 2022, 23:02

@bryan k said:

I have an 11 year old, i5 laptop with only 500MB (yes, MB) of GPU RAM and 16GB of main RAM.

There are no more hardware or firmware updates available for it.

Ha-ha, are you kidding me! You should be more than fine! I really thought you have a dinosaur!
If you don't have an ssd, buy one. It will boost you up considerably. Otherwise you're good to handle higher poly count models!

The only thing that matters in Sketchup is core speed.
My system is about 10 years old too!

Yet, it doesn't. I was not speaking theoretically. It absolutely will not handle high poly counts.

SU itself barely runs properly. Sometimes I have to start it 6 or more times to get it to respond. Yes, I have tried everything. It's the Intel video. No fix but to buy another laptop.

Bryan K · 12 Apr 2022, 03:05

Little by little, bit by bit.

It's still rough but I can work with this. The overall general proportions look good to me. I'll concentrate on the main hull until it's done and fiddle with fitting and detailing the forward pylons at the same time.

Still a lot of vertice moving and adding to refine the proportions to be done before I add details.

Bryan K · 12 Apr 2022, 03:14

2 more views.

ely862me · 12 Apr 2022, 16:41

Too many loaded plugins? Try to unload some with the SCF pluginstore toolbar.

I think I found out why the surface is faceted. Are these edges smoothed or hidden?

It looks like you hid those edges which you shouldn't. You should always smooth if you want a smooth surface.
I assume you use the Eraser to hide them. Instead of holding Shift, hold Ctrl. That will smooth the lines.

Bryan K · 13 Apr 2022, 03:37

More refinement of the main hull. More vertices changes and moving intersections.

Closer and closer.

Bryan K · 13 Apr 2022, 04:09

Nothing is smoothed yet as I am not finished. I may need or want to adjust them later. The less vertices, the easier the change later.

I'm still roughing everything in. Getting the shapes and proportions correct before I do the refinements.

Bryan K · 13 Apr 2022, 23:00

Still tweaking the main hull shape. Changing lines, moving intersections.

Oddly enough, the best references I have of the main hull is the keel, so that is where I will probably start detailing from.

tuna1957 · 17 Apr 2022, 06:15

Looking forward to when you cross the finish line with this

L i am · 17 Apr 2022, 09:12

You have said a few times that your computer is not up to spec. but 0.5GB of Vram? Wow, the word courageous comes to mind, not to mention dedicated. I hope your contract gets continued and you get a new machine. I have a feeling it will be like athletes training at altitude before a comp to return to Sea level with, red blood cells supercharged with oxygen and raring to go

Bryan K · 17 Apr 2022, 23:58

Yeah, this is going to take a while.

I'm getting a handle on the main hull. I can now visualize it a lot better, but I see the work done so far is still way off.

The good news is that from looking at all the references, there is really no exact way it needs to be made. All the references have made their own interpretations. All that matters is the proportions are good and the large details are good enough.

Bryan K · 18 Apr 2022, 02:09

I think I've got the bow figured out now. If it looks confusing, that's because, it is.

Also roughed the forward pylon struts in. Will work on the lower hull shape next. The top hull looks good except for the stern.

tuna1957 · 18 Apr 2022, 05:06

Mike Amos · 18 Apr 2022, 10:48

Looking good mate.

Bryan K · 19 Apr 2022, 01:16

Thanks tuna! Thanks Mike!

Cleaning up the lower hull. Working on the most efficient geometry and trying to get rid of all the extra lines and triangles. Almost ready to work on the stern.

Thickened the support struts. 2 Push/Pulls+ layers from center plane, top and bottom. Scaled face front to back to get angles. Still need to match them exactly to the hull. I'll show the detail on them later.

Bryan K · 20 Apr 2022, 04:05

All cleaned up and ready for detailing.

Bryan K · 20 Apr 2022, 04:48

Aft indentation created. Will add the weird vent/fin/grill things next.

Bryan K · 20 Apr 2022, 05:32

Top rear grill thing complete. Made as a separate component, one side only, then duplicated. I'll stop here and double check my proportions. I already see the lower hull is too wide at same location as the top grills.

Bryan K · 28 Apr 2022, 05:01

Back to this in a few days. Doing some brain salad surgery on my laptop. Much needed maintenance.

Bryan K · 2 May 2022, 05:09

Rear grill things completed.

Bryan K · 2 May 2022, 05:44

Forward nacelle struts cleaned up. Intersected main hull and then deleted excess lines that were inside the main hull and filled in the faces. It's not "perfect", but upper and lower pods will hide most of the details later. But is IS flush with the hull now.