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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
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      I'm imagining a hitching post type of parking device with tw arms that reach up and hold on to the front end... when you park...

      how do you see it?

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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        Unknown Target
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        Those two big half circles in the front are the main landing gear - they deploy like the Wildcat fighter from WWII.

        New progress! I just spent the last three or four hours reducing the polycount from 17,000 to 7,200. πŸ˜„ So I'm pretty happy with it. Still going to add more detail though, so I would have liked more overhead - oh well.

        Here's a before:

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/chubwire.jpg

        And an after:

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubbeh32-1.jpg

        And some more progress:

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubbeh32.jpg

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubbeh33.jpg

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubbeh3.jpg

        Cheers! πŸ˜„

        EDIT: Cockpitize me, Cap'n!

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/cockpitizeme.jpg

        After this it's the pilot and then texturing!

        EDIT: Update - 622 polies (this is going to be my first organic ever πŸ˜„πŸ˜ž

        http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Pilot-1.jpg

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          Unknown Target
          last edited by

          Bumping this with new progress πŸ˜„ Progress is far past my target (about 6k, this models at 9,200), but with LODing I can probably make it work πŸ˜„

          http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/chubbehcomp.jpg

          http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/chubbehperspte.jpg

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          • R Offline
            robmoors
            last edited by

            This looks awesome, the red style is even more perfect, it creates a cool atmosphere and hides the sketchup smoothing flaws. Very well done!

            Rob Moors
            Architecture Student

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            • KrisidiousK Offline
              Krisidious
              last edited by

              the orbitor is a simulator... where as freespace is a game I think... unless I'm mistaken about what software you mean...

              the simulator uses real physics but you can make up engines...

              the model is coming soooo along well... I can't wait to see that cockpit with the gauges all lit up...

              I like the antique looking stick...

              By: Kristoff Rand
              Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                Unknown Target
                last edited by

                Well this is more for a tounge-in-cheek, not so serious type project, that's why I'm using Freespace - If it was more realistic, I'd probably go with Orbiter (although you don't get guns in that game! 😞 haha).

                Coen: Nope, this is one of my own projects I'm doing with a few other people (who are also from the BSG team though πŸ˜„).

                Heh, and thanks rob - yea, when you go into monochrome mode SU looks so much better.

                Texturing progress, still very WIP, I hate/suck at texturing 😞

                SU:

                http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubtexsu.jpg

                Max:

                http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/Chubtexmax.jpg

                Just wanted to do a nicer render - it's all being textured in SU of course, hehe.

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                  robmoors
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                  Very Nice texturing job, you gotta teach me how you do that, I know how to create realistic textures but to get them fitting on the model as you did here and in your previous model beats me, would you be interested in writing a tutorial for that? I would greatly appreciate it.

                  Rob Moors
                  Architecture Student

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                    Unknown Target
                    last edited by

                    Already did it awhile back πŸ˜„

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                    There's the .skp file.

                    With round surfaces I just mapped the whole thing like it was 2D. You get some stretching on the middle parts, but some clever texturing can mitigate that.

                    It's also semi-imprecise. You can get the general placement but if you want absolute exact UV mapping spaces you should use a UV mapping program. If, however, you're like me and hate UV mapping the normal way, I just edit the texture so that it corresponds to the way it's mapped on (i.e. if a bit on the model is off of it's actual placement, i just move that bit over on the texture).

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                      robmoors
                      last edited by

                      Ill have to actually tag along this tut cause I don't immediately get it when I read it.

                      Though this looks a lot like UVW unwrapping in 3DS max, something I always enjoyed because you could texture any model with that with great precision.

                      Is there a way to UVW unwrap in Sketchup with a ruby perhaps? That would be awesome..

                      Anyway thanks for the tutorial!

                      Rob Moors
                      Architecture Student

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                        Unknown Target
                        last edited by

                        If you have any questions about the tut, feel free to PM or post them here and I'll do my best to answer - I tried my best to explain it simply, hehe.

                        And unfortunately, no there's no way to UVW Unwrap in Sketchup with Ruby 😞 You can use the flatten.rb and unfold.rb to lay everything flat, so you can get a map, but then after that you still have to assign the map to the model in the proper locations. 😞

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                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                          Krisidious
                          last edited by

                          what I would like is to be able to rotate the projection of materials in SU on the fly... with the rotate tool...

                          By: Kristoff Rand
                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                            Durant Hapke
                            last edited by

                            Known of Un-ness,

                            Ripping action.

                            Way to peel the potato.

                            Best part? Yeah, little rear wheel.

                            That's a big buggy of bring it.

                            Work it. Like the red.

                            Durant "you need to run a wire under this deal" Hapke

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                              Unknown Target
                              last edited by

                              Hehe, thanks πŸ˜„

                              Small texture update:

                              http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/All.jpg

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