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Author:  Arathorn [ Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:58 pm ]
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Does anyone of you (except Satis) do anything with 3D modeling?
I ask this because after a long pause I resumed my tries to learn how to use Blender, helped by the new interface.
Now I was wondering if one of you uses a program like this, what are your experiences with them?
What's your favourite program?

This is something I made tonight btw.
A simple low-poly model of a car.
Author:  derf [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:19 am ]
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No idea.
Author:  Arathorn [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:51 am ]
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That answer isn't possible. You either do 3D things or not, surely you know yourself what you are doing?
Author:  derf [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:19 am ]
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Ha lol. Read your question wrong.

I'd haveto say. NO
Author:  Satis [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 1:27 pm ]
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Does that mean I'm not allowed to have an opinion on this topic? Something tells me I'm about the only other 3d modeller on here. :/
Author:  Arathorn [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:44 pm ]
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It means that I already know you use that, so you don't have to answer the question whether you do. :wink:
Author:  Satis [ Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:39 pm ]
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ahhh, ok. I can deal with that. :twisted:

In that case, my favorite 3d modeling program is currently Cinema4d. It's amazing what you can do with that. Particles are pretty cool (though I really don't know much about them yet).

I was doing a project in c4d but got sidetracked when I started my site redesign. I'll probably get back to it once I finish my site.

Here's some of the basic assets I was creating for the animation. They're not quite finished yet, but the fighter is very close (unless I decide to rebuild it).
Author:  Arathorn [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:41 am ]
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Wow! I'm far away of being able to do that. :)
Author:  Satis [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:49 am ]
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it's honestly not that hard. It's just time consuming. I've never used Blender, so I don't know how it handles modeling, but with c4d it's just a matter of placing primitives and cutting them to how I want them (or doing boolean operations). The fighter, for instance, is primarily just a bunch of squares, resized and squashed, with some chunks cut off with the knife tool.

Modeling a car to be realistic would be a serious pain because of all the odd curves and stuff. And then texturing is pretty rough too.
Author:  derf [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:04 am ]
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There are some serious design flaws in your missile and jet Satis. :lol:
Author:  Arathorn [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 7:08 am ]
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The things I've tried with Blender were all with extrusion, I think that is the mayor tactic for that program, although I'm sure there are lots of ways to make something an other way, but I don't know them yet.

I don't want the car to be very realistic, because I want to use it in a game (Transport Empire, a 3D sequal to Transport Tycoon), so it has to be as low-poly as possible, as there will be a lot of moving objects to be calculated, and the view will be quite small anyway.
But texturing will be a pain in the ass, although maybe someone elsee can do that with the models I provide.
Author:  tyranus [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:41 pm ]
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damn cool fighter satis :D
Author:  Satis [ Fri Nov 14, 2003 7:07 pm ]
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Thanks Tyranus. What's wrong with the fighter/missile, Derf? Just for the record, they're actually meant for use in space. And yes, I know that wings and other control surfaces are completely useless in space, but I thought they looked cool.

Texturing is mainly just really time consuming. If you can texture it surface-by-surface, it's not too bad...texturing curves is a pain, though.
Author:  Mole [ Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:07 pm ]
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I used Maya a while back - the program used to moddle the movie "final fantasy" which i liked, but i never got round to finishing all the tutorials etc...
Author:  Arathorn [ Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:26 pm ]
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I never finished many Blender tutorials either, you can get quite far by only trying.

This is my latest thing, a lttile too much poly's for the game, but who cares, I like the result so far.
I modeled it after an existing train by the way.
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