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3 Dimensional Chat / TIE Interceptor - WIP - My First Model

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vibe runner
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Posted: 19th Apr 2007 14:33
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Was started from a tiny gaming minature. I'm redoing the struts (which look alrightish) and the bolts (just *wrong*). The struts and the bolts are also too high-poly. Final model is to be in the 1500-2000 range.

Cockpit and engine are etruded from the hull. Wings, struts, bolts, and hull are seperate meshes. They can be saved as the same model, or as seperate meshes. Funky because they can be glued together, but when the fighter is destroyed unglue them and you can break the ship apart.

Anyway, just a teaser. I've d/l a ton of TIE reference material, once I get the hang I think I'll produce a fleet of low-poly TIEs.

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Venge
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Posted: 19th Apr 2007 15:31 Edited at: 19th Apr 2007 15:32
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looking good. There's a strange dark face on the bottom right pic, maybe having some normal issues?

You know this means you have to make the whole fleet of star wars ships now

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vibe runner
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Posted: 19th Apr 2007 15:38
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I know about the outside-top split face. Don't know how that came about. Will probably have to be re-done from scratch, but the cool thing is I'm slowly, slowly, slowly learning XSI.

I think I'll end up with a fleet of all the TIE variants. I might even make low-poly Imperial capital ships. But no intention on making the Falcon yet. Let's do the easy stuff first.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 20th Apr 2007 01:28
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That's a pretty good first model, also you made a good choice in software, its good for gradually learning, there are many many excellent tutorials for it, especially on Ed Harriss.com

Did The Buddha have a Zen micro?
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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 20th Apr 2007 04:52
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I would like to see the wings actually connected to the cockpit, as it's pretty easy to tell that it's just overlapping geometry right now

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vibe runner
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Posted: 20th Apr 2007 15:08
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You're right about matching the struts to the wings/hull. I've been working (at work, not on this) for days now and more to go - all I want to do is get back to my PC. Waaaa
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Mr Tank
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Posted: 20th Apr 2007 16:55
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Looks nice.


You'll be able to click on this someday.
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