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3 Dimensional Chat / space ship for my current project

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Indigo
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Posted: 30th Jul 2004 18:04 Edited at: 30th Jul 2004 18:07
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well, im in a programming compo right now and we're making a topdown 2d space shooter. I needed a really fast way to make alot of ships and having it look okay because normally i would have pixeled it, but this project requires over 30 ships which would take waaaaayy too long to do by hand. so i turned to low poly 3d with no texture mapping. really fast and it looks semi decent once exported to a top down sprite. well, here is one of the ships (my best so far out of the ones i made)

tell me what ya think of it.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you don't make it, you'll land among the stars.
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zircher
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Posted: 31st Jul 2004 03:45
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Pretty neat solution to your problem and a nice looking model too. An alternate method might be to use a program like DoGA CGA which is more 'kit bashing' than making a model one vert at a time. Since you have good camera control in DoGA, you can render your sprites straight from there or export the models in .X format. DoGA is also very easy to use.
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http://www.doga.co.jp/english L1 ia free, L2 and L3 are shareware.

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Indigo
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2004 08:36
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well, i found that 3d canvas works great. I can do exactly what you said i could do with DoGA with 3d canvas. I switch the camera view to top down and then take a screenshot of it and its instantaniously done. As simple as that. thanks for the tip though

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ALPHA ZERO PRODUCTIONS
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Posted: 4th Aug 2004 09:46
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looks like a mask

but it is still good

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