what program are you uning general?

3DS max 7

now lets see if she meet the poly count req, and jigs scrutiny:)

Looks real nice. Thumps up for actually helping out with some models. I like forward to using the ship if it makes it into the game.

darn too many polys, i will revise it come moday and try tp keep it at like 1000

So how many polies is it currently?

I doubt you'll beat Firballs record - over 100,000! 8O

how do you check polys in 3ds max? What should mine by near? It shouldnt be alot currently, since it is just modified primitives.

I know nothing of 3D programs, so I can't tell you.

I do know Jig has said to keep the number of polies to 1500 or less, although ships that won't be used often, (Eg. Oberths) have been given more headroom poly-wise, simply because we won't see much of them/we'll be using other ships more often.

Obviously, for the high-poly mods that will be released after the game is out, the limits won't be of any concern.

to check the poly count in max use the shortcut key. 7

thanks
its a minor ship, but i doubt ill reach 1500

ok here is another rework..... jig ive sent this to you so that you can check my poly count







its not as nice as the last one but well have to see how many polys it hits

oh and for the record the previous rendition was hitting a whoping 3100 poly's

Where can i see fireball's 100,000 poly masterpiece?

ok here is were you are going wrong, it is now at 2366 polys, i have looked over the model and i see were all those extra polys are coming from. the nacells, you have either used a chamfered box, or chamfered the edges at least 3 or 4 times, i know you want them to look nice and round but use face extrude once, then scale it in, this will add a lot fewer polys then the wat you are doing it now.

groawns, those things took me a while, i was hoping that they would be ok, oh well, ok jig ill redesign them too... might take 1 or 2 days though

one question though, how many polies are on each nacelle now???

with pylon 959
without 926

that might even put my original model under your limit..... hmmm if i really cheappen the nacelles then we might be able to salvage the other ship

Is the 1500 poly rule for all ships or will capital ships like your cardi Galor Class be give a bigger limit?

the galor is only 1200 odd polys, the high poly one is for another game and for a texture map. no more than 1500 or 300 ship battles will crawl.

Good news for all i got the latest ship to around 1100 poly's so now comes the texturing

this is what ive got so far. the first image is what i used as a blueprint, and the second is the ship currently. This is my first 3d that isnt extraordinarily simple, so here it is.

Blueprint:


view 1


view 2


view 3


poly count currently at: 1422

ill add more detail and try to lower the count soon.

looks odd but nice

That thing whatever ur making should be no more than 100 polys as i can't see how you managed to make it so high as in over 1000 polys.

But as its a learning curve as ur new it doesnt matter that much. Nice mesh btw Just need to learn more then know ways to shave polys off your models.

huh?

yeah, i have no idea how i got the poly count that high either but its quite complex, though it dont look it.

im still figureing out the program. learned it without any tutorial, instruction, or any help at all.

ugh as if you had a blue print to work off of
jk try to take it easy on the splines or rounded corners
its what burnt me

still a beginner - got no instruction what so ever. its amost exactly like the blueprints, except without the details. ill see what i can still do.

gotta start somewhere - thanks for the feedback

what ship is it? and would you like some links to 3d modeling in max?

it is a tholian crusier.

links would be wonderful, thanks.

That would be my guess, but I've never seen that before. Where did you get that design from?

There were only two kinds ever seen I think...

Scroll down to Tholians
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/alphabeta_ships4.htm

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/Tuzu/tholianwebspinner.jpg

The Tholians are one of my favorite races, so naturally I would be concerned about their vessels. Looks good though, I too am starting to work with modeling, and I know how difficult it can be. And I don't use manuals either.

yeah, ill check my archives where I found it, I chose it because it was the easyist ship i could find, with the least amount of curves.