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Subject: Looking for Tutorials on mechanical modeling
To some extent that's one of those how long is a piece of string type questions.
The normal thing to follow up from the basic shape is either laying out textures (for simple models) or adding details.
From the spaceship point of view, there is are a pair of terms - greeble or nurnie, this is the process of adding details to create a sense of scale. many people say nurnie are on real models, greebles in software models, but I've come across the two pretty inter changeably, a web search on tuts for either brings up a lot of results. You will also find many plugins to assist, for example blender has a 'discombobulator' script that adds nurnies to selected model faces. I have a similar greeble script for max.
To some extent in scifi there are no rules, save often under new names, and experiment!
For something like a gun quite often a few simple extrusions or fillets adds a huge impact.
Remember if you are not going to use procedural textures too much detail could give you a real head ache later during UV unwrapping
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3Dtotal.com has some neat tutorials for all kinds of things :)
http://www.3dtotal.com/
starting with pretty simple ones: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/polgun/gunmodel.asp
to http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/apocahunter/img/02.jpg
I also noticed some speed modeling videos in our rendo tutorial section. I like to watch those, goves you a lot of conceptual 'how to' info. Like what commands and approaches people use for various model details.
I posted links to some more in poser forum, under making your own clothes sticky thread. I saw you over there, DemonMage ;)
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Stop by the Rhino forum here at 'Rosity, Smallworld is modeling a pair of Viper's from the Battlestar series. The work is TOP NOTCH. Hope to see you there.
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First If this is the wrong place sorry.
I'm looking for tutorials on making things like spaceships, guns, and the like. Getting a basic shape isn't that hard for me, it's what to do after that, that is getting me hung up.
Any help would be very much appreciated. The software dosen't matter, though I'd like sub-d if possible.
Thank you.