kissAble opened this issue on Dec 06, 2002 ยท 25 posts
MightyPete posted Sat, 07 December 2002 at 12:28 PM
I told ya there all rude and hard to learn. What are you trying to build? Building meshes is difficult really but it can be not too bad once you got some understanding how they all work. There all made out of polygons, (triangles) you get enough of them in some sort of order it starts to look like something.You got to look at them like a wire frame that you apply textures too, but most programs show them with no textures so you can see right threw them making it even more confusing of what your looking at. The best way almost to learn is the building block method where you take premade shapes and make something out of the blocks just like lego then as you gain experiance working and manipulating the blocks you advance to editing the blocks then finally to building the blocks. It's the easy way of doing it. If you look at really complex meshes (models) and pick them apart to see how they are assembled you realize there just a bunch of blocks stacked togeather. More advanced ones sure might include flat plains and complex curved surfaces but there all the same really. Some people stack em all up the Merge them into a single shape that is now pretty much impossible to edit to cut down on the complexity of the mesh so the file size is smaller. Don't worry about these kinds of meshes just realize they started as just a bunch of basic building block shapes at one time. You can actually build some pretty complex stuff right inside Vue with just basic building blocks. The primitives that come with the program, Boolean functions and extra shapes that you collect around the web and keep for spare parts. You just got to hang in there it takes years really to become profficient at building meshes. It's a complex topic. There is no easy way really. Trial and error and realize everyone that makes them went threw the same process as you are just starting. You have it made in a way because the tools now are a million times better than they where just a few sort years ago. Take it one step at a time. You can't build a dragon on your first attempt that might take months to learn how to make even after you know the program pretty well. I can't make a dragon and I've been making meshes for years and years. It would take me a month to make one and it would probibly suck. Now having said that I can build alost anything non organic no problem.