Making of a Spaceship: Part 1 E-mail
Written by Dzordz   
Thursday, 12 October 2006
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Making of a Spaceship: Part 1
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Right now, I'm making one huge spaceship, so I'm going to show you some methods I'm using for building it.


 


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First create one half, very rough.

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Then duplicate it to other side (instance duplicate)

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Then click magnet button. This button will snap every tool to the surface of currently selected object.

Go to create polygon tool, and create some shapes.

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When done hit enter. Then select that face/faces and extrude it.

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So once again...

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And, after a while. This is going really fast...

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Then I extruder the wing. And created detail on it

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Render...

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So basically it's all matter of your willpower...

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At this point I noticed that performance is decreasing. To fix this select all that tiny objects on surface of ship and combine them (mesh/combine). You shall get 2-3 times more speed.

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Than I created some bases for turrets.

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And so on...

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One very nice thing, that you must consider if you have two monitors, like I have. You can make separate window with copy of viewport by using tear off copy. So on my primary display I have Maya with perspective, and on second I have top view.

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