29-10-2003, 11:20 PM | #1 |
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modeling a soccer ball
hey guys, been working on a project to create a photoreal soccer ball. i found a great tute here:
http://www.panebianco3d.com/e_tut-soccerball.htm problem is that i'm using LW 6.5 and my merge tools are different, i have automatic, fractional, and absolute whereas LW 7 (the version in the tute) has automatic and fixed. he uses fixed with a distance of 3.5mm and keep one-point polys checked, my only similar option was to use absolute with a distance of 3.5mm (no one-point poly options). when i merged the first time i only eliminated like 6 points, after the second smoothshift it eliminated none. what that does is leave me with two-point polys the corner of each "patch", i killed them and everything seems to work fine but there are small gaps at the corner of each patch, every corner is a bit rounded (see attached example). any thoughts on how to fix this/do it differently so it works, etc.? thanks. chris
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well, i ended up adjusting the point weights at the corner of each section, not really elegant and it did seem to disturb the flow of the polys a bit but its not noticable in the render:
i now need to figure out the texturing, which will be another post chris
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03-11-2003, 09:19 AM | #3 |
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looks good enough to kick - nice job mate
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03-11-2003, 05:10 PM | #4 |
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thanks kevin, i'm pretty happy with it at this point. i am having a slight rendering issue at the moment (posted in the lighting/rendering forum) but overall its in good shape
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texture
could you tell me the texture you use??
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umm, if you give me a bit more info i can right now the only texture on there is a specular map, all the detail is modeled.
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