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Subject: 
New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
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Date: 
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:35:31 GMT
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hi folks,


have a look at the "beta-version" of the part I'm currently working on and tell me what do you think. any suggestions and critical
statements are welcome, but please consider that some areas still need a lot of refinement. especially the two ends have to be
remade from scratch. it particularly interests me if the definition of the mesh is high enough.

http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_1.jpg (39 KB) - render
http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_2.jpg (55 KB) - render
http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_3.jpg (51 KB) - render
http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_4.jpg (50 KB) - render
http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_5.jpg (25 KB) - render
http://space.tin.it/io/wtschage/craters_6.gif (33 KB) - mesh

the middle-section is almost finished. there is to do little work at the top-layer and the joints where the "hills" meet the rest of
the body. but if you feel that I have to put more attention on certain areas don't hesitate to send jpgs with the zone circled in
red. you also won't see any quads 'cos my cad-program doesn't support them, but most of the triangles will be substitute by
quadrilaterals in the final version.

another critical point is the bottom of the baseplate. to keep the file at a reasonable size I would prefer a closed version, where
the bottom doesn't mirror the top. someone could argument that the bottom in the original lego® part reassembles the profile of the
hill but even a rough mesh would result in some 1000 to 2000 triangles (well, how much MB ram does your computer have? ;-)


bye, willy



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
 
(...) I like it, very nice work. (...) I think a closed bottom will work as I don't see a functional reason to have it not be (plus the save in file size will be good). -Orion (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
 
(...) Hi Willy, Wow, I am positively impressed. The helmet, and now the crater plate: you are a significant classic space contributor. Save time and effort: a flat bottom is ok for me. Congratulation, Damien (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
 
Oh, my! Most impressive. :-D (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
 
(...) Wow! I think you've definitely got sufficient detail there. (...) If you include a comment in the part file, indicating that the bottom is modeled as a flat surface to reduce the size/complexity of the part, I think that would be alright. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
 
(...) Hi Willy, Your part looks very good, it is amazingly detailed. My only comment is that in the case of a complex freeform shape like this hill, there are few chance to find neighbouring and coplanar triangles that can be substituted by one (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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