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Re: New Part in progress - Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:31:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Willy Tschager wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
Wow! I think you've definitely got sufficient detail there.
> 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? ;-)
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.
Steve
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