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Re: Alternate 6208 B-Wing Escort Fighter
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:44:29 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Don Heyse wrote:
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If you look at the picture you can see some of the convex curved slopes
have a bit of a tiger striping pattern when shaded. But there’s also
an upside down dark gray convex curved slope part that doesn’t have the
problem. The good part uses a fan design to lay out the triangles so
they all meet at one point where the convex curve flattens out. The
bad design uses a zig zag pattern of triangles with lots of extra points
along a straight edge. It looks bad and uses extra points. Double plus
bad! Part designers, take note. Actually, I could swear there already
was, once upon a time, a mention in some part design guide somewhere
about not adding extra points along a straight edge.
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I have to wonder if I’m partially to blame. Perhaps the part author was using
LDView (thumbnail is linked to bigger image, generated by LDView):
Everything looks great there.
--Travis
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 | | Re: Alternate 6208 B-Wing Escort Fighter
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| (...) Yeah, your default settings tend to hide certain surface flaws. Your light source (where is it by the way?) and smooth shading are as effective as dim lighting and heavy makeup. Perhaps not the best thing for a parts designer to be using. But (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Alternate 6208 B-Wing Escort Fighter
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| (...) I like the ship, and especially that you've done it up in LDraw on the Mac. Cool. I'll have to leave any other comments to the starwars and building experts though. What I really like about that particular cad picture is the way it highlights (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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