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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 19:37:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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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.
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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 if you zoom in for a closer look, even in
ldview you can still see the bumpy waffled surface when you spin those
parts around. And even smooth shading doesn’t completely hide the
wrinkles close up.
I wonder if there’s a way to get ldview to use a different set of
preferences when the user is obviously looking at a part?
Don
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| (...) My light is a directional light pointing in exactly the same direction as the camera. In LDView 3.1, you can actually override this with an undocumented command line option. I hope to have light direction (single directional light) as a new (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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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): (URL) Everything looks great there. --Travis (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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