Ship Sets: How Do You Do Them?

[Rollo]

Puke,
this is a strange coincidence. I am currently downloading 3D Canvas. It's freeware, about 17megs. I'll let you know, if it's any good.

Rollo

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[This message has been edited by Rollo (edited 31 August 2001).]

[Antonin]

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Originally posted by Puke:
I want to make a shipset with some very simple 3d shapes. It could be done entirely with textured spheres and oblongs......any recomendations on a free 3d program that i can download that would make this fairly easy to do?

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I'm very new to 3d modeling, but the Amorphium 1.0 software I mentioned below may be what you want. It's freeware and came with the Aug 2001 issue of the UK magazine "Computer Arts."

In the US the magazine is sold in stores like Borders, Barnes & Noble, Comp USA, etc.

When you open it, the default workpiece is a sphere, and you can deform and shape and paint it all you want.

Playing around with it the other day made me think about using it to design shipsets.

But like I said, I really don't know much about this kind of thing...



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[Rollo]

Hi,
I played around with 3D Canvas a little. The program looks very good, but the smooth tool seems to be buggy . I don't know, if it's just my computer or not. I reinstalled it and still got some real weird stuff, when smoothing.
Does anybody know, where I can get Amphorium for download? I did a search, but all the links were broken.

Rollo

[Atrocities]

I will post a guide to basic ship set making later today or early tomorrow. It is really easy to do, but you have to dedicate some time, and get ACDsee from www.download.com in order to follow the directions I will be giving. Until then, later.

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[Rollo]

Thanks, Atrocties .

Puke, I have been looking around for free- and shareware a little more and found something called ZBrush from Pixologic. I downloaded the demo and it looks really good. You might want to check that out. From what you desribed it could be pretty close what you were looking for. It's kind of a mix between 2d and 3d.

Rollo

[Puke]

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Originally posted by Rollo:
Does anybody know, where I can get Amphorium for download? I did a search, but all the links were broken.

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i found it at www.amorphium.com

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[dogscoff]

I can't help much with software or issues of methodology, but I have some notes on matters of style and design posted here.

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[This message has been edited by dogscoff (edited 06 September 2001).]