Week 3

How did you get on with the new Modelling techniques? 

I got on with the modelling techniques quite well and happy as the new techniques was very useful for the assignment especially the grouping as organising the file with object names and grouping is worth a lot of marks and the technique will be used in every model. The use of the boolean operations  and the alignment techniques was a bit more difficult as there is a lot of options and therefore added complexity to the techniques, but working on the techniques made it a lot more easier,which lead to using the techniques for my module. 

Problems

The only problems with the new techniques is when to decide to use some of the techniques as there can be multiple ways of doing most objects. Using splines was quite difficult when making the shapes accurately as attempts on recreating the land speeder using splines took a couple attempts as

try to be accurately using the line tool to make an accurate shape. Importing a picture onto a plane could help, as this will give more accurate scale for lines and the positions of the line splines.

New Techniques

I have discovered the use of the symmetry tool as using this tool has helped by duplicate object to the other side of a body to help in creating a tie interceptor wings and has saved a lot of time of the transformation and the rotations of  the objects.

Assignment

The model that is being made is the tie interceptor this model has lot detale that still needs to be done.



The model was done by using multiple techniques and by editing the polygons of the basic shapes. The Good thing about this model at the moment is the detail of the basic shape as the use of with a use of multiple techniques like using swift loops, cutting and using movement tools of bevel and extrude. A negative part of this model is that there is a lot more that can be done to reduce the polygon count. as using the cut tool and swift loop, also the shapes having a lot of segments,this has increase the polygon count as a lot of the polygons was not use in editing. Also trying to get the scaling right has been a big issue so next time will take more time planning the model and trying to get the sizing more accurate.

The land speeder will be redone using the spline tool as this should improve the polygon efficiency and the detail of the body of the land speeder.