Discussion Mesh making with Blender

[Matias Saibene]

thanks. i am using 4.2 and get an error that the file is not a blend file. But can't get 5.0 now
https://mirror.clarkson.edu/blender/release/Blender5.1/blender-5.1.1-windows-x64.msi this refused to connect?

where to get 5.0?

Have you tried the mirrors?

Website — Blender

The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

www.blender.org

 

[Matias Saibene]

thanks. i am using 4.2 and get an error that the file is not a blend file. But can't get 5.0 now
https://mirror.clarkson.edu/blender/release/Blender5.1/blender-5.1.1-windows-x64.msi this refused to connect?

where to get 5.0?

Here is:

Index of /release/Blender5.0/

 

[Fast_toche]

You should always go to the official website!

Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

The Freedom to Create

www.blender.org

Here is the direct link .

You were faster Matias

 

[gattispilot]

Thanks. wow blender 5.0 is different than 4.2. I was able to get the saber in. Trying to apply a texture and then output to a mesh.

 

[Fast_toche]

Thanks. wow blender 5.0 is different than 4.2. I was able to get the saber in. Trying to apply a texture and then output to a mesh.

That's cool!

 

[gattispilot]

Trying to add a texture to a material. I can change the materials.

 

[gattispilot]

Ok. I have this all messed up. I ran the installer. but it did not install it in the correct directory.

Also not able to load the orbiter export script

got it installed but get errors on the exporter

 

[Blake]

I just put up support for Blender 4.5 LTS.

No really big changes. Try it out and let me know if you have any issues.

Forum note: The early pages of this thread appear to be missing, or I cannot access them. I usually update the original post with recent details. Can that be accessed somewhere? Or a new 'home' post created?

Blender Tools Releases

@gattispilot Try Blender 4.5. I have not done a lot of testing with 5.0.

 

[gattispilot]

this is 4.2
Thanks for the help. I auto smoothed. but still have these issues. I had to take the front plate and flip it and place on top on the frontplate

 

[llarian]

I just put up support for Blender 4.5 LTS.

No really big changes. Try it out and let me know if you have any issues.

Forum note: The early pages of this thread appear to be missing, or I cannot access them. I usually update the original post with recent details. Can that be accessed somewhere? Or a new 'home' post created?

@gattispilot Try Blender 4.5. I have not done a lot of testing with 5.0.

Could you repost the link please?

 

[Blake]

Blender Tools Releases

 

[llarian]

Blender Tools Releases

Thank you, my friend.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

this is 4.2
Thanks for the help. I auto smoothed. but still have these issues. I had to take the front plate and flip it and place on top on the frontplate

Good job on the Saber, although the reflectiveness of the materials is supposed to be similar to what Fast_toche came up with on the Akira. In fact, I'm pretty sure this applies to all the other vessels using David Metletits' 3D models.

 

[gattispilot]

Not sure how to fix these. The hull needs to be lighter?
But the numbers need to be connected. Still the top and front parts are bad.
But they are good in the shader

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Not sure how to fix these. The hull needs to be lighter?
But the numbers need to be connected. Still the top and front parts are bad.
But they are good in the shader

Yeah, I think the hull does need to be somewhat lighter, similar to how it appeared in the image I sent you.

By the way, have you tried applying any of the techniques you've learned on any of the other vessels you've done so far (particularly the Olympic and Prometheus)?

 

[gattispilot]

yes. But no success. these Olympic and Prometheus seem to big for blender?

 

[dennis.krenz]

yes. But no success. these Olympic and Prometheus seem to big for blender?

I would expect the limit to be Orbiter, not Blender...

 

[gattispilot]

this is what I see in this ship. almost like clipping

 

[dennis.krenz]

You should check how you treat the normals and how the groups look like in Blender. I also noticed lately that Blender starts producing weird results in Orbiter, when a shape has no clearly defined outside.

 

[dennis.krenz]

this is what I see in this ship. almost like clipping

Looks more like an import error, maybe the importer of Blender is not up-to-date with all features of the original file format.