Discussion Mesh making with Blender

[dennis.krenz]

Some small successes that make me proud.... after many curses and a lot of frustration, that felt like I was again about to be defeated by Blender, I finally managed to make a mesh that not only looked like I intended it to be like, I also managed to UV map it properly, save the UV map layout, paint the texture with Inkscape and Gimp 3.2 and finally bring it all back together in Orbiter (2016).

Not fully perfect yet and I still need to find my workflow with Blender, but I learn. Maybe slower than others. But still a small success.

 

[llarian]

Some small successes that make me proud.... after many curses and a lot of frustration, that felt like I was again about to be defeated by Blender, I finally managed to make a mesh that not only looked like I intended it to be like, I also managed to UV map it properly, save the UV map layout, paint the texture with Inkscape and Gimp 3.2 and finally bring it all back together in Orbiter (2016).

Not fully perfect yet and I still need to find my workflow with Blender, but I learn. Maybe slower than others. But still a small success.

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Perhaps sharing your methodology would be useful to other modellers.

 

[Arvil]

All good things take time.

 

[Buck Rogers]

Here are 2 very basic tutorials for beginners.

Spacecraft2, courtesy of @Kev33, modelling a basic spaceship (with Anim8or- modelling principles are the same) and putting it in Orbiter using Spacecraft2 (same as S3/4, similar to Vesselbuilder).

And the Orbiter Mesh Tools Tutorial I mentioned previously courtesy of @Blake which details important information about transparencies and smoothing and a one step procedure from Blender to Orbiter.

They were both very helpful for me when I started

 

[gattispilot]

Another Star Trek vessel
Check in default graphics and she loads.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Another Star Trek vessel
Check in default graphics and she loads.

Perhaps you could start working on the Galaxy or Nebula sometime soon?

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Another Star Trek vessel
Check in default graphics and she loads.

Did you get that last comment? I said that you should start working on either the Galaxy or Nebula sometime soon.

 

[gattispilot]

So started on the Nebula. LOTS of texturing and mesh fixes. But very rough. Not sure about the colors of the front,....

It look they may be made is Poser which I don't have? It might be nice to see it in that then could rotate the view,......

 

[Luke Reichelt]

So started on the Nebula. LOTS of texturing and mesh fixes. But very rough. Not sure about the colors of the front,....

It look they may be made is Poser which I don't have? It might be nice to see it in that then could rotate the view,......

I assume you'll be doing the refit version of the Nebula as well as the classic one?

 

[gattispilot]

Maybe but Have no idea what the difference would be?

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Maybe but Have no idea what the difference would be?

The main difference is in the shape of the aft pod structure and the "neck" section connecting it to the main hull. Hence the refit version is slightly shorter than the "classic" one.

 

[gattispilot]

Any thoughts on the colors. mainly the front dish.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Any thoughts on the colors. mainly the front dish.

The colors on the front dish are similar to those on that of the Galaxy, as shown in the image below:

 

[Luke Reichelt]

Any thoughts on the colors. mainly the front dish.

Have you made any progress so far on the Nebula?

 

[gattispilot]

Yes and a BIG NO
It is HUGH. But I can't get her to a mesh. IN anim8or it can't make to a mesh. I took a portion of it and loaded into blender. But no success yet.

 

[gattispilot]

Better. I am making each part an.obj and then exporting from Blender. One thing I am having to do manually is some textures do not get added at the end of the mesh?