Ship Model (Base)

[13CentKiller]

Sorry about my last post, I rushed it a bit. quads are squares (as you probably already know) and I hate triangles because I spend hours trying to remove them from my models. There are two examples of topology bellow. The models are not mine.

Bad topology:
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6686/...rksha9.png

Good topology:
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/thelaugh...ne/tlo_topo.jpg

Triangles and ngons (shapes with 5 sides) are badness. It dosn't really matter when modeling solid objects, but it is ideal to have good topology as it makes the texturing process much easier. When you have triangles and ngons everwhere, you get stretching and warping of the textures making them look strange on your model.

When modeling a ship for example: In Maya or 3DS Max, you would start with a box, extrude the box add faces, extrude faces and block out the model. Then you would add detail and start shaping the model and refine detail more. I don't know if you can do this in Sketch-up. I havn't used it so I don't know of its capabilities when it comes to making models.

I want to see what you come up with in Metesquia.:)

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