Well that is a hard modle. if its your first modle start with somting easy like a plane or a spaceship that doesnt have a lot of hard angles. but you might be able to pull of the plane verson of winggundam. if you do manage to do it make a wing zero to lol.

Yeah thats what I want, the plane version of it as shwn bottom right.

What would the poly count be on this. 5, 6 thousand?

It all depends on how you make it. Being your first ship it will probably have alot of useless polys so I would say 5-7k would be about right.

Thats cool i guess. I still have to get it to base it on.

Edited by - Aravis on 7/24/2005 12:38:18 AM

I got a different version of it, I'll post pics of it soon to ask you guys if its too hard. As soon as I find my camera.

To be perfectly real about things...

Well, whatever is something you're excited by is a pretty good subject. And the fact that you'll have a reference model will really, really help you.

But, that said... something like a Gundam, with lots of parts, difficult angles, and tricky curvature... is probably going to be a lot to bite off for a first project.

I've taught some 3D modeling to children before (5th-graders) and I started them off with extremely simple things, like a simple rocket-ship consisting of a single lathe object for the body and a pair of extrudes for "wings". Later on, I taught how to use booleans. I couldn't teach them lofting, pathed extrusions, or any of the harder things- it takes awhile for people to really figure out how to do these operations, and they're not terribly intuitive.

If you're working with a modeler like GMAX, you can start with some simple lathed curves and then push/pull verts to build many shapes, but it's a very clunky way to model anything that needs to be exact, and when you get better at it, you'll realize how inefficient that tends to be. However, it's still the best way to model anything organic, and probably always will be, until musculature/bone/skin simulators become a lot more user-friendly, not to mention cheap and not insanely processor-intensive.

At any rate... if I were you, and had zero experience... well, I'd start with something very, very simple for your first project.

T.T
Ok Argh, I'll find a few other things to do for the time being.