Well, I'm also a Nova Scotia exile, only removed by about 140 years (my grandfather was Cajun, and the Cajuns were expelled from Nova Scotia by the British).
Yep, my ancestors kicked your ancestors out of Acadia/Nova Scotia. But no hard feelings, right? :cool: C'mon, give us a hug...
Show's the moxy your ancestors had though, they could have stayed if they swore allegiance to the King but they were having none of that. But I digress... bussards...
Aw, hell, I just saved every image, and was about to start the text. If you're there already, though, Mr. Oppressor of My Ancestors (:devil:), I'll save the effort.
Let me know if you need PDF conversion ability, I have Acrobat Pro at work.
Yep, my ancestors kicked your ancestors out of Acadia/Nova Scotia. But no hard feelings, right? :cool: C'mon, give us a hug...
Show's the moxy your ancestors had though, they could have stayed if they swore allegiance to the King but they were having none of that. But I digress... bussards...
Hey wait a minute, I've made my bussards... Oh, you mean ERIC:devil: .
Wowser, that's getting up there:D . Hopefully, won't take another 31 pages to finish, but probably will:devil: .
Be interesting to see what it looks like finished without the ramblings:p... of me.
It's the pictures that are making the thing so big, I'm shrinking them down to get at least 2 per page, but not so small that you can't see any detail, know what I mean? Your tutorial is mainly visual so I have to preserve that. I'll let you proof-read when the nacelle part is over with to get your opinion on it.
Aw, hell, I just saved every image, and was about to start the text. If you're there already, though, Mr. Oppressor of My Ancestors (:devil:), I'll save the effort.
Let me know if you need PDF conversion ability, I have Acrobat Pro at work.
I'm done to where he left off including both text and pics, Oh Oppressed One. So if you want to spare yourself the trouble, I'll be putting it in PDF format for all to see/download.
I'm done to where he left off including both text and pics, Oh Oppressed One. So if you want to spare yourself the trouble, I'll be putting it in PDF format for all to see/download.
Yes, I'm happy to let someone else do this. I was killng time on my lunch break and figured I'd give it a shot, but it's not like I have all the time in the world (or any). Coming up on Day 30 without a day off, and things are still hectic...
Yes, I'm happy to let someone else do this. I was killng time on my lunch break and figured I'd give it a shot, but it's not like I have all the time in the world (or any). Coming up on Day 30 without a day off, and things are still hectic...
Geez man, you need to get out of that lawyering gig and into something less stressful... like raising yaks in Tibet...
It might be better to add text boxes to the images themselves, so the tut is composed entirely of the images plus comments. For most of the images, the box would be pretty small, as you have a lot of instances where you write a sentence, post an image, write a sentence, post an image, etc. For the images where you have longer accompanying text, the text box can be added to the bottom of the image, like subtitles in a letterboxed movie.
I wouldn't call yourself a byword, more of an iconic figure WHO JUST HASN'T COUGHED UP THE BUSSARDS!:D
Anyway...
The first image of this stage shows a spline cage of the side fin. The only reason I used splines with a surface modifier was to reinforce the point that it doesn't matter what method is used to make the shape, as long as the shape is made.
Once I have the shape I want, I select upper and lower horizontal edges...
...and champher them, rounding them out. I do the same to the verticle edges to soften them.
Then I made a box, pulled and twisted it a bit...
...and booleaned, again saving the inner and outer parts. Then i select the edges...
... and extrude them just slightly. I selected the poly's and added a touch of color (note: the color is actually sampled from an image of the production model)
A few more cuts and extutions, a self lit material application, and we have a finished wing.
The next peice of detailing to add on is a second 'ridge' along the top. The part extends straight back from the dome thingy on the top, just back from the bussards
This ones pretty easy. I just selcted the rear facing faces...
And pulled them staright back.
From here, I just pulled the verts into the position I wanted, to give everything the right slope, softened the top edges, and presto..
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Yep, my ancestors kicked your ancestors out of Acadia/Nova Scotia. But no hard feelings, right? :cool: C'mon, give us a hug...
Show's the moxy your ancestors had though, they could have stayed if they swore allegiance to the King but they were having none of that. But I digress... bussards...
Wowser, that's getting up there:D . Hopefully, won't take another 31 pages to finish, but probably will:devil: .
Be interesting to see what it looks like finished without the ramblings:p... of me.
Let me know if you need PDF conversion ability, I have Acrobat Pro at work.
Hey wait a minute, I've made my bussards... Oh, you mean ERIC:devil: .
It's the pictures that are making the thing so big, I'm shrinking them down to get at least 2 per page, but not so small that you can't see any detail, know what I mean? Your tutorial is mainly visual so I have to preserve that. I'll let you proof-read when the nacelle part is over with to get your opinion on it.
I'm done to where he left off including both text and pics, Oh Oppressed One. So if you want to spare yourself the trouble, I'll be putting it in PDF format for all to see/download.
No prob, if you want to PM me your email address, I'll see if I can get a preliminary draft over to you this afternoon.
Yes, I'm happy to let someone else do this. I was killng time on my lunch break and figured I'd give it a shot, but it's not like I have all the time in the world (or any). Coming up on Day 30 without a day off, and things are still hectic...
Geez man, you need to get out of that lawyering gig and into something less stressful... like raising yaks in Tibet...
Naw, go for Tibet... clean mountain air... little sherpa dudes to carry your stuff around...
Man, do we know how to hijack a thread?
Exile, I've sent you a PM.
I'm sorry, you were... ? :shiner:
Post pictures of the fantail in progress and they may pay attention to you again.
Exile, just looked over the PDF, you didn't fix the typos and spelling errors:devil:
Just kidding.
I really didn't think I'd put that much info in it (maybe I didn't and they're just really big pictures.)
Otherwise, looks good, but it is a chunky monkey, aint it?
Couldn't tell...:devil:
So you can cull down your text into just the bits you think are most useful, and put those into text boxes on the images.
Does that sound reasonable?
Anyway...
The first image of this stage shows a spline cage of the side fin. The only reason I used splines with a surface modifier was to reinforce the point that it doesn't matter what method is used to make the shape, as long as the shape is made.
Once I have the shape I want, I select upper and lower horizontal edges...
...and champher them, rounding them out. I do the same to the verticle edges to soften them.
Then I made a box, pulled and twisted it a bit...
...and booleaned, again saving the inner and outer parts. Then i select the edges...
... and extrude them just slightly. I selected the poly's and added a touch of color (note: the color is actually sampled from an image of the production model)
A few more cuts and extutions, a self lit material application, and we have a finished wing.
This ones pretty easy. I just selcted the rear facing faces...
And pulled them staright back.
From here, I just pulled the verts into the position I wanted, to give everything the right slope, softened the top edges, and presto..
(Iconic figure - LOL!)
*edit* BTW, you're turning out a great tutorial!
Do you mean like these ones?