Darkwing

Ha ha, yeah, I'm actually quite pumped to try out this fixed particle thingy!

Thanks Hashers!! Oh yeah, I got some good news too that I just found out, some of you may remember ages ago that I put in a ticket about the particle rendering issues, about transparent objects being visible when emitting particles, well, I thought it was forgotten about or nobody cared or whatever, well, apparently it's been fixed in Beta 5 of V16! So a bug that's been around almost every version of Am to my knowledge may now be resolved, so yay!!! Many reasons to be happy today, yes?

Without having looked, popping I do believe occurs when you make the leg too straight. At it's straightest point, it should still have a slight bend at the knee

Oh and the mesh could probably be even less dense than it is now. The original mesh had a lot of splines, but at the time it was going to be exported for Max and I've learned a denser mesh has a more accurate export, however, texturing proved to be a problem in Max and so it was decided to keep the model in AM and so I removed a bunch of splines, but there's still more that probably could be removed

Because the nacelles are made up of a bunch of cylinders to create this kind of bumpy shape thing. It's a bit of a trick I learned from studying one of Al's models a while ago

Here's a quick wireframe of the model

Thank ye kindly. Here's another image!!

Got a bit more done on the underside today. I must say, I do and always have loved AM's decal system

The big thing for sake of ease is before you extrude the depth, have all the holes modeled first, that will save a bunch of trouble. Also, I'd make a new "grid" section for each place you'd put a hole, just so that the mesh isn't being stretched to much cause it does rely heavily on the 5 point patch

I did this really fast and so it's a bit sloppy, but this only took me 10 minutes to model, texture, light and set up in the chor. I simply modeled the hole into the ceiling and then made another lathed object as the light and set it in the hole light.mdl

I hate to say it, but their really isn't so much a "quick" solution. Personally, I'd model the hole in the ceiling and put the light in there

Thanks! And now I have batteries for my mouse again, I've been working some more on Midnight

Hmmm, I just tried something that should be interesting to note. The distance of the camera from the model seems to have an effect on things, plus depending on the distance, the rows will alternate as to which is blurry and which is not

Heh. Well if that's the case, then how come mine works? I'm only using V15j. Have you tried rendering it in a chor like I did? Maybe it's a modeling window exclusive problem? Maybe it's late at night and I'm too sick to think...which is more likely the case

or scratch that, upon closer inspection, the numbers on the seats for every second row is blurry, but the whole row isn't blurry like it is for you EDIT: Here's a pic in the choreography view rendered as a PNG with a 9 pass multi-pass:

Works fine for me

I suppose you could always re-export the decal under the same name, effectively replacing the old one and then closing the project and opening it again so that the new decal would load in its place. That helps me sometimes

I'm no expert or anything close, but your normals are all correct? I know they can sometimes have weird effects. Are you rendering with multi-pass on?

!!!! That's an impressive amount of splinework! ...and that's an impressive amount of impudence! Noone's under any sort of obligation to share their work with the entire world simply because they made it with A:M. And technically speaking, he did share with us. He shared his progress, pictures, ideas so that is all qualified as sharing. I know this is a bit trickier, but do you have any intentions on making some green, papery stuff with this model, or is it just goin on your trophy case of incredible models?

Yeah, there are actually details on my nacelles, but they are washed out by the ambience and whatnot. As for what type of ship, it's my own design

It's not out of a beta and picture would be really useful

How's this? Brighter, dimmer, bluer, don't change?

My goodness, you almost broke a million! That's incredible! You must have some powerful PC to be able to use that model

Is it safe to say that this is probably the most intense model ever made with this program?

be more specific, glow or ambience? Cause I've brought the glow down quite a ways but have actually increased the ambience. I like brighter nacelles, but I know they're not that bright in normal Star Trek. Course I do have the power of it being fan made on my side But yeah, nacelles need more work anyways, they're not quite done, but unfortunately the batteries in my mouse died and I haven't any replacements yet, so I gotta get more batteries to work on this (and other things) cause a track pad just doesn't cut it