jamagica Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 for a Lewis and Clark project in school I'm presenting different tools with 3D displays. This is my first tool->the sexant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentothemax Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 looks nice, maybe a rustic gold material to make it seem it came right out of the 1800s (If they had them) . . . did you use sweeper . . . i love that plug-in By the way . . . what does a sextant do? Does it mesure angles or somthing, or star locations . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 13, 2005 Author Share Posted May 13, 2005 I used the sweeper demo for the two bottom arches. A sextant was a tool used to measure how high, in terms of angles, a location was. You'd peep through a sight and slowly move up the tool until you found your target. You'd look on that bottom arch, and wherever the index arm (the big thing that looks like a grandfather clock "bell") is pointing to, that's the number of degress the location is from you wherever you are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Nice modeling...some texturing and your there......... Looking forward to more, Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 Alright...added just a few things. right now the work time is slow because AM keeps closing out on me once in awhile (haven't lost anything yet) Got a q. is 707 patches for this model too much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 Wireframe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 I jus redid the mirror and now I only have 668 patches! Whoa...talk about waste of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 More....I'm going to delete patches when I'm done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 I just noticed that some of you mention texturing ideas...I actually don't have time to. It's all going to be a white render...I'm almost finished: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillmore Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Very cool looking sextant. Nice bit of mechanical modeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apprentice Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Good piece of modelling. Thanks for sharing, somewhat it inspired me. Looking forward for the next tools you're working on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 15, 2005 Author Share Posted May 15, 2005 In the showcase area, you'll see "chronometer", which is like a compass..it's very simple, though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Looking fine.....those things sure have a lotta dodads attached to them,now Im curious how they woeked guess Ill have to go googling... Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted May 15, 2005 Author Share Posted May 15, 2005 List of tools This site has many of the methods/tools used on the expedition in the sextant section you'll see that there is a 360 degree turnaround of one..that was my reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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