Reply To: Polybook – Jake

Here was yesterday’s work so far.  I’m working from the top down, and then back.

You may notice from the grid guides that I’m quite a ways above the world origin.  Interesting thing about these CAD plans; the measurements for each individual component are all relative to a single common origin point.  That means every part is built “in place” and I shouldn’t have to adjust or move any of these parts around to put the larger ship together once they’re finished, they’ll just magically be together.  Neato.

Also, getting the smooth curves on that piece, especially those ramp-looking dealies on the sides of the dome where they meet the base and the sides, and getting nothing pinching with the subsurf, was a NIGHTMARE of epic proportions.  I had to restart a couple of times to try different approaches in order to get a nice smooth shape.  I hope the rest of the ship, or at least most of it, isn’t that hard…