My kids absolutely love "diggers" and as a 3D modeler I certainly appreciate them too. All the complex shapes, hard edges, bolts, hydraulics, tire treads, etc. It's a modelers playground and labyrinth rolled into one.
I'm going to start building a digger - a Caterpillar 434E specifically - as accurately and detailed as I can. The name of the game here is organization, perseverance, and efficiency because most of the shapes are not difficult to build. There's just. so. many. of. them. Which gave me an idea...
Why don't we build this thing together? For those interested in following the project, I'm hoping at least a few will participate by modeling certain pieces of the backhoe themselves to be submitted to me for review and incorporation into the final model.
Check out the Collaboration Forum thread for more info!
| Modeling Heavy Equipment: Backhoe (Part 2) | Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender |
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Hi Hi everyone :) Boys are out so Im here :)
And shading them
I like modeling wheels
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be aware... i mean, it's useful when researching pretty much whatever (large database) and the quality is usually decent...
That's a good point about rotating cylinders in edit mode - I always want to do it right away in Object Mode and end up messing up my local orientations
It was more a lot o homework and schooling than luck. haha
Spikey, I am relearning maths, as I have a growing interest in sciences.
Lucky you, Shawn.
@ritag I can do the math ;)
be aware or beware?
rationalrats