Thanks to my kids I've become quite fond of "diggers" over the past couple years. 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 1) | Modeling Heavy Equipment: Backhoe (Part 3) |
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| Modeling a Motorcycle | Modeling a Post Apocalyptic Vehicle |
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this is to fast for me
[Q] Kent, do you plan to give us an overview of your own approach at creating the pieces modelled by the contributors? I'm thinking especially of the hinge and the fender with the fuel cap panel?
Oh, right. Thanks Spikey
Shanr it will be recorded so you can pause it after when the stream is released
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I see this blueprint of Caterpillar 434E, but it is deficient. https://www.the-blueprints.com/vectordrawings/show/5750/caterpillar_432e_backhoe_loader/
about checker deselect (not familiar with it and cannot try it out at the time being, will later):
is it any good at (de)selecting say, every nth edge if the pattern is repeatable?
I remember, in maya, if you select an edge, skip one, it will "figure out" the pattern and go on and "follow it" (if you go on pressing the arrow key or something)... is it anything like that?
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spikeyxxx or, whoever is in the know/ cares to chip in ; )
aartifact Use Q (capital q) between []
Way too fast for me