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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It still works pretty dang well. I was trying to thing of use cases for it and thought this would be one of them
@shanr: the array modifier has problems with scaled objects; it's maybe a problem that can be solved by applying the scaling
Thanks, Shawn, I just checked link, though it is few years old. I have saved the link for my scrapbooks.
I remember Wes phrase "delete it and start over"
my array does not work
[Q] Checker Deselect Method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTmFHQDpHY
I think you need to select all but one edge
ctrl+Shift+ numapad (+) also help to select in pattern
my array does not work properly
yes, I was always wondering how to keep it as lores as possible