I tried my first NURBS modeling last night in a demo of Rhino, and it took me like 2 hours to churn out this piece of shit [link]

If you cant tell which you shouldnt be able to, its sposed to be the beginning of the pod shape for that space craft i am creating, i used a scanned drawn image as a guide and it didnt exactly help...

I am going to keep perservering because i think i can get it, but are there any tips you people can give me within reguards to modeling? Thanks a heap =]

~Halo

looks good....kind of like a car cover for your pod

silver lining: at least you got a good start on cloth

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for organic modelling that's the way to go, too bad i don't find myself too confortable modelling with patches.

It's not hard per se, just a steep learning curve keep it up

im with lightningbolt... once you get the hang of it, it gets easy pretty quick

i luv me nurbs... now spline patching, i still cant get a good handle on that. i can do it, but it takes me longer then it should...

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mwhahahahahaha...... nurbs is dead easy

I agree with you, I'm still lurning NURBS (and will for the next hundred years). Oh, I even learn working with Polygons as well But as I advanced a little in using NURBS, it's quite a good way of modeling. I really like it. And my scenes do not have 1.5 GB after being loaded into memory anymore Therefor my first try to render something caused Maya to stop it because I turned tesselation up like crazy. 3 GB of total memory used was a little too much for Maya But......now I've learned that too

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I learned nurbs from the start, since there really wasn't much else out there for organic characters at the time. You're right, it really takes a different way of thinking. At least now there are decent tools for making branches and the like.

To be frank, Now that sub-d polygon meshes have emerged I don't care to go boack. The only thing I miss about nurbs is the ability to trim with curves and project to or extract curves from the surface.

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