Shawn Driscoll's Computer Graphics Blog


Object modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, etc.

Friday, March 16, 2018

Like a Glove


Installed the refurbed engines. They just barely fit.

Rendered in Vue 9.5 Infinite.

Starship Engines


This is a draft design of the engines for my Free Trader model.

Modeled in Amapi 7.51 Pro.
Textured in 3D-Coat 4.8.10.

Sunday, March 11, 2018

The 3D Hook Question

I was asked another "hook" question again, in regards to 3D modeling.

The trick is to not use n-gons (where n > 4) in your model. The best practice still is to use 4-sided polygons only.


A Re-Textured Traveller Free Trader Model


Re-textured my Free Trader model, and gave it some scraped-up marks using 3D-Coat 4.8.10, I think. This was rendered in Vue 9.5 Infinite, with some lens glare enabled.