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[Person]

Thanks for the advice.
I have enough ideas, but manipulating the objects into what you want is kind of tough.

[zilverenmist]

Originally Posted by Person

Thanks for the advice.
I have enough ideas, but manipulating the objects into what you want is kind of tough.

that needs time, it is like learning to bike, once you have done it you will not forget it.
I still use the manual for some things that I am not familiar with.
And as you might know by now my love is with ships, ship building and sailing.
I have been a ships engineer, so that is my link. And tell you one other secret? AC3D models cost a licence, real models in virtual quantity cost me a fortune.

My first ship model took me 14 days to build, the winning ship 2 days.
I think this can only be acomplished with doing it over and over again, untill things become a routine (specially all operations and tools in AC3D)
for new shape building try the replicator, it can replicate any shape in any scaling in any direction, just play with a line cube or other simple structure and start with falues like 1 and 2 untill you have the oh yeah! moment, and that is the moment that you can almost visualize what you have to do to get any shape from mind to desktop.

We all learned to walk step by step, and runners often break their legs

Cheer up, and see it from the bright side, in AC3D you never know if a vertice will be just a lonely point in space or be part of a universe.

By now there are trainz plainz boatz cities worldz build with this magnificent piece of software.
I started so late because I never had video hardware strong enough to run 3D programs except for easy computings Architect 3D.

Good luck,

Rob

[zilverenmist]

And that remind me to tell, I made the mistake to make all shapes from 1 line in the beginning, that is not always a good way to get what you want, sometimes you can put 2 easy shapes togheter as one complex shape(mirror options)
And if you experiment, don't forget to save before operations, even I do operations that the program can not do (like some convex surface/object vertex operations if you have forgot to weld and grab more points than is allowed)


the backup AC3D makes is often not the backup of the last work you did, that is why I spent more time on the button "save as" in most programs.

you made sureal shapes untill now? well time to dare an excisting shape
and rebuild something 3D that you realy like.

Also do not forget to keep a logic hyrarchy (in tools) so that you name every object, it is later if the model becomes more complex easier to find back what you need to change. each opject can have a name, and all spare parts together in an opbject you group as belonging in the group to the shape.
In that case you can also save complex objects as little parts at certain place; the end result will be all shapes and objects belonging to that world imported in 1 new clean file, and before you know you have a logic very complex world.

Hope you see what I try to tell you. Being logic may help you build with less problems. you must by now have found that on import objects and shapes apear at places from where you saved them.

and don't forget there are sample shapes and good lowpoly example in AC3D itself

Sorry for the typos, I won't correct them this time.

Rob

I hope this inspires you to build something that we can say of, hey man, great!
not just a sureal vaze that can not even contain a flower...

[Person]

yeah thanks.
only problem is that i have the demo, and its expired.
So i cant save, put i can take a picture.
Like this.
My Rocket.

[Person]

Thats a bad angle. Sorry.
but if you look carefully, i slanted the cylinder end so it looks like it holds the nose cones.

[zilverenmist]

Anything, but it is time for you, if you like this program this much to have a full version. I never used the free version, I knew what it could do, and I know it depend on the owner what it can or can not.
Lets close the discussion untill you have a licence.

[tbd]

Very good advices zilverenmist.