On Thursday 11 Jun 2009, Gary Neely wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jim Wilson<j...@kelcoindustries.com> wrote: > > For those who are modeling and are not bothering with setting > > the crease value now (and letting it default to 30) I would > > strongly recommend removing all the lines from the ac files > > that contain the word crease before committing them to CVS. I > > think you will really enjoy the improved appearance of your > > work. > > > > Best, > > > > Jim > > I've used the crease setting to get a very passable rounded > appearances on surfaces like landing gear struts using > surprisingly low polygon counts. A tube with a cross section > having only 8 vertices can give very pleasing results after you > play with the crease setting a bit, to values like Vivian > suggests. The application can have considerable effect on polygon > counts. I learned this trick from examination of the A-10 model > done by Lee Elliott I believe. > > -Gary, aka Buckaroo on MP
I'm pretty sure that the A-10 was pre-crease, in fact I'm certain it was - the A-10 was only the second or third model I'd done for FG. The main thing I remember about the A-10 model was that I decided to use a high poly circumference for the engine nacelles so that they didn't look polygonal from the front or rear - I was especially thinking about how it would look in the chase views. I could have used a much lower poly circumference for the nacelles and the phong-shading would have smoothed the nacelles when looking at them from the sides but then their outline would have still looked polygonal in the chase views. In any case, Alexis Bory has vastly improved just about everything on the A-10 since I initially produced it, so any good tricks you've learned from the A-10 should perhaps be credited more to Alexis than myself. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
