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27-02-2005
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Dreamcast
i'm modelling my good old dreamcast. thought i'd share some pics along the way and see what you think of it. i especially would like to hear what you have to say about my mesh, in particular around the holes. i try to stick to quads and want as few of them as possible.
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oh yeah, i have another question too. when i want to snap a couple of verts to the x/y/z-value of another vert, only the one first selected snaps. the rest just keep their distance to the snapping one. anyone know what i should change in prefs/settings to get rid of this? it's kinda annoying to have to snap every vert apart.
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I think the snapping problem is somewhere in the move tool options, but I can't remember what it's called... Just double click the move tool icon
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will post new images sometime this week. this should be my first maya model i will finish. i always quit halfway when i'm stuck.
I-Iybrid: yea... i do agree. it looks kinda wide... but then again: i measured the outer dimensions of my dreamcast, so they should be ok. maybe it's the camera settings? focus distance or something, anyone know more about that? i'm never sure what kind of values i should use in the cam settings...
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28-02-2005
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and another question. there's text on the buttons, which is situated a little deeper than the top of the button. i created polygon text and tried to do a boolean difference operation with my button. both the text and the button disappear. what is the trick here? can someone help me out on this one?
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and another update.
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kinda weird. one of the buttons is the "open" button. so i created the text "open" with the create text option and extruded the faces. i deleted the history on all objects (button and text) and was able to do a boolean operation with the "o" and the "e". with the other two letters, everything disappears. also, combining the letters helped nothing. i tried quads and tris on this... anyone knows what's causing these problems?thanks,
tiz
ps whenever i try to do a boolean operation, objects tend to disappear in general, not only text. so i usually model holes and stuff in objects by hand. only with text... it would be too much work... so i want booleans!
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1. Make sure normals are pointing where they should be. You may have to turn on backface culling.
2. Make sure you not using nonmanifold geometry. It'll be the death of your mesh.
3. Save your scene under a new name, clear your history, go into hypergraph and delete any hidden nodes.
4. Make sure you aren't trying to difference over boarder edges.
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