I needed a rest from the skull! I happened across an image of a Star Wars TIE fighter while reading a magazine, and I realised that Xara3D could probably make a decent attempt at it, so naturally I had to prove it.
Mike
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I needed a rest from the skull! I happened across an image of a Star Wars TIE fighter while reading a magazine, and I realised that Xara3D could probably make a decent attempt at it, so naturally I had to prove it.
Mike
I needed a rest from the skull! I happened across an image of a Star Wars TIE fighter while reading a magazine, and I realised that Xara3D could probably make a decent attempt at it, so naturally I had to prove it.
Mike
Mike
Brilliant.
How did you do the sphere? That is the bit I don't understand - unless it is visual trickery and X1 did it!
Nicely done, Mike! I like the perspective. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
You've done it again Mike. A stunning image.
Egg
Mike,
You are definently a master at X3D4/5/6 etc... You push the envelope further than anyone thought possible.
Mike, following your space theme, a very poor second.
Egg
All,
Thanks for the kind words,
Simon, the sphere was a tiny half-pixel circle in XaraX, with an enormous Rounded bevel, (135), and an extrusion of 20. The texture was made in XaraX, and applied to the sphere, and took some fiddling to get something acceptable. It isn't quite right yet, I need to skew the angled white spars and slightly curve them to make them appear straight on the sphere. Attached is the original texture I made for the sphere.
From blank screen to posted image took about 2 and a half leisurely hours.
Mike
Hee. Brilliant.
So... when do we get the Enterprise D?
Brilliant, Mike. You get Xara3D to do things I never would have imagined it capable of doing.
"So... when do we get the Enterprise D" - AntonyF
here it is... It has been scrapped to build a new interstellar Fast food joint and travel agency...
This year's models are environmentally friendly, using unleaded antimatter, and lasers fitted with catalytic converters. They are a tad narrower, thus making them a doddle to park in a crowded hanger bay, and remote central locking helps keep those rebel scums' hands off them.
Bill, Antony, thanks, and an Enterprise-X model is in quantum flux at the moment.
Mike
Hi Mike,
this years model is even neater. which would be easier, the Enterprise or the Millieum Falcon?
Mike
Thanks for your advice on the ball.
Is your ball slightly flattened and with a slight dimple?
The texture here is lifted from http://understudy.net/images/eyeball.gif
Nice eye, Simon.
My sphere will not be truly spherical, as the initial tiny shape was extruded to 20 to make big enough to use, so the Rounded Bevel's centre wasn't a point, but it still helped for it to be as small as possible. I judged its roundness and size by eye, and it was certainly good enough for the TIE-fighter.
I used the same gif you linked to and made a special EYE-Fighter for Gary, to keep an eye out for those pesky worms that keep infecting his pictures.
Mike
Gary should love that one! do you think it will work on typos also, or just the folks that point them out to him... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
It's fantastic way out of my league in fact I want to try to do the little piston you use for you icon. Have you posted how you made this yet asssuming it is your handy work. If so please point me to tutorial.Quote:
Originally posted by Mike Sims:
I needed a rest from the skull! I happened across an image of a Star Wars TIE fighter while reading a magazine, and I realised that Xara3D could probably make a decent attempt at it, so naturally I had to prove it.
Mike
thanks
john
Hello, John,
engine was covered in Guest Tutorial 27 in Gary's XaraXone website. For a long time I used a small version of the tutorial animation as a signature animation, then redid it in its current format as an avatar.
Mike
many thanks I going there nowQuote:
Originally posted by Mike Sims:
Hello, John,
engine was covered in Guest Tutorial 27 in Gary's XaraXone website. For a long time I used a small version of the tutorial animation as a signature animation, then redid it in its current format as an avatar.
Mike