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hey guys me again
im a little stuck and im struggle to figure it out.

im trying to do the roof of a Japanese temple but not matter what i try i just cant seem to get that curve working for me.

has any one any advice on the best way or a way that worked for you to get
the Japanese/oriental style roof.

if any one has that roof done maybe you could post a screen shot of the polys on it for me to learn from.

[[K]hajit]

show me a pic of what you want to acomplish cuz i made a azian palace once xD

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something along the lines of this

[[K]hajit]

if nobody else does i send you tomorrow
i forget my pas of imageshack =[
and because it logs on automaticly at my dads place thats the only place i can post pics..
what i did is just use a cube and insest the uper polygon
then move the new inner polygon op and do that multiple times
if the size isnt right you can change it in ''vertex'' mode and then ''scale''

[granada]

Hi there,here is a quick one just a qube subdivided & smoothed .
(Could be played with a bit more)





Dave
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cheers mate.
i appreciate that.
when you say subdivided you mean using the split command?

[Jeroen]

He means the Subdivide properties for creating a cube. Play with them and you'll see what you can do with them. Dave used those to create a cube with additional polygons. He then moved a top polygon slightly upwards and the vertices in the four corners too. Then he used the Smooth command. Or at least, that's how I think he did it.
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[elementrix]

although that is very bad topology, you could get a better likeness with much less poly's like this:



You should always try to create your object with very few polygons if you do it for games. For nice images you can go crazy:)

It's a cube extruded and scaled one by one and with one subdivisions along the X and Z axis.
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cheers guys i appreciate all the help.. i think im getting there.
slowly slowly

[elementrix]

I noticed the grid over all your models, do you see this all the time when modelling? It shouldn't be there and I guess it's pretty annoying, it has something to do with your video card, maybe try to update your drivers.

You should also connect the vertex at the very corner of each roof with the vertex in the corners of the house Because DeleD now doesn't know which way it should triangulate.

(Computers mostly only read in triangles and that is why you should always triangulate such polygons by hand. Otherwise your roof might get screwed up when exporting)
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that was a fast reply lol

fletcher noticed that last night as well.

no i only see it in screen shot not when im modeling.
i have the latest drivers for my graphics (on-board card ) laptop

and DeleD semi- crashes after every screenshot .. have to restart DeleD after each one

[elementrix]

[Jeroen]

DeleD uses memory of the graphics card to create screenshots (they're rendered to a buffer on the graphics cards memory first before being written to a file as far as I can remember). Getting a very good videocard with lots of mem would be ideal.
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i guess iw ill just have to get used to restarting deled as i mostly use it on my laptop.
or i will have to fork out for a new BETTER laptop lol

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im still having some issues with the corners this screen shot might explain what im on about.. if i press optimize it makes all corners opposite.