Darth vader's tie fighter By Chanson on 28 Oct 00:47

Chanson - regarding your comment about monocrhomatic objects not being suitable for good pictures - there's probably a lesson or two to be learned from photographers who shoot products for living. It's all about lighting the object, background color, depth of focus… I've seen some awesome shots of gray cars, speakers, furniture etc.

And Tie fighter looks pretty neat. You could try surface material that looks a bit more metallic, right now it feels a bit too much like a tiny plastic model.

I like it. It looks like a plastic toy but Im not saying that as a bad thing. It looks good! You should try rendering it next to some other toys to give it some scale.

Here is a quick render, let me know what you think.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bruins.scott/GrabCAD#5547934129486405650

Nice Chanson, great amount of detail in that, you really put the effort in.
And it's supposed to be plasticy, it's star wars, it's still more convincing than the original film :)

Scott, it needs a deep space image from Nasa's image bank and someone shooting lasers at it :)

Yeah, I guess I was just drained after a couple hours of adjusting the material and scenary and not getting anything good. Metal has too much sheen to it, it wasn't really looking right, and I don't have a way to adjust the reflectivity. My PSP is probably faster than my computer so that makes everything take longer.

Looking pretty good Scott. The biggest problem for me with this model is how hard it is to get the lighting to look realistic. It either ends up looking like there are ten spotlights, zero shadows, or half the detail is obsured.

Thanks Kev, I really went all out to be accurate. If I spent some time on the wings it would really come together.

Yeah I know how you feel. I'm having similar problems with my District 9 assault rifle. Its mainly flat/matte surfaces so the lighting is hard to get how I want it.

If your ever in the market for a new PC (thats CAD/Rendering worthy) give me a shout! :)

Funny you should mention. I was shopping recently and had some questions I figured you would be able to answer. I'll be in touch again.

i like seeing it in different way..^_^ http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3067/gee371.jpg

I like it!

Chanson, I spotted your model on one of the recent solar eclipse pictures. You already put it into production? :)

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit.html

Siim, those were flight testing photos, not supposed to be released to the public yet. Guess someone leaked them.

Great job, I am working on a ship concept from several different Clone Wars ships myself. Well be done with it I hope next week if I have time.

Good Job!!

Thanks Thanks. Nelson, it will be interesting to see how it turns out. I'll be looking for it.

Nice one!

http://blog.grabcad.com/2011/07/star-wars-3d-models-for-solidworks-tie-fighter-lightsabers-r2d2/ Boom! Featured in our blog.

Chanson / Scott we found a neat trick to get a good black metal - try selecting glass (basic or frosted) and then changing the colour to black. Requires a bit of adjusment but then they all do...

Do you have any renders to share Alex?

STEP File is available, sorry it took so long

That is an incredible model, very cool!

Daniel is that your render you just added?

That is super wicked bad ass kiking
:)))))
super impressive.