Quick render...

is it me or is the cross thingy a bit thin?
i'm talking about the thing that connects the tripod legs... i should probably know the name but i dont...

Matches my refs...
It's exactly the width of one of the wooden beams connected to it.
;)

i just thought the center should be more fatter...

meh... it looks like it's coming along really nicely :)

oh an, love the new look (your avatar picture)

Mmm..I just checked out some of the pics of other telescopes, and you are right, some of them really have a fatter middle. Matches the one Im modeling now, but thanks for the heads up!

BTW, do you know what my avatar is?
(I know, random question, but I was just wondering if you acctually know 'it')

hehe... no... no idea what it is, it looked like an amoeba though :p

or is it a lens of some sort?

I'm not sure but it reminds me somewhat of Terminator...
Nice work on the model ;) What's your poly count?
Benny

Poly count is unberably big... :(
im at 113741 because of those stupid screws... :(
It's going to get lower towards the end when I change them.And the avatar is HAL 9000, look on wikipedia.
;)

i'm no expert on poly count but i say thats abnormally high for what you have there ;)

oh well.. make evry poly count i say!

you should post a wire :)

and i was right about the thing being a lens, although i didn't know where its from, i know now :alien:

Wires:

Is there any way to attach more than 1 image per post?
Anyway, here is the polycount-problem:
:(

113,741 ????? !!!!! OMG :eek: :confused:
is it faces? That's unbelievably high...
How much do you have without the screws?
And I thought I have a high poly count... Mine's ~7,600 faces
Definitely post a wireframe
Benny

EDIT: 1 minute late... You can use an image hosting site such as imageshack.us

i think you can post more than one pic at a time if you have a website or an image depositing site like what BennyK has with image shack
then you can just use the IMG button when you make a post

anyway, that screw's wire looks uber dense...

looks more dense than it needs to be i think (again i'm no expert on poly counts)

and yeah, is that poly count counting from the triangles or faces?

Try using a cylinder with a bump map instead of your screw.
the details are to small to be visible anyway.
based on the wireframe this should send you ~20,000 faces back per screw
Hope it helps,
Benny

How can you make so accurate guesses?
Its 23000 tris.

:eek: