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# 1 09-04-2007 , 10:46 PM

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Hi guys just wanted to get some ideas of what kind of hard surface objects you would like to see for possible tuts down the road. We have a mech, apache, ship, living room and a car.

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# 2 09-04-2007 , 10:54 PM

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How about a house Kurt since that might be something of use in the design industry?

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# 3 09-04-2007 , 11:10 PM

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Maybe a futuristic mech with sweet guns!

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# 4 09-04-2007 , 11:30 PM

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I agree with jsprogg, a house. After I did the haunted house tutorial I thought I'd give modeling my parents house a shot, and I got the basic shape, but when it came to cutting windows and making window ledges and doors I kind of gave up since I couldn't quite get what I was going for

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# 5 09-04-2007 , 11:34 PM

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Perhaps a kids playground. Not as cool, but with all the different geometry, textures, etc., could be a good instructional for several different modeling & texturing techniques. Some pieces could even be animated later on.

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# 6 10-04-2007 , 02:43 AM

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How about The Space Shuttle or The Saturn V rocket on a gantry, that would be cool!

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# 7 10-04-2007 , 02:47 AM

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Buildings ? I really wanna see a tut. about any type of building user added image

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# 8 10-04-2007 , 06:56 AM

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hmm, maybe some kind of space-probe design or a low-poly sci-fi environment.:attn:

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# 9 10-04-2007 , 07:28 AM

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At first I was against the house thing because there already existed a haunted house tutorial. But after Rhetoric Camel's comment, I prefer the house idea.

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# 10 10-04-2007 , 08:02 AM

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Originally posted by jsprogg
How about a house Kurt since that might be something of use in the design industry?

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Man jsprogg you took the words out of my mouth. I have been modeling a PR Victorian style house, and have at several times wished that SM had a tut on how to model realistic exteriors.

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# 11 10-04-2007 , 08:18 AM

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i like the realistic exterior idea as well.

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# 12 10-04-2007 , 10:59 AM

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How about a Cyborg style of character. Half flesh the other part Machine with tubes, or like a Terminator all beat up.

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# 13 10-04-2007 , 12:42 PM

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digital tutors recently released an exteriors and interiors modeling training disks. maybe thats what people are interested in learning nowaday.

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# 14 10-04-2007 , 08:00 PM

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another thing I would like to see involved with this is how to render it in mental ray

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# 15 10-04-2007 , 09:23 PM

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I have to agree with others and say "architecture," be it a space shuttle on a gantry (Jay), a building (jsprogg) or a specific room (living room; Kurt).

I feel that the site has plenty in regards to organic models (low poly basic character, hippo, oliphant, exotic julgle-esque frog) and vehicles (apache, ferrari), and that it would be good to balance it out a bit more and add something architecture-wise (currently only the haunted house).

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