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Post by Dodo 129 on Mar 24, 2005 5:29:54 GMT -5
I am trying to go my first model, a Kushan Gravwell Generator and i have followed Frucs' tutorial to the letter
(Excellent job, Fruc!! if only more were like you...) and I have just got to pepakura, and there are all the red lines. Fruc says click the "Join Isolated edges" or something like that, and i do that and nothing happens...
I would really like to make a contribution to the HW modelling community, and have only not done so far as we are not allowed to Dload anyhing at school.
What am I doing wrong?
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Post by TheGlove on Mar 24, 2005 11:47:24 GMT -5
maybe theres no isolated edges ?
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Post by fructose on Mar 24, 2005 17:22:58 GMT -5
Somtimes the models in homeworld are a little messed up. Those edges might be really close together, but not actually touch. One way to fix that is to go into Metaseq and under the object menu, pick join closed verticies. Change the raduis to something like .5 and click ok. It should tell you that # verticies have been joined or something like that. Then when you open it in pepakura it will have less or no red lines. I'm at work right now, but when I'm at home I'll look at the model at home and see what the problem is.
To be honest, I've had to do some moderate editing on some of the models for both HW and HW2. Not for the timid or faint of heart, but well worth the effort to make a good model.
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Post by fructose on Mar 24, 2005 20:26:09 GMT -5
Um, I can't duplicate the problem you have. Can you take a screenshot and send it to me in an e-mail?
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Post by TheGlove on Mar 24, 2005 21:32:17 GMT -5
u can always go in edit tab mode, click the edge and create a tab
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Post by lecuteus on Jul 18, 2005 16:21:45 GMT -5
I have built over a 100 HW and HW2 models main downloads are from ericks, paper starships sites but does anyone know if there are any other major sites I can download models from?
Thanks
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Post by Nerath on Jul 20, 2005 21:10:28 GMT -5
"Join Adjacent Isolated Edge" doesn't always work. Sometimes you have to poke around with the unfolded version in Pepakura (that right-hand window). Join some edges; cut some parts (that can fix things at times), and so forth. If you still have insane amounts of un-joinable areas and red lines, go to Metasequoia and tinker as Fruc said.
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Post by Dodo 129 on Aug 2, 2005 21:54:04 GMT -5
wtf?  now it is not viewing textures in meta. nerath i recieved your files, but it doesn't view textures for them either. |
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Post by TheGlove on Aug 3, 2005 11:24:42 GMT -5
you need to save it in .mqo to see the textures... AND have the textures in the same folder as the .mqo
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Post by Dodo 129 on Aug 6, 2005 18:55:52 GMT -5
yay!!!! thanks glove. fruc should have a basic FAQ on his website. no idea how i saved with textures originally. must have been an accident.
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Post by TheGlove on Aug 6, 2005 22:21:33 GMT -5
yeah, thats why I put all my files related to a especified ship in a different folder each
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Post by Dodo 129 on Sept 13, 2005 20:17:07 GMT -5
now, when i try to modulate it, the new objects (modules) dont select.
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Post by TheGlove on Sept 13, 2005 22:21:37 GMT -5
erm, you cant select the faces or the objects? explain that please.
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Post by Dodo 129 on Sept 15, 2005 20:58:37 GMT -5
when i modulate it and do the "move selected to new object" thing, i cant select the new object.
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Post by TheGlove on Sept 18, 2005 15:38:03 GMT -5
here you go  Click the eye to make it appear/disapear |
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now it is not viewing textures in meta. nerath i recieved your files, but it doesn't view textures for them either.