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October 2020

Day Seven – Taiidan Fighter

Day Seven – 10/08/2020: Slow going in parts today and yesterday, but there’s been progress with this sketch of a fighter. I’ve had a devil of a time moving objects along the normals of faces or edges, which is unfortunately very helpful for creating complex shapes, but despite all of that I’ve been able to make some forward progress on the ship as seen below. I’ve been trying to work on generating detail panels but am still blocking in a few chunks of the hull.

I should get a p3d link for this setup with this model going forwards. I am quite proud of the way the nose is coming together but need to elegantly integrate the cockpit into the fuselage.

I had more trouble than I was prepared for integrating the vanes in the big midsection vents, there’s definitely still a LOT I have left to learn about how Maya handles certain kinds of mirroring operations.