{"id":95,"date":"2011-01-04T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-01-22T01:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T01:47:59","slug":"wip-04-jan-2011-%e2%80%93-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wip-04-jan-2011-%e2%80%93-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"WIP 04 Jan 2011 \u2013 Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wip_dante_arm_2011_01_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96\" title=\"wip_dante_arm_2011_01_04\" src=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wip_dante_arm_2011_01_04-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wip_dante_arm_2011_01_04-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wip_dante_arm_2011_01_04.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I figured I should just redesign the arm as well. Pulled off some pictures of drilling rigs and designed the shoulder based off that. Right now they&#8217;re just the usual blocked-out geometry, but it should be easy enough to detail.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of detail, I spent a day and a half coding a script that would help me with moving edges along other edges consistently. LightWave Modeler doesn&#8217;t have a tool like Maya&#8217;s Insert Edge Loop where you can insert an edge at an absolute distance from the nearest edge. This gives you a consistent hardness of edge. However, Maya does not have a way to make this metrically consistent as well; you&#8217;d still have to eyeball the edge&#8217;s hardness. What I did was a script that records a set distance (defined by selecting two verts; the script measures the distance between those two verts), and then selecting an edge, then running either the A-side script, or the B-side script, or the nearest-side script. Running the side script will bring the selected edge towards a particular side (defined by the order of the selection) in absolute distance from that side edge. (When I get a chance to create a plugins page I&#8217;ll upload it.)<\/p>\n<p>(Will also be posting another model I&#8217;m improving. It&#8217;s a Russian T62 battle tank that I did <em>years<\/em> ago that I want to reassess. I did it in a fashion that is totally unacceptable for me. But I&#8217;m planning on using the geometry (which was done reasonably accurately) and just cleaning up the mesh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I should just redesign the arm as well. Pulled off some pictures of drilling rigs and designed the shoulder based off that. Right now they&#8217;re just the usual blocked-out geometry, but it should be easy enough to detail. Speaking of detail, I spent a day and a half coding a script that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,12,11,15,7,9,8,13,17],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics","tag-concept","tag-filipino","tag-industry","tag-lightwave","tag-modellng","tag-movies","tag-resiklo","tag-robot","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gtd2-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}