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Weird round thingie
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Weird round thingie // Work in Progress
Post by Accu // Aug 28, 2006, 11:03pm
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I wanted to make the entrance for a "Sun Motel" and I got this. It doesn't look like it belongs on Earth.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/9272/wmth1.jpg
Any ideas on how I should proceed? |
Post by Matski007 // Aug 29, 2006, 12:38am
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what can i say? im not quite sure what its suposed to be to be honest, although it looks very pretty and well detailed, could do with a little more info on what it is, as im not enlightened as to the meaning of a 'Sun Motel' |
Post by Accu // Aug 29, 2006, 1:02am
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Sorry, my bad. "Sun Motel" is the name. I wanted to make the entrance with a circular door and rays. I did it once and didn't like it and this is the second try. I'll have to cut a hole in the middle and put a door and stairs or something. This will be the entrance hallway. And all that is true if I don't decide to turn it into a spaceship or something. :)
About the door - haven't started making it yet cause I'm not sure how. A normal door won't do for such a futuristic motel. A sliding door also seems too low-tech. Maybe an iris-like door. Ideas? |
Post by Steinie // Aug 29, 2006, 1:02am
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You ever been on the muddy Mississippi River? |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Aug 29, 2006, 1:31am
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A normal door won't do for such a futuristic motel. A sliding door also seems too low-tech. Maybe an iris-like door. Ideas?
Maybe a visible energy/force field airlock type thing? |
Post by Accu // Aug 29, 2006, 1:58am
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You ever been on the muddy Mississippi River?
Nope, but spacekdet asked me if that thing was a part of a sternwheeler.
Maybe a visible energy/force field airlock type thing?
Hmm. Not enough polygons in a force field. I need more polygons so I can do more bevels. :) (27770 faces now) |
Post by Zeipher // Aug 29, 2006, 2:17am
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Have that door roll aside if possible. It always looks cool in Deep Space 9 :p Not that I watched it... :rolleyes: |
Post by Rareth // Aug 29, 2006, 3:36am
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a little thick for a DS-9 door (yes I watched the show) at first glance I thought it looked like one of those tunneling machines. |
Post by Norm // Aug 29, 2006, 4:57am
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Any ideas on how I should proceed?
Fill it full of jelly-beans :)
Cosmic Bean Co. Ltd. |
Post by JPSofCA // Aug 29, 2006, 10:00pm
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If you turned that thing upright and give it some interior and whatnot, it would make for a really nice "sun motel" worthy of giving Trump a run for his money...it would make a very nice building, kind of a mall wonder, with one hell of a skylight...with a hole amidst each floor for some fancy sculpture or fountain or plantscape or something standing several [6] stories tall! Some stairwells, a glass elevator or two on the inner opposing sides...there's so much you could do with this one - regardless of what you turn it into, it's definitely a great foundation to start from! I'd love to see a grand-scale project from this.
Very nice. :) |
Post by Accu // Aug 30, 2006, 2:39am
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Good idea, JPSofCA. It could be part of a huge tower. I think I'll keep that in mind when I add more stuff to it.
I have two more renders for today - the door.
First, the force field.
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2769/wpba2.jpg
Second, the metal door (and I might make a new one cause this one doesn't seem to fit the general design).
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2665/wsmb5.jpg |
Post by Rareth // Aug 30, 2006, 3:42am
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actually the doors don't look out of place. they might fit better if the glass in the doors had a quarter circle shape in stead of the polygonal shapes they have now. |
Post by Methusela // Aug 31, 2006, 9:06pm
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You could turn it on its side and have it be like a sort of 'lobby' and make two of the circle's segments be sliding doors. I think it looks cool now though. :D |
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