thanks Null

Not textured yet: It's a bazaar, inspiration from:

Dude, your Tatooine buildings far exceed mine.

Wow great work mswf...

Null_1138 wrote:Dude, your Tatooine buildings far exceed mine.

I think "better than" is open to anyones opinion, but I'll still accept the comment

EDIT:
It's finished BTW:

I'm not that great at sketchup,
but I was bored and saw this thread and made this: I didn't like how the top came out in the beginning, so I made it all complicated and stuff.
I guess the blade is going to be shaped like a star. Hehe.

kooster wrote:I'm not that great at sketchup,
but I was bored and saw this thread and made this:
I didn't like how the top came out in the beginning, so I made it all complicated and stuff.
I guess the blade is going to be shaped like a star. Hehe.

Pretty good for starters. It's a shame you wouldn't be able to use it though.

mswf wrote:

kooster wrote:I'm not that great at sketchup,
but I was bored and saw this thread and made this:
I didn't like how the top came out in the beginning, so I made it all complicated and stuff.
I guess the blade is going to be shaped like a star. Hehe.

Pretty good for starters. It's a shame you wouldn't be able to use it though.

Why wouldn't he?

DarthRogueKnight wrote:

mswf wrote:

kooster wrote:I'm not that great at sketchup,
but I was bored and saw this thread and made this:
I didn't like how the top came out in the beginning, so I made it all complicated and stuff.
I guess the blade is going to be shaped like a star. Hehe.

Pretty good for starters. It's a shame you wouldn't be able to use it though.

Why wouldn't he?

Isn't the object too detailed (too much sharp edges) for a lightsaber? (if not, then sorry)

mswf wrote:

DarthRogueKnight wrote:

mswf wrote:

kooster wrote:I'm not that great at sketchup,
but I was bored and saw this thread and made this:
I didn't like how the top came out in the beginning, so I made it all complicated and stuff.
I guess the blade is going to be shaped like a star. Hehe.

Pretty good for starters. It's a shame you wouldn't be able to use it though.

Why wouldn't he?

Isn't the object too detailed (too much sharp edges) for a lightsaber? (if not, then sorry)

Depends. How many polies does that hilt have? And you can always make a simple cylinder, then give it a really good texture.

How many polies does that hilt have?

Like I said, I'm new to modeling (not to sketchup though)
so I have no idea what polies are.

I found this out recently: polies stands for polygons (any shape)

Sorry but even knowing the meaning, I don't think I can figure out how many there are.
is there a way sketchup tells you how many there are?
like in the corner or properties or something?

Thanks Commander Fett :jango:

it's not exact, but if you go to file/export and export as a kmz, a screen will pop up saying how many tris were in the model. Generaly, the number of tris is more or less double the number of polies, since the most common shape (rectangle) is 2 tris

Or go to Model Info. It looks like a blue circle with an "I" in it. Toggle your toolbars until you find it. Clicking on it will open a window that talks about the model. From there click on the Statistics line in the box to the left.

EDIT: This picture will explain better.

Null_1138 wrote:Or go to Model Info. It looks like a blue circle with an "I" in it. Toggle your toolbars until you find it. Clicking on it will open a window that talks about the model. From there click on the Statistics line in the box to the left.

EDIT: This picture will explain better.

Hidden/Spoiler:

I think that's pro only?

mswf wrote:

Null_1138 wrote:Or go to Model Info. It looks like a blue circle with an "I" in it. Toggle your toolbars until you find it. Clicking on it will open a window that talks about the model. From there click on the Statistics line in the box to the left.

EDIT: This picture will explain better.

Hidden/Spoiler:

I think that's pro only?

yup.
I dont have pro...

kooster wrote:

mswf wrote:

Null_1138 wrote:Or go to Model Info. It looks like a blue circle with an "I" in it. Toggle your toolbars until you find it. Clicking on it will open a window that talks about the model. From there click on the Statistics line in the box to the left.

EDIT: This picture will explain better.

Hidden/Spoiler:

I think that's pro only?

yup.
I dont have pro...

You can download the free trial, you can use it for 8 hours total. It's very usefull for exporting and stuff

mswf wrote:

kooster wrote:

mswf wrote:

Null_1138 wrote:Or go to Model Info. It looks like a blue circle with an "I" in it. Toggle your toolbars until you find it. Clicking on it will open a window that talks about the model. From there click on the Statistics line in the box to the left.

EDIT: This picture will explain better.

Hidden/Spoiler:

I think that's pro only?

yup.
I dont have pro...

You can download the free trial, you can use it for 8 hours total. It's very useful for exporting and stuff

Wait, the Model Info is only in Pro? I don't get that, because I used to have the Free version, and Model Info worked for me then. Then I overwrit it unwittingly with the Pro. Now its expired, and it does stuff the Free version does, I think that's what its supposed to do. So, you download the Pro, then it expires, and reverts to the Free version. So, why wouldn't it work for Free verison?

Null_1138 wrote:Wait, the Model Info is only in Pro? I don't get that, because I used to have the Free version, and Model Info worked for me then. Then I overwrit it unwittingly with the Pro. Now its expired, and it does stuff the Free version does, I think that's what its supposed to do. So, you download the Pro, then it expires, and reverts to the Free version. So, why wouldn't it work for Free verison?

Well, I don't know for sure, since I haven't really searched that hard, and I have the trial too.