Occupation: Thor's Settlement

[gpdesigner]

Originally Posted by homerpalooza67

looks kinda like the big globe thingie at Epcot....

dude . . . shoot me a picture I have never been to Disney . . . went to Universal Studios tho'. . . .

Originally Posted by Lord Erisu

Cool concept dude, its inspiring me.

As for the dome, its cool, but theres a bit I don't like about, and thats the base. I personally prefer to have a small wall or some sort of visible foundation beneath it. Or something. I hope you get what I mean... or I could always post a picture...

I know exactly what you are talking about. Domes have been a common thread in some of my projects as of late. yeah, it's kind of stupid to have the dome resting on the ground. one dome I build was being generated by a series of energy genies that skirted the circumference . . . .
But yes something to support the dome is always good . . .
here is an example from my last project:


maybe for this dome I will come up with something a bit different for supporting the dome.

gp

[LtCmdr_Bill]

The idea I got for the frame work came from here:



I thought it looks pretty cool.

Dude: What building is that??

William
WHiggins001@sympatico.ca

[gpdesigner]

LtCmdr_Bill,
Welcome to the forums . . . . I just did a random searh on the internet to find that picture. I think it was 'dome structure' or something like that. Right now I did another google search to see if I could find it for you but I think I took the last picture beause it's gone . .
if you google for futuristic dome or dome structure I am sure you would come accross it.
gp

[Melak]

Nice Moonbase
The hexagonal dome that Armondikov linked to is not entirely built with hexagons, I saw a photo from another perspective and I could make out some pentagons..and you can make one like that easily from your geodesic dome, you'd just need to inset and extrude bigger selections of polygons. But that's max talk, it will probably translate 50% into lightwave

[gpdesigner]

Originally Posted by Melak

and you can make one like that easily from your geodesic dome, you'd just need to inset and extrude bigger selections of polygons. But that's max talk, it will probably translate 50% into lightwave

Thanks Melak . . you know, I never really looked at that feature in LW, let me check that out and I will let you know.
gp

[Armondikov]

I see what he's getting at. I'm messing around with a tesselated sphere. If you start at the top, you can find 5 tirangles, merge them and then you can use the bevel tool on them. Although I think there is an advanced bevel/smooth shift tool on later versions of LW but I haven't used it yet.

EDIT. Actually, the tesselated spheres don't produce the "football" pattern needed to make a pentagon/hexagon structure exactly. You get an interesting design though.

[Melak]

Use the same kind of Geodesic Icosa whatever (that's what it's called in max anyway) that you used for the current dome, but use an odd number of segments, or all the hexagons and pentagons won't match up to a football pattern, I'll attach an image...

..D'oh! Or not, looks like I deleted the licensing service, reinstalling is fun

Edit: Ok, here we go. This was made using a icosa-geodesic sphere, with 3 segments. The more segments (odd numbers!) the more hexagons between the pentagons

[gpdesigner]

tried working it out in LW but segments just increase triangles.
I an select 5 tri's which will give me the hex but framing it like in your image is not a feature in LW, or if it is I don't have that plugin on my machine.
gp

[Melak]

Don't you give up that easily, if max taught me one thing then it'd be that there's always another way to do it!

Try to select the outline-edges of the hexagons and pentagons, and then apply a chamfer (I don't know what it is called in LW, see the attached image, there's gotta be a tool that does that! (I only selected a few because I'm lazy )).
After that you'll have neat selections ready to be extruded/bevelled/???. Of course, this is gonna be quite some selecting, but I think it should work

[gpdesigner]

I opened LW and started to work . . .
this is what I came up with . . I used 5 segments . . I had to select 6 tiangles and merge polys, every once in a while I ran into a 5 sided poly.


Then I ran into another problem . . I was left with 3 sided polys every now and again . .

gp

not a huge issue but I think I will stick with the tesselated dome, It looks different.
I will give the hex dome a go a bit later . . . seems like it is doable, I almost got it.