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Originally Posted by Kadaeux  How long before you would say it is ready for texturing? |
I'm already beginning to fiddle with textures a bit as an ocassional change from the detailing work, but how long it will be before I get serious with it I don't know. I haven't even made up my mind what the final colour will be yet.
How long it will take depends to some extent on how many layers of detail I decide to add, I don't have anything like the greeble plugin so I'm doing the detailing manually, piece by piece, with booleans and the knife tool. I'm not a fast worker at the best of times and I've been further slowed by going back and altering some of what I already had built. I decided some of the basic windows were too big so I ran around the house with a tape measure checking on standard sizes and then rebuilt many parts of the ship changing windows from 5x3 metres to 2x1½ metres.
I had the basic stucture for the Cobra built in around 8 hours, for the past three days I've been adding details and I don't think I'm even halfway done yet, I shudder to think how long it will take me to do the bigger ships although I think the lessons I'm learning on the Cobra will stand me in good stead when I do start them.