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PixelOz — X-Wing Fighter Low Poly Blender 3D Model
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Published: 2012-07-14 07:53:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 18876; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 2095
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Star Wars X-Wing Fighter Low-Medium Poly 3D Model - Created in Blender 2.63aI made this low-medium poly 3D model recently entirely in Blender and it is not textured. As you can see it is only colored somewhat with different materials. There are two versions of it in the zip file one is like this cause the mesh has been more divided for the coloring and markings (done directly in the mesh) and there is a complete white version with the mesh more clean for texture mapping.
I think that I got the overall shape of the craft well and this was not easy due to how hard it is to get good quality reference material for it. I searched very hard for many pieces of blueprints and many, many photos of the original studio models or of close replicas of them and I used that material for reference.
Remember that it is low poly and many compromises have to be made for such 3D models. With textures it would look much, much better. I originally designed it for the AC3D screensaver. There is another submission right here in Deviantart where you can download my mods package for the AC3D 3D screensaver with many models that you can use with it.
More details about the model are specified in the PDFs included in the .zip file and there are more images of it there too.
The model is completely free and you can even use it for commercial purposes. The complete details and restrictions are specified in the accompanying PDF documents.
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i am a big star wars fan and have used blender so wondered seeing as i can draw wondered how easy it would be to create something like this
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It takes a while to learn how to model well in 3D. 3D Programs are known to have a steep learning curve. But do not get disappointed or discouraged by that, this is something you learn little by little. It is one step at a time and you do the next step and then the next one and next thing you know you know a lot. So just start to learn, if you practice you will get there.
There are many good quality free tutorials in the web in general and there are many video tutorials in Youtube so if you are patient and you apply yourself you can accomplish a lot in it.
3D modeling is really very addictive and even if at first you can't achieve exactly what you want, the process of learning is also a lot of fun. You start with simpler things and you build from there and that is exactly how I did it and today I can model things far, far more complex that what you see here, I just don't always have the time to do as much as I want to cause I do a lot of other things but I do enjoy the time I spend in this a lot.
Do not ignore the fundamentals, understanding the basics of lighting and materials is very important. If you are a photographer you may have a head start in lighting already but don't be surprised if you learn a whole lot more about it with this (I was a photographer even though not as advanced as you are in it and I learned a lot more about lighting in this process) cause many modern renderers mimic a lot of the real life physics attributes although they still don't work exactly the same and you learn their limitations and/or differences and how to work around them and even how to use them to your advantage.
You need to understand many of the fundamentals of lighting like anisotropic reflections (like those in hair and Christmas balls), global illumination (soft shadows), radiosity (colored reflections), reflections themselves, soft reflections, you already probably know depth of field very well and 3D renderers can also do that to and it can also be simulated in post-processing in bitmap processing programs like Photoshop so you learn when to use it inside the 3D programs themselves but also how and when to simulate it in photo editors, etc.
I found out that when I started to learn those things by reading about them on the web and other places I started to do much better renderings and the process of learning is still going of course as it is with everything else but I am very happy with what I have learned so far.
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