{"id":449,"date":"2022-02-18T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starshipsimulator.co.uk\/?p=449"},"modified":"2022-08-17T18:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:41:22","slug":"vip-lounge-framework-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipsimulator.co.uk\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"VIP Lounge Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past week I’ve mostly been working on the framework structure for the VIP Lounge, which honestly has been a right pain in the rear. It’s a very organic, curvy structure, and that just makes everything a lot more difficult.<\/p>\n

The most time-consuming thing has been cleaning up the geometry because when you intersect one object with another you end up with craziness. Check this out as an example. Here we have a window frame, which consists purely of nicely triangulated quad-geometry:<\/p>\n

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And now I’ve cut out the grooves for the glass… our nice quad-geometry is now ruined because the faces are all split awkwardly, which means you get awful surface normals and the mesh as a whole just got a lot harder to work with. You really just have to suck it up and fix the geometry by hand, which of course takes time.<\/p>\n

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Also, quite often the intersect doesn’t actually fully intersect the meshes properly either, so you end up having to fix that manually as well \"tongue-out\"<\/p>\n

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So really that’s just a long-winded explanation as to why it’s taken me 6 days to put the VIP Lounge framework together \"laughing\"<\/p>\n

I’m just adding the final ribbing to the interior now so that I can attach the wall panels (also difficult, every surface is curved :P), and that will give me the precise position for the balcony and stairs. And once the stairs are built, I’ll put a new build out \"smile\"<\/p>\n

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Here’s another quick example of the new lounge vs the old one. It’s so much less boxy now!<\/p>\n

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