Mobile Refinery

[Salvager]

I use Wings3D which has a very retarded renderer attached, hence the strange smoothing. Any model I do with Wings3D tends to look terrible when rendered in it. Fortunately it never turns out that way in actuality and the textures tend to solve that easily.

There are very few overlapping faces on this model and any that are there I'm using as reference points for textures. I rarely ever use seperate objects in modelling and always use extruding etc so it is actually quite hard for me to overlap faces properly:P

Also, autosmoothing simply adds a hell of a lot more faces to models in Wings3D, something I try to avoid.

Thank you for your criticism though.
Doom indeed is working on something alike to this. Unfortunately there hasn't been any sight of it near the forums so I'm guessing it either isn't finished or the idea was scrapped. (No offence intended to Doom btw) Any way it turns out, this model will be finished soon and ready to be put into the game soon after. If Doom has done his model then I'd be very happy to see his in the mod before mine. The better model wins after all:P

Oh, my bad. I've never used Wings3D so I didn't know about these things. I'd suggest you give Blender a try, it's open source and thus by far the best free 3D modeling platform available. I would even go as far to say it's better than some of the really expensive commercial programs.

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