@metin My pleasure, Metin. But won't it still be a drone if the caterpillar drive (or the legs) are only lowered every now and then? I mean, it mostly hovers, but can also move on the ground 😉
@metin Yes, but I think it may be a little more complicated than that ;) I do regret not introducing myself back in 2019 at BCON. I don’t know when I’ll get over there next.
@JimPostier Wow, I didn't know you were there as well. I'd have loved to have a chat.
My presence was an exception though. Usually the BCONs are too expensive for me, but I got free entrance as a Blender Nation journalist back in 2019.
Were you there all weekend? I was, and I was exhausted at the end of every day, trying to register as much as possible for my daily Blender Nation reports. 😅
@metin I think it was all day Saturday and a Sunday visit to the new (at the time) Blender Studio. I may or may not have crashed the party illegally on Friday afternoon ;) My eldest son wanted to keep the itinerary moving. My only dislike was the Dutch coffee. I mean the coffee you sip.
Added a few more little widgets to finish the model.
I think this time I'm going to export the model to Blender for rendering with Cycles. MagicaCSG includes a great path tracing renderer, but it lacks textures.
@daniel Thanks Daniel! And nice to see you back here. I was almost getting worried something had happened to you, or you had left Mastodon. 😅
Yeah, the fan is just a radial array. As usual, #MagicaCSG makes modeling so easy that it invites you to experiment much more than traditional 3D editors do. 💚
@metin Don't worry, I have no intention of leaving Mastodon! I was just on a business trip and my spontaneously booked "hotel" had no WIFI. 🙈 And since my instance is self-hosted and I only have an IPv4 at home at the moment, I cannot access my server from my mobile internet...
I really like the arrays in MagicaCSG. It's not obvious how to do it at first, but it's so powerful!
@daniel 😅 I feel your pain, although we all know that some offline time is good for you, but internet is just so magnetic. 😉
Yeah, I love the fact that once you drag to create an array, there's snapping to equal division within the 360 degrees. For example, in Blender you need to calculate 360 divided by the amount of array elements to get the necessary degree increment, and creating a radial array is not easy to start with.
@metin Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the offline time (especially as I forgot to bring my laptop charger 😂). I spent the evenings outside, it was very healthy!
I agree 100%, the snapping for radial arrays is so good! It's a blast to create round structures like that. I can't believe that most of the other tools offer this as well 🤷
@daniel Yes, that's why I think #MagicaCSG is a gem in its implementations of SDF shapes (complex math), as well as its UI / UX design: straightforward modeling tools, controls clearness and ease of use.
@kbob I had the global shapes in mind: main part, propellers / fans at the sides, two "legs" / "arms" with guns, and the lens. The rest of the shapes and details were conceived as I went along.
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