Duck! It’s a canard!

After helping a new SLer yesterday to get started with Wings 3D and sculpts, I was inspired to attempt some thin, swept wings for a canard that I’ve been roughing out lately.

Roughing out the shape of a new canard aircraft

The general shape is coming into focus, I think. I want to improve the fuselage some more and smooth the join between wings and fuselage. Control surfaces would be nice to have too, but as usual with SL vehicles, the prim count for vehicles is only 32, so I might have to sacrifice that kind of detail to the prim gods.

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2 Responses to Duck! It’s a canard!

  1. Looks good… I used to use Wings3D, can you recommend any good tutorial sites dealing with sculpties?

  2. Cubey says:

    Here are some sculpty links you might find useful:

    A tutorial on sculpties and Wings 3D (Mermaid Diaries):
    http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2007/06/sculpted-prims-sculpties-second-life.html

    Another tutorial:
    http://the-ecchin.blogspot.com/2008/11/wings-3d-second-life-tutorial.html

    The SL wiki page on Wings 3D:
    http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Wings_3D

    The SL sculpt exptorter for Wings3D:
    http://pkpounceworks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=28&func=fileinfo&id=119

    Hope those help.
    -Cubey

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