scott wrote:
> Really, it's just clicking and dragging points until they line up with 
> the image, it's not difficult or slow and you can get something that 
> looks realistic very quickly.

http://www.hash.com/2007web/vm.htm
Check out exercise 10, which goes thru the whole exercise for an airplane.

> I used Wings for a bit but I didn't get along with it - it was awkward 
> to modify meshes and it sometimes got confused about how the mesh was 
> connected and I couldn't find a way to fix it. 

Yes, me too. :-)

>> Interesting. HL2 is "only" a computer game, and so presumably has the 
>> lowest possibly polygon counts, and yet it fills a 4GB DVD.
> 
> Textures.

And sound. And game logic. And the levels are pretty f'ing huge, when you 
think about it.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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