Tarantula model

[Sibylline]

Hello you guys ^_^

As you may have guessed, im uber noob to the whole LW scene.
This model which i called after my first Tarantula, has been made with the aid of Inside Lightwave 8 By Dan, and the Texturing book by Leigh.
Great books if you ask me :)
I hope you like it, and PLEASE feel free to enlighten me on the aspects you think could have been done better :)
Sorry if the tarantula comes off a little naked :o
I tried using saslite and i just cant get it to work...not even a little bit of unnatural lookin fur lol.
Any ideas?
Thanx up front you guys :)

Sib

[Tzan]

You need to do a few things to get it running.
Read thru this:

http://www.nullspot.com/html/saslite.html

[Sibylline]

Thank you sooo much mate!
It works for me now and the first render turned out to be a rather fuzzy hair ball ^_^
I'll be tweaking and i shall share my results :D
Props to you :thumbsup:

*Edit*

Here are the results :D
I think Saslite is awesome by the way!!!

Sib

[Sibylline]

Here is another angle of my good ol Buddy here :)
whats rather annoying now is that i have allready assigned the surfaces, which means i cant really change the surfaces to assign different fur types to different areas, i only have like 6 surfaces in total :o
I think i need to get into the habit of naming my surfaces before everything gets too complicated to name afterwards...
but anyways...here is the other angle ^_^ Enjoy

[Skinner3D]

Much Cool. Please excuse my stupidity, but why couldn't you resurface the tanatula? :question: You could have part of the object contain two different sufaces with the exact same surface properties. This would give you an alternate base for Saslite.

[Sibylline]

hey Skinner :)
Thanx for stopping by
Yeah, i did think of that, but the thing is that when u look at the mesh ull see how difficult it would be since its a salad...i still dont know how to clean the thing up and reduce polys.
But im positive once i get better at it, ill be editing this model.
ive been coming accross various models which have been re-visited, mostly first propper models like this one ^_^
But i do get what you mean, actually, i may try it, im allways up for a challenge :D
isnt there an easier way to select desired polys than selecting them in the perspective view?
in the other view ports you cant really select a surface unless you select everything and then deselect what you dont want...
Here's a lil pic of the mesh...it IS rather messy!

But expect an update ;)

[Tzan]

Go into polygon mode then open the Statistics panel (button just to the right of the polygon button)

You will see a + and - symbols. So you can select a surface name then hit + and all those are highlighted.

[Sibylline]

Ohh now thats some wicked advise!
I just tried it and it works wonders :D
you just made the resurfacing graspable for me, muchly appreciated!

*EDIT*
I just noticed you helped me out with saslite aswell!
Your nam eis permanently engraved in my head!
Massive props to you!