Stormtrooper Paper Craft to Digital Model

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The stormtrooper was the first paper craft model I made for this week's homework. I had to improvise a little, because the pattern calls for an exacto knife to cut the tabs. Unfortunately, I only had a clunky cheep pair of scissors, clear tape and a pritt stick. It took a little fenagling to get the parts to all fit right, but I think he turned out pretty decent.


Next was just hammering out the 3d model in 3DS Max. It was a pretty strait forward process of lining up the flat texture with each side after building the base. After getting the hang of the steps, all it took as a good chunk of time on Tuesday's session. 

Unfortunately, I have had some issues with exporting the model with the texture. I thought I had fixed with by altering the pathname for the bitmap, which is what made the texture appear as it should in 3DS Max, but when I import it into SketchUp it just shows up as a flat color. I ran into a similar problem with my dice model, but after I fiddled with it the same way the texture showed up in SketchUp. The geolocation feature does still work perfectly fine with the stormtrooper model though, so at least there's that. I'm hoping to fix this in the November 3rd session. 


The paper model now lives on my bookshelf, right next to the other paper models from last week and my fake Ikea vines.

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