Need help visualizing model
Hey all, I'm creating an item/fluid teleportation mod. I've reached a road block with the receiver model and was hoping some feedback would help me get past the block.
I've attached what I've made already. I wanted it to be the size of the Nuclear Generator, so I've shown a side by side. I got the bottommost base of the model created (where the output conveyor attachments are) and I'm happy with it. I've also got the dish and where the dish connects modeled and I'm happy with it. What I can't visualize yet is the middle, the pillars that come from the base and support the weighty dish. Between the pillars I want to put a mesh-like material so the players can see inside the receiver, but not walk around. In the center of the receiver I want an energy beam, kind of like the Alien Power Augmenter, along with any other decorative cables, pipes, etc. Also, from the front and back there will be ladders leading to a walkway around the base of the dish, you can see the bare skeleton in the photo.
Right now I'm working from the top down. There's a cylinder that's flat shaded right above the walkway. That is what connects to the pillars. Somehow the walkway needs to connect to the top, the top needs to connect with the pillars, and on the underneath side of the top the pillars need to look like they are supporting the heavy dish while leading into an energy beam emitter.
Any questions, feedback, art tips, or other art I can reference would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I've attached what I've made already. I wanted it to be the size of the Nuclear Generator, so I've shown a side by side. I got the bottommost base of the model created (where the output conveyor attachments are) and I'm happy with it. I've also got the dish and where the dish connects modeled and I'm happy with it. What I can't visualize yet is the middle, the pillars that come from the base and support the weighty dish. Between the pillars I want to put a mesh-like material so the players can see inside the receiver, but not walk around. In the center of the receiver I want an energy beam, kind of like the Alien Power Augmenter, along with any other decorative cables, pipes, etc. Also, from the front and back there will be ladders leading to a walkway around the base of the dish, you can see the bare skeleton in the photo.
Right now I'm working from the top down. There's a cylinder that's flat shaded right above the walkway. That is what connects to the pillars. Somehow the walkway needs to connect to the top, the top needs to connect with the pillars, and on the underneath side of the top the pillars need to look like they are supporting the heavy dish while leading into an energy beam emitter.
Any questions, feedback, art tips, or other art I can reference would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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