{"id":3577,"date":"2014-03-11T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:05:00","slug":"i-can-feel-my-digital-skills-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/03\/11\/i-can-feel-my-digital-skills-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"I can FEEL my digital skills improving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I got the idea that my digital peoples should go to an amusement park, I have been looking online for free models that I could use. I found a Ferris wheel [assuming it doesn&#8217;t give my computer a hernia :p ], bumper cars and a water park [also assuming that it doesn&#8217;t give my computer a hernia either]. I could not, however, find for free a model of my most favorite amusement of all time: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carousel\">merry-go-round.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just now, though, I figured out how to kitbash a simple, static digital model of a merry-go-round using a combination of models I already have, primitives and freely available stuff. I used the skills detailed in my entry about stalking the elusive 1:6 scale electric wheelchair, in which I <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1420678.html\">broke down my target item<\/a> into easily replicable forms. Essentially, a merry-go-round has several basic components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>round platform for the whole thing to sit on<\/li>\n<li>thick central column to house motor [and, optionally, operator] and support roof<\/li>\n<li>torus platform around motor housing to provide deck for ride-on units<\/li>\n<li>thin columns around perimeter of deck to additionally support roof<\/li>\n<li>shallow dome or conical bowl, inverted, as roof<\/li>\n<li>ride-on units that go up and down<\/li>\n<li>poles through the center of each mobile ride-on unit<\/li>\n<li>cross-pieces near the bases of these poles to help riders mount and dismount<\/li>\n<li>stationary ride-on units<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty much everything on this list can be generated by the primitives available in Daz [hey, maybe Poser has some too&#8230;]. In fact, I could simplify the construction greatly by using an existing free model of a dome, gazebo or pergola as the merry-go-round frame. The stationary ride-on units can be sleighs, of which many free models exist. So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>The most complex elements are the mobile ride-on units. I&#8217;m thinking that I&#8217;ll use horses, since I have a horse model hanging around, in two positions: prancing or running with all feet off the ground [good for mobile ride-on units]. I&#8217;ll scale and pose the horse appropriately, then export as an obj to delete all the unnecessary rigging information. Then I&#8217;ll take it into Hexagon and reduce the level of detail as much as I can get away with. When I import it back into Daz, it should be a relatively low-poly model that won&#8217;t give my computer acid reflux when I put several in a scene.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1632119.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1632119.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1632119.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I got the idea that my digital peoples should go to an amusement park, I have been looking online for free models that I could use. I found a Ferris wheel [assuming it doesn&#8217;t give my computer a hernia :p ], bumper cars and a water park [also assuming that it doesn&#8217;t give my&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/03\/11\/i-can-feel-my-digital-skills-improving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I can FEEL my digital skills improving.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}