USS Nimitz (CVN ?)
   The US Navy's first ship of the Nimitz clas of nuclear powered
aircraft carriers.
   Capabilities...
   Aramament...
   Dimensions... (Will be posted when I can find them)

11 Jan 1994

Object (nimitzfull.obj) was taken from the Wavefront directory at
Avalon.  Its original source and other pertinate information was
unavailable.  As the object was modified notes were made of
information from LightWave.  Each step is recorded here to give
some idea of what changed.
   File size: 411380 bytes
   Points: 3548
   Polygons: 3338
   Notes: Grey, bottom view.

Imported Nimitz to Interchange Plus v3.0 to convert to a
LightWave object with "opposite faces, lone points, lone edges,
no double sided surfaces, no 200 point face limit."
   File size: 85930 bytes
   Points: 3684
   Polygons: 3338
   Notes: Loads MUCH faster, InterChange altered object aspect to
correct side view, file MUCH smaller.

Dissassembled object into components using Modeler based upon how
parts were named in the original Wavefront object.  Sometimes the
name helped to give it a color, but mostly the names help to tell
you what you MIGHT be looking at.  Still confused about the way
the flight deck and hangar bays are constructed.
   Points: 4457
   Polygons: 3338
   Notes: Don't know why points went up so much.

Imported each part of the object into Pixel 3D for point
and polygon reduction.  Vertice reduction set to .0001 and face
reduction set to .05.  Returned the various parts to Modeler
where correct surface names were reassigned.
   Points: 4105
   Polygons: 3063
   Notes: Some polygons are reaching the "unofficial" limit of
200 that has been known to crash older versions of LightWave.

In LightWave assigned some rough values to the various surfaces
based upon what I thought might be close.  The bottom of the hull
(now named "bottom") was originally named "primer" so it seemed
like a good idea to give it a red-lead color.  There are no
identifying markings yet, nor any "roughing up" of the flight
deck.  Fractal noise on the flight deck might give good results
with little effort.

Alan
cat@crash.cts.com