So, what is the basic structure of a marine diesel engine? It is built from many cylinder blocks, so I decided to make the engine using the same technique I developed making those radiators before.<\/p>\n
So, Cheetah3D<\/a>, time to wake up, and create a box.<\/p>\n Now, I just adjust the edges a little to get a base engine part to work with.<\/p>\n I create a cylinder, and set the polygon count rather high as this one will have to bend, bend a lot.<\/p>\n First I bend one end, much like the shover pipe I did, to 90 degrees.<\/p>\n Then I bend the other end aslo to 90 degrees.<\/p>\n And I got a exhaust pipe for the cylinder block. I rotate it and stick it onto the block.<\/p>\n I Boolean join the two objects, then I create a cube and rotate it slightly and Boolean join that to the block too.<\/p>\n I add a small cylinder \u00a0on the other side, just to make it look good (I have a certain feel for how this will look, I promise).<\/p>\n Now, I start with a built in metal texture, but add some different dirt and bump areas, this is the first test of the texture.<\/p>\n And here is a top down view of one engine cylinder block.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/eng1-01.jpg\" "\\"eng1-01\\"")
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