Nissan Skyline R-34 (LightWave Noob - Nuff Help Needed)

[anigen]

sry bout the low quality pics, but i'm no longer on broadband so i gotta cut myself some slack, anyhow, this is my first time posting on SMCars, and i just got lightwave about a month ago, but just started getting the hang of it earlier this week, anyhow, i've been looking at a few tutorials, and i'm having a few problems, first off, i'm doing modeling using spline patches, and i was attempting to patch up the car hood (4x4 polys) but when it creates the polygons, some of the squares are divided into triangles, anyone know how i can fix this? i'm like 80% finished with the spline cage, so i decided to test out the patching first, thats how i ran into this problem. anyhow any help, C, & C's are welcome, this is my first time starting a model right in lightwave so......

P.S. - I intend to make this a celshaded render for animation once i get the hang of it, if anyone knows of any sites with tutorials on that, it would be great as well

[logger]

It's looking good right now, the cage looks very clean.
I can't use LW very well either, I use 3ds.. So I can't help. Sorry

[NightEye]

Selct two tri's which you want to make a quad, then press Z (shift+z)
Looks like a nice start btw

[anigen]

thx, for the tip, i'm gonna try it as soon as i get time, i live in South Florida, and my power has been out for about a day and a half, just came back on, 4th hurricane i've rode out. Anyhow, i'll post replies as soon as i update, thx. again.....

[anigen]

more help needed, k, i've been using the command to turn the tri's into squares, but is there an easier way for it to just not make triangles at all, cuz its getting pretty frustrating doing this to the entire car.

[anigen]

new update. not much of an update actually, but i've managed to get intouch with splinegod and he's been helping me through with alot of things here and there, thx again, anyone who's a lightwave noob, i will definitely recommend him anyday.

anyhow, i decided to mirror the spline (just for show) and i finished up the hood and smoothed it out some, i'm gonna be finish up the splinecage now, and after that ill get back to the spline patching.......splinegod thx again.

[NightEye]

You can cut a lot of polies in it if you want to SubD it.. :roll:
And who exactly is that 'splinegod'? Lewis?

Anyways, it looks okay sofar The rest will come I think