Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1

Freezing curves into polygons – subdividing

Creating polygons is really easy from subdivs. Every software package works slightly differently. In Lightwave, we simply use the freeze command (Ctrl + D). But as you can see (in the following diagram), our polygons are still not triangles. They're still quads:

Before we get into making triangles, you'll notice that the duck is still highly faceted. It's easy enough to fix. You could just make this into curves again, and re-freeze it. This will greatly multiply the number of polygons. Every time you perform this process, your object will keep getting smoother. Our duck is stealth, so we'll leave ...