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Genius or Noobie?
I’m a noobie in 3d, not just Cinema. But my question is, isn’t there some way to just draw a wireframe and have polygons mapped to that wireframe? Instead of having some shape and manipulating the existing wireframe?
Is this too advanced or am I missing something?
It seems, mechanically and from a programming pov, that it’s not unlike drawing a spline and being able to extrude ane revolve etc.
Thanks for any help in clearing up what I’m missing.
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You can build by hand poly by poly, point by point. You can extrude a spline shape (ExtrudeNurb) you can sweep one spine along another spline (SweepNurb) you can spin a spline around an axis (LatheNurb) etc. There is no substitute for reading the docs, tryign some tutorials (try the QuickStart Manual) check out places like c4dcafe.com, pixel2life.com etc, etc…
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Drawing a wireframe and creating polygons is practicaly the same. The wires you see are the edges of polygons. You can’t get one without the other.
Cheers
Bj -
Yeah, like Bj
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Yeah, I got that. I meant that I’d like to be able to draw lines from point-to-points in a 3D grid and the polygon would be created as a result. More like drawing with a pencil and having the third dimension created.
Thanks though. I’ve been experimenting and such and am getting the hang of it.
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you can use the create polygon tool for this, it works exactly as you described. Just create an empty polygon object and start to draw polygons.
Cheers
Bj
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