• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Making an Oval/egg..

  Posted by Kelly Johnson on March 2, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  I’ve never been really sure exactly how to either stretch an Torus or Sphere into a more oval shape.

  By scaling, that is.. instead of making it editable and then having to select half the points and move them.

  I can’t seem to select just the Y for example and visually drag the axis to distort the shape more towards an egg/oval shape

  What am I missing?

  Brian Jones replied 18 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Nolan Scott

  March 3, 2008 at 12:48 am

  Try this:
  Create a Sphere and make it editable and go into Points-Mode /
  from the Structure-Menu select the Magnet-Tool /
  in the Attributes-Manager maybe change Mode to “Dome” or “Bell” and the Radius maybe to “150m” /
  in the Toolbar uncheck X and Z and move the top point of the Sphere upwards /
  maybe experiment with the other settings as well /
  maybe drag the Sphere into a HyperNURBS for even more smoothness.

  Cheers
  Nolan
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  March 3, 2008 at 5:29 am

  Here’s a couple more ways to do an egg:

  1) Create a cube, make it editable, scale down the top face, and drop it in a HyperNURB object;

  2) Create a sphere, make it editable, scale it up a little in Y, apply a taper deformer.

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  Brian Jones

  March 3, 2008 at 11:27 pm

  and more…

  Create a sphere but scale it with the Attribute Manager settings not the axis. Then you can apply a Taper.

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