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How to approach modelling this?
hey there, I need to make a similar shaped rocket, to the onoe in this emblem, how could I approach this project? it is a very simplistic design as you can see
I need it so that I can make a 3d particle trail style animation, where it is flying through my scene towards the camera, dodging all the 3d tracked text in the shot, here is an example of my shot
any advice needed thanks dudes -
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there are many ways to do it but the easiest might be a Lathe – read up in the help but the basics are, create 1/2 the the outline (front or side view would be best) with a spline then put that spline in a Lathe object
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yo brian thanks man im gonna get on this now!
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Hmm so I got round to doiung this and I am sure I have done something wrong, but I am not sure what and when I put the spline into a lathe it does this
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the Lathe object spins the spline around the Lathe’s Y axis so you can’t use that picture with the rocket tilted like that as it doesn’t know you want to spin it around the center of the rocket. If you are going to trace the image, tilt the background image so that it’s pointing straight up (looks like -45°-ish would do it)
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Excellent advice brian you solved that perfectly. Now I need to figure out why the model looks like this
not usre if its to do with how i drew the splines or something but its possible
Thanks
Jasford -
ignore the fins and add them as separate objects later. You don’t even have to attach them to the rocket body just get them in place then drop them on ht erocket body which will make them a child of the rocket body. Then wherever the rocket goes the fins follow as if it was one object.
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Ahh yes this is perfect, what io might do, because of the way the rocket is structured is make each section and make them all children of the rocket body, only to make it so it has the small gaps between each part like in the emblem, hopefully this can be done with the lathe
thanks Brian
jasford
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