2 xplane projects

coanda · 14th January 2006, 12:46 PM

you do need to use quads, for my work, I have fairly square instrument casings so I can put a squareinside the casing for the desired effect.

if you have a round casing the easiest thing to do is to make an elipse, then make a quad, drag the vertices to fit one surface within the elipse (put 2 of the quad vertices at the same location in the centre of the elipse). Then copy it around, i believe there is a function for creating patterns, which hopefully you will be able to use, otherwise just use the dupe and rotate process until you have a full circle, you may wish to group the surfaces together. you will then be able to assign these surfaces to your panel texture.

save it seperately (save-selection) and then you won't have to do this process again!

coanda

14th January 2006, 12:46 PM	#1
coanda Member Expert member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 72	you do need to use quads, for my work, I have fairly square instrument casings so I can put a squareinside the casing for the desired effect. if you have a round casing the easiest thing to do is to make an elipse, then make a quad, drag the vertices to fit one surface within the elipse (put 2 of the quad vertices at the same location in the centre of the elipse). Then copy it around, i believe there is a function for creating patterns, which hopefully you will be able to use, otherwise just use the dupe and rotate process until you have a full circle, you may wish to group the surfaces together. you will then be able to assign these surfaces to your panel texture. save it seperately (save-selection) and then you won't have to do this process again! coanda