Go Back   AC3D Forums > General > AC3D General
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 29th July 2010, 03:51 AM   #1
Hatonastick
Junior Member
Junior member
 
Hatonastick's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 4
Default Whats the easiest way to make a horn?

I'm trying to make a cow horn shape black powder container (for a game that has 18th century firearms in it) and I'm having a little bit of trouble. Doing it by hand is messy and after using a circle shape and a rough curve I end up with a curved pipe which I can resize manually. I'm guessing with AC3D there is an easier way but I don't see it yet. It's probably something very obvious, go easy on the newbie. So far I've made two simple objects and textured them, so I'm gradually getting the hang of this new fangled technology.

PS How do you close off the end of an object eg. a cylinder with two open ends? Thus far my attempts at that sort of thing haven't worked well either.

Things like texturing are pretty simple in comparison for me. It's the actual sculpturing that I'm still learning beyond anything that you can make with simple application of the box modeling technique.

Edit: Well I can make a cone easy enough. Now need to work out how to bend it.

Edit again: Ok got it. Nice command that, will be very useful in the future ie. vertex->Create convex surface/object. Just made a series of rings, moved them to approximate a horn and used that command with two of those rings and repeated the process with each ring. It's pretty rough, but much closer than I was a couple of hours ago.

Last edited by Hatonastick; 29th July 2010 at 06:14 AM.
Hatonastick is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th July 2010, 10:17 AM   #2
Andy
Administrator
Professional user
 
Andy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 4,563
Default Re: Whats the easiest way to make a horn?

I'd probably revolve a line (which is made from around 6 or more vertices). This will make a cone. Then subdivide it (twice) and adjust the rings of vertices (move/rotate) to make the shape you want.

The subdivision will give you a nice smooth bend.
Andy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th July 2010, 12:31 PM   #3
luuckyy
Senior Member
Professional user
 
luuckyy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: France
Posts: 737
Default Re: Whats the easiest way to make a horn?

This is how I would do on my side :

Draw a disk in the top view.
Select all the surfaces and combine them.
Draw a line to make the horn shape (something curved ...).
Extrude the disk along the line path with scaling (10%).

You can find the "Extrude along a path with scaling" plugin on Dennis website :
http://www.supercoldmilk.com/ac3dplu...ath_scale.html

HTH.
__________________
OL.
luuckyy is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:33 AM.


AC3D Forum
(C) Inivis Limited 2020