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Old 8th May 2008, 10:15 PM   #11
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Default Re: Some more questions from a noob.

TWO new questions

1. What is the best way to make a low poly wheel. Not a car tire mind you, but an old wagon style wheel. For some reason I just can't get it too look good.

2. For my covered wagon, I need to obviously uhh, make a cover. I started by taking a cylinder, resizing it appropriately, than selecting the bottom vertices and dragging it up into the top to make a half cylinder. So now Ive got a half cylinder, but how do i make it "thinner"?

More questions may (will come.)
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Old 8th May 2008, 10:47 PM   #12
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Default Re: Some more questions from a noob.

1. Check out this gear tutorial:

http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dtut/beginner/gear.html

You can use the same principle of revolving a line to make a wagon wheel --- you'd make one "section" of the wheel, replicate it around, snap/optimize the vertices, etc.

2. Instead of creating a cylinder, you may want to try revolving a surface as thin as you want your canvas to be around the origin, then getting rid of the lower surfaces.

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Old 8th May 2008, 11:54 PM   #13
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Default Re: Some more questions from a noob.

1. Thank you very much I figured it now! I just took a "rectangle" and revolved it 180 degrees on the x coordinates.

2. Havn't yet looked at this, I will have to adapt it a little, but thank you a lot!!
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Old 25th June 2008, 03:15 AM   #14
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Ok, I'm not sure why it is doing this, but "Houston, we have a problem!"

For some reason I can not "select through." That is, say I have a box, I switch to vertices mode, and drag a box around the vertices in one view and let go, normally it would select both of them, but it only select the one "in front." It does the same thing with surfaces, and objects. When I drag a selection box around vertices, surfaces, or objects, only the front, visible ones are selected. I have no idea why it is doing this, but needless to say, I cannot work with it like this, so I would appreciate speedy answers.

It may be some option I turned off, but I don't know. Please help!
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Default Re: Some more questions from a noob.

You might have accidentally clicked the "select through" box. It's in the lower-left hand corner, in the status bar.
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You might have accidentally clicked the "select through" box. It's in the lower-left hand corner, in the status bar.
Thank you! That solved it.
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