Changing surface type

0xdeadbeef · 11th July 2007, 12:51 PM

When converting a polyline to a surface/polygon, the order in which the vertices are selected is important. If you just select all the vertices and then chose "create ordered surface", the surface is a mess as the order of the vertices is by chance of whatever. Instead, select the vertices one by one (while shift is pressed) counter-clockwise.

BTW: as an AC3D improvement suggestion: why not store the creation order of the vertices of a polyline and use this as the default order for surface creation? This is at least how other 3D modellers are handling the same issue.

11th July 2007, 12:51 PM	#1
0xdeadbeef Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 9	Re: Changing surface type When converting a polyline to a surface/polygon, the order in which the vertices are selected is important. If you just select all the vertices and then chose "create ordered surface", the surface is a mess as the order of the vertices is by chance of whatever. Instead, select the vertices one by one (while shift is pressed) counter-clockwise. BTW: as an AC3D improvement suggestion: why not store the creation order of the vertices of a polyline and use this as the default order for surface creation? This is at least how other 3D modellers are handling the same issue.