Tutorial Help - Nautical Star

[Greasetattoo]

Hello All,
Can anyone help me out here...
I am trying to do a Nautical star...
Again... trying to do!

I attached a line drawing, I wanted it 3D, if you know what I mean.
The center would be above everything else...To make the star 3D.

Anyone have any ideas/quick tutorial?
I am sure it is not tough....probably pretty simple, just my mind is
blank..

Thanks,
Grease

[luuckyy]

Hi,

create a 10 segments cylinder in the top view :


Now with the "select through" checkbox checked, drag-select the vertice in the center of the cylinder
(actually you select both top and bottom vertices) - open the "move toward ..." tool and push the ">" button :


Now, just select and move the outer vertices by something like 60% toward the center vertice(s) :

[luuckyy]

You should finally end up with that :


Reduce the thickness of the star by selecting all the top vertices and moving them
a bit down the Y axis :


And move a bit the center vertice up the Y axis :


HTH !

[Greasetattoo]

Wow, so many ways to do things...
A heck of lot easier then what I was doing...

To simple!
I think, I thought it out to much!

Thanks luuckyy....

[Ham]

I used to have a star plug-in for Ray Dream Studio.
Now I know why it was there.

[Greasetattoo]

Don't want to sound stupid or anything...
But, where the heck is the Move Toward or Away tool????

I cannot, for the life of me, find it!
Argggg

[frimi]

It's a plugin, have a look in the plugin thread but if you turn the 10 segment cylinder after creation on Y-axis by an amount of 18 degrees, you don't need it (have a try)

[Greasetattoo]

Whew....
I thought I was losing my mind...

Thanks for the advice and I'll have to
get the plug-in!

G

[frimi]

Oops, it is a script, to be found in the script thread (sorry)

[luuckyy]

Actually, there's a quicker way for building that star shape (just seen on another 3D app forum) :

Select all the top and bottom vertices (except those in the center), but only 1 of 2 each time :


Now just scale the whole thing down by something like 50% (adjust as you need) :


And voila !



Quicker right ? I didn't think of that myself the other day