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semar · 30th January 2006, 10:05 AM

Hi Razer,

thanks for your kind offer; fact is, I'm way beyond your modeling skill, and I still have to get the grasp out of AC3D first; then I may approach your tutorials - first crawl, then run !!! ;-)

At the moment, I'm modeling cars, just for fun and learning. What puzzles me is, for example, how to produce smooth curved lines for the chassis. I know there's the Surface Subdivision, but that's not really what I mean.

Right now I design the car profile with a line, transform it to a poly, and extrude it. It *seems* indeed a car, but not really appealing, I tell you !

I thought that the Spline function could help, but unfortunately it does not work on a set of vertex which already belong to a shape. It works only on a just created line.

Oh well... back to try and learn.

BTW, you've got very nice planes there ! The third screenshot is my favorite.

Regards,
Sergio.

30th January 2006, 10:05 AM	#6
semar Junior Member Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 14	Hi Razer, thanks for your kind offer; fact is, I'm way beyond your modeling skill, and I still have to get the grasp out of AC3D first; then I may approach your tutorials - first crawl, then run !!! ;-) At the moment, I'm modeling cars, just for fun and learning. What puzzles me is, for example, how to produce smooth curved lines for the chassis. I know there's the Surface Subdivision, but that's not really what I mean. Right now I design the car profile with a line, transform it to a poly, and extrude it. It seems indeed a car, but not really appealing, I tell you ! I thought that the Spline function could help, but unfortunately it does not work on a set of vertex which already belong to a shape. It works only on a just created line. Oh well... back to try and learn. BTW, you've got very nice planes there ! The third screenshot is my favorite. Regards, Sergio.