New Plugins 2004-02-04 - By Zsuzsa/Susan Lee
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Hi Barry,
I've done some experiments with these tools and I posted some of my findings
at Renderosity here:
http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12376&Form.ShowMessage=1647016
&Reply=1648566#16
(If you haven't joined Renderosity yet, you might not be able to view the
message though. But you can join, it's free and there's a nice tS community
there.)
I'm going to put together a little tutorial tomorrow about my findings and I
can give you a link to that when it's done. Until then, some points:
- About the NURBS cube, right-click on the UnTessellate tool and increase
the angle and try again.
- To extrude the edge of a plane, select the edge, click on the Scissors
tool (which is in the pack), then select the edge again and extrude.
- With the cube, right-click on the cube to go into point edit mode, then
find the "Delete Face" icon. Click on this, then click on the face you want
to delete. Now you can select the edges and extrude them.
Hope this helps.
Sue
> I downloaded the PolyTools and their descriptions make it sound like
they'll
> do things I want to do but I can't seem to make much happen. I wonder if
> you could come up with some simple explanations of how to use the tools
for
> us total amateurs.
>
> If I can make them do what they seem to be designed to do I'm read to buy
> them.
>
> An example: I created a slightly twisted cube nurb and converted it to a
> poly making sure it had fewer than 200 polys or vertices. Then I tried to
> un-tessalate it, thinking that means convert as many triangles as possible
> to quads. I have an old slow computer so this will be very usefull for
me.
> But I tried everything I could think of. Nothing happened.
>
> I tried everything I knew to make the edge extrusion work and it kept
saying
> something like "Solid Vertex Found". I tried it on edges of planes and on
> cubes. I tried to convert a cube's face into a hole but I couldn't figure
> out how to do that. I'm not sure why. I seem to do it by mistake often
> enough. :)
>
> I was able to make the knife tool work although I don't really understand
> the options.
>
> Barry
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