New Plugins 2004-02-06 - By Tony Owen
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Nice link, Sue. Check it out, folks.
> 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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