tire tread - sample image 2005-04-10 - By Andrew Turner
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Hi,
I posted a couple images of a rudimentary model done this way:
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Maybe try creating a circle of about 60 points, bring it into Carrara.
In Carrara, extrude it a bunch of times so you have something that
looks like a stack of washers. Naturally with 60 points around the
edges...
Convert to vertex, and select, say, every other point around the "tire"
(not including on the edges) and move them up or down (or left or
right, depending on your perspective) to get a zig-zag pattern.
Then, selecting strips of the zig-zagging polygons which wrap around
the tires, extrude..
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Actually what I did was select every other point in lines around the
tires and save it as a selection, then did the extrude while the
polygons were all still straight, then after extruding, selected those
points and moved them a little to one side -
http://www.turnerdesign.net/wheel
It's pretty easy, a little time consuming though if you do a detailed
model.
Possibly a lot easier in Amapi but I'm not sure.
Andrew
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