Wings to Maya

[Gary David Bouton]

Wings is getting to be fun! I did most of this piece in wings (except the box caps and the key latch), exported to Maya to texture, and then used RenderMan.

What a mixed media piece!

My Best,
Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

Wings is getting to be fun! I did most of this piece in wings (except the box caps and the key latch), exported to Maya to texture, and then used RenderMan.

What a mixed media piece!

My Best,
Gare

[Dan Huff]

I'm glad to see you're finally starting to see the light of Wings3D, Gare This is a cute image

But why didn't you do the box caps in Wings as well?

Dan Huff
http://home.neo.rr.com/nikko/

[Gary David Bouton]

I didn't know how to do a very thin extrude (the box caps were designed in Illustrator/XARA) with a bevel edge.

As you might say, "I'm not up to that page yet"!

And I just downloaded the demo of SILO and HOPE I can do something even remotely as sophisticated as Ivan has shown before my 40 uses are up!

My Best,
Gare

[gidgit]

Hey right on Gare... looking very nice indeed...

boxtop in Wings... take cube, click mmb and rotate pulling the mouse down towards you slightly... select bottom face and "move> normal", moving your mouse to the left thus creating the rectangular shape, leaving this face still selected, choose "inset" and moving the mouse to the right, and go how far ya needs, then still leaving said face selected, choose "extrude" and move the mouse to the left and voila... one box top...

and, if ya wants that top to be proper for fit top like fx, choose "intrude" rather than extrude for the last command here...


oops, forgot bout the beveled edges, sorry

for bevel edge, when you get the shape worked out just choose the edges desired, right click and choose "bevel" , move mouse to the right and there ya have it

have fun

[This message was edited by gidgit on September 08, 2003 at 08:02.]

[ivan louette]

I always like your "mise en scène", Gary.
I am also trying Wings these times and I like it a lot, even if I am most impressed by Silo.

Kindly,
ivan

My mini-tutorials
botarosa

[jens g.r. benthien]

I like the picture a lot. Reminds me of the days when I was a tiny rascal. It's peaceful... the hole world of a kid!

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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[gnurf]

...and if you want to do more exact editing you can always press the tab key after you select a command and enter a prefered value (i.e for move, intrude, bevel etc.)

-Paul

[Gary David Bouton]

Thanks for the info Gidget and Paul, and thanks for the kind words about the piece, folks.

Isn't there also another way to do the caps: boolean subtract a cube from another cube slightly offset in space, then boolean subtract the pattern...and then do the bevel?

I'm a tryin', I'm a tryin'

Gare

[Soquili]

Hi Gary,

I really like the way you view and portray the world. I always learn something from every image you post. You've taken a childhood memory and made it immortal in a graphic image.

Thank You.

Soquili