Need a spinning crown

**Availor** · 04 October 2006, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Dr.Del

Wow, what creativity we have here.
We need a dentist to fill that cavity.
Hey guys I will get better in time (if I live long
Enough). Are there anymore senior citizens out there?

Hello Dr. Del, welcome in

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Regards,

Availor.

**simsmj** · 04 October 2006, 12:13 PM

Why, was there something wrong with the way I made it?

I get out just as often as I want to, heh,heh.

Mike

**-=Drifter=-** · 04 October 2006, 12:38 PM

Mike, I just tried to open it and got this:

**simsmj** · 04 October 2006, 01:33 PM

Drifter, try saving it to disc first, and then try opening it. I think the error message is from your own hard drive.

Mike

**Big Frank** · 04 October 2006, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-

Mike, I just tried to open it and got this:

If you used Firefox it would just have opened without the obligatory and immensely annoying Microsoft renaming ceremony

**-=Drifter=-** · 04 October 2006, 02:24 PM

Well, I just OPENED (without saving first) the file that Egg posted in another thread and all went well. ?????

**Big Frank** · 04 October 2006, 07:57 PM

That's the worst problem with Windows... its bugs are random!

**-=Drifter=-** · 04 October 2006, 08:18 PM

Well, thanks for the tip. Saving it to desktop then opening it worked - no idea why though.
That crown file is amazing! All those little parts making up the whole - and all in place. Did you just get it that way by trial and error or is there some mathematical genius behind all of this?

**simsmj** · 05 October 2006, 10:02 AM

Drifter, the crown is a lot less complex than at first sight. It is simply a handful of thin rings arranged in a pile. The lower part is a complete ring, the middle parts are clones of the complete ring, with symmetrical sections removed, and the gems are pixel-sized points set on the rim of the original ring. Each ring is raised or lowered using ripple animation along the z-axis.

You can see this most easily by loading up the Crown.x3d file and with no cursor enabled, just set the extrusion to 1, and the bevels to none.

Mike