advanced perfume bottles & technique

[grenadi]

Xara is proving to be so good at making complex 3D objects that I will find it useful if I am employed at 3D package design. I was going to buy a 3D graphics program such as Modo for this but Xara may well make that unnecessary .

I have become a Xarist, Xarian, Xarite, Xaraphile...

[amitairos]

Xara is proving to be so good at making complex 3D objects that I will find it useful if I am employed at 3D package design. I was going to buy a 3D graphics program such as Modo for this but Xara may well make that unnecessary .

I have become a Xarist, Xarian, Xarite, Xaraphile...

grenadi- if you like 3d- either you can use Xara Xtreme 4.0's new 3d extrude tool- or you can use Xara 3d- which you can also use it with Xara Xtreme. I find Xara 3d avery useful program once you get to know it.

[Dominique]

I have create, many years ago, this little bottle:

http://www.feminin.ch/xara/expression.jpg


I have testing to recreate your bottle

[grenadi]

Xara might not be as powerful at technical stuff that industry wants, eg spot colours, but it is an awesome artistic program.

Best features of programs:

Xara: 3D extrusion tool
Illustrator: colour wheel
Inkscape: mathematical shape tools
Coreldraw: patterning tool [why it's popular in fashion/clothes industry]

[grenadi]

Dominique, thank you for improving my bottle as well

BTW, how do you get that wire frame?

I dropped French in high school and learnt Chinese!

Merci [Only other French I know is Cest Lundi because my philosophy lecturer, the late Robert Pargetter at Monash Uni, once used that as an example and said that he knew no other French!]

[iamtheblues]

BTW, how do you get that wire frame?]

Select the Set View Quality slider (see attached). You then need to go to the Arrange Menu and create a bitmap copy, returning the slider to full quality will show you a bitmap of the wireframe.
Saludos,
Bob.

[Dominique]

And more...

[bcire68]

Here's my quick and dirty example. Just a few shapes as you can see.

Eric

[amoore]

I have become a Xarist, Xarian, Xarite, Xaraphile...

"Xaran" is the term many of us oldtimers have been using.

Welcome aboard.