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Subject: What would you suggest.....sphere or cube

dlk30341 opened this issue on Jul 03, 2003 ยท 9 posts
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dlk30341 ( ) posted Thu, 03 July 2003 at 4:27 PM ยท edited Sat, 01 February 2025 at 5:58 AM

I mainly want to create animals...would you suggest starting out with a sphere or cube...I'm thinking sphere..but since I'm new at this I'd like some opinions TIA

BazC ( ) posted Thu, 03 July 2003 at 4:55 PM

A cube is the usual primitive most people start with but it will depend on what you're modelling . The problem with starting with a sphere is that you start out with undesirable geometry at the poles since they usually consist of a whole load of triangles coming together at one point. Something you usually want to avoid. - Baz

swishy ( ) posted Thu, 03 July 2003 at 5:22 PM

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You can find a solution to the cube/sphere problem here. I know that you're using Wings as I've seen you're posts in the Wings forum. I found these posts especially useful when starting out. Happy modelling.

illicit ( ) posted Fri, 04 July 2003 at 9:50 AM

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Theres a great quadruped tutorial in the LW forum, its not really software specific though...

BazC ( ) posted Fri, 04 July 2003 at 10:13 AM

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Hehe, well if you're using Wings I rewrote that tutorial for Wings! If you want to try it watch out for a major typo! I said you should press backspace to deselect, this will actually DELETE, I shoud have put press spacebar to deselect. Don't worry if you do accidently delete anything just undo and you'll be OK!

Here's part 1

BazC ( ) posted Fri, 04 July 2003 at 10:17 AM

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And part 2

Cheers - Baz

dlk30341 ( ) posted Fri, 04 July 2003 at 11:09 AM

Thanks guys...printing it out now :)

Teyon ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2003 at 7:23 PM

Have you tried cylinders? I find them fast and usefull in GMAX.

bikermouse ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 5:42 AM

Alot of information here. Thank you all!!; yes! cylinders seem to have potential for limbs, main body trunks(chests etc) when I get better at modeling I'm sure I'll be using many cylinders for these parts.

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