Fran, take careful note of ray's steps as you could do almost exactly the samething in C4D.

Some of my personal tips for C4D to help,

a) configure the views so that you have a 4 port view (i.e. top, right, front, perspective) as default - theres an option in the view controls that does it - but working in this way really helps visulise what's going on.

b) I've been using C4D as a second level application for almost a year and I honestly think the material editor and UV mapping stinks (my prime apps are Max and bryce, I keep trying C4D as if I ever suss out the materials, it would be a cheaper upgrade then Max)

c) After having said use four views - switch to top down view and try making some splines, connect them and follow Ray's process.

Above all play lots and have fun :) Oohh and don't forget there's a darn stupid little button that you have to press to make an object editable - confused me for quite a while, I actually had to rtfm!

Message edited on: 02/27/2006 08:03

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