Forum: Carrara

Subject: WHY DO TORUS OBJECTS GO SQUARE?

kelley opened this issue on Mar 19, 2005 · 5 posts

kelley posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 8:12 PM

Sometimes, when using the Torus PreSet, the outer part of the shape rotates nicely around, but inner parts closer to the axis go square. Why square?

And sometimes, wheels look like very round-sided squares. Sometimes not. [?]

FWTempest posted Sun, 20 March 2005 at 12:34 AM

don't know why... but if you go to the left view, you can add points to the sweep path that the torus preset creates to smooth it out

rendererer posted Sun, 20 March 2005 at 8:12 AM

... or you can use the profiles in the opposite direction, by sweeping a circle along a path that makes it get bigger and smaller. The torus preset is lame in many ways, not the least of which is that it's not round.

kelley posted Sun, 20 March 2005 at 8:51 AM

NOT ROUND? Aha! Thanks guys...I'll play with the work-arond suggestions.

bluetone posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 8:08 AM

And by-the-by... nice locomotive model! :D