Forum: Carrara

Subject: Can this be done in Carrara 5 Pro or higher?

Plutom opened this issue on Apr 20, 2010 · 6 posts

Plutom posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 9:14 AM

Hi folks, I got this on Terranuts (Mandrake) that he did in Maya using Reefer plug-in.  I am wondering if Carrara 5 ,6, 7 etc pro can do something similiar?  Jan

sparrownightmare posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 9:34 AM

I can think of one possible way.  Use the spline room.  Create an object consisting of two grouped circles.  Create a few equidistant sections.  Make sure you have it set to point to point.   Set the extrusion method to pipeline and then begin rotating the grouped circles in each section an equal amount, until you have the braided look you want.  Then create a few more sections and use them with the pipeline extrusion to shape the wire to your liking.  This method will require a lot of tweaking but offhand, it's the only way I can think of to do it.  It's amazing how the simple looking things can be the biggest headache to do. :)  Good luck.

Plutom posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 11:53 AM

Hi Rich, looks like that can be done in the vertex room too.  I'll give it a try-rotating one segment group at a time.  --and yes what seems to be the simplist thing can be a nasty to do.  If I'm sucessful, I'll post my masterpiece, then figure out what I can use it in.  Thanks Jan

Plutom posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 12:54 PM

Well, I did it--sort of.  A straight piece of stranded copper wire.  Used the vertex room and placed two straight cylinders with 16 sections side by side and began rotating each section.  Jan

bwtr posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 8:19 PM

A shame that the thumbnails are still not available

http://forums.polyloop.net/carrara-tutorials/10150-c5-carrara-rope.html

Brian

bwtr

Plutom posted Tue, 20 April 2010 at 8:58 PM

Hi Brian, saw the tut, did almost the same thing except I grabbed the cylinder, entered the 16 segments, set the diameter to .5 and length to 5, then rotated 17, 16, 15 etc segments respectively to get the above shape.  I didn't make a uv map---YET just coated it with copper texture.  did play around with it by adding smaller stubs of cylinders to the end for bare copper and changed the original piece (above) to white for the poly covering.  Managing to make bends now.  It will take a few tries to get it somewhat right.  However, now  I know that one can make twisted wire or rope in Carrara, just have to perfect the method.  Jan