Forum: Carrara


Subject: pill capsule

hartcons opened this issue on Oct 30, 2002 ยท 5 posts


hartcons posted Wed, 30 October 2002 at 12:08 PM

I need to model a pill capsule (like the Tylenol red/yellow ones). Any suggestions? Seems like just about anything can be done in the spline modeller but you have to use illustrator to get enough control over the path(s). I've heard nothing but bad things about booleans otherwise I might just try to boolean two half spheres onto a cylinder. I suppose I could do something similar in the vertex modeller using weld. Both lightwave and c4d come with a default capsule primitive but I haven't found one in Carrara. I guess a real tylenol capsule is actually two pieces with one fitting snugly inside the other so maybe it's more complicated than just creating a capsule object. Once I get the capsule built I need to apply the client's logo as a decal on one side (c4d has front mapping that prevents the logo from showing through on the other side). I've attached something I whipped up in C4D but I'd like to use Carrara to do this if I can.