Forum: Carrara


Subject: Help??

AnnieD opened this issue on Aug 20, 2008 · 48 posts


Plutom posted Fri, 22 August 2008 at 6:49 PM

Hi Annie, sure does.  Now we can get to work:

Here is the plan of action:

-- Make the profile round like half a sphere
--Duplicate it for the wine inside
-- cut off the top of the original to hollow it out
-- Move the duplicate back to the original and resize it to fit inside
--Make stem using a cylinder
--Make a base using a another duplicate of the original
--Fit them together and group them
_Then texture them
--Set up a little scene
--Set up the rendering perimeters (screen size, fidelity, type (.jpg, .tiff, etc)
--Render it

Step ye olde profile : Each one of those dots I call a node, you can select one or a string of them
What we are going to do is to select several strings at a time using the second icon down the scaling tool (left side of screen)

Step one: top of screen where it says Vertex Object of Doc 1, you have several little squares, select the one that is separated into four part.  What that does is bring up four little screens, Top, Director camera view, left, and front views.

Now to active one of the views, just place your cursor on that screen and click on it-you will see the perimeter highlighted. 

Use the little magnifying glass to enlarge each one to taste:  If one gets too large, simply hold down the alt key when clicking on the mouse (notice the magnify icon changes to a little minus sign, that reduces the screen size of what screen you are working on.

Lets start with the left view, select the top Icon and form a rectangle around the middle string,  You should see just those highlighted if more strings are place the cursor outside the object and click, that will remove all high lights.

With the one string selected, select the second icon and move the arrow outwards (you will see that portion of the cone expand, do the same with the front view, check the top view to ensure you have a circle forming.

Do the same thing with the other node strings until you have a nice curved profile.

Do a screen shot for me:  Jan