umblefugly opened this issue on Apr 03, 2003 ยท 7 posts
umblefugly posted Thu, 03 April 2003 at 6:00 PM
Been pulling my hair out trying to get a circular array of spikes for a shield im making. Any tips?
bluetone posted Thu, 03 April 2003 at 7:45 PM
How many are you doing? If it's, say 8, then take 1 spike and dupe it. Then hold down 'shift' while you spin the dupe 180deg. Off-set both to the outer edges of your shield. Then group them together. Then dupe the group, and rotate the duped group 90deg in place. Now you have 4. Group all and rotate the duped group 45deg. Now you have 8. And so on. It's trickier with an odd amount of spikes, but still doable with some planning. Hope this helps! :>
umblefugly posted Fri, 04 April 2003 at 8:53 AM
TY! lol....I think I did that before:P DUH....also been trying to figure out the array function in the Vertex Modeler...lol maybe im confusing myself:P
umblefugly posted Fri, 04 April 2003 at 8:54 AM
BTW...its 10 spikes:)
bluetone posted Fri, 04 April 2003 at 10:08 AM
OK. As you create the 1st set of spikes, dupe them, and rotate the dupes 36deg. Select all and group again. Rotate these 72 deg. Ungroup, and select the last pair. Dupe these and rotate another 36deg and your there! I have to admit to being a dummy with modeling, so I haven't figured out the array function either! (Maybe it's easier, but this way I know!) :>
umblefugly posted Fri, 04 April 2003 at 2:03 PM
I got it all ok:) Sometimes I miss the little stuff in carrara:P When all else fails...Read the manual:P
bluetone posted Fri, 04 April 2003 at 2:39 PM
yeah... but that takes the fun out of it! ;>