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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: haiku on February 25, 2009, 01:58:46 pm

Title: a beginners image of a shark using anim8or please give feed back and tips
Post by: haiku on February 25, 2009, 01:58:46 pm

hi again
please forgive me all you experienced anim8ors for posting such a simple pic but i kinda like the idea of showing what ive done however simple then get feed, positive or negative so i may learn more. A couple of questions:
How can i make better colours?
and also why could i not select individual faces in point edit mode after converting to subdivide?
i was only able to select the whole image then apply one simple color. OK i'll try not to ask too much too soon so just 2 questions thanks
 :D

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/delfin96/shark2.jpg)
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/delfin96/shark3.jpg)
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/delfin96/shark.jpg)

Title: Re: a beginners image of a shark using anim8or please give feed back and tips
Post by: rctmonger1108 on February 25, 2009, 04:14:24 pm

By individual faces, do you mean the faces created by the subdivision? If so, you must convert the subdivision to a mesh in order to edit individual faces. Otherwise, you CAN edit the faces of the original mesh.

A subdivision object is not a new mesh, it is a mesh that is "smoothed", if you will, according to a level that you set, while still retaining its original mesh. The original mesh can still be edited, and doing so will alter the subdivision.

The manual can be found here: http://anim8or.com/manual/index.html. It might be able to shed some light on what you're trying to do.

Otherwise, it's pretty good work for a n00b at 3D modeling. I didn't even start with that. It was bullets and breathing green balls for me.

Title: Re: a beginners image of a shark using anim8or please give feed back and tips
Post by: haiku on February 25, 2009, 05:18:30 pm

Many thanks
well im not a complete NOOB
i did download it before and made the  eggplant tutorial and the hand and the walking bird thingy so i have some experience  :D
thanks for your tips, ive been reading the manual but not finished it yet.
 

thanks again

Title: Re: a beginners image of a shark using anim8or please give feed back and tips
Post by: rctmonger1108 on February 26, 2009, 04:44:48 pm

i did the eggplant too. never got around to the bird, though. just took a pre-made figure from a material database. and started rigging it...then the file got CORRUPTED and i lost all my work.

we were all n00bz at one point, so don't feel insulted. i probably should have put newbie instead of n00b.