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mark456838

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creating plane object
« on: August 22, 2008, 01:05:36 am »

hi good day to all... im newbie here and im planning to create a human head but base on the tutorial i need to create plane object... but i dont know what is plane object is.. can anyone help me and show some example or picture of plane object.... sorry for being a noob
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JonnyMac

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Re: creating plane object
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 01:07:59 am »

You could create a four-sided N-Gon or make cube and then adjust the Y dimension so that it is very thin.
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Kubajzz

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Re: creating plane object
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2008, 04:52:48 am »

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...or make cube and then adjust the Y dimension so that it is very thin.

I would definitely not do that... Even if the cube is very thin, the plane will not be a plane, but a cube, you will have 2 layers of faces instead of 1...

The fastest way (what I usually do) is to create a cube, convert it to mesh and delete half of the points. You can also make a 4-sided polygon and fill it as JonnyMac suggested, or you can download the plane primitive plugin, or you can draw the plane point by point or you can extrude a line... And I bet somebody will throw in 50 more ideas :) (kinda challenge...)
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Re: creating plane object
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2008, 05:40:00 am »

A plane is a flat face, just as it is in math, but in 3d the planes are often constricted whereas in a mathematical sense they stretch infinitely.
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