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- At 02:17 PM 1/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
- >>>Hey folks!
- >
- > How can I make a bird's nest with LW? Can seem to get it to look like a nest
- > make out of twigs or straw. Can anyone help me out? Greatly appreciated!<<
- >
- > You can do it with polys by:
- >
- > Sketch out half a cross section, something like
- >
- >
- > .
- > .
- > ....
- >
- > Make it a curve and freeze it to get more points. Kill the poly, or
- > cut and paste all points. Do a "points to polys". Jitter to get some
- > randomness. Lathe it with appropriate number of segments. Jitter again
- > as necessary.
- >
- > With a little work, this can look great, but the poly count can get out
- > of control quick.
- >
- > In layout, adjust the particle/line size to get a good look.
- >
- > Hope this helps.
- >
- >
- >
- > E-mail from: Kent S. Lidke, 10-Jan-1996
- >
-
- Kent is right this can look great.
-
- You might also try this: Copy this nest to an empty layer give it a
- different surface name. Rotate it on the Y axis slightly. Save both with
- different names.
-
- In layout load both nests and parent them together. Now you can have two
- different thicknesses of twigs (two objects means you can have two line
- sizes. Also the two surface names gives you alot of variety to work with.
-
- -Ace
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- Ace Miles * Senior Animator * Time Warner Interactive
- ace@agames.com (work) ace@got.net (home)
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