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- aonsen@acs.ryerson.ca (Adrian Onsen - ASNG/F94) wrote:
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- > Ok.. I have to do an animation for a friend, and I need to create a
- > biosphere. What is basically is some ground covered by a glass
- > semi-sphere. But to make it more realistic, I want to add some kind of
- > trusses on the glass. In other words, add a structural frame. I don't
- > have much memory on my amiga, and I need to find a way to effectively
- > create this effect and make it convincing....
- > I have tried building an actual object of these trusses, but that
- > takes up way too much memory and rendering time!
- > What's an easy way to do this?!?!?!?!
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- Well, depending on how simplistic you want it, you could
- do this:
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- In modeler, build a tesselation, level 2 or 3. Then, cut
- off the bottom half, (since it's going to be a dome).
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- Then, in layout when surfacing, turn on polygons edges.
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- You'll see an outline of the tesselation, and it will look
- kind of technical, and save your RAM.
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- Good Luck.
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- -Dan Ablan
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