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From: Joe Angell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Building Cartoon characters in LightWave ....
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> I find the easiest way to do organic structures is with metaform. You can
> get great result with splines however patching a complex spline model is for
> the birds - unless you have an auto-patching plug-in like the guys at Will
> Vinton Studios. If Modeler allowed spline tension, continuity and bias
> control you could keep the curve count low which would mean fewer patches to
> convert. Hopefully they'll utilize Fori's skill in this area.

Now that you mention it, I think Fori posted to me a while back that he
had an auto-patcher almost finished... maybe a plug-in from NewTek in the
future...?

-- Joe
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