need a little help - Polyloop

xSilentlySpoken · 23rd March 2007, 00:24

I'm fairly new to modeling, I've been learning to model clothes for around 6 months now and I'm still not very good.. I've followed some of the tutorials here and I was just wondering if anybody could give me some tips on a few things; I'm trying to model some animals, not realistic, cartoony is fine, I'd like to know how to extrude the head and body from a sphere, and arms and legs too, and rounded eyes, how would you do rounded eyes? good ol confusion ^_^

ronjurman · 24th March 2007, 06:41

Have you watched the Wild Space Creature video tutorial that comes with Hexagon? It starts simply with a cube, which they quickly subdivide into a sphere. From that point on, it sounds a lot like the kind of example you are looking for, extruding out the head and legs and all. As for round eyes, eye sockets and lids are usually modeled from the head, with space for inserting the eyes (spheres) as separate objects. Helps with animation too, should you bring your animal into Carrara or other program capable of animating. hth

rj

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 08:21

no i haven't, where is it at? i've never even seen it O_O

ronjurman · 24th March 2007, 08:36

The easiest way to get there is through Hexagon's 'Help' menu. The first item in the list is 'Documentation' (lots of embedded mini movie tutorials for individual tools). The second is 'Tutorial', which actually contains several full scale tutorials, including the Wild Space Creature.

rj

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 08:45

clicking tutorial does nothing and i can't find the vid anywhere

bwtr · 24th March 2007, 08:49

Look in the Hex application folder in your hard drive. Both the Help pdf and all the movies are there.

ronjurman · 24th March 2007, 08:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by bwtr

Look in the Hex application folder in your hard drive. Both the Help pdf and all the movies are there.

Agreed. I believe I used the default setup (for PC), and found the pdf Manual and Tutorial under:

C:\Program Files\Eovia\Hexagon 2\data\doc\

and the quicktime movies under:

C:\Program Files\Eovia\Hexagon 2\data\doc\data\

rj

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 08:57

its not there.. the pdf is but the only movies that are there are

centre_start_angle1_dta.mov
edit_pins.mov
edit_pins_dta.mov
free_tesselation.mov
free_tesselation_dta.mov
soften_uvs.mov
soften_uvs_dta.mov
unwrap.mov
unwrap_dta.mov

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 09:01

and those don't work, tried opening them got "not valid"

ronjurman · 24th March 2007, 09:09

Odd. Sounds like an install problem. Not too sure what to suggest. If you have your install file and your serial number handy (and these should be available from DAZ, as well), it might be worth trying an uninstall/reinstall. If you don't feel comfortable with that, perhaps Thomas has some recommendations.

rj

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 09:12

tried that too, not sure what the prob is doesn't look like the files are courrpt but who knows, i'll just experiment ^_^ thanks

xSilentlySpoken · 24th March 2007, 10:21

ugh now hex is broken.. ctrl to select multi figures doesn't work at all, shift does that now.. i can't de-select a figure, one is always active.. *sigh*

laughingnome · 24th March 2007, 11:45

double click anywhere in the workspace to deselect or use the unselect all option from the selection menu on the taskbar.
ctrl+shift+A also deselects all.

stu

xSilentlySpoken · 25th March 2007, 08:14

that wasn't working.. guess it was something with the 2.0 version, got the update now it works fine again.. dumb bugs.. managed to figure out my own little way of doing eyes even without the video so I guess I'm good for now

^_^ thanks for the suggestions guys

Nate Owens · 26th March 2007, 16:03

Make sure you have the very latest quick-time player to do those .mov files
Maybe that could work

Just a thought

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xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	need a little help I'm fairly new to modeling, I've been learning to model clothes for around 6 months now and I'm still not very good.. I've followed some of the tutorials here and I was just wondering if anybody could give me some tips on a few things; I'm trying to model some animals, not realistic, cartoony is fine, I'd like to know how to extrude the head and body from a sphere, and arms and legs too, and rounded eyes, how would you do rounded eyes? good ol confusion ^_^

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24th March 2007, 06:41	#2 (permalink)
ronjurman Box modeling Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 201	Have you watched the Wild Space Creature video tutorial that comes with Hexagon? It starts simply with a cube, which they quickly subdivide into a sphere. From that point on, it sounds a lot like the kind of example you are looking for, extruding out the head and legs and all. As for round eyes, eye sockets and lids are usually modeled from the head, with space for inserting the eyes (spheres) as separate objects. Helps with animation too, should you bring your animal into Carrara or other program capable of animating. hth rj

24th March 2007, 08:21	#3 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	no i haven't, where is it at? i've never even seen it O_O

24th March 2007, 08:36	#4 (permalink)
ronjurman Box modeling Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 201	The easiest way to get there is through Hexagon's 'Help' menu. The first item in the list is 'Documentation' (lots of embedded mini movie tutorials for individual tools). The second is 'Tutorial', which actually contains several full scale tutorials, including the Wild Space Creature. rj

24th March 2007, 08:45	#5 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	clicking tutorial does nothing and i can't find the vid anywhere

24th March 2007, 08:49	#6 (permalink)
bwtr Brian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Australia Posts: 2,096	Look in the Hex application folder in your hard drive. Both the Help pdf and all the movies are there.

24th March 2007, 08:57	#8 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	its not there.. the pdf is but the only movies that are there are centre_start_angle1_dta.mov edit_pins.mov edit_pins_dta.mov free_tesselation.mov free_tesselation_dta.mov soften_uvs.mov soften_uvs_dta.mov unwrap.mov unwrap_dta.mov

24th March 2007, 09:01	#9 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	and those don't work, tried opening them got "not valid"

24th March 2007, 09:09	#10 (permalink)
ronjurman Box modeling Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 201	Odd. Sounds like an install problem. Not too sure what to suggest. If you have your install file and your serial number handy (and these should be available from DAZ, as well), it might be worth trying an uninstall/reinstall. If you don't feel comfortable with that, perhaps Thomas has some recommendations. rj

24th March 2007, 09:12	#11 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	tried that too, not sure what the prob is doesn't look like the files are courrpt but who knows, i'll just experiment ^_^ thanks

24th March 2007, 10:21	#12 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	ugh now hex is broken.. ctrl to select multi figures doesn't work at all, shift does that now.. i can't de-select a figure, one is always active.. sigh

25th March 2007, 08:14	#14 (permalink)
xSilentlySpoken Vertex Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	that wasn't working.. guess it was something with the 2.0 version, got the update now it works fine again.. dumb bugs.. managed to figure out my own little way of doing eyes even without the video so I guess I'm good for now ^_^ thanks for the suggestions guys