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1st July 2007, 13:40
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| NURBS Booleans are your friend   Join Date: Apr 2006
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Hi, im trying to get into car modeling, and looks like amapi may be the way forward. are there any car modeling specific tutes with amapi around... or am i barkng up the wrong tree... im using XSi... and getting somewhere with it... but like the look of amapi's nurbs... any C+C's welcome thanks Tony |
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3rd July 2007, 00:21
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| Cube   Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Manchester, England, UK
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I think there is one on the french side of this forum on the tutorials Its of a VW-Beatle car I guess you could use google to translate yeah its here http://forums.polyloop.net/tutoriaux...cox-nurbs.html
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3rd July 2007, 00:26
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@corzair.. thats exactly what i was after... thanks for that... missed it somehow... looks good. they make it look so easy.. i always had a problem with NURBS as the curves always seemd to float in air and i couldnt guess how they 'connected' with the geometry... appreciate the help |
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3rd July 2007, 00:30
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| Hexagoner   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Saint Cloud, Florida
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Thomas you need to translate this one into English!!!!
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3rd July 2007, 00:43
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mayito.. theres a translate option on teh bottom of the page, a bit pidgeon english but is readable... i just dont know how the get the curves so exact.. is it just practice.. soome of teh crosssection curves especialy... very nice... |
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3rd July 2007, 00:44
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My problem precisely, I get the part about drawing the curve on top of the picture but when i go to the side viw how do you get the curves to bend so beautifully.
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3rd July 2007, 23:02
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if you love car design just have a look there http://www.carbodydesign.com/, and there is a 3D section with tutorials. That said, it can be hard to use tutorials that have not been done for your software, even if reading them can give hints or best practices . 
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3rd July 2007, 23:22
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thanks pete, any info is useful, im only trying to improve my modeling skils, and modeling something well known as say a car is harder, and i want to model my car as well... i was thinking of a rhino to xsi pipeline, but nurbs from rhino to xsi is nearly impossible.. anyone tried amapi to xsi nurbs...i converted a nurbs to poly in rhino.. got that into xsi no problem.. but high poly cout when set to high setting on export. i know xsi nurbs are not as good as say 3dsmax... anyone have experience... |
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4th July 2007, 00:37
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That beetle tutorial looks good but what the heck is a “Surf.tendues” or “Double casing”. Thats the problem with the auto translation. It doesn't always work out well enough. Cheers Mike R
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5th July 2007, 00:58
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If you look at the images, I think this is probably one of the most helpful tutes Amapi 7.5 owners could look into. Many modeling techniques/problems seem to have been covered. The automated translation wasn't good. I got stuck in many places. I'd love to see a proper translation of it. | |
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5th July 2007, 10:54
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5th July 2007, 14:40
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i've dropped a mail to Gilles on that subject
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