how to make a marble

[JeroenDStout]

It might sound a bit blund to you, but try and read the help files etc? It's had to explain to you what to do without knowing how much you really can/understand. The help files should help you out (haha, bad word joke :applause: )...

Should you have any troubles though, don't hasitate to come asking here again :) that's what this community is for!

[Raging Tempist]

I got how to make the glass marble but its the blue dye that is blown through a marble that i dont know how to do and is what i need the help with i tried distorting torus knots and othere shapes to try get the right effect but it dosnt look right. can you help with that cos I have a nice looking realistic glass marble trouble is theres no whisps in it.
thanx

[Stroker]

Can you narrow your question down? For example, what kind of marble are you trying to make? Is the material giving you problems? Can you provide a picture?
My mother has a decent collection of marbles and there are many different kinds. Some have are completely opaque. Some have speckles on the inside. Some are cat's eye.
A photo or a sketch would really help get the marble rolling, as it were.

[drunkirishmic]

try this:

make a 5 sided star spline, extrude it to half of the total length you want the wisp to be, and make sure it has 10 segments or so. Next use a Taper modifier and get one of the end to a point. Convert the whole thing to editable poly. Select all of the verticies that have now come to a point and weld them together. Now use the mirror tool and make sure that Copy is selected and just mirror it accross whichever axis you have it on to look right. Attach both of these editable polygon objects and weld the vertices that now creat the seam between the two objects. color it however you wish and put it in the middle of your marble.

if you are not understanding some the things i just said, it can all be referenced in the help file.

lemme know if this was what you were wantng.

[Raging Tempist]

There is a picture of the marble in the logo of this site http://www.serverworks.co.nz/development/trial but there is also a photo i have found of on its the best i could do http://www.brightonusa.com/images/contact/marbles.jpg sry its a link cos my host ant working propally. um cats eyes and things like that are what im looking for. thanx for the help all. oh and ill give what you said a go right now.

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