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Izu
08-25-2002, 06:32 PM
OK...i need to model the bottom part of the lightbulb....the metall part...the part u screw into the socket....and i need to model it with MetaNurbs....anyone up for the challange to help me ?

any ideas....any at all ?

//thnx
NanoGator
08-26-2002, 07:34 AM
i've done something like this before. If I werent' on my laptop, I'd provide screengrabs. Sorry about that.

Basically what I did (for a phone cord) was I created an 8-sided ring of polys using the disk tool. Then I cut it in half and moved the side closest to me up a meter. (For repetition), then I moved the opposite side down a meter. Then I copy/pasted into another layer, stretched it horizontally at -100% so that it'd be the reciprocal, and then moved it a meter so the points'd line up. Then I did a clone pass to make a bunch of 'threads'

The result was a corkscrew shape of polys that you could smooth shift to turn into threads.

Hope that helps...
UnrealSnowman
08-26-2002, 10:39 PM
Check under tutorials, there is a toothpaste model.. The video shows how to make the 'screw' part too:
http://www.trhlogos.dk/tut.html

Enjoy
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