Newbie help with Cinema!

[mwa]

You could do it with booleans. Or if you do it like you've done now you can use bridge tool to fix the hole, but you will have to make a new point in the newly made corner(just copy one on the edge and move into place) use stucture menu to copy just the point.
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[Cannon454]

This is also a problem I ran across when I first started doing 3d. The issue is that Cinema is not a solid modeling program. There are several ways around this. The easiest would be to boolean the correct shape out of the cube. However, the mesh created from a boolean can be very ugly. But if it's a simple project then it may not be a problem.

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[astrofish]

Or, you can move the vertices that are on the surface. For the example picture that you gave, you could just move the corner vertex inside the box, rather than deleting the faces.

The most general way of doing it is (as was suggested) to use booleans. The problem with booleans is that you can quickly end up with a very messy mesh.

[Claudio72]

I always use the bridge to build the new poligons

[Per-Anders]

i've always had a problem with the bridge tool... it builds tri's only from what i can tell in points mode, ignoring selections, and often creates degenerate polys, so i seem to end up with a messy cage using it and have to go around deleting polys that share physical space, and always having to re-align polys before using other modelling tools. maybe someone can post a simple how to use the bridge tool in a clean and efficient way for polygon creation tutorial (as all the manual seems to say is "this tool is like the polygon tool when used in points mode").

[Claudio72]

you're right master!! I use the "CREATE POLYGON" tool not the bridge one......
http://www.crosio.com/images/get2.jpg

[pit]

@mdme_ sadie: how come you´re having trouble with the bridgetool? It´ll only triangulate if you choose 3 points. It´s faster than the create poly tool.
Have a look at the attached screen shot: click with the bridge tool at point 1 clickdrag to 2 - these points will "highlight" (be colored orange) -> click 3 -> clickdrag to 4 and so forth.
Bunk tip for bridge tool:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12977

cheers

[Per-Anders]

ah, thankyou :) it was the click dragging for teh second set of points that i was missing out on.

now is there any way to make it produce polys with their normals the other way out (so that edge functions work correctly? etc) other than either manually aligning each one, or using the autoalign function before doing any other modelling?

[AdamT]

The normal direction depends on the direction you click and drag. In other words, click and drag from the inside to the outside rather than v.v. I'm sure there's a way to predict which way will result in normal-out, but it seems I always have to figure it out by trial-and-error.

[Per-Anders]

hmm... yes, oh well, drag updwards to create a normal facing outwards... (or drag leftwards), kinda wish it was the other way around... when in poly mode (i can understand why it would be this way in poly mode as it's creating a bridge of polys betwen polys, and you want the polys in a tube to face inwards normally (although really you want the polys to always mantain flow, so i wouldn't have htought it would have been too much toruble for the bods at maxon to make it a slightly intelligent tool, so that if you bridge between two surfaces on seperate objects the normals face outwards, bu if you bridge through an object the normals face inwards (like a tube) or at least they nrnmals match those of the polys around them in terms of which side they facec. anyhow, thanks, i'll try to use the bridge a bit more, as it seems faster than the poly tool for this stuff. :)

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