connecting nurbs surfaces

[Is-boset]

if you send a pic could be help to understan better your problem:D

[saxell]

The top one is fine and the bottom one is with noise added just to show the surfaces are not attached properly
http://home.online.no/~mik-saxe/blend1.jpg

[megaflaizer]

youve stumbled across a major NURBS problem - trunking

in nurbs you cannot trunk effectively without using trims and blends.

did you know that in trimming a surface, its actually just a ender trick. thats why you can still see the isoparms of the underlying surface. the trimmed hole [that sounds pornographic] is actually justa curve on surface.

soulution: subd

[saxell]

In other words this cant be done :(
I did increase the mergespinner in the toplevel and it helped but not good enough.
Do i have to give up now and go to subd again damit, i heard that nurbs should be such a powerfull tool but id like to know what its usefull for if anybody knows

[megaflaizer]

nurbs is useful in designs that dont need to transfrom much or uniformly across their topologies. :applause:

i used to use it a lot in product design, cause you could cut holes for buttons and then use the trim curves to make the buttons themselves, trim fenders for cars, etc.

i found it a pain in the ass for organic ANIMATED models

theres a lot of old schoolers who wont let go of their indigos [sgi] who will curse me for saying this. evolve or die.

ps still good for product design

ps i dont know that what ur saying cant be done. im just saying, personally, i would use subd

[saxell]

Thanks a lot
Ill continue learning nurbs modeling and use it for non animated stuff cause i actualy like it :)
What i meant by it cant be done was that i cant use a noise modifier like i tried on the pics above.

[ToddD]

Saxell, you will soon come to find that max nurbs have a lot of shortcomings, if you plan on sticking with nurbs modeling, you may want to consider implementing other software. Just my 2 cents

:beer:

[saxell]

Nah i wont go that far with nurbs , thing is that i want to give myself more choices when im gona model something, and i wanna be able to use as much of max as possible.

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