CGTalk - Adding Thickness...

altruizine

01-23-2003, 10:14 PM

Maya 4.5

I need to create something emerging from an egg - egg is no problem :)

what I'm wondering is is what is the best approach to creating thickness in the shell where I need the hole... I've trimmed the surface but need to bevel and create thickness to the shell.

Any thoughts?

fabman

01-30-2003, 09:54 AM

Select all the faces and extrude them.

Projectkmo

01-31-2003, 03:52 AM

ok, I just did this as an example..

I made a Poly sphere 20 x 20

Used Scale to make it Egg Shaped

Duplicated it...then scaled that Duplicate a tad smaller... so it was then INSIDE the original

then used the Boulean tool to Hollow Out the original Egg with the smaller Duplicated egg....

then I made a Poly Cube and shaped it like the hole I wanted...did this in a side view

then Bouleaned the shaped Cube from the Egg...to get the hole...with a shell with thickness

See the images

1st is from inside the egg...then one from, outside

Projectkmo

01-31-2003, 03:53 AM

and outside

is this the look you needed?

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