confused newb

[SheepFactory]

There is no knife tool. Just select the edge hit G and than C.


You can hit Shift + Tab to switch back and forth between smooth and regular view.

or you can select the model and hit S to subdivide.

Hope this helps.

[orion 77]

yeah thanks sheep, for the fast reply too.

[Goatfuzz]

I too am a confused noob. My question: How do I take a picture that I can post here of a model I made?

-Also, why is the 'smoothed preview' so much better looking than the render? :curious:

(yeah, I downloaded Wings3D :p )

[SheepFactory]

Originally posted by Goatfuzz
I too am a confused noob. My question: How do I take a picture that I can post here of a model I made?



What do you mean>? , you mean how to save a render?

I never rendered with the Wings open gl renderer so i dont know how the whole thing works , but i took my wings models to maya and xsi and they rendered without a flaw.


Glad you downloaded wings , its pretty much all you need , also DL Blender ( www.blender.org) you can animate\render your wings models with it. Its also free.

Ali

[Goatfuzz]

Originally posted by Sheep Factory
What do you mean>? , you mean how to save a render?

I never rendered with the Wings open gl renderer so i dont know how the whole thing works , but i took my wings models to maya and xsi and they rendered without a flaw.


Glad you downloaded wings , its pretty much all you need , also DL Blender ( www.blender.org) you can animate\render your wings models with it. Its also free.

Ali

So I should get DL Blender to render it then? When I render in Wings it looks horrible.

(I'm not stopping with Wings 3D, not by a long shot. :D )

[SheepFactory]

Wings doesnt have a renderer in the first place so dont confuse that render -> open GL with a renderer ;)

[orion 77]

how did u take ur models to xsi? does it work with exp 3?

i saw the maya importer at edharriss.com but i assume it wont work with exp 3.

[Goatfuzz]

Originally posted by Sheep Factory
Wings doesnt have a renderer in the first place so dont confuse that render -> open GL with a renderer ;)

Hmm... well that explains things. There is so much I have yet to learn in these programs. (Wings 3D = one down, more to go :D)

(My first model is coming along slowly, but it's getting there. It began as a practice model of Conker from Conker's Bad Fur Day, game, and became what resembles a panda bear's face. I'm having trouble with the mouth unfortunatly :annoyed:.)

[SheepFactory]

Originally posted by orion 77
how did u take ur models to xsi? does it work with exp 3?

i saw the maya importer at edharriss.com but i assume it wont work with exp 3.

Export as OBJ and Import from XSI (under File -> import ->OBJ)

It works with EXP just fine.

[orion 77]

oh and how can i reduce the mesh resolution too?

[orion 77]

how do i resolve this prob.
im trying to shape the mouth but inset on faces dont work. it needs to move inward.

[wasamonkey]

extrude region should do the job if im understanding
you will need to clean out the geometry a little afterwards

cheers

[orion 77]

i deleted the edge but when i aplied smoothin it screwed up.

[Goatfuzz]

Originally posted by Sheep Factory
What do you mean>? , you mean how to save a render?

I never rendered with the Wings open gl renderer so i dont know how the whole thing works , but i took my wings models to maya and xsi and they rendered without a flaw.


Glad you downloaded wings , its pretty much all you need , also DL Blender ( www.blender.org) you can animate\render your wings models with it. Its also free.

Ali

Blender is a bit overwhelming at a glance. How do I import a wings3D model to blender so that I can render it?

[KayosIII]

Wings supports quite a few external renderers including Povray, Yafray and the Renderman compliant renderers -- of these the povray renderer is the most complete with the Renderman being very buggy at the moment.

[wasamonkey]

there is a obj impoty script
look for the one updated by chris wants
he made some changes to support wings obj files

[Goatfuzz]

Originally posted by KayosIII
Wings supports quite a few external renderers including Povray, Yafray and the Renderman compliant renderers -- of these the povray renderer is the most complete with the Renderman being very buggy at the moment.

So with these renderers, povray for example, you would go to file> and import the wings file? I haven't downloaded it yet and would like to know a little more about it. I literally don't know anything about renderers (except that it smooths out your image?). Can you help me (instructions maybe...)?

I sound like I've never touched a computer, even though I'm on one constantly at home.

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