Maytrows
10-30-2007, 03:51 PM
I want to start an little project where an egg hatch but now I have run into trouble.
They way I have gone about it was to model each part of the cracked egg and the align them perfectly and then animate the hatching but I get lines where the seams are between different pieces no matter how good they are aligned. This happens when I use polygons. I have been trying to work around this but I can't seem solve it, so anyone know a good way to have a object that appears whole then cracks open slowly in a controlled manner?
Polygon line:
http://img148.imagevenue.com/loc974/th_55024_Line_tranExtr_123_974lo.jpg (http://img148.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=55024_Line_tranExtr_123_974lo.jpg)
I manage to come some way in one possible solution but I hit a bump on that aswell.
I took a Nurbs and converted that to SubD then to Poly and voila no line.
http://img111.imagevenue.com/loc739/th_54877_split1_123_739lo.jpg (http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=54877_split1_123_739lo.jpg) http://img121.imagevenue.com/loc907/th_55140_joined_123_907lo.jpg (http://img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=55140_joined_123_907lo.jpg)
Thing is that I used the trim-tool later to cut up the egg in pieces but the trims dont follow when I convert to SubD but reverts back to the untrimmed object. So is there a way to convert a trimmed NURBS to SubD?
Any help would be great. BTW pics are examples nothing more.
They way I have gone about it was to model each part of the cracked egg and the align them perfectly and then animate the hatching but I get lines where the seams are between different pieces no matter how good they are aligned. This happens when I use polygons. I have been trying to work around this but I can't seem solve it, so anyone know a good way to have a object that appears whole then cracks open slowly in a controlled manner?
Polygon line:
http://img148.imagevenue.com/loc974/th_55024_Line_tranExtr_123_974lo.jpg (http://img148.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=55024_Line_tranExtr_123_974lo.jpg)
I manage to come some way in one possible solution but I hit a bump on that aswell.
I took a Nurbs and converted that to SubD then to Poly and voila no line.
http://img111.imagevenue.com/loc739/th_54877_split1_123_739lo.jpg (http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=54877_split1_123_739lo.jpg) http://img121.imagevenue.com/loc907/th_55140_joined_123_907lo.jpg (http://img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=55140_joined_123_907lo.jpg)
Thing is that I used the trim-tool later to cut up the egg in pieces but the trims dont follow when I convert to SubD but reverts back to the untrimmed object. So is there a way to convert a trimmed NURBS to SubD?
Any help would be great. BTW pics are examples nothing more.