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said
04-16-2003, 12:47 AM
I am trying to model a piano (that has straight and also circle shaped lines) and wish to know what is the best method. I tried with polygons and booleans operations, but the booleans seems to create too much confusion in the outliner ( a lot of items that when erased caused me problems). Actually, I had problems in keeping all the objects together as one so I could move it freely.

Thanks.

Mário.
stunndman
04-16-2003, 01:20 AM
is this going to be a low poly model ? if so you could take a look at wings3d which is great for low poly modeling tasks (its integrated fall option for almost every tool is a big time saver for creating smooth poly curves)

if this is not an option then use CPS or Maya's subdivs - they are easy to handle and give good results

and then there is nurbs - but nurbs can be tricky

if your booleans caused problems it could be that modeling history was turned on while modeling - from time to time it can be necessary to delete history from your resulting surfaces
arangel
05-14-2003, 04:33 AM
Oi, Mário.

Well, you can use the polygon make tool and draw to top view and do a polygon extrude (a few times). As far as moving the pieces together, you can select and group them.

Alexandre Rangel
http://www.maya3d.blogspot.com
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